Pong wanted to stuff his fingers in his ears so he couldn't hear. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Pet reached out with its impostor hand and absentmindedly picked out part of Jam’s sleep-flattened afro with its fingers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She ran her thin finger down my nose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He folded my mother's fingers over the coin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wished on a butterfly that landed on me, on a camel-shaped cloud, on a cricket in the house, and a lightning bug glowing on my ring finger. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mord fingered his strap thoughtfully, but in the end, he relented and went to fetch paper and ink. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was making my lips and the tips of my fingers a little numb. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His fingers locked around her upper arm, and she jumped at the sudden contact. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers over the invisible barcode on the inside of my wrist. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As I’m trying to steady my breath, something soft brushes against my fingers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally the book slipped from her fingers, and her eyelids drooped. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed her finger at me and said, “She wiped out every sprig of my generations—she hates me so. Wiped out each one but JimmyTrotter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I run my finger over the words Mia and Jenna’s Log, Keep Away, which we carved into the soft bark a few summers ago using my father’s pocketknife. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I find the door, turn the knob, fingers on cool porcelain, open. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill ran his fingers over what Travis had written—it seemed like years ago. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Kaede dug her fingers into the ground, trapping the soil beneath her nails. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I backed away, and Max held up seven fingers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nel dipped her fingers into the bowl of water and sprinkled a diaper. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She brought one gloved finger to her lips, which were scrunched and hard looking and made me vow that when I grew old, I would make sure that I smiled all the time. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hanako fingered some loose hair back behind her ears and eagerly reached out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She put her finger on one of the threads coming out of her own chest, and that barest touch brought a flood of terror into her mind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He saw himself take the top off the white botde, with some of the warm milk spilling over his black fingers, and then lift the bottle to his mouth and tilt his head and drink. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bright stars peered out of the sky, and lit the falling water as it spilled on to his fingers and head, and dripped, dripped, in hundreds of silver drops on to his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Alive, they had been as many as the fingers on a man’s paw, but now they were none. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Samson produces no weapon, his fingers merely twitching by his side. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

His finger caught the stretched-out collar of my shirt and gave it a tug. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My fingers brushed again something hard and smooth in my pocket, and I didn’t need to pull it out to know that it was the panic button. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She discovered that there were several different kinds of cheese, and she especially liked the soft white one that crumbled in her fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service to a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child’s riddle?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His fingers absentmindedly traced the scars on the left side of my face, but they were fading now, and didn’t hurt anymore. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Doon liked to sit on these clumps, running his fingers along the strange creases and crevices that must have been carved somehow by running or dripping water. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness, and even the fingers that held it would be cut to the bone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He jabbed a finger at Maniac’s nose, pressed it, flattening the soft end of it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiters froze, huge trays of pasta quivering on their splayed fingers. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It sat on the hill above us, a dark shape crouched against the moonlit sky, its crooked chimneys rising like broken fingers from the roof. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She swiped her fingers over an unwrapped slab of butter and began greasing the loaf pans Malachite was going to bake in. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I kneel down and run my fingers through the cool blades to make sure they really exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The blue veins on his neck stood out, and his pointing finger almost touched her nose. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his foot down, pointed behind us, and swept his finger back and forth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He moved his fingers on the strings, listening for the tone. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mitraillette says they thought I was going to try to dig his eyes out with my fingers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

That could get me sent back to my pueblito in a finger snap. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing much wrong with the dead animals, nothing that he could put his finger on. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Millard rambled on about the history of the Map, I traced with my finger a vast and trackless desert in Asia. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She crosses her fingers and turns to her mother. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Her fingers twirling the handle of her parasol. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Linda tried to get up again, but this time Bloom’s fingers abruptly dug into her so sharply that she collapsed back against him with a tight little .gasp. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice melted quickly in my hands, cold water dripping through my fingers. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hold my hands down low and Shiloh eats the egg, licking my hands clean afterward, then curling his tongue down between my fingers to get every little bit. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley poked his finger through a hole in the vinyl couch and pulled out some of the stuffing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A finger comes down, knocks over the king. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple put two fingers to the bridge of her nose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The smooth jade soothed her cold-cracked fingers, and she was surprised when she heard her own voice speaking. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then I press my finger to the GO button and the two of us dash into the night sky. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She laced her own fingers together and squeezed, but it wasn’t the same as Layla’s hand in hers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This time the tips of my fingers begin to shimmer but that’s about it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There is no frost upon the windows of Marco’s flat, so he inscribes lines of symbols in the shape of a letter A with ink, pressing his darkened fingers against the panes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He still has a scar, spanning three of his fingers, where he accidentally sliced his skin open. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If only I could twitch one finger, Ben could still help me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It hits my finger and I go howling into my room, next to Muqtada. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tom Owens reached a calloused hand and almost broke Nat’s fingers with his grip. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guitar ran his finger around the rim of his glass. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns around, smiles, points with his finger into the air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I use the Age arcana to smooth the deep crevices around her eyes, like rubbing a wet finger across dried-out dough. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He fingered the ball, tips digging into the red stitching. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw a wild overhead right at one of his cheek scars, but he caught my fist in his bare hand and squeezed so hard I thought he was gonna break all my stupid fingers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My fingers tap rhythmically against the hilt of my knife. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He turned the thick red stem between his thumb and pointer finger, then sniffed: tea and dirt and cane syrup. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t spring something like that on me, and then expect me not to say anything,” I mumbled against his finger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was all right, then, to lick the maple syrup from your fingers. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run through the surviving tributes on my fingers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She shrugged and twirled her blond hair around a finger. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora jabbed a finger in Emily’s direction, punctuating every word. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So I watched her hands in her lap: slender and beautiful, with bright pink nail polish, her fingers twisting in a way I’d never seen them do before. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Right behind the eight ball. I tried to work it backward through the ‘finger,’ and couldn’t. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He dug his fingers through the loam on top, down deep to the cold earth below, and then pulled his hand back out. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I simply intertwined my fingers and gazed at him, waiting. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She finds barnacles, an anemone as soft as silk; she sets her fingers as lightly as she can on a Nassarius. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She waited, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, until his body got rid of the dark material that would not let him live. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The cheerleader covered her face with both hands, but through her fingers I watched her skin blush. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Irri's finger felt as light and cool as a lover's kiss as it slid softly up between her lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jamie runs his finger around the sand, making figure eights and messy zigzags. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I take her hand with my sweaty palm, and her fingers feel burning hot in my own, like she has a fever, and she immediately tugs her hand away from mine, surprised. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The jesses were held in the fingers or clipped to a leash to keep the birds from departing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All the noise woke Tony up, but when he arrived at Mary’s bedroom door asking what was going on, she snapped her fingers and hushed him, telling him to go back to bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She smiled and ran her finger over the words on the page. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was always provided in his everyday life for the bruises and wounds, for a mashed finger a stomach ache, a skinned knee from a fall from a bike. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She visualized the mother braiding it, her fingers oiling it with pomade before dividing it into sections with a wooden comb. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dreamed about it too, dreamed of running his fingers over the rich, smooth bronze. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barrow-wights walked in the hollow places with a clink of rings on cold fingers, and gold chains in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He runs his fingers through his hair, structuring it just so. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Taking the bull by the horns, I reached over and ran my finger through the cup’s handle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fat finger barely moved on the change mat but it flicked slightly like a tense cat’s tail. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noah’s finger is pointed at Guillermo, his voice trembling with anger. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Smoothing my wrap and running my fingers through my hair to neaten it, I took a deep breath and released it slowly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In what seemed to him like elegant if slow motion, Milkman went to the window, parted the curtain, and followed her pointing finger with his eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was going smoothly until the saw suddenly lurched forward and sliced right through three of the robot’s fingers! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as one of them did, she touched it with the tip of her finger and it balled right up again and sent her into giggles. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Sixty-four Old World years,” Tam says, tapping his fingers like he’s adding something up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My dad brushes his index finger across my cheek. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

