Fingers Sentence Examples
His fingers pressed gently, guiding her closer.
The moon peeked shyly over the dunes and moved searching fingers of dim light across the dunes.
Strong warm fingers touched her hand and a palm slid under hers, forcing her hands apart.
His fingers closed around her arm and he firmly pulled her back.
The feel of his warm fingers on her temple was comforting.
His fingers caressed her palm warmly and then he brushed the hair away from her cheek.
Most of those present were elderly, respected men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures and voices.
Instinctively her fingers affirmed her hair was in order for the mug shot.
We forbade ourselves to even discuss our impetuous actions for fear of disturbing Howie so all we could do is cross our fingers and pray.
Cross your fingers the group doesn't eat me alive over this.
AdvertisementHis warm fingers released her shoulders and traced their way up her neck, cupping her jaws in his hands.
When his fingers stopped their work, they lingered.
She held up two fingers.
She held up two fingers again.
When Telyanin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to the waiter.
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Boris, with one leg crossed over the other and stroking his left hand with the slender fingers of his right, listened to Rostov as a general listens to the report of a subordinate, now looking aside and now gazing straight into Rostov's eyes with the same veiled look.
Napoleon, without looking, pressed two fingers together and the badge was between them.
With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.
His fingers touched her chin and slid down her throat, exploring their way down to her bodice.
AdvertisementAs his fingers traced a warm tingly path to the back of her dress, hers traced his lips.
She sighed and ran fingers through her tangled hair.
Her fingers found the door handle - just in case.
She dressed hurriedly in the clothes Sarah had loaned her and ran fingers through her hair, wishing she had a comb.
Refreshed from the inside out, she dressed and combed her hair with her fingers.
AdvertisementShe touched her lips with trembling fingers, her face burning.
Tammy's tiny fingers coaxed a cookie from the package, giggled as she handed it to Lisa.
His long fingers traced her jaw to the hair on the back of her neck.
Fear clutched at her heart with cold fingers.
Her arms stole around his neck and she ran trembling fingers through the soft hair on the back of his head.
The fingers of one hand clutched her throat, while the other warded off her blows.
Bruises in the shape of fingers reminded her of the ordeal.
Lisa put shaking fingers to her mouth to silence an involuntary cry.
She made her way clumsily through one episode and then watched as his long fingers moved gracefully over the keys.
He shook his head and ran his fingers along the rich top of the piano.
Claudette laced her fingers and leaned against the counter, eyeing Cynthia with a puzzled expression.
She moved past him and gingerly felt behind the stove until her fingers closed around the shaker.
He rubbed his forehead and ran his fingers though his hair until it stood on end.
He lifted her chin with two fingers, and the expression on his face might have been amusing under different circumstances.
His fingers gripped her wrist as she started to move away.
He turned his head and kissed her fingers.
Instead, her fingers slid across the smooth muscles and up to his neck, drawing his mouth down harder on hers.
And then he moved over her, his fingers sliding up her arm as it lay beside her head.
Lacing his fingers through hers, his palms touched hers – so warm and exciting.
He squatted and took some of the freshly dug soil in his hand, crushing the lumps and letting the dust run through his fingers.
He chuckled and ran cool fingers across her hot cheek.
I answered as Betsy crossed her fingers.
I watched my wife as she smiled and raised crossed fingers.
Howie had taken to picking at his fingers when the tension built.
We played back our conversation with crossed fingers and not a small dose of nervousness.
Raw fingers plucked at his lengthening hair, his hair piece long since dumped.
We'd then cross our fingers and see what particulars would follow.
I can sense the ghost, with trembling fingers dialing the number!
Cross your fingers I don't get caught.
It wasn't worded as a question, but kept my fingers crossed so tightly they hurt.
I could see my wife's nervousness; picking at her fingers, chewing her lip, twirling her hair.
I crossed my fingers, at least mentally, and asked, "Was he around when Annie was abducted?"
I gave a lot of thought to that question because of all the fingers pointing at me.
Nervous fingers necessitated three tries.
Howie thanked her while I practically jumped over the counter to read over the distressed clerk's shoulder as his fingers plodded over the computer keys.
I crossed my fingers, hoping my mocking his speech would remain undetected.
I crossed my fingers that he was stupid enough to believe my bull shit.
Fingers and thumbs were struck constantly and after a few hours I was the first to fall.
He shook his head and squeezed the steering wheel until one of his fingers popped.
His fingers were long and slim, his palms round.
Her fingers brushed the folded paper Jake had given her.
She squinted through her fingers and braced herself against one wall to counter the effects the drugs had on her equilibrium as she moved down the long hallway.
She hugged her knees to her chest and peered through her fingers.
His hand lingered on her arm, and she rested her forehead against his fingers, comforted for the first time in months.
He traced his fingers over the scars on his hands and followed them up his arms, then his chest, then his legs.
His body was covered with faded scars that fascinated her, made her want to trace the lengths of them with her fingers then her tongue.
She flinched away as his fingers rested on the clasp of her dress.
His fingers came away with blood.
Deidre touched his face with trembling fingers.
She took his face in her hands and traced his cheekbones and jawline with her fingers.
Her cool fingers ran across Deidre's markings.
She ran her fingers through her hair.
Dean telephoned the sheriff's office, crossing his fingers that the redheaded deputy Lady Larkin was out bagging the ten most wanted speeders.
He would cross his fingers and trust she wouldn't divulge any confidences to her boss, Fitzgerald.
Keep your fingers crossed it was a local and not one of the tourists passing through.
Fred asked, crossing his fingers.
He tied the line around Dean's waist with practiced fingers, keeping it below Dean's naked upper torso.
Cynthia noticed him picking at his fingers, a sure sign he was a bundle of nerves.
While he smiled, he crossed his fingers that Fred was correct that Maria was legal.
Dean rubbed his fingers through his hair and looked at his wife.
Then Fred added, Keep your fingers crossed.
