fingering

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Fingering a 105-year-old rosary that "once belonged to my grandmother," the defendant wept while his lawyer summed up before U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fingering a jeweled antique timepiece, she displayed it to U.S. television camera crews and warbled in accented English, "It's bea-u-tee-ful."

From Time Magazine Archive

Fingering the small wire hook on the neatly whitewashed gate which led into a yard that was green, the teacher stopped talking.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

Fingering what was left of our money, I wondered how long it would last us.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

You will best not disturb the Cards hid in the Piles, for it is well to let Sleeping Dogs lie, and moreover needless Fingering and Quiddling of the Parallelogram is not commended.

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward