Daughtry extended his left hand, with a little wiggle of the
little finger advertising the seat of the affliction.
For I can make people well: and I can make people ill-- just by raising my
little finger. Send your soldiers at once to open the dungeon door, or you shall have mumps before the morning sun has risen on the hills of Jolliginki."
He noticed that she held her knife as though it were a pen-holder, and when she drank protruded her
little finger. He started several topics of conversation, but he could get little out of her, and he remembered with irritation that he had seen her talking nineteen to the dozen and laughing with the German.
But in order that our love may last for ever, you must give me for the ring three drops of blood from the
little finger of your left hand.'
Then he lifted his left hand, with the
little finger pointing upward, and said: "Weaugh!"
Several times he complained about the
little finger of his left hand.
I used to imagine that the ,nobles' of whom Antonia was always talking probably looked very much like Christian Harling, wore caped overcoats like his, and just such a glittering diamond upon the
little finger.
One of them now noticed a gold ring still remaining on the
little finger of the murdered girl, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there.
This fin has four regular bone-fingers, the index, middle, ring, and
little finger. But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering.
James Harthouse, striking the ash from his cigar with his
little finger. 'We are in the present tense, now.'
We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife with- out any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my
little finger with some mon- strous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
I measured a
little finger which had fallen down from one of these statues, and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found it exactly four feet and an inch in length.
little finger - the finger farthest from the thumb