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- noun Plural form of
fingerpost .
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Examples
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It was easy to follow the route because in addition to the fingerposts and paint flashes on rocks and trees, there were frequent chalked UTMB arrows on the road for the crazy Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc which had taken place the weekend before.
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My sidebars point like fingerposts on a lonely moor.
Archive 2004-05-23 Laban 2004
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My sidebars point like fingerposts on a lonely moor.
May 23, 2004 Laban 2004
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Instances of the Fingerpost, borrowing the term from the fingerposts which are set up where roads part, to indicate the several directions.
The New Organon 2005
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My sidebars point like fingerposts on a lonely moor.
UK Commentators Laban 2004
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He ran on, occasionally taking trees and fingerposts for men, and cursing his ill luck when he saw his mistake.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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The pyramids, majestic rock-hewn places of worship, and subterranean crypts are but the fingerposts of destiny.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
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But we owe to him all sorts of small details, fingerposts to uses of the times.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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All our fingerposts have been twisted round by facetious men years ago.
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Still, there would be fingerposts to direct us and, no doubt, wayfarers to be questioned; and in the meantime our sturdy pony trotted so briskly along that he seemed ready to accomplish a yet longer journey.
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