With our free hands we gripped each other’s fingers like we’d known each other a lot longer than two days. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And yet there was a problem, one I discovered in the split second it took to lift my little fingers to the keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the time we arrive at the pagoda, my fingers are bleeding, but I am overjoyed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She gestured again, putting a finger over her lips, and I turned to the group and cleared my throat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then, as if suddenly remembering the real culprit, he leaped at Barbarossa, who was still staring in shock at his fingers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor clenched his fingers into his palm. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the thunder boomed through the wood again, he stuffed his fingers in his ears, and ducked down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At the same time he arched his back, he would give a kick and send a cowboy sailing, all that in the time you could snap your fingers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on my can of flour, fingers working a bag of dry rice. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The gray man picked a pencil out of his girdle and twirled it between his fingers. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Shame rose from the ground and wrapped me in a hot, turbulent funnel that I wished would lift me out of this room, away from my school principal’s startled blue eyes and quivering, elegant fingers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her nose and pinched it closed, and try as she might, she could not dislodge his fingers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The roped pot stood out immediately; he ran a finger over the picture and ached to touch the delicately cast metal itself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She went to the window and, using one of her gloved fingers to bend a shade, peered at the bar next door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But with every page his fingers hesitated a little longer, until suddenly he closed the book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He tell me them boys was cowards, and maybe he could have them pointing they fingers one at the other. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Where’d that come from?” he asked, pointing a soapy finger at a small boat Wash had made for the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This rich girl with her diamond nose jewel and her gold rings and fingers all intact, with her dark glittering eyes alive instead of dead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I was alone, I wandered and poked my fingers into strange chemicals, watched intricate machines trace red and black lines upon ruled paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, Tom’s nodding along, tapping the pads of his fingers together like guitar frets, the way Nick does. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She numbered on her fingers the things that would have to happen. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers flew as he typed in his password, the blue-white screen of the laptop illuminating his pale face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Having been lucky enough to be assigned some of the best code breakers in America, he was not about to let them slip through his fingers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He dipped his finger into the comb and, lifting my veil, brought it close to my lips. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught fish in deep pools with invisible fingers and ate them raw. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he washed himself and brushed back his wet hair with his fingers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to Mrs. Dreep, whose fingers were playing a little melody on her neck. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What I said. There’s a big contract for it. It must be just the thing for asteroid mining. You have a master robot with six sub-robots under it.—Like your fingers.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Lifting a finger, he touched the green feather she’d tucked into her hair, and she watched the smile light up his face like a candle batting against the night. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With fumbling fingers, I remove the padlock and lay it by my feet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The dirt sifts through his open fingers; some falls to the ground, some blows away in the wind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Be careful, dear,” she says, running a light finger over my stitches. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to feel this man’s breath on my neck, his fingers on my scalp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was running her fingers through my hair. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The very thought of my contacts gave me a feeling of sophistication, of worldliness, which, as I fingered the seven important letters in my pocket, made me feel light and expansive. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their lips moved and they pointed their black fingers at the paper and shook their heads as they talked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, the tips of his fingers were slightly we find ’em. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turned away and clicked his fingers three times in the air. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw myself prying Peach’s fingers away from Dismay’s collar. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I was blind, I could even rub my fingers over dots. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The fire made the shadows of her fingers into a huddle of people against the trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He tightened the pressure of his thumb and finger for a moment and the weight increased and was going straight down. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a step back, fingering her necklace. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He watched me joking with Sharif, watched Soraya and me lacing our fingers together, watched me push back a loose curl of her hair. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I clasp my bandaged hands together to stop them from shaking, but the Tribesman gently pries my fingers apart. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers tighten on the iron door handle. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She smoothed her fingers down the braid she had plaited into Ivy’s hair that morning and winked. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She turned back to the shelves, ran her finger along a row of spines. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His fingers find my jacket zipper and pull it down in one slow swipe until the zipper detaches. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jonas opened his fingers to reveal the stone with the sparkles inside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He traces a finger along the rim of my mouth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His father did a right face, walked briskly to the doorway, and ran his finger along the doorjamb. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of water washed across her fingers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked down, stealing my bottle lid and then spinning it on its side between his fingers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His fingers got together in conference, talking to one another like ants. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clatter of coins pushed towards me in the metal tray The smell of money on my fingers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fingered Mong’s tooth around my neck, and somehow I knew I wouldn’t go south today. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t quite bring himself to uncurl his fingers from the grip, however. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without looking, she ran her fingers over her left wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“My name ... it’s ...” He put a finger to her lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As if summoned, Taylor walked past, a finger pressed to her lips like a preschool teacher motioning for quiet. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He held an unfiltered cigarette with square-tipped fingers, sucking the tip while keeping it cupped in his fist—like a convict, thought Shadow, or a soldier. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“But he didn’t cry, no indeed. He just popped his fingers into his mouth, the brave little starling. Of course, some of the potion was still there, and he swallowed it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Take it between my fingers like it has always been there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up strands of hair from before him and rolled them between his fingers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I put more trust in these ten fingers than in a hundred swords." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers dropped to my shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He couldn't move anything except his eyes, and his fingers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to break the hold, where the fingers were weakest and the bones in my arm strongest, so that after a few minutes I could cut through even his thick fingers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It would’ve clawed me to pieces, but as I fell backward, my fingers closed around a clay jar—one of Beckendorf s containers of Greek fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ashes left a black smudge on his finger. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I folded it out and he made play of typing, his index fingers too big and thick for the cramped keyboard. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts his arm from his knee, holds his hand out, and wiggles his fingers. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heard she used to put on shows where she’d shoot dimes out of a guy’s fingers and cigarettes from his mouth, all the while riding a horse. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

