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1  His fingers were all frosted, it seemed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
2  The next moment he was on top of him, burying his fingers in his throat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
3  Then he relaxed his fingers, and crouched, waiting, until she opened her lids again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
4  The conductor took his nickel gingerly, with the tips of his fingers, and then left him with the platform to himself.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  In summer the stench of the warm lard would be nauseating, and in winter the cans would all but freeze to his naked little fingers in the unheated cellar.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
6  The other took it, and began to examine it; he smoothed it between his fingers, and held it up to the light; he turned it over, and upside down, and edgeways.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
7  The winter came, and the place where he worked was a dark, unheated cellar, where you could see your breath all day, and where your fingers sometimes tried to freeze.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
8  They could feel the cold as it crept in through the cracks, reaching out for them with its icy, death-dealing fingers; and they would crouch and cower, and try to hide from it, all in vain.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
9  Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
10  There was a sudden crash and the car came to a halt, and the ingot toppled out upon a moving platform, where steel fingers and arms seized hold of it, punching it and prodding it into place, and hurrying it into the grip of huge rollers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
11  This was done by a single boy, who stood with eyes and thought centered upon it, and fingers flying so fast that the sounds of the bits of steel striking upon each other was like the music of an express train as one hears it in a sleeping car at night.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
12  One of the consequences of this episode was that the first joints of three of the little boy's fingers were permanently disabled, and another that thereafter he always had to be beaten before he set out to work, whenever there was fresh snow on the ground.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
13  He treasured them up, and would drag them out and make his father tell him about them; there were all sorts of animals among them, and Antanas could tell the names of all of them, lying upon the floor for hours and pointing them out with his chubby little fingers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
14  All that they knew how to do was to hold the frozen fingers near the fire, and so little Stanislovas spent most of the day dancing about in horrible agony, till Jurgis flew into a passion of nervous rage and swore like a madman, declaring that he would kill him if he did not stop.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
15  There were the wool-pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even sooner than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their fingers off.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
16  A torrent of sparks swept all the way across the building, overwhelming everything, hiding it from sight; and then Jurgis looked through the fingers of his hands, and saw pouring out of the caldron a cascade of living, leaping fire, white with a whiteness not of earth, scorching the eyeballs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
17  Then Jurgis would try to hammer, and hit his fingers because the hammer was too small, and get mad because Ona had refused to let him pay fifteen cents more and get a bigger hammer; and Ona would be invited to try it herself, and hurt her thumb, and cry out, which necessitated the thumb's being kissed by Jurgis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
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