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  • He opened an envelope and from it he shook a torn surgical finger-stall.

    Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

  • He dropped it in his pocket and was startled when she uttered a little coy murmur of protestation for all the world as if he had taken her finger-stall from some motive of gallantry.

    Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

  • I wonder if it was when I put the finger-stall in my pocket.

    Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

  • While they all watched her open the bundle, Noddy went back to her finger-stall to sleep.

    Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • Mrs Vallery, seeing from the small size of the finger-stall Mrs Norton had put on, that the injury could not be very severe, insisted that

    Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • German name of _Fingerhut_, which signifies a finger-stall, from the blossoms resembling the finger of a glove.

    An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770

  • This account, too, sounds like conjecture, but the finger-stall proves she lied once, the telephone proves she lied twice, and the fingerprints in the teapot prove she lied three times.”

    Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

  • What's all over your foot? "cried Eleanor, dragging Barbara out from the" finger-stall "to exhibit her foot to the other girls.

    Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • So I'll have one or two of them finger-stall fruit things and a good drink of water, and then lean back against the side and see how many Malay words I can remember; and if that don't keep a poor fellow awake, nothing will. "

    Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris George Manville Fenn 1870

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