blunt-fingered love

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  • The blunt-fingered, callused hands clenching the back of a chair.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • The blunt-fingered, callused hands clenching the back of a chair.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • The blunt-fingered, callused hands clenching the back of a chair.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Eurig paused, looking down at his own blunt-fingered hands.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Eurig paused, looking down at his own blunt-fingered hands.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Eurig paused, looking down at his own blunt-fingered hands.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Her spouse sank down on his haunches beside me, and began to rub Jamie's frozen feet in a businesslike way between large blunt-fingered hands, pausing occasionally to sip his whisky.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Finally he reached out to the gleaming model of a multistage rocket that stood on the desktop, his blunt-fingered hand suddenly delicate and precise.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • "That is very kind of you, but --" Marion cut her off with a self-deprecating laugh and a flutter of her blunt-fingered hand.

    Temporary Wife Kilby, Joan 1999

  • In the fifty-odd years since that October day when an eight-year-old learned a lasting lesson in his fight with the neighborhood bully, Meal has pretty much attained whatever his blunt-fingered hand has reached out to grab -- from business empires to the string of well-born women he is known for dressing in a luxury that is astounding even by the standards of this mega-rich milieu.

    Clash of the Titans 1995

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