" She sighed, and her well-manicured fingers fretted for a moment with the counterpane.

Here are some of them: manual, manoeuver, mandate, manacle, manicure, manciple, emancipate, manage, manner, manipulate, manufacture, manumission, manuscript, amanuensis.

Then Ruby Lee, not to be outdone by anybody, produced, from no one ever discovered where, a mother-of-pearl manicure set for the delight and mystification of the hero; and even Lazy Daisy went so far as to cut some red and yellow tissue-paper into squares under the delusion that some time, somehow, she would find the energy to roll these into spills for the lighting of Abe's pipe.

"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE NEXT, CLARENCE,ELECTRIC SHAMPOO OR FACE MANICURED?"] * *

"Take that back," she ordered, pointing a beautifully manicured hand at a dish just placed before her.

He turned in at a barber's shop, had his hair cut, and yielded to the solicitations of a fluffy-haired young lady who was dying to go to America if only somebody would take her, and who was sure that he ought to have a manicure before his voyage.

Cornificia, who could have made him submit even to a manicure, understood him too well to insist.

"I had my hair cut and my nails manicured; I was measured for four new suits of clothes, a certain number of shirts, and I bought some other indispensable trifles.

The planting of her firm black bulk in its chair, and the grasp of her broad red hands on the gilt arms, bespoke an organized and self-reliant activity, accounted for by the fact that Mrs. Heeny was a "society" manicure and masseuse.

I manicured him for his first society portraita full-length of Mrs. Harmon B. Driscoll."

Why thirteen beggars should come around every morning to the archbishop's study to have their feet manicured, or how that could possibly mollify an outraged God, the historian does not claim to state, and, in fact, is not able to throw any light upon it at the price agreed upon for this book.

" He glanced down in surprise, realizing how excited he must be not to have noticed that before, and remained for a moment silent, looking at the splendidly muscular white arm, and the large well-manicured hand.

His linen and clothing were immaculate, and the hand that curved around his cup had long, tapering, well-manicured fingers.

They were marcelled and manicured within an inch of their lives.

'Anybody would think that she and I had manicured each other's hands.

You can have a lot of bankrupt noblemen to rub an' manicure an' adulate an' chiropodize ye, an' people who'd have to laugh at your wit or look for another job, an' authors to read from their own works' "Bill interrupted with a gentle protest: 'Soc, how comforting you are!' "'Well, if all that is losin' its charm, what's the matter with travel?' "'Don't talk to me about travel,' said Bill.

They were not pretty hands: though small and well-shaped, there was something just a little claw-like about them; but they were very white, and her almond-shaped nails, admirably manicured, gleamed in the soft red light.

It was late in this summer that she enforced briefly a demand for genteel raiment, and kept the boy up until ten-thirty of a sleepy evening to manicure his nails.

His blood tingled at the thought; tingled to the tips of his well-manicured fingers.

Long-haired men put Dearman off, and he could not connect the virile virtues with large bows, velvet coats, scent, manicure, mannerisms and meandering.

They usually run to manicure sets in satin-lined cases or cut-glass cologne-bottles.

A bell-boy and two chambermaids for this floor; in time, an elevator and a manicure shop!

Like Cyrano, the artist in me rose supreme, and I manicured and curled his letter, painted and embroidered it, and nearly finished by signing 'Ronnie' instead of 'Herbert.'

It directed her to a manicure, and instructed her how to build a pergola for an Italian garden, supposing that she lived in Suffolk and could spare half an acre facing east.

This daintiness reflects downward, and the girl whose acquaintances in her high-school days are in a position to keep well manicured, if not "lily-white," hands does not like to have hers show the effect of housework, when that means scrubbing the floor and cleaning the stove.