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Examples
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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
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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
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I wonder if it was when I put the finger-stall in my pocket.
Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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