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

Little lights some ten miles distant were fingering the early darkness.

From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron

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.

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)

It felt to her as if she were fingering the very quivering tissue, the very protoplasm of life, as she heard him.

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)