With trembling fingers, Naomi turned the letter back over, smoothed it against her lap, and began to read again. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but surprised looks and pointed fingers, and pretty faces. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was about to leave, when she snapped her fingers and said, “I almost forgot.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his right index finger repeatedly over his left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The false enthusiasm in my voice kind of sickened me, as did my hand fingering the door handle behind my back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He tapped his finger on the building behind the Washingtons. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She broke off two of her fingers and gave one each to John and Barbara. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He followed the roads with his finger, all converging on that one small town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap my fingers around the cup of tea; it warms my hands. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For just as he ran he put his hand in his pocket, and the ring slipped quietly on to his finger. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed there was something between those two, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a hard surface, but it breaks easily, and my finger comes up drenched in white. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Soon her fingers began to itch for the feel of cocoons, her eyes to dart about for the flutter of wings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With our fingers, we scrubbed tooth powder on our teeth and rinsed it off with the last of the water left in our plastic bottle. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I raised my hand but Mr. Mwila wagged his finger and shook his head to stop me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He kept pouring the little chain through his fingers, its links making a tinkling sound. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed the hilt, her fingers contracting on the cool surface. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There her fingers tangled in the long wisps of Granny’s hair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers along the bag’s inside, and Ivan sucked in a breath. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He moved to the center of the stage, closed his eyes, and fingered the Staff, looking for the place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Owens touched the back of Bod’s hand with her cold fingers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we passed the fruits around, biting into the juicy meat and letting the sweet syrup run down our fingers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I watched Colin’s fingers as they picked up each piece of ham—he didn’t just smack them in half like I saw Jimmy do. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that one,” he said, and snapped his fingers because he was embarrassed about his pronunciation and didn’t want to repeat the name. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to come out,” Rex Rollins says, putting down another can of Diet Coke and licking his fingers of, I believe, hot-wing sauce, “and stand on the little black x.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His fingers locked around my neck like an iron collar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once, chopping onions, she cut her finger down to the bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I resumed twisting the cord around my finger. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine it: curling my finger around the trigger and squeezing; the recoil and the awful report. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she tried to think of other things, even unpleasant ones, to drive the pain and the distorted fingers from her mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He snaps a photo on his phone, and fingers shaking, types out a tweet: Never tell me the odds. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And as he did so I saw that he had no fingers but only stumps. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His right hand, though it had been salved and bound, was burned on palm and fingers. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers buzzed, and then the small boy made of mist and mischief climbed out of the clouds. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Held up her index finger, as if to say, Just a moment. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He extended a yellow-gray finger, pointing directly at Pantalaimon, whose red-brown stoat form immediately became ermine white. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The woman taps the table with her index finger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Bruce was bellowing orders and pointing his finger at Mark and Alec, his pale face now red with anger. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her fingers across the numbers on her sore arm as if memorizing them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds up his hand and counts off his fingers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then we sat in the shade of the álamos of the river and peeled the tunas very carefully because even on their skin they have fuzz spots that make your fingers and tongue itch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was daydreaming about my Jacqui—wondering if she was walking yet, if she was still getting the rash between her little fingers—when Minerva asked what I thought. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth, but Mama held her index finger in front of her lips in a “Shush,” so I just hiccupped again. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the poster: the white face was fleshy but stern; one hand was uplifted and its index finger pointed straight out into the street at each passer-by. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He raked his fingers through his hair, trying to temper a growing panic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She hovered, shaking a scolding finger at Seth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Wes looked down at the man on the couch and clenched his fist, almost as if he was going to follow Tony’s advice, but then his fingers eased, and he simply let off a smirk. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

From finger to foot, his fair skin was rosy from scrubbing; even his fingernails seemed meticulously groomed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d pored over maps as a child, keeping one finger on the town where he lived. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers became calloused from scrubbing the hall floor, and she learned how to carry the heavy bucket of soapy water up the stairs without spilling a drop. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crash bracelets lifted her up until she could grab on to it, her fingers clinging to its knobbly surface as she gasped for air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the knife left her hand, she felt her fingers reaching after it, and the dagger struck the center of the target. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now I miss Ray—he’d like being messy, licking his fingers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think about breaking my own fingers, I don’t know why. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At first I assumed he was keeping himself awake because he was afraid of nightmares, but then I started thinking that maybe he’d been asleep when they’d come to take his fingers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Raizel bent down, traced a finger through the mess, and raised it to her nose. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I reach into my book bag for a pencil, and my fingers fall on the Magic Markers I use in art class. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sliding his finger casually under the trigger guard, Butler strode into their midst. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and pressed my fingers to my temples, trying to push the guilt and sympathy out of my head. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wet his finger and held it to the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

About a million fingers pointed at the new kids and a million laughs almost knocked them over. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then what, stand in a courtroom and point my finger at Paul? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The pin was flat, as long and as wide as Laura’s two biggest fingers, and it was carved all over, and scalloped on the edges. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her finger had found little hard lumps there, and Tariq had told her they were spurs of bone that sometimes grew after an amputation. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the stars in the uppermost sky, drawing the shape of the condor in flight with his fingers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I pulled back and smiled at him, my fingers still in his hair. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Don’t cry, I said, by putting my fingers on my face and pushing imaginary tears up my cheeks and back into my eyes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas flips open a knife and grabs one of the spy’s fingers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Her hands shook as she closed her fingers around the top edge of the paper, ready to tear. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This time I watched his fingers, on each number, and checked the numbers that came up in the window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I slow down, I run my fingers over my hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I fingered the notes, so small and brittle. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She dropped a plate of eggs at the diner, sliced her finger on the jagged edge, watched a trickle of blood ooze onto the white china. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he laces his fingers with mine to cover up what he just did. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers fondly across the rough surface as if he had touched the rock before. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She reached out a hand and touched one finger to the spine of the closest book; a warm shiver passed through her finger and up her arm, and it settled in her heart. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Is he ... ?” Her fingers are on his throat, taking his pulse, and her eyes are wide and empty. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and let my fingers rest on the baby’s lids and held them there as Nicasia continued her foreign prayer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He broke into a broad smile and brought his other hand up from underneath the table, it had two fingers upright. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much about my early life, but I do remember this: Whenever I got the chance, I would dip my fingers into cool mud and use my mother’s back for a canvas. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then she tapped her nose with her interlocked fingers. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben bends over to pick up the thin librex, and it slips through his fingers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I place my finger on a piece of paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, the pressure of his fingers seemed like the only real thing in the world, and if she let go, all the pieces of her would scatter, spinning wildly into the black. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He leaped again instantly, bringing both legs up to either side in a split, touching his fingers to his toes before landing again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes a trying to breathe and drumming my fingers on the sill, I see the car pull up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Matilda said, "There's a boy down the road who got some Superglue on his finger without knowing it and then he put his finger to his nose." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he snapped his fingers at Sewall, who stepped forward and set four silver cups on the table before the Justice. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I looked round Willesden Junction in a spiral, like when I was looking for the train station in Swindon, but on the map with my finger. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Joey hung the smelly green pine tree from the rearview mirror and scooted out of the car to let me and Rufus smell her fingers. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea when he took it off his finger, a neat bit of sleight of hand that I had no idea he could do, no less while inebriated. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the mate approached, the captain took his hand and drew his fingers to the corner of the crate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I clenched my jaw and your fingers moved away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If she went to sleep in a magical position, knees crooked just right, head at a magical angle, fingers all crossed one over the other, in the morning she would be a boy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her features would slacken, her face become vacant, and her fingers would click like crickets at dusk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes ma’am,” Lydia said, wiping at her eyes gingerly with her ring fingers, taking care not to poke herself with her fake nails. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

No, this was a chapter in someone else’s story, probably not even a very important one, and he hadn’t lifted a finger to take part in it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She took her time with every bone, every strap of muscle and thread of sinew her fingers could find, mapping the landscape of him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They tried to hide it by putting their hands over their mouths, but their laughter escaped through their fingers and fell tinkling onto the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She noticed Kaede’s fingers cradling the hilt of the iron dagger as if it had always been hers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suppose I let him slip, or put my fingers on that throbbing pulse on the top of his head? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tapping finger on the change mat speeded up a little when Mack came in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That pardon is a dream that’s hard to hold on to. The memory of your pulse fading beneath my fingers is far easier to bring to mind.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He closed his fingers around the screwdriver and squeezed it until it was part of his hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He traces the scrolled top of the instrument with his finger. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I brush my hair over my head and toss it back, then shape it with my fingers and spray it with lacquer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you maybe lose it up at the cliffs yesterday?” asked Eevie, who was standing at the table scraping the honey from the candy platter with a finger. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The metal caps dinked against one another as Peach sifted them through his fingers. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stood with his hands on the ndoro, and it seemed to grow warm beneath his fingers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He howled with rage as the rest unglued themselves from barstools to lunge at me, but I slipped through their fingers and ran out the door and into the bright afternoon. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure goes to the model neighborhood and runs her fingers over the houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I silently practice my Wohlfahrt etudes, without the bow, just the fingering, simply to calm my pounding heart. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The man reached out his hand, and Will tried to take it, but his fingers closed on the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, Helen?” said I, putting my hand into hers: she chafed my fingers gently to warm them, and went on— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He takes a lock of my hair and spins it around his fingers and then plunges them fully into my hair, and he draws me close, chest to chest. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She runs her fingers through my scalp and finishes by studying my face again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

