FINGER in Classic Quotes

1  He raised a finger to the man in the white coat.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2

2  Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

3  He cleaned his fingers as best he could in the cold water from the tap and went back into the other room.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

4  He would finger himself here and there, trying to make sure that it was not an illusion that his muscles were growing rounder and his skin tauter.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4

5  With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

6  With a sort of faded enthusiasm he would finger this scrap of rubbish or that--a china bottle-stopper, the painted lid of a broken snuffbox, a pinchbeck locket containing a strand of some long-dead baby's hair--never asking that Winston should buy it, merely that he should admire it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5