Like I said, keep your fingers crossed—both hands.
Dean crossed his fingers that bureaucracy would take some time in unsnarling its spaghetti of red tape and Martha would remain in a back corner of their interest.
Dean combed his fingers through his hair.
And cross your fingers!
True to his word, he removed his fingers and leaned back.
Her eyes traveled with intent interest over his face and followed the trail of her fingers down his neck.
Her fingers ran through his short hair.
The girl tapped his arm then held up three fingers, the sign she'd made to mean Wynn.
Darkyn was one finger, his mate two fingers and Wynn three.
She gave blond curls a quick lift with her fingers.
Warm fingers clutched Carmen's hand and she looked down to find Jonathan watching her anxiously.
His hands slid down her arms and his palms touched hers warmly as his fingers laced through hers.
Destiny's little fingers wiggled on Carmen's ribs and she laughed.
With shaking fingers, Carmen plucked the cell-phone from its pouch and dialed 911.
His hand slipped under hers, his palm making warm contact with hers, and then his fingers found their way to lace with hers.
His fingers squeezed hers again, and his lips twitched.
Alex turned to Jonathan and pointed at him, then drew a cupped hand down his chest, thumb and fingers toward him.
Jonathan lifted his hand, thumb toward Alex and fingers curled down and rocked it forward and back.
His fingers forced the straps from her shoulders and slid them down her arms.
Lacing fingers behind her neck, she arched back, feeling the muscles in her back stretch.
And then his fingers were unzipping her dress in the back – slowly and gently.
He drummed his fingers, obviously contemplating his next words.
His fingers poised over the keys several times as if he were going to type more.
Leaning back in the chair and lacing fingers behind his neck, that bland gaze roved over her face again.
For a moment her fingers paused over the keys.
He squeezed the upper part of his nose between thumb and index fingers, blinking his eyes to stop the burning.
When her fingers caressed his arms, he leaned down and kissed her neck, below her earlobe.
Their faces were inches away, his fingers tracing a line of warm electricity down her jaw.
Deidre wiped her eyes and saw the mascara smeared on her fingers.
Andre perched likewise on the sofa and reached out, placing the cool tips of his fingers on her temples.
She opened her eyes when the light pressure of his fingers left her face.
Nothing made sense to her numbed mind, aside from the fragrant ocean, the fine sand that slid through her fingers like silk, and the warm-cool sensations caused by a combination of afternoon sun and sea breeze.
He snapped his fingers in front of her face.
The fingers around her mouth and neck maneuvered her head to the side until her ear was near her shoulder to expose the delicate area before both fell away.
Leathery fingers wrapped around her body.
Hannah warmly greeted her friends, four coiffed women in expensive clothing with diamonds the size of her thumbnail on their ring fingers.
Puffing and energized, she paused for a breath when cold fingers brushed her neck.
Henri nodded, his fingers flying over the keyboard in front of him.
She trailed her fingers down a wall, smiling when she saw soft glimmers light up beneath her touch, trail her fingers a short distance, and blink out.
She wandered through the room, trailing her fingers across the tables.
She lifted her head from her desk and blinked, the first fingers of dawn rendering the light of the room grainy and grey.
He was seated, his fingers steepled and his gaze penetrating.
A'Ran's fingers flew over the command panel as he thought of how wise his forefathers had turned out to be.
Dean crossed his fingers and hoped this affiance would spawn fewer complications than the last.
The young man ran his fingers through his beard.
Cynthia raised crossed fingers.
Cynthia asked out of politeness as Effie picked up a chocolate chip cookie with dainty fingers.
Dean, crossing his fingers at being on a roll, decided to ask about the death of Shipton's son.
Effie Quincy rushed in the door while Dean was drumming his fingers, listening to waltz music on hold.
He forced them into her hand, closing her fingers.
Weller smiled and began counting off on his fingers.
If he wasn't that far, how come he's still around to point fingers?
He crossed his fingers on the last statement.
He crossed his fingers that he was ahead of the police, and his wife would be there to answer.
Slowly she extracted the knife she'd found and with her long and lovely fingers began to methodically cut away at the line.
He checked his notes, wetting his fingers as he turned each page.
He failed to register the familiar, yet not familiar glance of fingers on the bareness of his body.
Edith moved her fingers lower and he tried to turn away.
He longed to run his fingers through it again.
He snapped his fingers in front of her eyes.
He had taken a lock of her hair between his fingers and gently twirled it.
She nuzzled into his chest and purred, while brushing her fingers across his chest.
His long, thin fingers could span a thirteenth on the keyboard.
They touched fingers briefly with the exchange.
Once on the dance floor, he stretched his long fingers across the small of her back and took her hand.
A sheepish smile tugged at his lips as he raked his fingers through his hair.
He pressed his fingers into his temples.
She put one hand in his hair and combed her fingers through.
No, I want to watch those fingers at work.
Jackson ran his fingers through her hair, reflecting on the day and the new challenge they faced with her pack.
Please don't take my fingers off.
Jackson didn't respond until she put her fingers in his hair.
He felt the tips of his fingers with his thumbs.
Carmen ran bluntly manicured fingers through her cropped off curls as her tongue explored a new crack in her dry lips.
The wind yanked Carmen's hair with icy fingers.
Her fingers explored the leg, feeling for a hock to make sure it wasn't a hind leg.
He laced fingers behind his head and stretched his back, glancing around at the herd as he spoke.
He reached out and touched her face, his fingers sliding in the mud.
The feel of his warm fingers on her cheek, the uneasy stomach - they were all warning bells.
He ran fingers through hair that didn't need straightening and brushed the straw from his pants.
She giggled nervously as his warm fingers touched her neck.
His fingers left her neck, working down the muscles on either side of her spine.
She closed her eyes, and in spite of the situation, his fingers slowly siphoned the tenseness from her back.
As her fingers closed around the doorknob, Alex brought her up short.
His warm fingers touched her face.
Tessa scrambled over the rocks to reach her infant, stepping on Carmen's fingers in the process.
She stretched as far as she could and laced her fingers behind his neck, pulling his mouth down to hers again.
But it had already gone too far and his fingers were sliding down her neck, into her blouse.
Alex took her hand as they started up the wooden ramp, and laced his fingers through hers.
His fingers worked at the tenseness along her back.
His fingers were gently massaging the muscles on either side of her backbone - warm and relaxing.
His fingers slipped under her shirt, warmly working at the muscles in her back.
His fingers were working up her back, relaxing every muscle.
His fingers slid down her cheek in an exciting caress as his gaze searched her face hungrily.
She handed Ed a clump of hay and he delicately plucked it from her fingers.
He ran fingers through his hair and stared at her through tortured eyes.
His hand found hers under the table and he laced his fingers through hers.
In a couple of years, I won't have so many problems searching the memories. It'll be instantaneous, like that! he said and snapped his fingers.
Katie hesitated before shuffling forward on her knees. She carefully touched the woman's leg then patted it as she followed it down to the thick roots wrapped around her ankles. Unable to see exactly how she was stuck, Katie used her cold fingers to fumble around the root and the woman's sneakers. "It's really jammed in there," she said at last.
The Ully-demon launched towards him. The tree snatched Toby and lifted him to safety, and Toby dangled far enough over Ully's head that the demon couldn't reach him. As he watched, the Ully-demon transformed into its natural form, a creature of wings, talons, and teeth longer than Toby's fingers.
He'd lost them all. Lilith, Jade, Hannah. Even Andre. He'd not only failed every Immortal that ever lived, he'd failed the only people he'd ever cared for. He lay on the ground, gasping as he tangled his fingers in Hannah's hair.
He grabbed an order of French fries and a burger at the drive-in of a national chain, eating on the road, licking the salt from his fingers as he searched among the glass and steel structures for the address he had jotted down earlier.
Fred snapped his fingers.
Rita laughed, but neither looked up nor broke the rhythm of her flying fingers.
Dean counted them off on his fingers.
Fred reached for the newspaper, tapping a small article with his fingers as he handed it to Dean.
She took a plain sheet of white paper from her desk and proceeded with flying fingers to type the 14 names and addresses using an old manual typewriter.
The room key was in his raincoat pocket and he managed to pull it out with two fingers and fit it into the lock, pushing the door open with his shoulder.
A thought struck Dean and he snapped his fingers.
Dean tapped his fingers, giving her time to wake up.
He studiously perused the biking catalogs for the additional gear he would need for the trek and crossed his fingers he'd chosen correctly.
We can't do anything until morning but keep our fingers crossed.
Dean gulped and crossed his fingers.
Alex absently ran fingers through his hair and sighed heavily.
The shock of red hair on the top of his head was unruly, as if he had been running his fingers through it.
Her fingers closed around the screen door handle.
Pulling her hair back, she squeezed water out of it and then fluffed it with her fingers to release the natural curls.
She smiled devilishly and shoved her fingers the rest of the way into the glove.
She breathed deep, throwing her head back and fluffing her hair with her fingers to cool her scalp.
Throwing back the covers, she slid off the window seat and headed for the door, using her fingers as a comb to put her hair in some kind of order.
When his fingers laced through hers and his palms pressed her hands against the wall next to her face, his kisses became ardent.
Her fingers crept up his chest, fearful they would be shoved away before they reached his neck.
Her fingers found the door latch.
She ran her fingers up his arm, tracing the large vein – feeling the fine dark hair.
His fingers lifted her chin so that she was forced to look at his face.
Slowly his warm fingers left her chin and worked their way down her neck, caressing and exciting her further.
He stroked her cheek with the back of his fingers and ran a thumb along her jaw.
Her fingers caressed his bare forearms, the sensual touch increasing her pulse.
His fingers brushed her shoulders in a light caress.
His warm fingers circled her wrist and the foot came down, making room for her on his lap.
His hand slid down the side of her face in a warm caress, his fingers finally cupping her chin and lifting it.
His warm fingers left her chin, caressing their way down her neck.
He kissed her fingers.
He propped his head up on an elbow and gazed down at her, the fingers of one hand working at the tie on her nightgown.
She took a rock and broke the ice, reaching in the frigid water with her fingers to pull out the jagged pieces of ice.
The sound echoed through the barn and her fingers burned with the force of it.
She kissed his little fingers.
She placed her fingers over his mouth.
Jenn stared at them numbly then dug a hole in front of the monument with shaking fingers.
Jenn knelt beside him and pressed her fingers to his neck.
She didn't even feel the bruises and scrapes covering her body, but she felt Darian's scorching fingers.
Jenn ran her fingers through her hair, tousling it.
Her fingers continued, and he felt the heat of her touch like lightning running through his body.
With her large, warm brown eyes, plumped lips, and fingers stopped just north of his belt, Darian began to believe her about not needing her magic.
She could think of nothing more than his bare skin against hers, of the feel of his muscles beneath her fingers.
Darian rubbed his face, his fingers running the length of where the deepest and most knotted scar had been.
If he felt her tears, he said nothing, though his fingers lingered on her cheek.
Jenn looked down at them with a grimace and tried to stretch out the fingers on one hand.
Comforting warmth spread through her fingers and palm.
Her eyes went to his long fingers and roped forearms then upward to the thick biceps and wide shoulders.
Her fingers swept over the cuff, and anger swirled through her again.
He grabbed her roughly and shook her, his fingers digging into her arms.
Though his eyes were closed against the light, Taran traced his fingers over her firm features, down her neck, shoulder, and to the bandaged arm.
He twisted a lock of her hair between his fingers.
The packed dirt was rocky beneath her fingers.
He traced his fingers along the barrel's rough surface before dipping his hand into the water.
One of Natalie's fingers twisted a curly blond lock while the other hand held a thumb firmly in her mouth.
She headed for Alex's office, the fingers on her left hand still fumbling with the last button.
Carmen started toward him with the jar and the crawdad flipped in his fingers.
Her fingers slid off the phone, pushing it closer to the edge.
Refusing to give up, she stretched until her fingers closed over the phone.
His fingers bit into her arms as darkness took the pain away.
Alex ran fingers through his hair and then rubbed the back of his neck.
He leaned back and ran fingers through his hair.
Carmen formed the OK sign with her fingers and winked.
Her fingers felt the rough edge of the nest, and then she was falling.
His fingers searched under the elastic of her bra, finding and grasping the breast.
Her fingers gripped Carmen's hand.
Long brown fingers loosened and removed the tie and then unbuttoned his shirt.
His fingers softly traced down her neck – to her breast and then down until his hand rested on her waist.
She giggled as his fingers worked at the buttons on her tunic.
His fingers tightened around her upper arms and he pulled her away from him.
His fingers dug into her arms and she cried out involuntarily.
Placing a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, his long fingers then searched the pockets of his brown tweed jacket and finally emerged with a match.
Her fingers closed over the cool plastic, and the room flooded with light.
She dropped the curtain and ran shaking fingers through her hair as she opened the door.
His fingers tightened on her arm as he swung her around to face him.
His fingers slid down her arms in a tingling caress as he relinquished the embrace.
She kept her face averted when she felt his strong warm fingers grip her arm.
With each word his voice rose and his fingers bit more deeply into her arm.
He touched his fingers to the red hand print on his face.
His fingers tightened around her hand.
She squeezed his fingers.
A rush of blood raced to her head, pumping against his fingers.
His attempts at braiding her dark hair the way she liked it had ended up in a series of knots, because he didn't quite understand how to do it and his man-sized fingers were too clumsy.
Sighing, Jessi tried tapping the ground, waving her fingers, even using her ponytail to try to lure the cat out.
You've got small fingers.
She added a snap of her fingers that pulled a quiet laugh from him.
She unsnapped the button of his jeans with one flick of her fingers and plunged her hand down his pants.
Her forearm was still swollen, Jonny's fingers clearly outlined in black-purple bruises on her skin.
Jessi moved her fingers and hands, testing her arm.
He took the hand whose fingers were lightly traveling his face.
She trailed her fingers across it until she felt the cool metal doorknob.
Two metal handles – one on each door – were cold beneath her fingers.
Held between the thumb and fingers of the right hand, they are used as tongs to take up portions of the food, which is brought to table cut up into small and convenient pieces, or as means for sweeping the rice and small particles of food into the mouth from the bowl.
Many rules of etiquette govern the proper conduct of the chopsticks; laying them across the bowl is a sign that the guest wishes to leave the table; they are not used during a time of mourning, when food is eaten with the fingers; and various methods of handling them form a secret code of signalling.
If he stole the seed, rations or fodder, the Code enacted that his fingers should be cut off.
In these experiments the electric current passed through the fingers of the operator's hand, which thus took the place of the spring in Edison's apparatus.
The diaphragm was itself used as the rubbing surface, and it was either mounted and rotated or the fingers were moved over it.
In the members of the typical genus Lemur, as well as in the allied Hapalemur and Lepidolemur, none of the toes or fingers are connected by webs, and all have the hind-limbs of moderate length, and the tail long.
It has a broad rounded head, short face, large naked eyes, large hands, and long thin fingers with pointed claws, of which the third is remarkable for its extreme slenderness.
The first and second fingers frequently carry a little claw.
Elhanan of Bethlehem slew the giant Goliath of Gath, and David's own brother Shimei (or Shammah) overthrew a monster who could boast of twenty-four fingers and toes.
He arrogated to himself the privileges of royalty, made servants attend him upon their knees, compelled bishops to tie his shoelatchets and dukes to hold the basin while he washed his hands, and considered it condescension when he allowed ambassadors to kiss his fingers; he paid little heed to their sacrosanct character, and himself laid violent hands on a papal nuncio.
The union of the index and middle fingers by means of a web extending as far as the terminal joints is the distinctive feature of the siamang, which is the largest of the group, and black in colour with a white frontal band.
The fingers of the clock had been pushed back; once more things were as they had been at the time of the First Crusade; once more the West must arm itself for the holy war and the recovery of Jerusalem - but now it must face a united Mahommedan world, where in 1096 it had found political and religious dissension, and it must attempt its vastly heavier task without the morning freshness of a new religious impulse, and with something of the weariness of a hundred years of struggle upon its shoulders.
In mounting, the specimen is floated out in a flat white dish containing sea-water, so that foreign matter may be detected, and a piece of paper of suitable size is placed under it, supported either by the fingers of the left hand or by a palette.
The nails of the fingers, or the hair of the scalp may grow to an enormous length if not trimmed.
Across the arms he balances the iron rod to which the glass bulb adheres, and rolling it backwards and forwards with the fingers of his left hand fashions the glass between the blades of his sugar-tongs tool, grasped in his right hand.
Of the better known metals potassium and sodium are the softest; they can be kneaded between the fingers like wax.
Ten is two fives, 15 three fives, 20 is a "man" (ten fingers and ten toes), 100 is "five men," and so on.
A ripe leaf easily cracks or shows a crease when folded between the fingers.
The cigar is then rolled in the hand to consolidate the tobacco and bring it into proper shape, after which it is wrapped in the outer cover, a shaped piece made to enclose the whole in a spiral manner, beginning at the thick end of the cigar and working down to the pointed end, where it is dexterously finished by twisting to a fine point between the fingers.
Its characteristics are exceptional tallness combined with slenderness and elegance of figure; a face somewhat long, without any special prominence of the cheekbones but having more or less oblique eyes; an aquiline nose; a slightly receding chin; largish upper teeth; a long neck; a narrow chest; a long trunk, and delicately shaped, small hands with long, slender fingers.
