Paaker put his finger to his lips, and gave a shrill whistle that sounded like a yell in the silence.
Mrs. Boynton's Book of books was open on the bed and herfinger marked a passage in her favorite Bible-poet.
Don't lift a finger to Patty, or I'll defend her, I promise you!
Her white arm how dare you placefinger or fist on?
Entrusting the secret to no one but a black woman who waited on her, Hannah extracted the bullet with her finger and thumb; the negress obtained lint, salve, and other necessaries for dressing, and the wound was soon perfectly cured.
In spite of their snowy garments she hugged them both, then whirling and shaking a finger at the doctor, she accused: "Now I know why you pretended to be so ravenously hungry and ordered a double portion of clam chowder.
He put a finger to his brow, and hastened back to his own carriage.
Her voice had dropped, and she smoothed one of her black curls absently round her finger as she spoke.
It is so hard to sit up; but Mother says that much my worst trick "Is biting my finger nails; and I've bitten them nearly all down to the quick.
All at once I felt an arm glide over my shoulder, and I could just make out that Ebo was pointing upward with his black finger steadily in one direction.
Cautiously reaching out my hand I took hold of my gun, and by pressing my finger on each trigger in turn, I cocked it silently, and raising myself on one elbow waited for the danger to come.
A monk received them in silence, and, in answer to a question of the Colonel, put his finger upon his lips.
It is not painful; and, I think, resembles a giant twisting about your flesh between his finger and thumb.
I should like to see how these ingredients are working; but by the grace of God, I will take care of putting my finger into the cleft stick.
Sinclair, whose absurd vanity bids him thrust his finger into every man's pie, proposing that Hurst and Robinson should sell their prints, of which he says they have a large collection, by way of lottery like Boydell.
Profiting by the experience I had gained in the other cases, I omitted several steps of the process before employed, and commenced at once with the finger language.
Has a piece cut out of each ear, and the middle finger of the left hand cut off to the second joint.
In plain language, it means that people who have money may twist round their finger those who have none.
Passionately kissing her ring, she loudly declares that as long as it graces her finger she will have the strength to repulse every attack and keep her troth to the giver.
But he draws it from his finger only when Erda, the shadowy earth goddess, half rises out of the ground to command the sacrifice of the treasure which Alberich stole from the Rhine maidens.
When the finger tips are in a circle, they represent a circuit of hues, which has neither beginning nor end, for we can start with any finger and trace a sequence forward or backward.
The hand thus becomes a color holder, with white at the finger tips, black at the wrist, strong colors around the outside, and weaker colors within the hollow.
Each finger is a scale of its own color, with white above and black below, while the graying of all the hues is traced by imaginary lines which meet in the middle of the hand.
As a preliminary torment an old chief tried to burn the captive’s finger in the bowl of his pipe.
She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman.
He had grizzled, tangled hair, crooked finger nails, and wore a dirty handkerchief tied around his neck, instead of a collar.
She lighted it, opened the door, put the candle into my hand and one finger on her lips, pointed up a staircase no wider than if two interior walls had cracked slightly apart, and withdrew.
And her manner ever since had been for all the world as if something was inevitable, would come of itself, in its own good time, whether she lifted a finger to further it or not.
Under Frehel's sweeping finger the Calvary started forth for a moment from the shadows.
Jennie flew to my glass, and then, apparently finding all well there, turned, smiled, and put her finger on her lips.
And I think that already the rogue knew that he could turn her round his finger as he pleased.
And I wouldn't ask you to lift a finger to help me if I didn't know it was quite all right.
Just as his waiting finger pressed the button the entire cavalcade came to a sudden stop.
This brought about a bunch of trouble at Washington, and a number of high officials felt the finger of suspicion.
Jest like a flea," suggested Perk, "gone afore you c'n put a finger on him.
But Marjon put her finger to her lips, and went quietly on with her work.
There he goes," said Olga, pointing with her little white fingerafter Van Lieverlee.
He murmured softly to himself, and pointed with a finger into the lighted palace.
The goblin raised his eyebrows very high, and laid his finger on his lips.
Devil, pointing out a girl-like being with open mouth, dull eyes, and a finger in each nasty nostril, who was constantly tittering.
But Windekind put his finger to his lips, and said: "Hush!
Would you point with the finger and say to Him: 'Here!
When the filling is placed in the circle of paste, fold the latter over and moisten the edge of the paste with the finger dipped in water to make it stay securely closed.
Moisten the edges of each section with the finger dipped in cold water, to make them stick together, and press them down with the fingers or the prongs of a fork.
The worst thing happened, however, when the ring Benoit had given her dropped from her thin finger into the water where she was fishing.
He gave it to the Cure, who put it on her finger one day after confession.
Often they heard a hissing in the water, like the sound of a wet finger touching hot iron.
Why, a scratched finger completely upset him--in the earlier days.
Paula followed his finger to the nozzle of a hose that hung over the rim of cement on the top pond.
But even on that, the first evening of unalloyed happiness for the lovers, the stern Fate that seemed to hunt relentlessly the unfortunate girl put forth her grim finger in warning.
Once there, all her pluck and gladness seemed to run out of her finger ends again quite suddenly.
Evidently Alkali Bill is a person who points the finger of scorn at small ideas, and leaves the bothersome details of life to other and smaller-minded folks.
The expressive action of drawing the finger across the throat appears to be the favorite method of signifying personal danger among all these people; but I already understand that the Persians live in deadly fear of the nomad Koords.
He then goes to the Sheikh, points to me, and draws his finger across his throat, intimating that he would like the privilege of cutting somebody's throat, and why not let him cut mine.
