Two lost tempers and four split fingernails later it developed the "elevating screw" really held the two front legs on and that you elevated by adjusting the rear tripod leg.
It had hands like claws with long black fingernails and fur on them (the fingers) and it pushed the letters around so they spelled Name and I spelled out Marie.
But Van Emmon stood still in his tracks, his eyes fixed on the Goliath; his fingernails gashed the palms of his hands but he would not budge.
Not only were the fingernails entirely lacking from Myrin's hand, but the lower joints of her four fingers, from the palm to the knuckles were grown smoothly together.
She had got over her fright by this time and the allusion to spatulate fingernails recalled the whole train of events which had ended in the inspector's discomfiture.
It was a characteristic hand, broad, with spatulate fingernails and a black star on the fleshy ball between forefinger and thumb.
It was broad and fleshy, with the fingernails which are said to betray the professional criminal, and a star worked in black ink on the protuberance between forefinger and thumb.
Erculio fell upon Daoud with renewed vigor, driving needles under his toenails and fingernails and beating him with a whip of knotted rawhide cords that tore open his back.
She saw that the fingernails were blackened and bloody, and her own fists clenched as she felt what they must have done to his hands.
Charles's fingernails were quite long, Simon knew, because he never bothered to trim them.
There was sadly too much truth in the saying of another eminent surgeon, that in the pre-Listerian days many a poor woman's death warrant was written under the fingernails of her surgeon.
The patient complains of shiverings up and down his spine, his fingernails and his lips become blue, in extreme cases his teeth chatter, and his limbs begin to twitch and shake, and he ends up in a typical ague fit.
Their hands and knees were torn and bleeding, theirfingernails broken, their bones aching and their eyes bloodshot.
He dug the fingernails of his sound hand into the soft wood of the chair arm.
But they didn't put their hands in and turn the wheel, 'cause Tom said if they did that their fingernails would come off.
Because if you do that it might shuck the fingernails off your hand," answered Tom.
Her eyes and eyebrows were kohl-darkened and her lips carefully painted a deep red, matching the color of her fingernails and toenails.
You were as stiff as a Portuguese Jesuit then, before Kali and Kamala got their painted fingernails into you.
Hunter was examining his fingernails with labored disgust.
He carefully studied his fingernails and ran his hands through his hair and picked imaginary lint off the upholstery.
The very young man found his fingernails extremely fascinating again and finally said, in a low voice, "Yes, there is.
His hands were clenched with such intensity that the well-cared-for fingernails bit into the palms .
Lonergan sat on the edge of the kitchen table, casually working on his fingernails with a carving knife.
The lawyer studied his fingernails with exaggerated concern, and again picked up the carving knife.
A minute later he was answered by the sound of fingernails scrabbling on the outer door.
The light glinted off his eyes, and off the only other part of him that shone--the long, curved, ghastly fingernails that had grown through the palm of his upstretched hand.
Some use false fingernails with the message printed underneath too small for the human eye to read.
Colonel Trevor nodded, said nothing, and fell to studying his fingernails some more.
The Intelligence officer nodded, studied his fingernails for a moment, and then looked up.
He used his fists and fingernails to good purpose and pulled Addie's hair until it presented a ludicrous appearance of disarrangement.
Hazel muttered, digging her fingernails into the palms of her hands.
Confess so they don’t pull your fingernails out.
Food is any solid which the physician considers digestible or alterable by the stomach, and hence the fast is not broken if wood, string, paper, hairs or fingernails are swallowed.
It makes no difference whether the attack be made by fists, fingernails or teeth, or by weapons or missiles, or whether the bodily harm be direct (e.
Then I didn't dream it--there is a guy on this ship with fingernails instead of a beard on his chin!
And Heinie with fingernails growing where his collar button should be?
But the man had fingernails growing on his chin where his whiskers should have been.
In fact, his mustaches reached almost to his knees, and he kept pulling and tugging at them with fingernails that were fully a foot long.
But wait a minute," roared Choo Choo Choo, "did he have fingernails as long as mine?
And on my middle fingernails To run my earthly course!