While he raided the cabin for supplies, pulling open drawers, grabbing things out of the cabinets, she sat dumbly in the doorway, rubbing her fingers one by one. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I can see kids counting backward on their fingers, trying to figure when their grandparents or great- grandparents were born, when they came to America, if they would have made the Neck Cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom holds a finger to her lips and flashes me a look that warns, “Pretend not to notice.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t enough breeze blowing for me to tell the wind direction, so I licked one finger and held it up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

His nails were bitten so deep, there was a ring of pink skin at the top of his fingers. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

All day they walked up and down this onesided avenue of aromatic leaning trees, blowing on stiff ungloved fingers and looking with bleak hope at those people who paused. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for him and run my fingers over his hands, careful to get the lines in his palms and the spaces between his fingers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I rest my hands on the altar, feeling the linen cloth only meant for a priest’s fingers. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

My choler was so risen, I longed for nothing more than confrontation; my fingers demanded engagement. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He fingered a gown that looked like it was silk. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He slithered a tiny bit in the direction of her finger. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

His fingers were slimy, coated in a pale ooze that was either melted skin or pus. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the gales had finally subsided, he shook his index finger. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You have to stop,” he says, his fingers clutching the armrest of the couch, his knuckles turning white. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I don't like school,” Gabe had replied, feeling the fishing line between his fingers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pod flew out from under Ron’s fingers and hit the greenhouse glass, rebounding onto the back of Professor Sprout’s head and knocking off her old, patched hat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Bare willows clicked on the windowpanes like skeleton fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Something cool was pressed into her hands, and her fingers flitted over his as he raised the canteen to her mouth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He holds his finger to his mouth and pulls his face mask off to smile at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Take with water and within seconds your fingers will secrete a transdermal poison. Anyone you touch for the next hour will be instantly and painlessly gleaned.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

What they didn’t take into account was that Haugland’s fingers were frozen stiff when he sent the most recent message. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her fingers parting the husk, feeling for the grain within. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She runs her fingers across the vials, plucks one filled with violet liquid, and yanks out the stopper with a loud pop. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I think you’re on fire'' She gave the back of his hand a short, brisk, brushing stroke with the flats of her fingers. “ Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the understanding of machinery, it was the dexterity, the talent within his fingers themselves, as if they automatically knew what to do. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Ash ran her fingers over her father’s name, and they came away covered with dust. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Emperor drew her down beside him and unlocked her fingers. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“For instance”—I hold my thumb and pointer finger ten centimeters apart—“the lake holds millions of tiny, winged fish.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Grace and Wayne will be along, too,” she continued, ticking our neighbors off on her fingers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He front-palmed it, holding it between his first and his little finger, so it was invisible from behind, then slipped his two middle fingers under it, pivoting it smoothly into a back-palm. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He felt nothing, but a small dome of red blood rose out of his finger pad. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Donatelli's fingers were on his arm, pulling him back across the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to slip them one by one through her fingers, exactly as her father had done, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather, performing a family legacy of precise, codified, thorough worrying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her fingers curled as she waited for him to continue. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All I want is to comb my fingers through his tousled brown hair, to cup my hand around the blue horse on his neck, to press my lips against his like Sophia did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stare at our hands, at my slim fingers entwined in his larger ones, at the veined muscles of his forearm, the slight bones of my wrist, the warmth of our skin meeting. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

An electronic river of true pain had sprung up in that period of national soul-searching, far deeper than I’d imagined, and it was wrenching to have so much of it run literally through my fingers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his fingers upon Bessie’s shoulders; slowly he felt the stiffness go out of her body and as it left the tensity in his own rose and his blood grew hot. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He moves his hand toward my forearm, circling his finger around my elbow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But no matter how hard she tried to position her tongue and her lips and her fingers the way Maestro Messina instructed, the notes still came out sour. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His fingers were twitching, eager to restart their tapping, when a low tremor interrupted his thoughts. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He just held on to me, his fingers strong against my left arm. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Helen put her finger to her lips and whispered, “It’s her third day on but I think she may be a treasure.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fingers dig into the palm and you don’t even know if it’s still in there. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Neel ate the small helping in three gulps, and Rupa handed him a wet cloth to wipe his fingers. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a mark for each finger of both hands—ten marks in all. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He extended his arthritic fingers out in front of him, throwing shadows over the bedspread. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His middle finger stood at attention next to the first. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was torn and jolted, found fingers in his mouth ana bit them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I looked back at Balliol he was still leaning against the desk, his shoulders slumped, spectacles pushed back on his head, pinching his nose between his fingers as though he had a migraine. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Bod ate his pizza with his fingers and enthusiasm. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The van’s rear doors had no windows, so I was hunched over in total darkness for a second, until my fingers found the old power strip I’d duct-taped to the ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Haiyi said, and her fingers stroked the even skin on her face in disbelief. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She ran her dark fingers over her close-cropped hair and sighed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She turned and preened in the air, ran her fingers through her hair, and examined herself as if delighted by her own beauty all over again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gibbler pointed a finger and swept it across the line of trucks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter raised a finger to the air and nodded. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She gave a quick glance at Harry and then looked down, at the tattoo of the black ship beneath her finger. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Tom clicked his fingers, a fire burst into life in the grate, and he bowed himself out of the room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He look hard and point his finger straight at my face. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He fingered the hatchet at his belt It was the only weapon he had, but it was something. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he let Bob make this sacrifice, how could one Titan defend himself against so many for twelve minutes, all while keeping his finger on a button? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She placed her index fingers to her temples. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was still clutching a single page of “The Overcoat,” crumpled tighdy in his fist, and when he raised his hand the wad of paper dropped from his fingers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m finished, I dust the crumbs from my fingers and blink again to make sure the tears are gone. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s my self-sabotaging fingers and their unstoppable compulsion to pinch and zoom. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

My fingers fidgeted with the woven place mat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Every time Boss told him he had to fight, he just grabbed these thin cloth gloves with the fingers ripped away and went to the middle of camp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye, Genie watched as Dr. Maris grabbed one of Ernie’s teeth and pinched it between two fingers. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the accused named names, fingering friends and colleagues in the entertainment industry. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lovey held my hand tight now, weaving her fingers in between mine. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He bent down and picked up the bill, smoothed it with his fingers and held it out to Stewart, who came forward to take it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she tapped the side of her head with one finger. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He could use somebody to snap his fingers and make his battle jitters go away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then, knowing the drill, I open my mouth and pull my cheeks apart with my fingers like I’m making a face at her, to show her that the medicine has truly been swallowed. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I traced the backbone with my finger and decided to start with the shark’s skeleton. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Con flexed his fingers and thought for a moment. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cari came into the kitchen and slid a finger down the length of the kitten’s spine. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I face my father and tap his chest with two fingers, the way Bubbe does when she argues with him. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“She swallowed the ring. She took it from her finger and swallowed it. She said, ‘That is what I think of love.’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She reaches over and squeezes my hand, presses her thumb and fingers down as hard as Constantine ever did. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Any temperature below zero is dangerous. You can get frostbite and lose fingers and toes. I saw a man who lost the tip of his nose. Worse yet, you can freeze to death.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger down the column of figures—$25,000 for the new cyclotron, $40,000 in combined annual operational expenses— and remarked, “It’s a pretty large undertaking.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He would sweep into a room, working a cigarette in his fingers, and people would trail him like pilot fish. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pima set the knife against the girl’s finger. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers beat at a faster pace, and some of the sand began bouncing on the floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He gestured with his long, white fingers and smiled, his face crinkling pleas-antly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some wore bloodstained bandages over their brows or wrapped around their hands, and others were missing eyes, ears, and fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It made an instant cast for a broken finger, and even pulled splinters out of your skin. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Madoc reaches out his fingers like he is going to help me, but I hop off the saddle on my own. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sometime around five in morning, just as I was about to give into the fuzz covering my brain, I felt someone run a light finger down the back of my neck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Honeysuckle spread over the screens of the porch, and its long fingers reached for the trees in the yard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth tasted of honey and cloves, and her fingers were deft and practiced as they found the fastenings of his clothes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mom sits next to me and runs her fingers across my back the way she used to when I was little and woke up from a nightmare. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“She thinks there are five fingers on a hand,” Esther put in dreamily. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, Cabot Searcy turned onto the interstate and made his way to Little Rock, his radio turned up, his fingers snapping, his lips moving. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She runs her fingers lightly over the scar and lets herself be sad for just a second. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The woman waved her finger at Felix and pointed back to her watch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My mom turns to me and carefully unwraps each of the fingers that clutch my phone. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

