Over the tissue, wet with lime-water, Nick wrapped bandages of lint; and the operation finished, Angela was as helpless as if she had pulled on a pair of tight, thick gloves whose fingers would not bend.

Invisible fingers wove the bridal lace, beading with diamonds the foliage of its design; or so Angela thought when first she saw the falls.

He seemed to have as much control of his fingers as though he wore a pair of boxing gloves.

Her fingers pressed it tightly, almost spasmodically, and upon them she seemed to feel, even to see, Nick Hilliard's hands, brown and strong.

I will confess that, when the spectre Debt has leaned over my pillow of late, and, smiling ghastlily, has asked if she and I were not intended as companions through life, I snap my fingers at her and tell her that Brother Jonathan talks of adopting me, and that he won't have her of his household.

I'd been taught at 'ome, per'aps, ere I sailed, Ere I sailed; I'd been taught at 'ome, per'aps, ere I sailed; I'd been taught at 'ome, per'aps, that JOHN BULL his fingers snaps At the "cussed Yankee chaps," ere I sailed.

Almost every one of the statues has its hands and fingers in some constrained and awkward position; as if the artist knew as little what to do with them as some awkward and bashful people know what to do with their own.

While, ever as with beckoning fingers, the great peaks, snow-capped or rock-summitted, call one across the verdant meadows into the higher valleys of Kienthal, Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwaid, and Kandersteg, to the terraced heights above or up amid the great wild passes.

At the sight, she felt in her own palm the soft firmness of those fingers as palpably as ever she had in reality.

His wife and children perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears and ran on, crying, 'Life!

The man made an inarticulate murmur of pityput out his thick red fingers, took the message gently from her hand, and opened it.

There was something shocking in the contrast between the steady rigor of her voice and the fury of her fingers as they tore and stripped and shredded the leaves.

" He clung to her hand, he clung to it with such a grip that her fingers achedand

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

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

In an instant she was at his side, and his head was resting on her lap, while her trembling fingers parted back from his pale brow the damp mass of curling hair.

Henry Warner would have borne almost death itself for the sake of being nursed by the young girl beside him, and he signified his willingness to proceed, while at the same time his hand involuntarily grasped that of Maggie, as if in the touch of her snowy fingers there were a mesmeric power to soothe his pain.

But while she was yet undecided, Hagar's fingers, of late unused to the pen, traced a few lines to Henry Warner, who, acting at once upon her suggestion, wrote to Margaret a letter which he directed to "Hagar Warren, Richland.

a cigar appeared between his fingers, and the re-assuring words came forth"A light, sir, if you please."

'You above all,' said Mr. Rymer, pressing her hand with his coal-blackened fingers.

In that moment Miss Shepperson clutched at the notes and gold, and, with a quick step forward, took hold of the baby's hand, making the little fingers close upon the money.

"Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he had catched, let it slip out of his fingers: 'No creature, (says he,) is so contemptible but what may provide for its own safety, if it have courage.

In her ears were two great, thick emeralds, and on her fingers a half dozen diamonds whose facets twinkled in the sunlight.

He dropped to his knee, and taking her slender hand in his kissed her fingers.

Surely it is notAlice?" He crushed her fingers.