30 Metaphors for fingered

Workmen busy with the hatchet, the saw, and the plane, in the foreground; others in the rear occupied with mortar and stones, building a small but substantial house; a cart with oxen lazily waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for "something to turn up"; a few superior individuals in deep consultation, and the irrepressible sun struggling through the beeches and pines to have "his finger in the pie"such was the scene we saw, but soon left behind.

That same knocker was a source of much irritation to Peter Provoost; for although he was of fair size for his thirteen years, he could barely reach it when mounted on the very tips of his toes, and even then never dared touch its shining surface unless his fingers were cleana desirable state of neatness which, alas!

The ring-finger is York River, with Williamsburg and Yorktown just above and below the knuckle line.

FINGERS AND TOES Every lady in this land Has twenty nails, upon each hand Five, and twenty on hands and feet:

Her blue eyes went down deeper and deeper into the bluer yarn her fingers were threading; and after a long pause, during which I had forgotten her presence, and was counting out the hours on the face of the clock which the slow hands must travel over before Saul would be at home, suddenly she looked up and began with, "Mrs. Monten!"

His fingers are his orators, and he expresseth much of himself upon some instrument.

" "They were not rough and the fingers were slender and delicate.

"TrentaCesarino!"and the marchesa rose, laid her long, white fingers on his shoulderit was a cruel hand, spite of its symmetry and aristocratic whiteness"what does this mean?

Over at the college livery their fingers are all thumbs.

A species of ground moss is also styled in Germany the "devil's claws;" one of the orchid tribe is "Satan's hand;" the lady's fingers is "devil's claws," and the plantain is "devil's head."

See, dear child, how strange is destiny, which is none other but the hand of Godfor we must be blind not to recognize in all these things the finger of divine Providenceit is precisely the efforts made to put an obstacle between us, to prevent us, me from fulfilling my duties of a pastor, you those of a Christian, which have been the cause of our sweet intimacy.

Their hands were so stiff that the fingers were jointless.

His fingers were as guiltless as my own of those marks on her throat.

That same knocker was a source of much irritation to Peter Provoost; for although he was of fair size for his thirteen years, he could barely reach it when mounted on the very tips of his toes, and even then never dared touch its shining surface unless his fingers were cleana desirable state of neatness which, alas!

In some way which he could not fathom Gregson was associated with the mystery which enveloped him, and adding the senior engineer's nervousness to the significance of Jackpine's words he was confident that the missing finger had become a factor in the enigma.

As he stood leaning on a staff half bent, his long, yellow bony fingers clasped over the crutch-head of his stick, he was indeed a picture of misery, famine, squalor, and premature age, too horrible to dwell upon.

Green fingers playing Unseen on wind-lyres, Low singing bird voices, These are his choirs.

It is a truism that interesting occupation prevents dissension, and that idle fingers are the Devil's tools.

Now, if ten prints are taken, without special precautions, from a single finger, it will probably happen that no two of them are exactly alike; for the finger being a rounded object of which only a small part touches the paper, the impressions produced will show little variations according to the part of the finger by which the print is made.

Did I not know that nature had provided a conduit through which the needed sustenance was conveyed from the maternal udder, and that it was quite possible to delude the unsuspecting calf into the belief that the slyly inserted finger was that conduit?

The middle finger is the Rappahannock,with Fredericksburg about the first joint.

Your fingers will become mere bone after you are dead, as die you must.

Then, passing his left thumb down one side of his cheek, his fingers making a parallel course down the opposite cheek, with an important air and an expression indicative of great intimacy, he would condescendingly add,"The Dook wasn't a bad chap, after all: he used to give me a capital weed now and then."

He is extremely lean, his limbs are atrophied, his body is black with filth and dust, his hair is long and dishevelled, his beard is shaggy, his finger and toe nails have become genuine claws, and his aspect is frightful.

"My fingers and my leg-bones are the fingers and leg-bones of the Living Gods."

30 Metaphors for  fingered