What are they waiting for? he thought, tapping his fingers on the armrest of his chair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She flicked a drop of water off her finger onto the floor and rubbed it into the linoleum with her shoe. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He jumped up, grabbed for it too quickly and burned his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I touched my forehead with my ungloved hand the fingers came away red. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hugo was about to yell to her, but she put a finger to her lips and motioned for him to wait there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Seven ticked each point off on her fingers. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She raises her hand and spreads her fingers wide. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Caroline looked down at her finger, admiring her wedding band. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

With jittery fingers, I blew my nose into a Kleenex and sat on the bed, careful not to disturb the disturbed sheets. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was just sitting there, looking down, twisting his varsity ring around and around on his finger. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cautiously, Link half rises from his chair and holds up one finger. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Oliver tilted the bank, stuck his fingers inside, and felt around. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well,” said Harry, his pulse quickening as he raised the Snitch in his fingers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Marva Hendrix extended her hand to show the two white stones on her ring finger. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Merry was already squeezing two of my fingers tight in her tiny fist. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Momma, wait a minute, I can’t move, Joey’s got me by the arm and if I move—” Momma pointed her finger at Byron and said, “Don’t you move a muscle.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let my fingers rest on the back of it, feeling its heft. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painting was so detailed Pinmei could even see that between the fingers of the maiden’s outstretched hand was a thin silver needle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And then his right hand begins to burn, the pain sharp and searing, beginning at the scar around his finger and racing up his arm, blacking out every thought in his mind. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I broke off a square, and a glob of caramel oozed onto my finger. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tanisha locks her fingers in mine, and I feel the warmth of ten thousand suns. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He continued to swim in Dumbledore’s wake, the tips of his benumbed fingers brushing the rough, wet rock. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether he was going to suffocate; he could not breathe or see and the only solid things in the world were Ron’s arm and Hermione’s fingers, which were slowly slipping away.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Without commas, the finger of guilt points to Frank. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had six fingers now. I could hold on better.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly desperate for comfort, I reach for Tris’s hand, and she brings her fingers up to meet mine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Pilate put her hand on Hagar’s head and trailed her fingers through her granddaughter’s soft damp wool. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sherm dropped his head and laced his fingers behind his neck. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was an accident of nature that gave humans five fingers on each hand, and because of this accident, five seemed to be a favorite base system across many cultures. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He told her the story of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford and the momentous slip of paper which he had once held between his fingers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She had not even opened her Powerhouse bar or her potato chips, and now she traced the letters on the candy wrappers with her fingers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steadied himself as he reached for the slip, fingers extending toward the snakes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He reached across my lap and began to peel Greg’s fingers off, one by one, with a look of pure disdain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Brekker had claws and not fingers because he was part demon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She squeezed some toothpaste onto her finger and brushed her teeth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lick my finger and lean down, rubbing at it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

King, bishop, knight, pawn, all smudged with his fingers, polluted by his breath. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he doesn’t move, just shifts his fingers to the inside of my elbow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twice Claire s fingers slid loose from their holds and she went backwards, sliding down into the space she had just climbed through. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had the touch of a young girl’s nimble fingers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gently stroked it with my index finger, picturing it asleep and peaceful. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her mashed-in nose, her downy ears, her miniature fingers with their miniature nails and wrinkly knuckles. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare out the window, twirling strands of hair around my finger. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I touched it and, in the faint light from the docks, saw red on my fingers. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She presses a finger gently against a pad on the wall, then walks inside as they slide open. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her nails were admirably long, her fingers, like her father’s, artistically slim. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She puts a finger to her lips and then points up into the canopy above us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He drums his fingers on the table while the other policeman examines Helena’s magazine cuttings on the wall beside the bed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He could go outside and dig his fingers into the springy ground and understand anything about himself. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence for a minute, Nancy smiling at Joe, Joe staring at his beer can and drawing pictures with his finger in the puddles on the table. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started jumping up and down on the palm of his mother’s hand, screaming and yelling and trying to bite her fingers. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel him shift quietly as he laces his fingers through mine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Polly put her fingers to her mouth and moved her lips as if she were eating. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I twirled the jack of diamonds in my fingers, flipped it back and forth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Despite myself, I can’t help thinking of the guard who bit off the tip of my finger. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He swears and puts a bleeding finger in his mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Encanis brushed the snow out of my hair with his dark gloved fingers, then paused and leaned in closer to look at my face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

First we just hear finger snaps from out of the deep black stage. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he could’ve just slipped his finger in the bag and opened it that way, but Jimmy likes to be cool. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What’s your name, honey?” she says softly, running the backs of her fingers up and down my cheek. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She saw the book immediately, tucked against the back wall, but as her fingers grappled onto the cover, a glimmer of candlelight traced a white line across the floor beneath her bed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I felt his cool, strong fingers on my burning hand, locking it in place. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Distracted, he scratched Skardebek’s back and combed his fingers through her little nest of tentacles. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Tendrils reach forward and then curl like fingers, as if they are pulling the rest behind them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

So they went about fingering, taking up the streamers of gold, moving them back and forth, grabbing them to themselves, babbling, talking gibberish among themselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flint and Wood approached each other and grasped each other’s hand very tightly; it looked as though each was trying to break the other’s fingers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers against the smooth wood, and then up the neck, and down the strings. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She sat on the edge of the chair by the window, fingers curled deep into the armrests. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In pain and overcome by anger, Joycelyn jabbed her fingers into the other girl’s eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soul must then recite a counting rhyme to tally his fingers, satisfying the ferryman. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I held my finger in the air and connected the twinkling dots above the planet, tracing the Leo constellation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her husband put his fingers on her shoulder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was clearly shocked but couldn’t seem to put her finger on my specific sin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiggled his fingers, as if trying to get her attention. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As if reaching for an electric fence, he cautiously extended his fingers toward the Spirit Bear’s shoulder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But JB is a step ahead, already sliding it on each of his fingers until he finds one it fits. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve tried that,” Piper says, running her fingers through her long hair. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I coiled the phone cord around my finger and stared down the hall at the front door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched Sunny and ran his fingers over Ye’s strings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He points a finger at me—like to say that I am right about that. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He lunged at Trip and slammed him into the wall, his fingers locked around the god’s throat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I poked the animal bone with my finger. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He called three, four, five, six, seven, eight, his fingers jerking, unable to grip the receiver. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s whole body shuddered, and a hot mess lay across her palm and between her fingers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pinch the sweater sleeve between my fingers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And I feel her fingers wrap around my own. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Slipping a finger through Ignatius’ hoop earring, the young man pulled downward, breathing to Ignatius, “Drop that sword.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you ever play that game?” she held up her own apple core and grabbed the stem with two fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She snapped her fingers, and the cube transformed into a fancy bakery box. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered his fingers pulling the leaf out of my hair, making my head spin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The silverware clattered from my fingers to the bowls. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, touched his ears to make Ruza understand, and his fingers came away wet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had to stick my fingers in several jars before I discovered the honey. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at the map,” she said, pointing above my head with a finger that was like a bent nail. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mama runs her fingers over Daddy’s name on the award and smiles. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I spread out my fingers, and the dark berries glisten in the sun. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His two black laborers walked the rows, touching the tender flowers, fingering the soil and trying to puzzle out the sky. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put two fingers together and poked Bran in the forehead, hard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The silver band on her finger is engraved with what Marco had thought was an intricate filigree, but is the same phrase in a looping script. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jessica looked down at the table, her finger tracing an invisible pattern. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He tore himself free of the clawing fingers, half-fell, half-threw himself out of the alley, and by the time the last shivering wail had died away was tugging at his own gate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Olanna slapped at the crickets; their faintly moist bodies felt slimy against her fingers, and even when they were no longer perched on her, she still slapped her arms and legs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nancy shaking her finger at the two of them, telling them not to climb on that railing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It's like that coordination test where you have to shut your eyes and put your arm out straight and touch your pointer finger to the tip of your nose. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Something seemed fishy to me, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I traced my finger over Amy’s and Elizabeth’s initials for bravery. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he put his hand to the side of his neck, blood welled between his fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We should be dead,” he marveled, poking his finger into one of the holes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

