Usage examples (33)

• If ever the Anti-pointsman existed, Roger Mexico is the man.
• That Johnny had made his mind up -- he'd be a pointsman, too.
• He hated the oppositional heretics, as one should, believed that history ran on rails according to an infallible plan and an infallible pointsman, No. 1.
• At the entrance of the inspired explanation, the expositor, bent on the defence of his own foregone conclusion, takes his stand, like a pointsman on a railway, and by...