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  • "This man," said the android, pointing an accusing finger,

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

  • Like Lady Macbeth searching and searching her ring finger,

    Algae Freunden 2010

  • ‘I tell you,’ said the Manager, ‘that your hypocrisy and meekness — that all the hypocrisy and meekness of this place — is not worth that to me,’ snapping his thumb and finger,

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • “I beg your pardon?” said I. “That book,” he repeated, pointing a lean finger,

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • Paradise and the Turkish Simar with the love-bird on her finger,

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • “I beg your pardon?” said I. “That book,” he repeated, pointing a lean finger,

    The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

  • With outfielder Ron Gant expected to rejoin the lineup this week after a stint on the DL with a broken right little finger,

    USATODAY.com - National League West 2002

  • “You talk of schools,” he went on, crooking a finger,

    War and Peace 2003

  • I would not have hastened its close if, by the lifting of a finger,

    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 2002

  • Help the child discover how to make different sounds by flapping her lips up and down with your finger,

    1) Head Control and Use of Senses 1999

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