Every week he trimmed his fingernails; every day or so, with a flush and a hangdog look, he drenched himself with perfume.

Why, if I had to fight, I might break a fingernail.

She looked at her husband and gave him a silent, urgent message to break the awkward pause, a message which he disregarded, continuing coolly to inspect his fingernails with an abstracted air, contradicted by the half-smile on his lips.

After that it was refreshing to find unromantic Mr. Phinuit lounging beside the captain's desk with crossed feet overhanging one corner of it and mind intent on the prosaic business of paring his fingernails.

The candles, Brutus." VI He rubbed his fingernails on his sleeve and glanced about him with a pleasure he seemed quite unable to conceal.

Could it even a bin the fashion for grit fowk to wear their fingernails so?