1 With wearily dipping fingertip she tested it.
2 His fingertip crept through the opening of her glove and smoothed her palm.
3 And gradually her fingertips knew his cheeks and lips, his jaw and chin and throat perfectly.
4 The only sign upon him of his recent struggle for life was in his fingertips, which were worn and sacrificed in his dying endeavours to obtain a hold on the face of the weir-wall.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 5 Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 6 Sherlock Holmes listened with closed eyes and fingertips together to this remarkable account.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 7 The old gentleman lifted his shaggy eyebrows, protruded his thick nether lip, and tapped the arms of his chair with his cushioned fingertips.
8 The boys who had been painted walked about or stood still awkwardly, touching their faces in a gingerly fashion with their furtive fingertips.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 9 And our heart beat in our fingertips, without reason.