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1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Bb.iiii Those y^t go alwaies harking out y^e loues of others & disclose them so point by point.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis xv. 113 The Aduocate did, point by point, lay open their many heynous offences.

1720 D. Manley Power of Love 112 She began to make a general Confession of all her past Life,..Point by Point,..without omitting the least Thing.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. vii. 166 When I came to retrace point by point the discourse he had held, I could not conceive that the turn it had taken originated in accident.

1836 N. Tucker George Balcombe II. vii. 89 The old man..brought us..to a tree, answering, point by point, to the description in his entry of location.

1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone II. xviii. 82 The party scattered,—some remaining in the study to discuss the drawings point by point.

1954 R. Dahl Someone like You 227 He got down on his knees and began comparing them carefully point by point.

1997 J. Hatfield & G. Burt Unauthorized X-Cycl. 186 Kritschgau detailed point-by-point the systematic way that Mulder had been deceived and manipulated over the years.

1875 W. D. Macray in W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second 6 (note) Omitted here is a multi-page, point by point synopsis of the whole poem.

1903 Times 16 Nov. 7/2 It continues with a point-by-point refutation of the main objections urged by the opponents of Mr. Chamberlain's programme.

1935 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 45 351 O'Neill has displayed an almost point-by-point fidelity to the original in building a modern parallel.

1964 D. Crystal & R. Quirk Prosodic & Paraling. Features in Eng. ii. 20 The point-by-point and pattern-by-pattern relation between the language and any of the other cultural systems.

1999 Daily Tel. 25 Feb. (Connected section) 15/2 Amnesty has attempted to set the record straight with a site of its own, using frames to do a point-by-point demolition job on the offending site.