The most approved fashion of weaving is called tsuzure-ori (linked-weaving); that is to say, the cross threade are laid in with the fingers and pushed into their places with a comb by hand, very little machinery being used.
In short, the little chisel becomes in his fingers a painters brush, and when it is remembered that, the basis upon which he works being simply a thread of silk, his hand must be trained to such delicacy of muscular effort as to be capable of arresting the edge of the knile at varying depths within the diameter of the tiny filament, the difficulty of the achievement will be understood.
Of these Maitland of Lethington was consenting to Darnley's murder; the earl of Morton had, at least, guilty foreknowledge; the regent Moray (Mary's natural brother) had "looked through his fingers" at the crime, and for months remained on intimate terms with the criminals.
Twining and spinning were done with the fingers of both hands, with the palm on the thigh, with the spindle and with the twister.
The Eskimo engraved poorly, the Dene (Tinneh) embroidered in quill, the North Pacific tribes carved skilfully in horn, slate and cedar, the California tribes had nimble fingers for basketry, the Sioux gloried in feathers and painted parfleche.
They took him there, and while bathing in the water he let some of it drop through his fingers, and said, " This is my treasure; this, and the love of my people."
The small and mobile forelimbs bear four complete fingers, with the thumb reduced to a bony spur.
The swellings on the palmar faces of the phalanges of the several fingers are also indicative, the 1st and and of the thumb respectively, of the logical faculty and of the will; the 1st, and and 3rd of the index finger, of materialism, law and order, idealism; those of the middle finger, humanity, system, intelligence; of the ring finger, truth, economy, energy; and of the little finger, goodness, prudence, reflectiveness.
If the plate be small, it is sufficient, in order to bring out the simpler sand-figures, to hold the plate firmly between two fingers of the same hand placed at any point where at least two nodal lines meet, for instance the centre in (1) and (2), and to draw a violin bow downwards across the edge near the middle of a ventral segment.
But with larger plates, which alone will furnish the more complicated figures, a clamp-screw must be used for fixing the plate, and, at the same time, one or more other nodal points ought to be touched with the fingers while the bow is being applied.
The patient's skin burns, that of a frog is cold to the touch; therefore tie to the foot of the bed a frog, bound with red and black thread, and wash down the sick man so that the water of ablution falls 1 In its technical ecclesiastical sense the ablution is the ritual washing of the chalice and of the priest's fingers after the celebration of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church.
The town of Sharpsburg represents the fingers of the archer drawing the bow.
The design, by August von Kreling (1819-1876), embraces fifteen bronze figures, all cast at the royal bronze foundry in Munich, the chief being a female figure with outstretched arms, from whose fingers the water falls in a fine spray.
The body is eel-like, black or blackish, and only the fore-limbs are present, but are feeble and furnished with four fingers.
A second closely-allied genus of this family is Pseudobranchus, differing in having a single branchial aperture on each side instead of three, and only three fingers.
The common soldiers went into battle brilliant in savage war-paint, but those of higher rank had helmets like birds and beasts of prey, armour of gold and silver, wooden greaves, and especially the ichcapilli, the quilted cotton tunic two fingers thick, so serviceable as a protection from arrows that the Spanish invaders were glad to adopt it.
For the smaller sizes, rubber brakes are sometimes used and, for the very smallest, the fingers either bare or protected by linen bands.
In size they may be compared with cats; the long slender limbs are connected by a broad fold of skin extending outwards from the sides of the neck and body, the fingers and toes are webbed, and the hind-limbs joined by an outer membrane as in bats.
There the mighty dead are present with the living, protect them and their houses and crops, are their strength in battle, and teach their hands to war and their fingers to fight.
Assuming that a double-reined bridle is used, the third finger of the left hand should be first inserted between the snaffle reins; then the little, third and second fingers should be between the curb reins, the two outside reins being the curb, and the two inside ones the snaffle.
The Rio Guahyba, which is not a river, was once called "Viamao" because its outline is roughly that of the human hand, the rivers entering the estuary at its head corresponding to the fingers.
A handful or two of the soil is then put in, and on this the plant with its roots spread out is to be set, a trifle higher than the plant should stand in the pot when finished off; more soil is to be added, and the whole pressed firmly with the fingers, the base of the stem being just below the pot-rim, and the surface being smoothed off so as to slope a little outwards.
His hands, with tapering fingers, were remarkable for their beauty.
When by this means it was made clear to the experimenters that it was the fingers which moved the table, not the table the fingers, the phenomena generally ceased.
There are five fingers and four toes, provided with claws, excepting the outer digits.
Battalions were then formed of one-eyed men, and of soldiers who, having cut off their right-hand fingers, were made to shoot from the left shoulder.
A hand, with fingers outstretched as a talisman against the evil eye, is carved above this gate on the exterior; a key, the symbol of authority, occupies the corresponding place on the interior.
That Odo had it executed for his cathedral seems tolerably certain, but whether it was worked by English fingers or not has been disputed, though some of the words upon it have been held to favour that view.
The clawed slender fingers did not make Archaeopteryx any more quadrupedal or bat-like in its habits than is a kestrel hawk, with its equally large, or even larger thumb-claw.
Their colour is black, their skull decidedly round, their hair thick and frizzly, their legs thin and almost without calves, and their toes so prehensile that they can use them nearly as well as their fingers.
The virtue of the hazel wand was supposed to be dependent on its having two forks; these were to be grasped in the fists, with the fingers uppermost, but with moderate firmness only, lest the free motion of the opposite end downwards towards the looked-for object should be interfered with.
So also if Kaf corresponds to the Babylonian Kappu, " hollow-hand," the Sabaean form which Hommel5 interprets as the outline of the hand with the fingers turned in and the thumb raised is a better pictograph than the various meaningless forms of k (&c.).
