" "And I know you're my good-looking good-for-nothing, and I know, too, that youyou don't care as muchas much for me from head to toe as I do for your little finger.

He looked at it for a moment,hesitated,touched the inner corner of his right eye with the pulp of his middle finger,looked at the face of the watch,said it was getting into the forenoon,then opened the watch and handed me the loose outside case without a word.

Louis Hildreth closed his thin fingers over Evadne's ring with a long drawn sigh.

" Lenox Hildreth held his cigar between his slender fingers and watched the tiny wreaths of smoke as they circled about his head.

"Yesyesyes!" cried Johnnie, reaching up swift, nervous fingers to unfasten the cap from her hair, thrusting it in the pocket of the apron, and untying the apron strings.

" "What makes you think that?" laughed the Boy, poking his brown fingers through the knee-hole of his breeches.

She removed, with deft fingers, a damp and clinging bandage from about Patricia's head, and patted the back of Patricia's hand, placidly.

With all the deliberation of a connoisseur examining an old and rare edition, he turned the pages with his slim fingers.

Thus for a time matters remainedlittle Imtiazan wearing her delicate fingers out at home, he plying his pen in the street, until one day a dancing-girl from Lucknow called him to her house to write an important missive on her behalf.

He could gladly have buried his lean fingers in that fat throat.

" He made no reply, but sat watching Beth's nimble fingers.

"It's bitter work, anyhow, this making beds with your fingers stiff and raw," he said.

Then Roger the Black groaned and hid his face within his arm and shrank before the woman's outstretched finger and, groaning, cowered to his knees; whereupon the archer turned his back and spat upon the floor while Walkyn glared and fingered his great axe: but in this moment my Beltane came beside him and laid his hand on Roger's stooping shoulder.

A married or diligent person, the fourth or ring finger.

"Guess you got the mate to mine, Bonsor," said a bystander with a laugh, slowly tearing up the communication he had opened with fingers so eager that they shook.

The chauffeur, partly an Indian himself, knew well how to manage his captive and quieted the fellow by squeezing his throat with his broad stubby fingers.

" At the words, I remembered; and, stooping, picked up the photograph which had fluttered from Rogers's nerveless fingers.

A soft knock, as of fat fingers, made Mon glance towards the door, and bid the knocker enter.

In fact she looked everywhere but toward it, raising her perfectly gloved fingers tentatively for his arm.

Cut some slices of brown bread into fingers half an inch thick; spread with butter.

Awhile she stood, turning the flower in gentle fingers yet looking upon him in his might and goodly youth, beholding his averted face with its strong, sweet mouth and masterful chin, its curved nostrils and the dreaming passion of his eyes, and when she spake her voice was soft and very sweet.

The toddlers go round the beds of herbs, pinching the leaves with their tiny fingers and then putting their fingers to their noses.

Touch them with your rosy fingers, Wake them with your pleasant tread, Push away the leaf-brown covers, Over all their faces spread; Tell them how the sun is waiting Longer daily in the skies, Looking for the bright uplifting Of their softly-fringed eyes.

Paul stretched out his arm, pointing with a lean, steady finger: "It lies out there," he answered.

As he paced along upon his richly caparisoned steed, pinching at his long, blue-shaven chin with supple fingers, his heavy brows drawn low, of a sudden his narrowed lids widened and his eyes gleamed bright and black as they beheld my Beltane standing in the shade of the tree.