That finger had pulled a trigger in a war. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then I reach out, tap the words with a finger, and the world around me goes dark. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taking the cross in his great hands—where it seemed even smaller than it was—he peered at it with his shrewd eyes, even feeling it with his fingers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

An image of him with his greasy hair and wiry black beard and blue calloused fingers fills my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Jaqen touched one of the dead guards and showed her his bloody fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Albert ran his fingers through Madge’s fur and closed his eyes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On the station platform I walk as close to the railings as I can, my fingers trailing against the iron fence, just in case I need to hold on tight. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief mate plucked the block of wood out of Sefia’s hands and dappled his fingers over her hastily carved letters. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

With her fingers like legs, she pantomimed sneaking. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She raked her fingers through her hair in frustration. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I rub the charm between my finger and thumb. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers through her hair, felt the bit of leaf, and plucked it out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts her hat an inch off her head and runs her fingers through her hair. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were nail polish to the first joint and she was angry. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull his hand close and rub my finger over the mark like I have a thousand times before. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He raised one arm, the long black sleeve of his robe dangling beneath it, and wagged a finger at Magdalys. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But twenty years doing hair in the City had softened her arms and melted the shield that once covered her palms and fingers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena stared as Ruth hurried past and when she heard her mother running up the stairs, she put her fingers to her lips in disbelief. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held both hands out to me and snapped her fingers. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I had only to move my fingers a little and jab them into the soft tissues, gouge away his sight and give him more agony than he was giving me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could reach her fingers deep into a moldy bag, draw out a miraculous ounce of white flour, and slap out biscuits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grisly pale thing with black fingers, it was, that twitched and stirred in its jar as if it were still alive. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mother made a frame of her fingers and peered through. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The last time he held one, Rocky was with him, and they had stained their finger tips brown with the tobacco juice the grasshoppers spit. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our bodies molded together, his fingers digging into my hips, his mouth just as hungry, just as fevered, as mine. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"That was kid stuff," said James as his fingers, trembling, tore at the packet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

O’Brien had a slip of paper between his fingers and seemed to be studying it intently. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Hecate’s finger crossed her miniature Apennines, leaving a glowing white line in the red flames. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

George’s fingers are bent at harsh angles into Amar’s shirt, the knuckles white with tension. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She slowly backed her way out of the wasi, pausing to bow and kiss her fingers every few steps. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was a jade snake on her right ring finger. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His master clanged the gate shut, missing Wilcox's fingers by a tenth of a second. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"What the hell!" he yelled, smearing his finger over one of the samples. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl playing basketball had jumped for the hoop and stayed caught in the air, fingers still gripping the ball. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But the boy sees, and his clammy fingers pull mine away from my head with inexorable force. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Kin’s fingers struggled in the air, and whenever he would grab hold of a thread, Sigurd would swing his sword at Kin with a snarl. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help reaching up to finger the inflamed nostril. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Gripping the stony lip of the fall with his fingers he let himself gently down, until when his arms were almost at full stretch, his toes found a ledge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The mayor ticked off the reasons on his fingers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina threw out both hands, fingers forming fists, and watched the guards topple backward. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once he was back in the water, Myrtle peered through her fingers and said, “Go on, then . . . open it under the water!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the words left my mouth than his fingers cinched tight, severing my breath. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I watched them as they moved in tandem on their knees up and down the rows, passing a small hand shovel and a three- fingered claw between them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played the guitar pretty well considering that the middle finger of his right hand wasn’t there. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uncles all started to point fingers at one another, this one blaming that one, and that one blaming this one. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She released his hand and cast it away with splayed fingers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One of the children—a boy—stuck his finger into it, and his older sister slapped his hand. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands are big, with nice white straight nails, and his fingers are long and strong and they move all over the place when he gets excited. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I close my fingers around the rock he gave me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely nobody,” he said gravely, swinging his index finger the same way Armand had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To keep the page, I shut the book on my index finger and take it back to my table. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Grandfather’s right, you need the rest. Please let me g°” Mother tapped her finger on the table, a good sign. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stuck a hand through the bars and waited until Koffi reached to take the bowl from him before deliberately letting it slip from his fingers and shatter on the floor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Don Manuel snaps his fingers, and several officers rush forward for instructions. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cool fingers had passed over his skin, and though the itch had been terrible, bare seconds later it was as if the bruise had never been. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The woman stood in front of the gas heater and picked the dirt from under her thumbnail with the third finger of her other hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she catches me with honey dripping from my fingers, her face will twist into a frown. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singer could keep either his fingers or his tongue. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A hand, the fingers bent into a claw, reaches into the light, followed by another hand, and then a head, with stringy blond hair. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I start snapping my fingers and walking around like I’m somebody. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fern pointed her finger as if she was commanding a dog. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was thin, the color of coffee and cream, with her hair done in fresh finger curls. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Subtly, my fingers press down imaginary chords on an imaginary bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The throb pulsed on, insistent, and he saw hundreds of black men and women beating drums with their fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a ferocious yawn and ran his fingers sleepily through his hair, as people often do when they first awake, which likely accounted for its disheveled state. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked embarrassed and he put one finger to his lips again, as if he had just said too much. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes fingering the brown tooth around his neck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She runs out of fingers as she counts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mother crushed the leaves between her fingers, breathed in the fragrance, and smiled. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was fingering his great horn and frowning. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Here and there a loop stuck out, maybe big enough to stick your pinky finger through, pitiful testimony to the challengers who had tried and failed. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more things these hands could do, the more successful their owners were, so evolutionary pressure brought about an increasing concentration of nerves and finely tuned muscles in the palms and fingers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one lavatory was surrounded by a moat of urine, and we would race, as ships, bottle tops on its roily and reeking waters, rowing with our fingers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman swirls one finger in the air in a circle motion. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I use my finger’s imaginary marker on her back as she walks up the path to the driveway. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I can see it so clearly in my mind, but, of course, when I put a pencil or crayon in my stupid-tight little fingers, all I can manage are squiggly lines. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Sitting up I yawned and tried to comb back my matted hair with my fingers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gigi came over to Ivy and let Aaron grab her finger while she leaned her head against Ivy’s for a second. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wring my fingers, put on a long face. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attendants poured water over their fingers, while the maids piled baskets full of brown loaves near at hand, and houseboys brimmed the bowls with wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up from time to time in the night and whispered “Mary” and touched the doll’s infinitesimal slipper with a light finger. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run an index finger over my lips and notice a few flower petals in my hair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Prim takes one of my hands, which is clutched in a fist, and massages it until it opens and blood begins to flow through my fingers again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He runs his fingers down the side of my face. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, literally overjoyed, I undressed myself with thick fingers and fell into bed. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“There, there, there!” with the impatient movement of her fingers. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers tap a nervous beat on the table. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He balled his fists to keep his fingers from moving. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It held on to the surface of the water like fingers grip­ping the edge of a cliff. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up, but he lifts his fingers to stop me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She let her finger linger over the red button, then drew away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She dug her elbows into her lap and began to rock with the diaper between her hands, wringing it between her fingers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would spend whole hours sucking her finger in the bathroom, holding herself back with an exhausting iron will so as not to eat earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She stood quickly and snapped her fingers in her sister’s direction. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The lights of the chamber flashed off the silvery surface—a wicked- looking dagger, gripped tightly in his fingers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The German intelligence officer laughed when he said, "The trigger finger of the executing officers became tired." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And her fingers knew exactly the best way to twist skinny green clover stems together to make a long chain to stretch across the street to stop cars. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers sped by in a blur, and his face showed the slightest of smiles, as if in a reverie. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I do a wiggle-wave with my fingers, realizing two of his friends, the girls, are looking at me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He puts his fingers in mine, and we stretches our arms outwise like Jesus on the cross. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma stood up to watch it pass, fingering her chins thoughtfully. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My arms ached, my fingers were numb, and my head felt as if it were filled with hot pitch. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t noticed before, but two of his fingers looked like they were sort of welded together. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With clumsy fingers I prized open the hand that held the wicking and saw it had blood on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he wasn’t gnawing on the fingers of his left hand, he began biting his shirt, actually chomping pieces out of it and leaving holes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The notebook slips out of my fingers and lands on the carpet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As if the boy already has my heart tied to his littlest finger, I say, “I’ll go, too. I will make sure she’s okay.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If there was any doubt about that, it was squashed when the short man punched his friend on the arm and stabbed a finger in their direction. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Pushing her index finger, she said, “Re. This is re.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She twirls the peace key chain around her finger and catches the keys. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She grabbed his hand and squeezed it, telling him in the pressure of her fingers that she wanted him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crack of red at the edge of my index finger where a hangnail had been chewed away. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her carefully, alert to every little flutter of her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She flexed her fingers, like she was practicing her throat-strangling technique. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He would walk fast on the pavement, turned tightly into himself, hands deep in the coat his cousin had lent him, a gray wool coat whose sleeves nearly swallowed his fingers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand. If I’m forced to eat another chicken finger, another PB&J, if I even smell another Hot Pocket, I am going to barf.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Drew ran his fingers over his buzz cut. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were well manicured, the nails painted pale pink with white tips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He poked my chest with his finger and walked around me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was Radar, licking the salty drop off his fingers. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yedsha lifted a hand in the air and ticked off two fingers. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

