All at once passion shook him; he fastened his grip in the shoulder of the larger man, and his fingertips worked toward the bone.

" At these words the King tapped his fingertips upon the table beside him with vexation.

Forgetful, he followed her swaying figure with puzzled gaze till admonished by the flame that crept toward his fingertips.

After that he had to lift and drag the rest of him out through the deadlight and, hanging by fingertips, work his way round, inch by inch, until it seemed possible to drop into the sea and escape hitting the screw.

She put her fingertips to her temples and concentrated.

If able, as you should be, to touch the floor with your fingertips without bending your knees, this little movement will be nothing to you, but do not bend to the left, Esmeralda.

Hurt?" Jellicoe was pressing the injured spot tenderly with his fingertips, uttering sharp howls whenever, zeal outrunning discretion, he prodded himself too energetically.

" The cowpuncher caressed the butt of his gun with his fingertips, his habitual gesture when in doubt.

He straightened and fixed his fingers firmly on the ledge above him, waiting until his palm and the fingertips had sweated into a steady grip.

He got a fingertip hold on the boards and stood up.

But it was soft with recent sweat, and along the edges of the leather there was a barely dried line of foam that rubbed away readily under the touch of his fingertip.

Nan sighed, as she thought of these things, and John regarded the battered thimble on his fingertip with increased benignity of aspect as he heard the sound.

"It'll all have oozed out of his fingertips this time to-morrow.

and so profoundly that he managed not merely to evade the proffered hand of the shy Hiram, but to only lightly touch the franker and more impulsive fingertips of the gentle Zaidee.

His fingertips brushed lightly across her breasts.

She let the special feeling spread through to her fingertips and the soles of her feet.

Oliver sighed and surrendered to the palm of her hand and her fingertips.

Slowly her lashes fell, the earth seemed to fail beneath her feet, the light to swoon from her eyes, her lips shook, and a full flush swept branding and burning up throat and face, stinging her very forehead, and shooting down her fingertips.

Never had he been so thankful for anything in his life as he was when he saw her bright eyes snap open, and heard her unsteady little giggle as she murmured, "My, but I thought I was dead, didn't you?" Game to her fingertips she had been.

Adelaide was still in bed, but one long, pointed fingertip, pressed continuously upon the dangling bell, a summons that had long since lost its poignancy for the temperamental Lucie, indicated that she was about to get up.

As I approached him, he leaned forward into his favourite attitude, elbows on knees and fingertips lightly touching, and he looked up at me.

She had a way of walking round and round the house, looking up at it pridefully and poking at plaster and paint with her umbrella or fingertip.

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The cowboy stared with such fixity that the match burned down to his fingertips and singed them before he had lighted his cigarette.

Each sleeve-end fell to my fingertips, and its girth would have circled a flour-barrel and buttoned with room to spare.