"West point" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... favorable, and in about a week we doubled the west point of San Lorenzo Island, where some Chilian cruizers were watching the coast. We soon entered the fine bay of Callao, and cast anchor in the harbor of the Ciudad de los Reyes. While rounding the island, an American corvette spoke ...
— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi
... upon, for we were now upon the wrong side of the island for the voyage we intended; so we stood away to the north, and, having rounded the cape, we hauled away southward, under the lee of the island, thinking to reach the west point of land, which, as I observed before, runs out so far towards the coast of Africa, as would have shortened our run almost 100 leagues. But when we had sailed about thirty leagues, we found the winds variable under ...
— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe
... "I'm going to West Point if there's any possible chance of my winning the nomination from our home district. There's a vacancy to be competed for ...
— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock
... was the young U. S. Grant, on his way to West Point for examination. But for me the armies of the Republic ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale
... of a British officer. The young man, Major John Andre, adjutant-general of the British army, was put ashore, and he and Arnold, who had long been secret correspondents, spent the night in the dense darkness beneath the trees. Here the plot to place West Point into British hands was consummated, and at the coming of dawn Andre did not return, as at first intended, to the English sloop of war, the Vulture, which was lying in the river waiting for him, but accompanied Arnold to the ...
— The New York and Albany Post Road • Charles Gilbert Hine
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