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Examples
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Blood dripped from every finger-end, while the nails were broken to the quick.
Chapter 39 2010
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The next moment, angry with himself for the boast, he had gripped the arms of the chair so savagely that every finger-end was stinging.
Chapter 1 2010
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Still fire and flesh pressed together, and a tiny spiral of smoke began to arise from Kwaque's finger-end that was different in colour from the smoke of a cigar-end.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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The water was slow to reach every parched finger-end.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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The water was slow to reach every parched finger-end.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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He uncoiled on his finger-end a long, greying hair, drawing it forth until it resisted, caught in a sharp edge of silver.
The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986
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Length of arm from shoulder-blade to finger-end 3 5 3/4
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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Here, instead of handles such as we should have made to pull these movable partitions, they have made little oval-holes, just the shape of a finger-end, into which one is evidently to put one's thumb.
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Still fire and flesh pressed together, and a tiny spiral of smoke began to arise from Kwaque's finger-end that was different in colour from the smoke of a cigar-end.
Chapter 19 1917
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The next moment, angry with himself for the boast, he had gripped the arms of the chair so savagely that every finger-end was stinging.
Chapter 1 1908
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