"Okay, so we lost a day yesterday. And y'all know we gotta make up for it today," Coach said, spinning his car keys on his index finger. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He held it over the grave and let it trickle from his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The feel of bare flesh on his fingers made him want to gag. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hearing nothing, I risked a look out and saw two teenage girls, one my age and the other a little older, expressions hard and weapons gripped in trembling fingers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good advice, you’d better take it and save your fingers,” she said, thinking her speech amused him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kaz met his gaze, the man cleared his throat and pressed his fingers together. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He pulls me close, runs his fingers along the soft white underbelly of my forearm. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He snapped his fingers several times, pointed at various wooden crates around the workshop. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He brushes a finger under his collar and finds his skin damp. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dollops of glue land on colored paper, and fingers form loop after loop. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on her waist and bury my fingers in her hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She soaped her hair, frantically digging fingers into her scalp, whimpering with disgust. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I licked the butter off my fingers, he gave me his roll. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grave chuckled, sticking his gnarled fingers into the pockets of his worn and dirty pants. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As if he heard me thinking about him, he turns in my direction, all silhouette in the firelight, a perfect painting, so good it makes my fingers flit at my side. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Jack points up at him with his finger and says something, his tone suddenly sharp, raspy, and vicious. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we come back into the front living room, William’s pointing his finger at Stuart. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He whirled the rings on his finger tip, then tucked them away, patting his sash complacently. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When I congratulated him after the wedding and shook his hand, his fingers were limp and moist. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He tightened his fingers around the man’s throat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But you can actually play when you pull your finger out,” he continues. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She glances down at his right hand resting on the rail, frowning as she regards his bare, unmarked fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kote fingered the buttons of his shirt for a moment, then decided against removing it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rain came on gray and cold, pattering with hard, metallic fingers at the panes of Mrs. Cobb’s parlor. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I stood back and watched him work the blood into his arms and legs, flex his fingers, crane his neck this way and that, crying all the while. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He puts his hand on his face and rubs it around then looks at his fingers. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I speak, he puts a finger to my lips. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the school cafeteria, he scrounged constantly for spilled cabbage soup, dipping his hand in cold dirty soup that had spilled on the floor and licking his fingers clean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She twisted the silver ring on her finger. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The BFG picked Sophie up between one finger and a thumb and placed her gently in the palm of the other hand. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She runs her fingers over the jewelry, tracing her fingertip across the tiny places where needles poke out, and the hidden chambers tucked inside the crested jewels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Wow,” I breathed, running my fingers along the bumps of the rhinestones. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tally interlaced her fingers, locking her hands together to give David a boost up to where he could wedge the powerjack between the doors. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Tidbit sat on the floor, tracing the path of an ant in the dust of the floor with his finger. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he flung his finger toward me instead, and shook it as if he were ridding himself of blood or slime. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Draw the direction of the phrase in the air with your finger as you sing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As Harry’s fingers closed around the Snitch, its tired wings fluttered and were still. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stirred in the formula and tested the steaming mixture with his finger. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora jabbed a finger at Matthew like he expected him to respond. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to talk to somebody about it, because maybe if he told all the facts out loud he could put his finger on the thing that puzzled him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He opened the folder and ran his index finger down the page. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The longer you’re in there, the longer my fingers get a break.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He forms his fingers into the number four. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Whatever affliction he might be hiding, she could see no sign of it, only slender lock-pick’s fingers, and a shiny rope of scar tissue from some long ago street fight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyelids don’t flicker but there’s a faint twitching of her fingers, or do I imagine it? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite literally a tightening and a shrinking of the skin all over my body from the top of my head to the tips of my fingers to the ends of my toes! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Lee’s finger came to a gentle rest on the change mat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gripped her fingers as firmly as she could and lunged up toward the light. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled the sleeves over my fingers and moved close to him, so our thighs were touching. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Olive holds up her finger and opens her mouth to talk. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The man runs his finger down the ledger. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The creature’s fingers were the size of bananas, but nowhere near as pliant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

All the policemen were holding their guns at the ready, with their fingers on the triggers, and the firemen were clutching their hatchets. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sookie’s hands were red and cracked like winter hands, and he had sausage fingers. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She licked her finger clean so delicately that not even Miss Manners would call it bad. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gold on the drowned girl’s fingers glittered. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The baby ape reached his fingers under my collar to touch my skin directly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sam points at me and says, “Pull my finger.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“The strongest there is! It’s as thick as your finger! But why? What are you going to do?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rainwater would seep down gently and the delicate membranes would not be crushed or broken before the emergence of tiny fingers, roots, and leaves pressing out in all directions. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He saw her hands then, the awk-ward way she held them, the raw red scars, the stiffness of the last two fingers on her left. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His fingers had begun to tap at the air, helping him along. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass narrowed her eyes at it and picked at the tinsel with her fingers. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

