I try to make as many socks as I can for our poor men; fingering wool; not wheeling, which is so much rougher to the feet.
I'm sure I'd rather march, and, if it came to that, die in fingering than in wheeling.
On the contrary, he was fingering the white goat's-beard with one nervous hand, and apparently listening half-absently to the clamor in the street.
The president was fingering his thin beard and waving an arm toward the track-layers.
He went from case to case fingering the volumes, opening and glancing through one after another.
Fleurette was looking down, now, fingering her jacket.
The secretary had stood silent for a long time, fingering nervously the papers on the table.
He was fingering the dagger again as if he longed to plunge it into Lucas's gullet, and I rather marvelled that he did not, or summon his guard to do it.
He had gone to a sideboard and was fingering a decanter.
I stood rather shyly by the table, fingering the helmet that my mother had told me to take off; presently looking up, I saw her merry eyes on me.
Now he put out a hand, and began fingering the laces of the farmer's shoes with a quick fluttering movement that Shadrach saw with a spasm of terror.
When he sat down on the edge of the stoop, he stared straight before him for a little while, fingering a button on his coat till it broke off.
But the old Kafir was kneeling by the steps fingering its hoofs, which were all bloody, and as Fanie came forward he put out his hands and left a little spot of blood on Fanie's shoes.
So, that's how he does it," mused Kennedy, fingering the can contemplatively.
We turned on the light in the room, and divided the wall into three parts, each of usfingering a third carefully and painstakingly from top to bottom.
He was engrossed infingering the wall beyond the door.
Fingering his button, he began in his usual impetuous fashion.
With one hand he was fingering a large brass button, which figured conspicuously in the centre of his small waistcoat, and this button was the subject of his theme.
If this is the case, what shall be said of marking the fingering on all the notes--which often makes good playing impossible.
I took the chair on the other side the fireplace opposite to him, thinking of this and that, and fingering the tongs to help me: a habit I was often scolded for at home--that of fingering things.
EDGAR, by a little spindle-legged table in the centre of the room, is fingering a china-box.
THE MAN draws back against, the hedge, fingering his side, where the knife is hidden.
He fell to fingering his moustache, and studying the bed-posts.
They stood for a little time without speaking; she fingering the fastener of the cake box, he pulling at his moustache.
He sat moodily fingering the papers on the littered, ink-stained table that served him for a desk.
Every single suggestion as to holding and fingeringthe reins is negatived if tight gloves are worn.
It is quieter and less conspicuous than pulling the reins and gets one in, and keeps one in, the valuable habit of fingering the reins accurately, quietly, and mechanically, leaving the eyes and attention for other and more important matters.
A man with short fingers would be hampered, and his work infingering four reins would be cramped, with wide reins.
The reins, too, are closer together in the hand, making the fingering more difficult, and the handling of a spirited leader is perhaps as difficult and nice a task as any form of driving affords.
The right hand indeed should do its fingering of the reins as quickly and accurately as a practised pianoforte player picks out and strikes his notes.
Grace, very ugly, and fingering the jewels on his hilt.
Yes, yes," he answered absently, fingeringsome Point d'Espagne.
So down we sat about the famous old round table, Fox fingering the dents the gold had made in the board, and philosophizing; and reciting Orlando Furioso in the Italian, and Herodotus in the original Greek.
Captain Daniel, fingering his sword, as was his wont when angered; "I will call him out despite his gown, or else horse him publicly!
For many moments she stood so, fingering the white handle of the weapon, and there was no sound in all the vast assemblage save the crackle of the flames.
Then did the colour drain out of the soft cheeks under the berry stain and the girl from Grand Portage stand fingering the bright hatchet in her hand.
I have a nervous habit, when talking, of fingering my watch, keys, knife, or whatever I happen to fish out of my pocket first.
He thought of it with a satisfied nod as he stood a moment breathing the brisk air of the winter day, absentlyfingering the coupon the girl had paid for the shawl.
As for Grabit, he sits today at his dusty little desk, fingering his penny Ledger and absentmindedly feeling around in his whiskers betimes for a wild hair or two.
Why, I think they're lovely," said Laura, tenderly fingering one of the flounces which billowed like waves against her own blue print.
They spent a delightful half hour at the counter fingering the pretty things, sometimes having as much trouble to decide between different objects as the boys had with their pitchers.
Ivy, leaning her head against the piano and letting her eyes stray from Alene's nimblefingering to the graceful swaying of the girls in the dance.
He shifted his position restlessly, again setting his elbows upon the table and fingering the broken bread upon the cloth.
He had no heart for his accustomed tidy potterings, but lingered aimlessly, fingering the gold watch-chain strained across the convex surface of his waistcoat, sand looking pitifully enough between the lace curtains out on to the Green.
Well," replied the Marquis, standing upright and fingering the snuff-box which had been given to his grandfather by the Great Louis.
One must look somewhere, and Turner always gazed at the necktie of any one who sat straight in front of him, which usually induced an uneasy fingering of that ornament and an early consultation of the nearest mirror.
Already the mate--a Farlingford man, who had succeeded Loo--was standing on the rail fingering a coil of rope.
He walked on thoughtfully at her side, fingering the end of his long yellowish-gray moustache, and bending his sleepy gaze on the pavement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fingering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
