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Mr. Stringfellow flipped through the finger-marked pages, read an 11-year-old question: "If there is any nickel in iron, does it adversely affect the life of the cell?"

From Time Magazine Archive

I had a terrible time getting the necessary export permit, a document about ten pages long, smudged and finger-marked, dotted with tax stamps, official stamps, signatures and more signatures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, as Lon nodded, he slipped the letter deftly from the finger-marked envelop and read the contents with a smile.

From From the Valley of the Missing by White, Grace Miller

"Will you stay with this?" the Colonel had asked Keith hurriedly, nodding at the treasure-covered table, and catching up the finger-marked block before Jack was a yard from the window.

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

He put large fat hands on the obvious and there is nothing but the obvious there; and it is all finger-marked and frayed.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)