Alcock "observed one of these crabs drinking from a runnel of rain-water, by dipping the fingers of one of its chelipeds into the water and then carrying the wet fingers to its mouth."
The sheets were severed by knives placed on the cylinders, and when cut were carried by grippers and tapes; and delivery was made by means of automatic metal fingers fixed upon endless belts at such distances apart as to seize each sheet in succession as it left the last printing cylinder.
After the impression is made the sheet is seized by another set of fingers and is transferred to a second and smaller cylinder over the larger one, and this smaller cylinder or drum delivers the sheet to the " flyer," or delivery apparatus, which in turn deposits it upon the table.
Rather smaller than a squirrel, with dusky brown fur, the tarsier has immense eyes, large ears, a long thin tail, tufted at the end, a greatly elongated tarsal portion of the foot, and disk-like adhesive surfaces on the fingers, which doubtless assist the animal in maintaining its position on the boughs.
He was a man of enormous strength and size, and one who met him in 1716 says "he wrung some blood from the point of my fingers with a grasp of his hand."
To this is added gentle exercise, beginning with the fingers at first.
Zeno compared sensation to the outstretched hand, flat and open; bending the fingers was assent; the clenched fist was " simple apprehension," the mental grasp of an object; knowledge was the clenched fist tightly held in the other hand.
The wings are thus constructed on the same plan as those of a bat, but instead of four fingers, only one is elongated to bear the membrane.
This period is known by the capsules yielding to pressure with the fingers, assuming a lighter green tint and exhibiting a kind of bloom called " cougak," easily rubbed off with the fingers; they are then about 12 in.
The ordeal by the Bible and key is equally popular; the book is suspended by a key tied in with its wards between the leaves and supported on two persons' fingers, and the whole turns round when the name of the guilty person is mentioned.
Thus the Chalk appears to run in four diverging fingers from the centre or palm on Salisbury Plain, other formations lying wedge-like between them.
From the upland of Salisbury Plain, which corresponds to the axis of the anticline marking the centre of the double fold into which the strata of the south of England have been thrown, the great Chalk escarpment runs north-eastward; fingers of Chalk run eastward one each side of the Weald, forming the North and South Downs, while the southern edge of the Chalk sheet appears from beneath the Tertiary strata at several places on the south coast, and especially in the Isle of Wight.
The clear days of a year at Unalaska can be counted on the fingers; five days in seven it actually rains or snows.
The hand of the gorilla corresponds essentially as to bones and muscles with that of man, but is clumsier and heavier; its thumb is " opposable " like a human thumb, that is, it can easily meet with its extremity the extremities of the other fingers, thus possessing a character which does much to make the human hand so admirable an instrument; but the gorilla's thumb is proportionately shorter than man's.
To bring this to the reader's notice, top and side views of three skulls, as placed together in the human development series in the Oxford University Museum, are represented in the plate, for the purpose of showing the great size of the orbital ridges, which the reader may contrast with his own by a touch with his fingers on his forehead.
Numeration was at a low level, based on counting fingers on one hand only, so that the word for man (puggana) stood also for the number 5.
Silver rings on fingers and also on toes are common.
Swift was naturally a little sore at seeing the see of Hereford slipping through his fingers.
Alcyonium digitatum, a pink digitate form popularly known as" dead.men's fingers,"is common in 10 -20 fathoms of water off the English coasts.
The roots are cut into fingers and supplemented by an allowance of concentrated food made up of a mixture of ground cakes and meal, 4 lb rising to about 1 lb; and a lb to I lb of hay per day.
They count on their fingers, and make fire with the simplest form of fire-drill twirled by hand.
The use of the denary scale in notation is due to its use in numeration (§ 18); this again being due (as exemplified by the use of the word digit) to the primitive use of the fingers for counting.
If mankind had had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, we should be using a duodenary scale (base twelve), which would have been far more convenient.
As the latter is due to finger-reckoning, so the use of the fingers and the toes produced a vigesimal scale.
In the large majority of cases the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 are 5+1, 5+2, 5+3 and 5+4, being named either directly from their composition in this way or as the fingers on the second hand.
Among these may be mentioned the hairy frog of West Africa, Trichobatrachus robustus, some specimens of which have the sides of the body and of the hind limbs covered with long villosities, the function of which is unknown, and its ally Gampsosteonyx batesi, in which the last phalanx of the fingers and toes is sharp, claw-like and perforates the skin.
A curious fact, which may be used for the detection of the minutest quantity of oils and fats, is that camphor crushed between layers of paper without having been touched with the fingers rotates when thrown on clean water, the rotation ceasing immediately when a trace of oil or fat is added, such as introduced by touching the water with a needle which has been passed previously through the hair.
Her fingers were cold inside the gloves and her nose probably looked like Rudolph's.
Destiny had a fist full of mashed potatoes, the white mash oozing from between her fingers.
Matthew's little fingers pressed on her tender breasts, creating a new sensation.
He laced his fingers behind his neck and stretched in a way that made his upper torso ripple with muscular activity.
She twisted her apron with nervous fingers.
She closed the lid and ran her fingers across the dull copper latch.
Lacing his fingers through hers, his palms touched hers – so warm and exciting.
She answered it with numb fingers.
Don't touch me! she said with a shudder at the fire his fingers sent through her arm.
Rhyn snatched the iPad as it slid from her fingers.
D E I D R E Speechless, she traced her fingers down the letters then looked into his eyes.
You're the most charming," he hooked his fingers in quotation marks, "'gold-digger bitch' I've ever met."
I understand you may be," he crooked his fingers in quotation marks, "entertaining them here."
Like I said, keep your fingers crossed—both hands.
His fingers worked at her blouse, expertly unbuttoning it.
And then his fingers were unzipping her dress in the back – slowly and gently.
When he reached the waterfall at the base of the storage pond, the mist rose up from the cascade, creating a myriad of icy fingers of crystal in the cold air.
Edith leaned closer to him and began to run playful fingers down his bare chest, and lower.
