point of observation
Example Sentences
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History comes with its very own Doppler effect: as our point of observation changes, so does our understanding of what we are seeing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our previous experience was obtained on board—a position which, in some respects, does not afford so good a point of observation as when one is at some little distance from the boat.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
He cautiously returned to his point of observation.
From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
A turn of the lever, and he, too, could sit down, and from his lofty point of observation leisurely watch the mile-a-minute special flash by.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen
The miner was just arousing from sleep, when Dan reached this point of observation.
From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Dana, Marvin Hill
