He remembered the touch of her small forefinger, placed half tremblingly, half curiously, in the cleft in his chin, the lisp, the look with which she would name it "a pretty dimple," then seek his eyes and question why they pierced so, telling him he had a "nice, strange face; far nicer, far stranger, than either his mamma or Lucy Snowe.
"A little more—a little more," said she, petulantly touching his hand with the forefinger, to make him incline the cup more generously and yieldingly.
"I observe from your forefinger that you make your own cigarettes.
In very tender years, when he still wore a lace border under his outdoor cap, he was often observed peeping through the bars of a gate and making minatory gestures with his small forefinger while he scolded the sheep with an inarticulate burr, intended to strike terror into their astonished minds; indicating thus early that desire for mastery over the inferior animals, wild and domestic, including cockchafers, neighbours' dogs, and small sisters, which in all ages has been an attribute of so muc
She took his fore-paws in one hand, and lifted up the forefinger of the other, while the dog wrinkled his brows and looked embarrassed.
Arbuthnot, smiling and raising a warning forefinger, "it won't last.
"I don't know—I don't want to talk as much," she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger.
The consulting physician held up his forefinger within three inches of my nose.
He'd shake his forefinger at me and I'd jilt you at the altar.
" "Yes," said Valancy faintly, eyeing the forefinger.
"—almost as if he were going to shake his forefinger at her, the forefinger that had not grown any shorter or less knobbly with age.
Stalling, more sternly still, shaking his forefinger fiercely at her, "come up here at once!
In due course the superintendent stood up in front of the pulpit, with a closed hymn-book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves, and commanded attention.
It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wore this suit he sat long in the cabin with Hook's cigar-holder in his mouth and one hand clenched, all but for the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like a hook.
My arm and the piece of cheesecake that was being held between my thumb and forefinger were sort of dangling in midair between the couch and coffee table.
In order to save time I diagnosed my case, touched my nose with my right forefinger, struck myself below the knee to make my foot kick, sounded my chest, stuck out my tongue, and asked him the price of cemetery lots in Pineville.
The consulting physician held up his forefinger within three inches of my nose.
" I demonstrated the technique by touching my forefinger to the African sculpture on the mantle.
Saw him twisting the razor handle and opening the twin safety latches on the head, sliding the blade out, holding it between his thumb and forefinger.
purlicue ""（） Although a rare word, purlicue is a term for the space between the forefinger and thumb, originally used in the North of England.