His fingers were folded in prayer as he cocked his head, and stuck out his lower lip.
He took her wrap and put it around her, letting his fingers linger briefly on her bare, warm shoulder.
He ran two fingers along a vein in her neck then kissed it.
Her soft, forlorn words sounded like a farewell. "This is killing me," he muttered. He strode to her, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her. She yielded more easily in the dream than she ever had in real life. Her soft, warm lips welcomed him hungrily, and he lost himself in her sweet musk, warm skin and honeyed taste. He didn't want to leave; he wanted to spend the rest of his life making love to her on the beach. He wanted to feel his skin pressed against hers and for her to run her fingers through his hair before scraping her nails down his back. He wanted to take her every way he could imagine, until they lay spent and panting on the beach, until nothing but their entwined bodies and souls remained of their world.
I don't want to screw around and play against the big leagues in Philadelphia; all your friends with the crazy middle names like, 'The Shiv' and 'The Hunchback' and 'Three Fingers'—really neat nicknames like that.
Harrigan stopped in mid-sentence on the phone and Rita turned, fingers paralyzed above the keys.
She ran her fingers up his arm, tracing the large vein – feeling the fine dark hair.
His fingers stopped their futile attempt on the ribbon and the dark eyes lost some of their softness.
His gaze drifted to her shaking arm, where blood dripped down her fingers to the floor.
His reply was a soft groan as his fingers caressed their way down her back.
His fingers softly traced down her neck – to her breast and then down until his hand rested on her waist.
Two metal handles – one on each door – were cold beneath her fingers.
Fill soil in around the roots, firming gently with your fingers or a piece of wood so as to eliminate air pockets.
I noticed both the index and middle fingers of his hand were tobacco stained to dark amber.
As a result of my body attacking itself seven fingers were partially amputated in 2000.
She stares into the surreal light her belly turns arabesques, her fingers press into the pane.
His back arched, his fingers curled into fists of rage.
Do you tell me they don't eat asparagus with their fingers now?
Wouldn't you love to stuff you fingers into Envy's tight ass?
His specialty is his finger spinning where he pots ball by spinning the cue ball in his fingers rather that using a cue.
Over exaggeration is the key here to help the violin bowing fingers and wrist to loosen up.
Fast, shallow breathing, loss of control, groping around with the fingers, delirious talk, sweat.
The patterns are traditionally drawn with the fingers using flour, rice grains or colored chalk.
However, there is no congenital heart defect present and there are multiple contractures with overriding fingers observed with this syndrome.
Here's how to make a cats cradle using your fingers.
Carefully remove any glue with fingers or tweezers and never use heated eyelash curlers, which can cause false lashes to split.
Cold's great bear hug embraces all, forms a particular delectation for my purple nose and yellow fingers.
Driving, funky and downright dirty, Zydeco will have you popping your fingers and shuffling your feet.
Draw the mixture into a stiff dough using your fingers.
Wednesday 7 th August Dawn saw us once more at km 122, with fingers very firmly crossed for the remaining tepui endemics.
Finally - and I didn't think my fingers would ever get to type this sentence - good news for with-profits endowment policy holders.
My gaze follows down to her hands, fingers entwined together, tightly holding a small photograph encased in a delicate silver frame.
The concrete fingers reaching back into the slope to join building and land are the only real extravagance.
Place the last ball on top of the lot & hold it in place with the tip of your index & middle fingers.
Also, in Africa, Robert Mugabe is a continent wide hero for sticking two fingers up to Whitey.
Pump your fist in the air and make the universal " rock " gesture by extended your index and pinky fingers in the air.
He has a bad habit of eating finger foods and often biting his fingers and then crying.
Using a little water on your fingers, smooth the Green Stuff to remove any fingerprints.
August 8th Telsa disappeared off to London, so I took the opportunity not to eat fish fingers.
I know it may be her favorite soap, I like fish fingers but I'm not asking for a job to make them!
How do you know cod filet fish fingers really contain cod and not other fish?
Went down for dinner, the choice was 4 fish fingers, a piece of egg and bacon flan, chips and beans.
These were times when zombie flicks actually tore a chunk of gory nail from a young horror enthusiast's fingers.
The unwaxed floss should be held between the fingers tightly with no more than 1/2 inch between them.
In the male the penis can be exposed by retracting the foreskin with the fingers.
The Treasury could not forgo putting its fingers on that.
Creative imagination Interpretation of moods Independent use of fingers Exploration of high and low pitch The motorbike galop This was learned by rote.
Genital Warts are similar to common warts that you may get on your fingers, however the reside on human genitalia.
Just touching a cold milk bottle without using protective gloves can cause the fingers to go numb.
A four course meal is served (eaten with fingers and a dagger) and wine drunk from pewter goblets.
Cause a regular pencil to defy gravity by clinging to your fingers!
Henry Lloyd Thompson rubs salt between his fingers, feeling the texture of the crystals and squeezes handfuls together to judge the moisture content.
Then his fingers locked on to the cold wire of the fence, poised in a perfect handstand on the top.
Forearms should be roughly horizontal when resting on your desk and your computer keyboard needs to be where your fingers fall comfortably.
Why does the skin of the fingers and toes become wrinkled after prolonged immersion in water?
The ornament is composed of straw, beautifully and artistically interlaced by the deft fingers of the maidens of Bride.
As she lifted the knocker a second time, the rings on her fingers glittered in the sunlight.
It was my misfortune to receive severe lacerations to three fingers.
Turin hopes she'll win fresh laurels and - fingers crossed!
Injured crewman hospitalized A crew member who had injured his fingers was taken off a fishing boat by the Stromness lifeboat on Wednesday.
The skirt may also reduce the likelihood of trapped little fingers!
Their fore limbs are short but strong with nimble fingers.
I read the kernel mailing list and cross my fingers like everyone else.
The gale from our right quickly numbed exposed cheeks, and chilled fingers refused to warm up even inside thick mitts.
