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1  Two fingers of his right hand were inkstained.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  He pressed his fingers against his eyelids again.
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3  He had held it between his fingers for as long as thirty seconds.
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4  An oblong slip of newspaper had appeared between O'Brien's fingers.
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5  A kick from a guard's boot had broken the fingers of one of his hands.
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6  O'Brien had a slip of paper between his fingers and seemed to be studying it intently.
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7  She gave the tips of his fingers a quick squeeze that seemed to invite not desire but affection.
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8  He cleaned his fingers as best he could in the cold water from the tap and went back into the other room.
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9  He shut his eyes and pressed his fingers against them, trying to squeeze out the vision that kept recurring.
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10  As he passed through the lavatory door he transferred it to his pocket and felt it with the tips of his fingers.
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11  The blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness, and even the fingers that held it would be cut to the bone.
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12  He explored the long fingers, the shapely nails, the work-hardened palm with its row of callouses, the smooth flesh under the wrist.
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13  He told her the story of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford and the momentous slip of paper which he had once held between his fingers.
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14  Syme had produced a strip of paper on which there was a long column of words, and was studying it with an ink-pencil between his fingers.
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15  It was curious that the fact of having held it in his fingers seemed to him to make a difference even now, when the photograph itself, as well as the event it recorded, was only memory.
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16  He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and--one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency--bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
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17  He remembered a surly barber arriving to scrape his chin and crop his hair, and businesslike, unsympathetic men in white coats feeling his pulse, tapping his reflexes, turning up his eyelids, running harsh fingers over him in search for broken bones, and shooting needles into his arm to make him sleep.
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