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Sentences ending with fingers

You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
Jaspar Hume was writing with numbed fingers. [11]
Medallion, amused, yet with a hushed kind of feeling through all his nerves, pushed the Avocat's tumbler till it touched his fingers. [11]
Hands and fingers were steady, and she felt for the heart with firm fingers. [11]
Her heart throbbed violently, yet she opened the official- looking envelope with steady fingers. [11]
I left him twisting the paper in his fingers. [9]
He laid his trembling hand upon her forehead, and then felt her pulse with his shriveled fingers. [6]
He reached out to pinch her cheek, but she deftly tipped her head and caught his outstretched fingers. [11]
He came over to her, after a moment, and spoke over her shoulders as he just touched her waist with his fingers. [11]
But I looked through my fingers. [5]

Short sentences using fingers

Then his fingers touched hers. [10]
Pierre's fingers closed the book. [11]
Her fingers trembled slightly. [11]
Ferrol's fingers tightened, pressed inwards. [11]
Her fingers tightened on his. [11]
His fingers touched hers. [11]
He waved his fingers. [11]
His fingers opened and shut. [11]
Her fingers trembled a little. [11]

Sentences containing fingers two or more times

The bricklayer's mortar of his father's calling stuck to his fingers through life, but only as the soil he turned with his ploughshare clung to the fingers of Burns. [6]
And he accounts for this peculiarity quite naturally: "The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane. [4]

More example sentences with the word fingers in them

I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
They 'll 'crock' your fingers, but they can't burn us. [6]
Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
There's gossip for you, thick as mortar," cried the charcoalman, and the mealman's fingers beat a tattoo on his stomach. [11]
Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
And even now you are not satisfied when I come back to tell you that I have money enough to snap my fingers at half these people you know. [9]
Dis ole woman'll wuk fo' you twell de flesh drops off'n her fingers, suh. [9]
The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
He rubbed his wrist, which had been squeezed by Pentaur's iron fingers, and said in a tone which betrayed all the bitterness of his feelings: "Thy hand is hard, Priest, and thy words hit like the strokes of a hammer. [10]
He gave the wretch a sudden twist, pulling him clear of the hole, and wrenched the knife from his fingers at the same moment. [11]
A keen observer would have seen in the glowing, unrestful look, in the hot cheek, in the interlacing fingers, that a contest was going on in the woman's soul, as she drove homeward with all that was her own in the world. [11]
One ironically minded would have said she chirruped, for her words came out in not unmusical, if staccato, notes, and she shook her shrivelled, ringed fingers reprovingly at a stalwart young man. [11]
The recruiter himself would have got off scot-free had not an arrow pinned one of his fingers to the loom of the steering-oar just as they were getting off. [5]
Why do you work your fingers like that? [5]
Upon these two words he stamped, through them he perspired mightily, and with them he clenched his stubby fingers--such fingers as dug trenches, or snatched lewdly at soft flesh, in days of barbarian battle. [11]
I opened it with trembling fingers, and poured out, chinking on the table, such a motley collection of coins as was never seen,--Spanish milled dollars, English sovereigns and crowns and shillings, paper issues of the Confederacy, and I know not what else. [9]
Patiently and earnestly, with their stiff old fingers, they were trying to forge the required note. [5]
She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings. [10]
His large hands with the square-pointed fingers had obtrusive veins, but they were not common. [11]
His fingers fussed with the rug that covered his knees. [11]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
She did it with the greatest caution, but her fingers had hardly touched her, when Selene shrank back with a groan, and before she could undo the sandal, the patient had fainted away. [10]
He played sneak with the daughter of Five Fingers, an Injin chief. [11]
The executioner stood with the charred match in his fingers, watching his work. [5]
Her fingers, stained with red, lay beside the bowl. [11]
He fingered them with incredible rapidity--in fact, he pushed them from place to place as fast as a musical professor's fingers travel over the keys of a piano. [5]
His fingers fumbled with his robe of striped silk. [11]
Poor Tom ate with his fingers mainly; but no one smiled at it, or even seemed to observe it. [5]
Seitz first knocked with his fingers and then with his clenched fist, until the grandmother exclaimed: "You have destroyed the house, at least spare the doors. [10]
She carefully followed with her fingers the groove in which the stone lay, and having recalled its shape by her sense of touch, she began her search anew. [10]
She had married with her fingers holding the scales of advantage; and Lord Haldwell dressed well, was immensely rich, and the title had a charm. [11]
Her fingers clinched with anger at the sight, and her spirit filled with disgust. [11]
His fingers toyed with a wine-glass, but his eyes never wavered from that paper and the grey hair. [11]
The Duke protested with a deprecatory wave of the fingers and a flash of the sharp eyes, and then, after a slight pause, said: "What is your name, monsieur? [11]
Keep calm, I will call again tomorrow," said Metivier; and putting his fingers to his lips he hastened away. [2]
Her fingers, her whole body, trembled; but there was no mistaking the strong will, the indignant purpose. [11]
A poor rascal who had many mouths to fill, and was no more than two fingers of his master's hand. [10]
Eight nimble hands, which were often aided by Iras's skilful fingers, toiled busily, and soon the latter could hold up the mirror before Cleopatra, exclaiming from the very depths of her heart, "Like the foam-born Aphrodite and the golden Hathor! [10]
Her fingers, however, which used to be so skilful, either broke the threads they tried to spin, or lay for hours idle in her lap, while she was lost in dreams. [10]
But every problem which has life works itself out to its appointed end, if fumbling human fingers do not meddle with it. [11]
I remarked afterward, when I chanced to shake hands with her, that her fingers enclosed one's hand; it was not a mere touch or pressure, but an unemotional and possessive clasp. [11]
Many a time when he had been asleep, with gentle fingers she had caressed his hands, his head, his face; but that did not count, because he did not know. [11]
From the hour when he bound up Brydon's head, Judith's fingers aiding him, he felt a spring in his blood new to him. [11]
He had heard what Young Aleck had just muttered; but to the man of the cold fingers he said: "You keep good whisky in spite of the law and the iron glove, Old Aleck. [11]
The Mokattam Hills were like vast dun barriers guarding and shutting in the ghostly place, and, high above all, the minarets of the huge mosque upon the lofty rocks were impalpable fingers pointing an endless flight. [11]
Already my fingers were itching to begin their murderous work. [5]
As his fingers were about to reach for the spirit-bottle in the house of the Notary, and he had, for the first time in his life, made an appeal for help, a woman's voice had said, "It is good to live, isn't it? [11]
As the inquest went on, he had again and again looked at the hands and arms of Orlando, and it had seemed impossible that, strong as he was, his fingers had the particular strength which could have done this thing. [11]
He certainly seemed well pleased with himself, and more than once, as he sat alone, he laughed outright, and once he said aloud, as his fingers ran up and down a schedule--not a man-o'-war's schedule--laughing softly: "Poor old Farquhar, if he could see me now! [11]