He did not put the mitten on, but, instead, struck the fingers a dozen sharp smashes against his leg.
It was dressed in gray and black and was wearing black fingerless mittens over dirty gray bony fingers.
Three fingers and cover the mouth and nose to give mouth-to-mouth were all I could remember.
Back to Sticky Fingers with the new mudguard for Treacle to wave his magic paint wand over.
Neither can I knit quite so fast these days as my fingers are not so nimble.
Apply direct pressure by having the player pinch the nostrils with the fingers.
With fingers numbed by this tingling pain, Feel I'm dying every moment of this silicone day.
When using a paper cutter, keep your fingers clear of the blade at all times.
If you out an orange pip between your fingers, it shoots out.
For those who can't walk or see then hand held wooden platters can have the pattern cut for fingers to trace.
As they sit chatting in the main plaza, as they are walking along, their fingers are active.
To avoid arterial puncture the operator's fingers gently pull the carotid artery away from the midline.
I longed to reach through the bars and sink my fingers into the fur and to hear a purr.
He was a founder member of the award winning saxophone quartet, Itchy Fingers.
Well as we saw last week Bonnie needs our votes so lets get our fingers on the phone and keep pressing redial.
I would not eat stewed rhubarb with my fingers, or, indeed, with any instrument that science could devise.
Are you having t rouble making your fingers work with the guitar or are you have trouble reading the music or concentrating?
Ringworm is a skin infection caused by fungus that can affect the scalp, skin, fingers, toenails, or feet.
We also do craft work with them - knitting, sewing, toy-making, helping to keep sometimes arthritic fingers moving.
A small synovial sheath is present around each individual tendon at the wrist but not in the hand or the fingers.
Tiny flakes can stick to fingers so avoid rubbing the eyes or exposing sensitive skin when handling the material and wash hands thoroughly afterward.
Central joystick a bit fiddly for my big fingers. overall great fone, hi spec, low price.
We did see starfish, crabs, lobster, dead man's fingers, sponges and tube anemones and a few small fish.
The meter was held in place on the user's hand by a strong elastic strap into which the fingers were inserted.
Heberden's nodes - firm swellings of the end joints of fingers, often painless when fully formed - the hallmark of nodal osteoarthritis.
Long, elegantly tapered fingers calmly begin shaping it into the rough form of a rose.
Additionally the mean temperature gradient after cold exposure was reduced after laser irradiation, while the number of fingers showing prolonged rewarming was unaffected.
This recipe is also included in Easy Sushi but here I substitute fish fingers for the prawn tempura suggested in the book.
The whole body picks up on the messages from the fingers, becoming tense, rigid, fixated.
It allows your fingers to glide smoothly so you can easily detect lumps or altered skin texture.
It was the ring, dropping from her lifeless fingers into the chocolate torte.
A lot of quick thinking is needed and quick trigger fingers too.
Wiped them, put her fingers round them, and using the ever trusty handkerchief placed them on the bedside table.
Remove them with a sharp upwards tug, you can place your fingers on the gravel to prevent the bulbs being pulled up.
Designed to fit on little fingers, each of our Beneath the Leaf Fairies are crafted in soft velour.
The commonest sites are the fingers and feet (where they are called verrucas) but any body site can be affected.
Its ergonomic design puts silky smooth multi-speed vibration right at the tip of your fingers.
I'm a fat wad, a cushion for fingers.
All you need is a single card and your bare fingers to permanently warp your audience's reality.
At night he plays the washboard with his gnarled fingers.
He looked at the red weal on his fingers where the straps of the plastic bag had cut into his skin.
By scanning the fingers of welfare recipients, no one can attempt to collect multiple welfare recipients, no one can attempt to collect multiple welfare checks using different names.
The usual range of accessories was offered with a particularly well-made fixed steady with the fingers adjusted by screws.
But after a short rain break the spinning fingers of Robin Fisher again wreaked havoc.
It is possible to conceive of any number of notes struck and sustained by the fingers as consisting of so many quasi-vocal parts; but when a series of single sounds is played and each sound continues to vibrate by means of a pedal which prevents the dampers from falling on the strings, then we are conscious that the sounds have been produced as from one part, and that they nevertheless combine to form a chord; and this is as remote from the spirit of polyphonic part-writing as modern English is from classical Greek.
The Bezpopovtsi, known also as Pomoranye, because they are 1 The most important alterations were the repetition twice, instead of three times, of the " Alleluiah " at the Eucharist, and the making the sign of the cross with two fingers instead of three.
Auenbrugger's method was that of direct percussion with the tips of the fingers, not that which is now used, of mediate percussion with the intervention of a finger or plessimeter; but the results of his method were the same and its value nearly as great.
To drive the air out of this skin by pressing on it, or even by walking on it, would be easy; to fill it again with air by pulling its sides apart with his fingers would be so irksome that he would soon learn to distend it by means of strings.
Jack-fruit or durian, the tough spiny hide of which is torn open with their strong fingers, forms the chief food of orang-utans, which also consume the luscious mangustin and other fruits.
Alfred opened it with careful fingers.
He carried a white napkin upon his arm, and held the cup of wine very daintily with three of his fingers.
After all, we both have ten fingers, two lungs, and a tongue located in our mouth.
Then, make them all soak their fingers in ice water so they are numb and work even slower, creating another thirty jobs for cold-fingered, blindfolded cotton seed removers.
In an era when cameras were cumbersome and the number of channels on TV could be counted on one hand with enough fingers left over to snap, very little video of any kind was seen.
During the whole trip I did not have one fit of temper, there were so many things to keep my mind and fingers busy.
I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation.
I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers.
She made raised maps in clay, so that I could feel the mountain ridges and valleys, and follow with my fingers the devious course of rivers.
It was great fun to plunge my hand into the bowl and feel the tadpoles frisk about, and to let them slip and slide between my fingers.