Using the forefinger of his right hand as a marker, he counted under his breath, "one" on his left thumb, then after a frowning interval, "two" on his left forefinger, "three" on the middle digit, and so on, giving time for thought to each number, until he had exhausted the fingers of his left hand and was ready to start on the right.

Finally she rubbed the pink chamois across her features and adjusted her hat, pausing to scrape again with forefinger at the front of her, and moved on through the gloom, the wind blowing her skirt forward.

The workman then takes a strip in his left hand, and, with his thumb on the back and his forefinger on the edge, draws the strips up and down against the knife blade until the soft pithy parts are cut away, and what remains has become fine enough for the next process.

" She shook an admonitory forefinger in his direction, and pouted in the most dangerous fashion.

Instantly upon his appearance every man in the room stuck his thumb and forefinger into his vest pocket, and pulling out a little piece of printed paper, said, "Sir, I called" A.R.R. waved his hand.

"Let me see," and he touched his forefinger to his forehead in thought, humming to himself, and stopping ever and anon to fit what he had got to what he searched for in his mind.

A man's hand, as shown in the photograph, can easily grasp the whole lower chest of a deer, placing thumb and forefinger over the heart on opposite sides.

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

The old man laid a perplexed forefinger along his illuminated nose.

Being at raise pistol (right hand grasping stock at the height of and 6 inches in front of the point of the right shoulder, forefinger alongside barrel, barrel to the rear and inclined forward about 30°).

I. Firmly seat thumb of right hand on the hammer: insert forefinger inside trigger guard.

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

I poked my forefinger towards her, and glared at her.

"Awful!" He scraped one forefinger against the other.

Besides Dale's and Morgan's there's three ranches, ain't they, on the Lazy near Farewell?" Racey Dawson held up three fingers, doubling a thumb and forefinger behind them.

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

She waved her long forefinger before him, which meant: "Don't talk foolishness.

She hooked her forefinger around one of the triggers, her eagle eye glanced along the barrels straight at the head of the anti-detective, and, in a clarion voice she sang out "Go!"

But Donnegan calmly spun the cylinder of his revolver and held it toward Landis, dangling from his forefinger under the guard.

"D'you think I'm jest talkin' words, Kate, to hear myself talk?" "Listen!" broke in Joe Cumberland, and raised a bony forefinger for silence.

"My opinion is," said Lethal, holding out his crooked forefinger like a claw, "that this soi-disant dukewhat the deuse is his name?" "Rosecouleur," interposed Adonaïs, in a tone of society.

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