She was a genuine child of Italy,full of feeling, spirit, and genius,alive in every nerve to the finger-tips; and under the tropical sunshine of her mistress's favor she grew as an Italian rose-bush does, throwing its branches freakishly over everything in a wild labyrinth of perfume, brightness, and thorns.

At the end he, too, sat thoughtfully a few moments, his finger tips neatly matched in church steeples before him.

She blew him a kiss on her finger tips.

She kissed her finger tips to his receding back.

I suppose a man could even make an attenuated sort of love in the lingo, but I'll be hanged if I see how anybody could order a loaf of bread," "One might do without bread, possibly?" suggested Morrison, pressing the tips of his beautiful fingers together.

Every handful showed the quivering flesh, and was followed by spouts of blood; nor did he seem to carealthough the more carefully the flaying operation was performed, the better chance he had of carrying his wagerwhether he brought away with the torn tips portions of the skin.

And many, sublime in the valour of their faith, tore off the hair of her head and the nails of her fingers ("even the tips of her ears, et mamillarum papillas," says untranslatably Montanus of Spire), and kept them as relics.'

In a room off the balcony there was a billiard-table, the cloth patched or missing in many spots, and with cues whose tips had long since succumbed to perpetual moisture.

It was the low tide succeeding sunrise, and the water over the reef was a few inches deep, so that I could see the marine life of the wall, the many kinds of starfish, the sea-urchins, and the curious bivalves which hide with their shell-tips just even with the floor of the lagoon, and, keeping them barely even, wait for foolish prey.

So, if she can sing, or play on any musical instrument, all her wickedness will run off through her throat or the tips of her fingers.

Taynton put his plump finger-tips together and raised his kind eyes to the ceiling"why, the chance of his wanting to marry anybody else is postponed anyhow, till, till he has got over this unfortunate attachment.

When her finger-tips brushed those lips, still well formed and roseate, she felt it, strange to say, on her lips.

He had been married once, it is true, about a half century before; but that was not reckoned against the existence of his prejudice, because he was célibataire to his finger-tips, as any one could see a mile away.

Her dress was whisked, as if for microscopic inspection; her face was washed; and her finger-nails were scrubbed with the hard convent nail-brush, until the disciplined little tips ached with a pristine soreness.

Along the way I did trample on a few toes inadvertently, but my well wishers and the learning tips they provided me are invaluable.

Mr. was softer and more languishing than ever, and appeared like a man who had been fed on honey off the tips of a canary bird's feather....

We must touch each other with the tips of our fingers....

There was no uncertainty in their judgment of him; he looked a man from the top of his head to the tips of his canvas shoes.

Excitement tingled to my very finger-tips at the thought.

The chief external appearances distinguishing the cattle from all others are as follows"their colour is invariably white; muzzles black, the whole of the inside of the ear and about one-third of the outside, from the lips downwards, red; horns white with black tips, very fine and bent upwards; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane about an inch and a half or two inches long.

" He advanced a step or two and struck me across the face with his finger tips; I took up a champagne bottle, and struck him across the head and shoulders.

Opposite to him, Gervaise, in a frock of black Orleans stuff, and bareheaded, was finishing her plum, which she held by the stalk between the tips of her fingers.

Dicky returned in a minute or two carrying very carefully a shallow earthenware dish from which some thick yellow-green tips were sprouting.

"I put these in a finger bowl, and sprinkle a few seeds of grass or canary seed on the moss and dash some water on it from the tips of my fingers.

Tips on taps, album of tap dancing.