finger gate

I like to end columns with a potential policy fix, some kind of suggested action, or at least a stern finger-wagging.

Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.

At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.

And the finger he pointed at the girl quivered with the rage that filled him at this trick they had thought to put upon him.

"You have give a limb," repeated Perry, emphasizing the announcement by shaking his finger at the old man.

First through the gate came a company of Korean foot-soldiers, in blue uniforms.