1 A tattered lace handkerchief twitched in her fingers.
2 There was something in the shape of his fingers that I hated.
3 She came across to him, and with her little fingers stroked his hair.
4 She tossed her head and raked the coins off the counter with greedy fingers.
5 The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
6 Gradually white fingers creep through the curtains, and they appear to tremble.
7 His fingers moved instinctively towards it, dipped in, and closed on something.
8 He struggled madly for life, and by a terrible effort wrenched the tightening fingers away.
9 The lad muttered something to himself and drummed on the window-pane with his coarse fingers.
10 "Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to bits with his long nervous fingers.
11 The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
12 Those finely shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife for sin, nor those smiling lips have cried out on God and goodness.
13 "To be good is to be in harmony with one's self," he replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers.
14 Yet, when her arms were flung round his neck, and her fingers strayed through his hair, he softened and kissed her with real affection.
15 She is still decolletee," he answered, taking an olive in his long fingers; "and when she is in a very smart gown she looks like an edition de luxe of a bad French novel.
16 So the lad was looking rather sulky, as with listless fingers he turned over the pages of an elaborately illustrated edition of Manon Lescaut that he had found in one of the book-cases.
17 But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
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