446 examples of forefinger in sentences

It was the sewing on, instead of beads, some tinted porcupine quills, moistened and flattened between the nails of the thumb and forefinger.

Dawée stood in the yard, laughing at an old warrior who was pointing his forefinger, and again waving his whole hand, toward the hills.

Scornfully he pointed a long forefinger in my direction and asked: "What loyal son is he who, returning to his father's people, wears a foreigner's dress?"

Pointing a small forefinger toward the man lying on the grass, she cried, "Uncle, you will go after the pony tomorrow!"

A forefinger she presses to her lip.

" Blue-Star Woman broke off a piece of fried bread between a thumb and forefinger.

One day a celebrated advocate was arguing before him, when, to express his contempt of what he was saying, the cantankerous old curmudgeon of a Judge pointed with one forefinger to one of his ears, and with the other to the opposite one.

Mr. Tutt took it gingerly between his thumb and forefinger.

"Well, here we are again," remarked Mr. Doon pleasantly, seating himself upon the corner of Mr. Tutt's desk and spinning his bowler hat upon the forefinger of his left hand.

Standing near a source of light, close one eye, hold up both forefingers not quite in a line, keeping one finger about six or seven inches from the other eye, and the other forefinger about sixteen to eighteen inches from the eye.

Touch your forehead with your forefinger; the finger appears to feel the contact, but on rubbing the forefinger rapidly over the forehead, it is the latter which is interpreted as "feeling" the finger.

Touch your forehead with your forefinger; the finger appears to feel the contact, but on rubbing the forefinger rapidly over the forehead, it is the latter which is interpreted as "feeling" the finger.

If in the finger, grasp it with the thumb and forefinger, and pinch it firmly on each side; if in the hand, press on the bleeding spot, or press with the thumb just above and in front of the wrist.

Bits of food or other small objects sometimes get lodged in the throat, and are easily extracted by the forefinger, by sharp slaps on the back, or expelled by vomiting.

This is done usually as follows: Seize the lashes between the thumb and forefinger, and draw the edge of the lid away from the eyeball.

Sweep the forefinger, covered with a handkerchief or towel, round the mouth, to free it from froth and mucus.

Vomiting may be hastened by thrusting the forefinger down the throat.

Put the right forefinger of the other hand up through the front part to represent the odontoid process of the axis, and place some absorbent cotton through the other part to represent the spinal cord.

Push backwards with the forefinger with just enough force to break the toothpick and drive its fragments on to the cotton.

Close one eye and hold the left forefinger vertically in front of the other eye, at arm's length, and try to strike it with the right forefinger.

Close one eye and hold the left forefinger vertically in front of the other eye, at arm's length, and try to strike it with the right forefinger.

"Supposing?" The Prince tapped the table with his forefinger.

Tump marked a sentence in the guaranty of the deed with a rusty forefinger and looked up at Peter in mixed triumph and accusation.

I don't think I shall forget it, as long as I can stretch this forefinger to point with, and see what it wears.

Beneath these mouldering swaddlings of the grave a great ruby still cherishes its blood-guilty secret on the forefinger of his right hand.

446 examples of  forefinger  in sentences