He is free with his money, affable in his manners, innocent in his conversation--but through the placid stream of his life there glides an under-current of forefinger.
A few hours afterwards, he and the Roman will be alone together comparing forefingers.
"Come!" said the stranger, biting his forefinger at him.
He stood with his head on one side and himself on one side, in a bullying interrogative manner, and he threw his forefinger at Mr.
Stryver, shaking his forensic
forefinger at the Temple in general, when it was down, "my way out of this, is, to put you all in the wrong."
But Pollyanna found it, and ran her shaking
forefinger down through the C's to "Chilton." In due time she had Dr.
Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right
forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side-- whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness.
His wit consisted in discovering droll connections between incongruous ideas; and when talking in that strain he sat well forward of his seat, with his left hand raised, as if exhibiting his funny demonstrations between the thumb and forefinger, while his round and clean-shaven face wore an expression of merry perplexity.
On repeating this last word Mr Vladimir laid a long white forefinger on the edge of the desk.
His eyes began to glisten and his
forefinger to tremble.
In all her walks about the town, Pearl, too, was there: first as the babe in arms, and afterwards as the little girl, small companion of her mother, holding a
forefinger with her whole grasp, and tripping along at the rate of three or four footsteps to one of Hester's.
`Lend me your hand.' And turning to the Psychologist, he took that individual's hand in his own and told him to put out his
forefinger. So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.
"This is my third daughter," said Athelny, pointing to her with a dramatic
forefinger. "She is called Maria del Pilar, but she answers more willingly to the name of Jane.
He tapped them with his
forefinger, and the Prince nodded thoughtfully.
Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us, levelled his massive
forefinger at the vessel in question.