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Example sentences for "her fingers"

  • And amid her tearful thanks she felt a light kiss on her fingers, revealing to her that the hermit must possess a beard, a fact, which in the close-shaven Hanoverian days, conveyed a sense of squalor and neglect almost amounting to horror.

  • Sir Amyas, taking Betty by the tips of her fingers, led her forward, receiving by the way greetings and inquiries from the servants, whose countenances showed him to be a welcome arrival.

  • The cold bit at her fingers so that she had to beat her hands together.

  • Helen had to exert all the strength of her fingers to pull it out.

  • And the exercise soon warmed Helen, until she was fairly comfortable except in her fingers.

  • Helen told Bo to put on her bonnet, and, performing a like office for herself, she was ashamed of the trembling of her fingers.

  • She cut the toast into long strips, broke open both eggs, put a tiny morsel of bread into her own mouth, and fed the dog with pieces of meat put into his jaws with her fingers.

  • Here Piet's black hat appeared in the doorway, and the Boer-woman drew herself up in dignified silence, extended the tips of her fingers, and motioned solemnly to a chair.

  • She tried to draw the things near her with her fingers, and re-arranged the plates.

  • He had read her indecision in the nervous play of her fingers, as he had read many another human emotion in his time.

  • She had the mass of blonde hair in her fingers now, the comb in hand prepared to straighten out the tangle.

  • The second was to wash the tips of her fingers, as if she had been another Lady Macbeth.

  • So, if she can sing, or play on any musical instrument, all her wickedness will run off through her throat or the tips of her fingers.

  • She did not answer him, but absently twisted the fringe of his buckskins in her fingers.

  • She did not answer, but sat tapping the seat with her fingers.

  • She bent over the horse's neck, ran the thick glossy mane through her fingers, and gently patted the animal's shoulder.

  • At a blackboard on the platform, a bit of chalk in her fingers, Dolly, a girl eighteen years of age, stood explaining an example in arithmetic to several burly boys taller than herself.

  • Aimlessly she picked up a cigarette only to crush it in her fingers as she went on.

  • The tips of her fingers clung to the narrow mullions as if for support.

  • Her knitting was by her side; and if she had been going through any accustomed calculation or consideration she would have had it busily clinking in her fingers.

  • Her ears and nose were pinched; her breath frosted her collar; her fingers ached.

  • Her fingers fluttered; her sympathy came out in spurts; she sat on the edge of a chair in eagerness to be near her auditor, to send her enthusiasms and optimism across.

  • She rushed to him, patted his fur coat, the long hairs smooth but chilly to her fingers.

  • Did she not hold tightly in her fingers a letter from her Daddy?

  • Then she carefully stepped across Zeen and nipped out the candle with her fingers.

  • She closed her teeth on her trembling lip, her fingers tightened on the stock of the revolver, and a wild light came into her sad eyes.

  • Her fingers, wet with perspiration, seemed almost unable to fulfil their task.

  • Her fingers crept up lightly across his breast, fearful lest even their tender touch should injure his battered body, and she looked long and earnestly at him.

  • Her fingers had an extraordinary life of their own; just now they were like a group of maidens by a fountain.

  • She held up her large, fat hand, and marked the points off on her fingers.

  • She whistled shrilly on her fingers, and rose to greet her brother, whom Og was still menacing, as he advanced towards her with staccato steps.

  • The young woman touched it with the end of her fingers, as if she were placing a twenty-kopeck piece in the hand of a hooligan, and withdrew from it with disgust.

  • By a swift, involuntary movement she had tightened the pressure of her fingers; and, without using force, it was impossible for Loder to unloose them.

  • It came to him now linked with remembrance of the slight, reluctant touch of her fingers, the faintly evasive dislike underlying her glance.

  • With a hurried pressure of her fingers he rose and stepped from the car.

  • Mrs. Pendyce bent down, and took a white rose in her fingers.

  • Mrs. Pendyce looked after him; her fingers, from which he had torn his coat, began twining the one with the other.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different types; each pole; gambling houses; her again; her companion; her cousin; her eyes; her features; her first; her heart would break; her horse; her husband; her letter; her little; her lord; her manner; her parents; her room; her soul; here meant; here mentioned; here present; here spoken; hereby declare; hereditary right; heroic poem