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Example sentences for "fingered"

Lexicographically close words:
finesse; finest; fing; finger; fingerboard; fingering; fingerless; fingernail; fingernails; fingerprint
  1. A fleshy three-fingered hand was pounding vehemently on the arm of the chair.

  2. Now, however, they came for Hilary in a solid mass, huge three-fingered hands flailing, seeking to thrust him down by sheer weight of numbers.

  3. A three-fingered hand waved mockingly down at him.

  4. His fat, short fingered hands were spread across the waistcoat of Berlin wool, his chin was sunk and his bearing that of a man who is out of humour.

  5. He fingered her needlework which she had left behind--it was a tiny jacket for a stranger's baby in a newly-founded crèche.

  6. They fingered the covering of the handle, scratched the guard with their nails, bent the blade, handled the small leather ball.

  7. All these animals had many-fingered feet.

  8. She banged chairs and table about, folded up scattered clothes, investigated them with much interest, and fingered and re-arranged the row of boots with muttered ejaculations and covetous eyes.

  9. Though he did not look in the least domesticated, he was far more dexterous at such work than the long-fingered Arithelli.

  10. I tucked one leg under me on the kitchen chair, fingered the satiny material of my slip, and began reading my book again.

  11. He fingered one huge ear, and I saw the glitter of a diamond on his finger.

  12. Bess fingered the poor faded buds as if her conscience suddenly smote her.

  13. Odo held his head high, with one hand leading Donna Laura (for he would not appear to be led by her) while the other fingered his sword.

  14. Trescorre looked down and thoughtfully fingered the documents in his hands.

  15. Eva fingered their titles and gave a little gasp.

  16. The speaker fingered a heavy ruler lovingly, but Mr. Nixon edged coldly out of reach.

  17. They thought, not a few of them, of an old sword in a passage, or above a breakfast-table, seen and fingered by stealth since they could walk.

  18. But while Daniels fingered his glass he kept an eye upon the other man at the bar.

  19. The owner of the animal made his way with unobtrusive swiftness the length of the room and stood between the dog and a man who fingered the butt of his gun nervously.

  20. Lady Feo stretched out her hand,--a long-fingered able hand, born for the violin.

  21. And so, his tie duly tied by the clumsy-fingered man who had received lessons from a shop in the Burlington Arcade, the gallant Peter left his rooms in Park Place and stood on the curb in St. James's Street.

  22. She fingered them tenderly, one after the other, then thrust them aside.

  23. He snored on, undisturbed by my light-fingered action.

  24. He took up a package, fingered it a moment, then dropped it again, and shot me one of his quiet glances.

  25. As for Algernon, he is the sort of man who writes sonnets to lilies and butterflies and the rosy-fingered dawn--this last from hearsay as he really knows nothing about it.

  26. Now, this man you have chosen--you do not care overmuch for lilies and butterflies and rosy-fingered dawns?

  27. The evil face smiled as it looked at the yellow little programme, and the long-fingered hands smoothed out its creases with a lingering, loving touch.

  28. He turned vaguely a number of taps, fingered the electric wires; all was apparently well.

  29. Almost reverently he picked it up and fingered it and turned it over and examined it with the fond and foolish deliberation of a lover for whom custom has not staled these little blisses.

  30. He fingered his knives in his belt, shifted his weight on his bare splayed feet.

  31. Shad Brisbee fingered the knives in his belt as if he was considering accepting Molock's invitation, then suddenly spread his hands.

  32. He fingered with a new care the sum in his pocket, an admirably comprehensive plan had occurred to him--he would bury them both, the money and purity, beneath the same indignity.

  33. Anthony Ball listened with rapidly growing attention, while he fingered three one dollar bills wadded into the bottom of his pocket.

  34. The blunt-fingered hand of Nash stole across the table.

  35. He saw the great, blunt-fingered hands which had killed men, which were feared through the length and breadth of the mountain-desert, stretched out to him.

  36. Then he fingered the others, tried their weight and balance, slipped cartridges into the cylinders and extracted them again, whirled the cylinders, examined the minutest parts of the actions.

  37. The cuirass, high boots, and all vestiges of the military profession, were exchanged for the loose garments of a trader, in the breast of which the nimble-fingered Greek adroitly concealed and secured the secret missive of his master.

  38. There is one estate about eight miles from Kingston, in the immediate vicinity of which the famous hero, Three-fingered Jack, made his head-quarters.

  39. It is a district of wild torrents and waterfalls of the most romantic character; "the imagination of no painter of theatrical spectacles can surpass the wild wonders of the mountain-hold of the real Three-fingered Jack.


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    Other words:
    clawed; dentate; digital; fanged; prehensile; raptorial; toothed