If in that way--" He stretched out his hand protestingly, the fingers spread in excitement. [11]
She felt her way to the wall, found the rain-proof coat, and, with trembling fingers, put it on. [11]
The bridle rein was still in the frigid fingers, and a smile was upon the face. [11]
The Chief Factor was intent on what Shon was saying, while Lazenby drummed his fingers on the table, his nose in the air. [11]
In her fingers was crushed a bunch of orange blossoms. [11]
A small Testament was clasped convulsively in the fingers of his right band. [9]
Mandane said it was but nine, she had counted it up herself; and he agreed, and declared that her little fingers must be bewitched. [10]
With the woman's voice at the door beseeching, her fingers trembling upon the panel, they could not prolong the fight. [11]
You never hurt Vanne Castine--" Her fingers twitched in her lap, and then clasped very tight, as she went on: "You never hurt him, and yet he's tried to kill you in the most awful way. [11]
He seemed, as usual, distrait, betraying no curiosity as to the object of my call, his lean, brown fingers playing with the newspapers on his lap. [9]
Then, with an upward wave of his fingers, he spoke in a mocking lightness, but without any of the malice which had first appeared in his tones, words from an old French song: "I say no more, my lady Mironton, Mironton, Mirontaine! [11]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
Her fingers fell upon the keys. [9]
The door opened upon darkness, but Jasmine stepped inside, with Almah's fingers clutching her sleeve. [11]
Her fingers went up to her eyes; they seemed to cool the hot lids. [11]
With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. [2]
There was, however, uneasiness in her face; her fingers slightly trembled on the linen she was holding. [11]
He knelt, and unclasped his father's fingers from the handle of the sword. [11]
Moreover, she froze two of her fingers on the way up, she fell in love with her guide on the summit, and she married him when she got to the bottom again. [5]
Harvey's face would twitch, and his fingers clench of themselves as he touched his cap. [9]
The thin fingers twined round it, and once more he came to his feet. [11]
Crozier bowed and turned, again grasping the rail of the witness-box with one hand, while with an air of cogitation and suspense he stroked his chin with the long fingers of the other hand. [11]
There was no tremor in the long, thin fingers nor at the lips--the thin, ascetic lips, as of a secret-service man--but in his eyes was a dark fire of purpose. [11]
Mr. Dow's thin trembling fingers clutched eagerly--it was his only passion--at this journal of his life. [11]
His own hands trembled, the tips of his fingers were cold. [9]
Captain Ascott's fingers trembled, and he paused for an instant and looked down upon the dead, then out sorrowfully to the waiting sea, before he spoke the words, "We therefore commit their bodies to the deep. [11]
Lady Belward's fingers trembled on the lace she held. [11]
The slender fingers trembled in his clasp, and when, with loving anxiety, he drew her towards him, he felt the tremor of her delicate limbs, while her eyes expressed bitter suffering and terrible dread. [10]
His strong fingers trembled a little as he removed it. [13]
In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly. [2]
His back was toward them, but the fingers of his left hand--working convulsively caught Wetherell's eye and held it; save for the ticking of the clock and the chirping of the crickets in the grass, there was silence. [9]
I had not touched either for a year, and now I could see that my fingers, as they closed on the food nervously, were thin and bloodless, and I realized that my clothes hung loose upon my person. [11]
The Cure, beaming, touched by her warmth, and by her tiny caressing fingers, stooped and kissed them both like an old courtier. [11]
With a little touch of dramatic extravagance, she leaned over and down, and drew her fingers contemptuously along the rag-carpet on the floor. [11]
The old man took the two cups in one hand, and, reaching out the other, let Sheila's fingers fall upon his own. [11]
When Mr. Hopper took it, the fingers did not close any too tightly over his own. [9]
As neither gentleman took hold of the other's fingers very hard, they fell apart quickly. [9]
The next ascent took grip of fingers as well as toes, but he climbed steadily, swiftly, to reach the projecting corner, and slipped around it. [13]
With limbs huddled together, head bowed down, arms crossed upon the breast, and fingers tightly clenched, it rocked to and fro upon its seat without a moment's pause, accompanying the action with the mournful sound he had heard. [12]
The second was to wash the tips of her fingers, as if she had been another Lady Macbeth. [6]
They both ran to the window and saw dashing down the avenue--a picture out of Fenimore Cooper; a saddleless horse with a rider whose fingers merely touched the bridle, riding as on a journey of life and death. [11]
His fingers itched to take the creature by the throat, and choke the tongue from his mouth. [11]
So he had to submit; he drew his seat up to the table, and took up a lump of modeling-wax to keep his restless fingers employed while he listened. [10]
Three lamps fastened to stands abundantly lighted this work-room, but chiefly a figure standing on a high trestle, which Polykarp's fingers were industriously moulding. [10]
Now he began to shave, digging his fingers into my countenance to stretch the skin and bundling and tumbling my head this way and that as convenience in shaving demanded. [5]
When he sought to seize her hand, as he not seldom did, she hit him sharply on the fingers, and scolded him. [10]
There's no difference to me 'twixt making your feet handy and clever and full of music, and playing with your fingers on the piano or on a melodeon at a meeting. [11]
But he clung to it with toes and fingers, like a fly. [5]
A steward came to him officiously, and patronisingly too,--which is the bearing of servants to shabbily-dressed people,--but he shook his head, caught his bag smartly away from the steward's fingers, and moved towards the after part of the ship, reserved for intermediate passengers. [11]
The King seemed to hesitate--in fact, did hesitate; for he put out his hand and then stopped with it there in the air over the crown, the fingers in the attitude of taking hold of it. [5]

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