index-finger

• “To say nothing of Bill, staggering around those second-tier campaign-stops, still wagging that effete index-finger in our faces.”

  John Eskow: Hillary's Men: Or, the Mysterious Case of the Missing Cojones

• “The nails should be neither longer nor shorter than the points of the fingers; and the surgeon should practice with the extremities of the fingers, the index-finger being usually turned to the thumb; when using the entire hand, it should be prone; when both hands, they should be opposed to one another.”

  On The Surgery

• “That analysis used the measurements of thumb width, index-finger width, and index-finger length for the program.”

  The Chicago Blog: March 2006 Archives

• “Among the channels XM is adding: a classic rock venue called Big Tracks; U.S. Country, which will offer--you guessed it--country & western music; a southern gospel station, enLighten; and thanks to the magic of diversity and freedom of choice, the former will be joined by a channel devoted to--prepare those pinky and index-finger Mephistopheles horns--heavy metal rock.”

  Forbes: Panero's XM Beefs Up Channels

• “Geraldine turns away from the bench and sends an index-finger signal to Clarence Wexler.”

  Simon & Schuster: Maximum Security

• “Then when he spoke he was likely to fling back his great, white mane, his eyes half closed yet showing a gleam of fire between the lids, his clenched fist lifted, or his index-finger pointing, to give force and meaning to his words.”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word,”

  Moby Dick; or the Whale

• “She clenched her hands, looked at her index-finger nail again.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set

• “Sweeney used the traditional black "stroke" or "frailing" or "claw-hammer" style of striking down across the strings with thumb and the back of the index-finger nail (I would demonstrate).”

  Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War

• ““The new Act makes inheritance on intestacy very much simpler,” said Mr. Murbles, setting his knife and fork together, placing both elbows on the table and laying the index-finger of his right hand against his left thumb in a gesture of tabulation.”

  Unnatural Death

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