nails

• Her protests of reformation vanished in a week, and the marks of her nails were again on his fine face. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
• I am so anxious that my nails are almost bleeding. —  www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive
• The deputy stopped the woman, and found her wig stuffed in her pants; her nails were also recently painted red. —  news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
• That they might break them up for the sake of the nails was a contingency that would have to be faced, as he dared not leave a small guard to protect them, and had not men enough to be able to leave a large one When Drake arrived with his exploring party, he informed Frobisher that he, too, had been attacked by a party of the natives, although there had apparently not been so many of them in his case as in that of the captain, and a few shots fired into the jungle had been sufficient to clear the road for them. —  A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
• Your nails are all right, and so's your skin. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales

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