Gardener seemed to feel mental fingers fluttering over his thoughts, trying to pull them open.

She found another mental finger to cross, and gave that number.

She extended a mental finger just a little and encountered familiar shields.

Counting backward on mental fingers, Ethan realized it was a little more than six months since the one and only time he had seen her.

It slipped through her mental fingers like drops of water and was gone.

Something about that image looked subtly wrong, somehow, but she couldn't quite put her mental finger on the discrepancy.

I spoke fast, and my mental fingers were crossed.

He kept his mental fingers crossed and his eyes on the tv screen.

Troi's mental fingers reached out to him from what seemed a great distance.

It was more of a shift in attitude than anything else, Honor thought, trying to put a mental finger on what had changed.