dead fingers

noun

1. functioning as singular med a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis

Example Sentences

And also he saw, clutched in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.

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Elsie caught it up and kissed it, thinking of the touch of those dear dead fingers, that seemed to linger over it yet.

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A low-bending, ice-covered branch whipped her face and she shrieked, fancying it the touch of dead fingers.

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And he stooped and wrenched from the dead fingers of a sergeant the sword which they clenched by the bloody hilt.

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She had dashed into some waterweeds, and their clammy stems clutched her like dead fingers.

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