I doubt if many were able to comprehend, yet some grasped my meaning, bending over the map and asking questions, pointing to this and that mark with stubby forefingers.

Little by little the incensed gentlemen gave it a hearing, now two words and now three, interrupting it to rip out long, rasping maledictions, and wag their forefingers at each other as they strode ferociously about the apartment.

" "Why, papa," said Dotty, laying her forefingers together with emphasis, "I've known what I'm thankful for, for two days.

Sometimes they took their forefingers out of their mouths and pointed at my moccasined feet.

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.

A crude method is to place the person with his back to a window, ask him to close one eye, stand in front of him about two feet distant, hold up the forefingers of both hands in front of and in the plane of your own face.

But, Esmeralda, keep your mind on those thumbs and hold them close to your forefingers.

He glanced at her sideways, turned to the panel, and with his forefingers traced the outline of a square upon it, against the tree.

This seemed to make some impression upon the Savage, for after a little more ferocity and chasing of the Maiden into corners, he began to relent, and stroked his face several times with his right thumb and forefingers, thereby intimating that he was struck with admiration of the Maiden's beauty.

There now!" "Well, the secret is this," said Horace, laying his forefingers together, and speaking very slowly, in order to prolong the immense delight he felt in watching the little one's eager face.

After saying this, the Genie laid his immense forefingers on each side of Joachim's head just above his forehead, and then disappeared.

When he first clearly felt this, he thought of the Genie and his two forefingers, I believe;but his school life, and his funny ways, and the constant diversion of his mind, quite prevented his thinking of all the serious things the Genie had spoken.

As if to convey her meaning plainer, she raises both thumbs and forefingers to her mouth and pulls out the words like a long string; her tongue goes so fast that it keeps my mind always on a painful stretch to comprehend an idea here and there.

To younger people they told the tale of it nowthe old familiar talewith shaking heads and trembling forefingers.

Heckewelder naïvely gives the Indian's recipe for getting a useful wife: "Indian, when he see industrious squaw, which he like, he go to him [her], place his two forefingers close aside each other, make two look like onesee him

We then pulled forefingers again.

[Illustration: The Louvre, Paris MADONNA AND SAINTS] Comparisons of detail may be noted, such as the resemblance in posture and type of the Accuser with the S. Roch of the Madrid picture, the figure of the Adulteress with that of the False Mother in the Kingston Lacy picture, the pointing forefingers, the typical landscape, the cast of the draperies, details which the reader can find often repeated elsewhere.

Stepping close to me, the "Tarheel" extended his two gnarled forefingers, and pressed between the tips my cheek-bones on either side.