434 Verbs to Use for the Word finger

Here again philosophy laid its finger upon its nose, and winked facetiously, as if it had found a new subject for ridicule, in the stupendous folly of such an inquiry.

" Dr. Schermerhorn snapped his fingers.

The moment I did so, Sir Henry turned white to his lips, and Lady Studley held up a warning finger to me to intimate that I was on dangerous ground.

If an urchin points his finger at your hat, humor him by removing it!

" The boy ran his fingers in his hair and threw out his arms impatiently.

If the men determined to blow up all Millville with dynamite I'm sure Skeelty would not lift a finger to prevent it.

"Lord," quoth he in a voice of awe, but Beltane strode on unheeding, whereat Roger's eyes grew round and his ruddy cheek pale, and clenching his fist, he raised aloft his first and little fingers so that they formed two horns, and with the horns he touched Beltane lightly on the shoulder.

She shook her finger at me playfully, and turned to her husband.

From that time on I was virtually a prisoner; yet so carefully was my surveillance accomplished that I could place my finger on nothing definite.

And there I sat, full of dazed wonders, until the flame of the match burnt my finger, and I dropped it; while a hasty expression of pain and anger, escaped my lips, surprising me with the sound of my own voice.

The toddlers go round the beds of herbs, pinching the leaves with their tiny fingers and then putting their fingers to their noses.

and he said, 'I was chopping a stick one evening, and the hatchet cut off my finger.'

Or again, "A gentleman of good habit, sitting just before us, eating of some fruit in the midst of the play, did drop down as dead; being choked, but with much ado Orange Moll did thrust her finger down his throat and brought him to life again."

" Mrs. Judge Hildreth dipped her jeweled fingers into the perfumed water of her finger glass and dried them on her silk-fringed napkin.

I pressed my finger on this, and immediately a little panel slid back, which revealed underneath a small button.

She took the little fellow's fingers and laid them on the Colonel's.

She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.

Why do I tremble thus because the moon is gone?" "Nay, my beloved," quoth Beltane, kissing those slender fingers that trembled upon his lip and were so coldso deadly cold, "dear Helen, it will shine forth again bright and radiant as ever.

Goldberger dropped to his knees beside the body, looked into the eyes and touched his fingers to the left wrist.

Lots of times when life looks like a long seam an' the sewin' pricks my fingers, a new light falls on this picture, and I sez to myself, 'Penel,' says I, 'look at Marthe Everidge.

After that, not for worlds would she have moved a finger.

She was standing in one of the doorways, anxiously watching him and twisting her fingers in and out in an irresolute way truly significant in one of her disposition.

Although the cold was so intense that wine froze, and that his men lost fingers and toes from frost-bites, Charles did not shrink from the labor of hunting down those who had fled to the mountains, and burning the villages in which they had sought a refuge.

I tried to force open the fingers and that fell out.

Avarabet hesitated for some time; examined the edges as well as the surface of the nails; drew his finger slowly over them, and then said,"You have a susceptible heart; you are in sorrow, but your affliction will soon have an end."

434 Verbs to Use for the Word  finger