"Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers."
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"This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it."
"The Germans wit is in his fingers."
"Who remove stones, bruise their fingers."
"Honour without profit is a ring on the finger."
"The finger cut, to save the hand."
"In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being."
"If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that."
"I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers."