23 examples of fingernails in sentences

The candles, Brutus." VI He rubbed his fingernails on his sleeve and glanced about him with a pleasure he seemed quite unable to conceal.

By'r Lady, my arm doth tingle yet from fingernail to elbow.

I only hope he won't hold a g-g-grudge against me when he sees the mark of all my f-f-fingernails down his face.

After that it was refreshing to find unromantic Mr. Phinuit lounging beside the captain's desk with crossed feet overhanging one corner of it and mind intent on the prosaic business of paring his fingernails.

Why, if I had to fight, I might break a fingernail.

"It was dry before it was wrapped in that undershirt," he said to himself, testing the blood on the blade with a speculative fingernail.

She was as mad as a teased rattlesnake, and not a man of her six captors but bore the marks of fingernails, or teeth, or heels.

Nevertheless, you are like a man without fingernails, whose scratching does him no good!

A little before dawn I awakened Grim and Jeremy and we left the room quietly after I had scratched on the closet door with my fingernails.

She looked at her husband and gave him a silent, urgent message to break the awkward pause, a message which he disregarded, continuing coolly to inspect his fingernails with an abstracted air, contradicted by the half-smile on his lips.

Somebody engineered it to the paring of a fingernail: bare quorum to act; members who might have filibustered weeded out, on one pretext or another, to a man; pages all excused, and nobody here with the privilege of the floor.

Could it even a bin the fashion for grit fowk to wear their fingernails so?

Ellen and I," he went on, his excitement showing only in his lapses into dialect, "we hain't worked all our lives so that our children'll be shiftless idlers, settin' 'round, polishin' their fingernails, and thinkin' up foolishness and breedin' fools.

And now this other stranger arose from the trimming of his long fingernails; and you could see this was a tall, lean youngster (though not so tall as Manuel, and nothing like so stalwart), with ruddy cheeks, wide-set brown eyes, and crinkling, rather dark red hair.

The South American, accustomed to the disputes of his two companions, looked at his black fingernails with the melancholy desperation of a prophet contemplating his country in ruins.

Every week he trimmed his fingernails; every day or so, with a flush and a hangdog look, he drenched himself with perfume.

The fingernail clue.

R624708. Painted fingernails.

The fingernail clue.

R624708. Painted fingernails.

the tutor asked, trimming his fingernails with an appearance of indifference.

But, for the other mode of treatment, she may be a Grizel, or as patienta short course of that will sharpen not only her tongue, but her fingernails.

He had fingernails dat long, all cleaned an polished.

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