lay finger on
Example Sentences
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No man Would dare lay finger on him!
From Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet by Olive Tilford Dargan
Woe betide the person other than Antony’s self who ventured to lay finger on the garment.
From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Leslie Moore
They could not understand how any one who could handle a gun or a musical instrument could lay finger on a book.
From Madelon A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Curse the day I ever saw India, and triple-curse this system of ours that enabled them to lay finger on me in a moving train and transfer me to this funeral procession!
From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy
Without rhyme or reason that doctors or mother could lay finger on, the little mite just grew thinner and more peevish day by day, and visibly faded under their eyes.
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley
