be finger and thumb

Then the prints were transferred to the glove's finger and thumb tips, by a reverse-positive process.

On the smooth white surface of the sill were the marks of some one's fingers and thumb.

Sundance's finger and thumb jabbed the air again as he made not too good a job of containing his rage.

They were fingers and thumbs and voices.

"Two added to one--if that could but be done," It said, "with one's fingers and thumbs!"

Next moment Lucy got rather a fright for she found herself caught up in mid-air between the Giant's finger and thumb.

Flandry made a judo break: yanking his wrist out between the Merseian's fingers and thumb.

The bullet seared itself into the flesh of Dark's finger and thumb and it was that which finally allowed him to pull it free.

- No matches on any prints but unusual markings on Sam Chang's fingers and thumbs (injury, rope burn?)

And so the man with no ears took a laser knife from his coat pocket and cut off Christian's fingers and thumbs, right where they rooted into his hands.

Before replying, Chauvelin's finger and thumb--thin and pointed like the talons of a vulture--went fumbling in the pocket of his waistcoat.

Swift Striker, huddled now beside the remains of True Stalker's murdered friend, tightened his true-hand around Scott's finger and thumb, desperate to make his own friend understand.

On the other side of the long dining table Angel shifted her weight to favour the left buttock, where the bruise made by Mr Sexton's finger and thumb still hurt.

Jeffreys's "letter" consists of an almost life-sized self-portrait head, seen from behind, in which the letter, held between the artist's finger and thumb, plays only a minor and barely decipherable part.

The palms and digits were different sizes-and the old man's were far more wrinkled-but the indentations Rhyme had spotted on Sam Chang's fingers and thumb were similar to the lines clearly evident on his fathers.

With this gentle remonstrance, Mr. Sikes plucked the note from between the Jew's finger and thumb; and looking the old man coolly in the face, folded it up small, and tied it in his neckerchief.

He felt in his pockets and found a sheet of paper that was clean on one side, and, using the blood behind Zulu's head instead of ink, he carefully rolled a print of each of Zulu's fingers and thumbs on the page.