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  • Ay! they can shout loud enough now, though but a moment ago, the very name of Obi and Three-fingered jack struck them as dumb as

    Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2002

  • From the accounts Tuckey has given her, she cannot believe that Captain Orford is dead: but rather thinks he is still a prisoner in the hands of Three-fingered Jack.

    Obi Melodrama Act II, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2002

  • Gyas with the hundred hands is but a Three-fingered Jack, and I sometimes think that we share our great Jove with the Strand

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • Three-fingered Brown was really a better pitcher than Christie

    This Side of Paradise 2003

  • Three-fingered hands manipulated delicate instrumentation.

    Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Three-fingered hands continued to pluck berries with the delicacy of a surgeon.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • In about twenty minutes she was nearly on her beam ends, when all the temporary stanchions which had been fixed to keep the deck from yielding gave way like a regiment of black militia in chase of Obie, or Three-fingered Jack in the

    A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

  • He was interested in whether McGovern of Minnesota would make the first or second All-American, how to do the card-pass, how to do the coin-pass, chameleon ties, how babies were born, and whether Three-fingered Brown was really a better pitcher than Christie Mathewson.

    Book 1, Chapter 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice. 1920

  • Three-fingered Brown was really a better pitcher than Christie

    This Side of Paradise 1918

  • The Poison Ivy, or the Three-fingered Demon of the Woods 169 71.

    Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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