32 examples of fore-fingers in sentences

" "Jerk that monster out of my sight!" roared GAMBETTA to a sergent de ville, and pointing his long, skinny fore-finger full at me.

" I rested my right fore-finger upon one side of my nose and struck an attitude of interrogation while putting these questions.

and, as I spoke the words, I smiled knowingly, winked, and touched him gently with my fore-finger in the ribs.

This is to be remedied by the introduction of the fore-finger to the upper and back part of the child's tongue, and gently pressing it downwards and forwards, by which the difficulty will be removed, and the air again passes.

I grew eager at these words, and put the same question to him that I did to the man on the steamer when I was sailing: "Has he one fore-finger cut off?"

Then he raised it once, showing only the fore-finger and thumb.

Here Nick looked round him a moment, raised his fore-finger, dropped his voice, and added earnestly"see him at Bunker Hillknow him among ten, six, two t'ousand warrior.

She held it up dangling between her thumb and fore-finger.

Then, when you want to use both hands, put your right little finger and ring finger between the right curb and right snaffle, and hold your hands at exactly even distances from your horse's head, with the two reins firmly nipped by the thumbs resting on top of the fore-fingers.

He anointed the thumb and fore-finger of each of their hands, and marked a cross on their heads with Chrism.

His thumb and fore-finger are clasped firmly upon the bottom of the zerf, which I inclose near the top with my own thumb and finger, so that the transfer is accomplished without his hand having touched mine.

Hide the circular part of the letter, and ask, What is the position of the other part, and they will say, having previously learnt the elements of form which will shortly be explained, A perpendicular line; hide that, and ask them what the other part is, telling them to bend one of their fore-fingers in the same form, and they will say, A curved line.

This time it was only the simple fact that the hands chanced to point to 3.10 P.M., the precise moment at which all the clocks of London had stoppedfor each town has its thousand weird fore-fingers, pointing, pointing still, to the moment of doom.

Assured that there was no one near, he communicated his thoughts as follows: "The same idee has been at work here," he said, tapping his forehead with a fore-finger, "and good may come of it

This time I was successful, I put my hand gently under his belly, and by a tickle, secured the rascal, by thrusting the fore-finger and thumb of my right hand in his gills.

But turning at the door, he shook his hand at Wakefield, pointing with his fore-finger upwards, in a manner which might imply either a threat or a caution.

"They are all right fore-fingers," said Du Lhut, "so everyone represents a life.

A rosy-cheeked child in the centre of the group, enjoying the glory of his first coronation, accidentally pointed his fat fore-finger at her, as if in derision of her undertaking.

"What is it?" asked the detective, as his colleague with the point of his long fore-finger nail picked at the thin crust on the top of one of these spots, disclosing a dark, viscous core.

The heaviest man in the party was raised and sustained upon the points of the fore-fingers of six persons.

I could well imagine such a fellow spreading terror in the hearts of simple folk by merely pressing both temples with his thumbs and drawing his long bony fore-finger under his throatthe so-called Black Hand sign that has shut up many a witness in the middle of his testimony even in open court.

At last, with her fore-finger she pointed out to Kohlhaas, who was sitting beside her bed, the verse: "Forgive your enemies; do good to them that hate you."

And Cynthia raised a reproving fore-finger.

" As the mother tarried by the door for a moment to exchange a last word with the teacher, and perhaps also to cast one more lingering glance at the boy, a little girl ran up to Keith, put her right fore-finger on top of his head and cried out: "Towhead!" All the other children giggled.

As many people as were in the assembly began to put their fore-fingers between their teeth, saying [to themselves] "How could such a hag subdue the affections of this young man!"

32 examples of  fore-fingers  in sentences