were fingering
- past progressive of finger.
Example Sentences
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Now for a long while there was silence, so long a while indeed that Dingaan and his Councillors began to move uneasily, for they felt as though the dwarf men were fingering their heart-strings.
From The Ghost Kings by Haggard, Henry Rider
Her fingers moved as though in imagination they were fingering a rope of pearls.
From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
They had already fathered around a table in the “smoking-saloon,” and were fingering a span new pack of cards—the implements of their peculiar industry.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
Little lights some ten miles distant were fingering the early darkness.
From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron
I did this three or four times and finally I saw him and one of the clerks back where my samples were, fingering them over.
From Tales of the Road by Crewdson, Charles N. (Charles Newman)