One stray glance and the needle could tear through her finger. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Her back arched a little as his fingers climbed the front of her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced up, and a clothespin slipped out of her fingers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad also thought I should face down my enemy, and he showed me how to pass my finger through a candle flame. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cyrus sighed and rubbed the tips of his fingers on the arms of his chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I trace my fingers over their cool surface. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Chubs’s fingers were quick and nimble as he opened the peanut butter crackers and started in on them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He cradled the instrument in one arm and, almost before his fingers touched the strings, a gentle melody, as beautiful as the curve of the harp itself, lifted like a voice singing without words. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She stuck her finger in her mouth and looked up annoyed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A splinter dug deep into her finger, and she gulped back tears. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her fingers pressed into my shoulders, her nails dug into my skin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He shoved her into a doorway, thrust dirty fingers through her hair, and gave it a twist, yanking her head back. "—not a smart boy, that what you mean to say?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she wrapped a hand around it, blood leaked through her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Leo tried to grab him, but his fingers were numb. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hanako started to speak, but Mama lifted a finger to her lips to shush her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Luxa tried to appear indifferent, but her fingers worked the light switch eagerly. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We start to cut across the parking lot toward our ragwort stalks when a guy about our age touches my arm, warm fingers closing just above my wrist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I finger the short stubble on my scalp. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I found them, I threw them to Kara, my fingers outstretched, trying to be sure of my aim. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He was suddenly conscious of the way his fingers were playing with the earlock, and he let his hand drop to the table. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The envelope slipped from my fingers, landing on the floor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself to his feet, the fingers of his sword hand opening and closing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nicholson sat motionless for some few minutes after he left, his hands on the armrests of the chair, his unlighted cigarette still between the fingers of his left hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He checked the feeling in my toes, had me breathe, had me follow his fingers with my left eye, then my right eye. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything; he just took the fingers of her right hand and held them in his, his thumb brushing the ring she wore. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I solemnly swear,” said Lazlo, and they hooked their fingers together and descended to the anchor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My fingers fumble as I pull it out and unlock the new message. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She fumbled in her pockets, praying her fingers would miraculously close around some chalk that Robbie had snuck her when she wasn’t looking. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Listen to me, Daoud. Really listen," I dug my fingers into his arms. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With fingers weakening in the cold, Anya tugged futilely at the barbed rope on the outside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My fingers find the hem of his T-shirt, and slide beneath it, spreading wide over the small of his back. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her extended fingers, though trembling, or because they were trembling, looked oddly graceful and pretty. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He snapped his fingers, and armed guards poured into the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He stops and links his fingers with mine and squeezes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She crouched beside one and ran her finger along the interior edge. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Daddy just drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, over and over again, tapping out some melody I couldn’t hear. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tinker Bell braced her arms against his fingers and tried desperately to free her second wing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I slip Mom’s wedding ring onto my finger, and it fits. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A nurse asked me about the pain, and I couldn’t even speak, so I held up nine fingers. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Arm circled its neck with his long fingers and squeezed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first few minutes were sheer terror, her teeth clenched so hard that her jaw ached, her toes curled up inside her special new grippy shoes, her arms and even fingers spread wide for balance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The fingers of Kate’s right hand slowly curled around the palm while the left hand crept like a lean cat toward the edge of the desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Florida smoothed the quilt on the bed, licked her finger, and rubbed at a spot on the quilt. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

While this is unfolding, the slim blond woman in front of me has been stroking Carmine’s arm with her finger, and now, still nestled against me, he is looking through his lashes at her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He reached out often to push his glasses up, a small push with his finger, and she thought this endearing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma snapped her fingers at Papa; she was throwing a curse at him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With that, she hobbled to the door, but before leaving, she turned, pointed two fingers at her eyes, and then pointed them at me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The Governor curled his fingers tight into his fist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I lock my fingers tightly into his and say, “Watch my feet. Just try to step where I step.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My breath fogs up the glass, and one more time I lift a shaking finger, drawing a heart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold punctuated the word with a tap of his finger against the wheelchair arm. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She inhaled deeply, lifted her pointer finger to the air, and said, “Feel that? The warm and the cool?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He whistled a tune absently, the cigarette twisting in his fingers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I reach in thru the plastic bag, rubbing my fingers across the cover. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She put out her hand and touched his forehead with one finger. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

High John stabbed a finger at me, then pointed down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He noted the use of her maiden name when she was admitted to the hospital, and the absence of any rings on her fingers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Under the onslaught of her fierce, wagging finger he released Otto, who pressed himself against me, shrieking in terror. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Number Two sat at the computer and with quick, agile fingers, typed a string of commands. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Then here's some advice," the same man continued, pointing a finger as black as the barrel of a gun at me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He walked past Ben and along the pole, picking it up off the ground as he slid its length through his palm and fingers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He poured his second cup of chocolate and crumbled a sweet biscuit in his fingers. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were few things that could make him cry, but a cut finger was one of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He combed the surface smooth with his fingers and renewed the lines and hollows that told him where everything was. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers over the real tablecloth and noticed the napkins were cloth too. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In 1904, Bigheart sent a zealous young lawyer named John Palmer across the country “to keep his finger on the Washington pulse.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He will give me back to Ramsay then, he thought, and Ramsay will take a few more fingers and turn me into Reek once more. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the room is silent, and then fists pound against my window, not just two or four or six, but dozens of fists with dozens of fingers, slamming into the glass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first month, my fingers had calluses hard as stones and I could play for hours upon hours. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes! Just like that. Then your fingers go on the keys like”—she helped V place them—“and you blow.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Tiago kissed his pointer and middle finger and raised them into the air. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He closed the book on a finger and said, "Look at me and tell me what you see." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finn used cold and trembling fingers to peel back his eyelids, forced his reluctant eyes to focus. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And the feather, no bigger than my finger. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

One more loop was attempted, and this time the linen slipped from her fingers and fluttered to the ground beside the bank. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the white powdery smudges her fingers left. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers through her hair and massage her scalp. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold on to it, rolling it between my fingers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thread my fingers through his and look around. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the fingers were crooked, as though they’d been broken and healed again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the sun fingered over the tips of the San Gabriels, his stiff, gray form passed down the shed row at Barn 38. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just hope he’s in Gryffindor! Keep your fingers crossed, eh, Harry?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My fingers tip- tip over to the linoleum knife. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged a hand across the floor before the darkness, and greenish lights sprung up from where his fingers passed before being sucked into the void like wraiths on the wind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She walked back holding it with two fingers way out in front of her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I start to protest, but he presses a finger to his lips. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when I looked at our joined fingers, something would shift so that the hand was not Nick’s. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She took a tentative step toward the door, shuffling forward until the tips of her fingers bumped against the wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he is finished, Ruth takes the book from him and looks at the drawing he’s made, trailing her finger through the rooms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she swept them back down, uncurling her fingers, they held four sharp knives. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Eight’s sort of an appropriate name. Considering the state of his fingers.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the back of his ear and his fingers came away spotted with blood. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I crawled around in the muddy snow and wet garbage, searching for the silver penny with fingers so numb with cold they would barely work. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She counts off my sins on her fingers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I just kept sticking my two curled fingers in and licking them off and the more I ate the faster I wanted to eat it and nothing else mat-tered. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We traced our fingers over the patterns of the ornamental wood railings and poked our faces through openings to see the water below. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tall slim body and tapering fingers spoke of fragility, gentleness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He held up his hands and flexed the fingers, his expression rapt and exultant. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her fingers brush my face again, stroking back my hair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers along the groove where her pencils rested, fixing the feel of the groove in her mind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He breathed the scent and taste of her, and shivered when her fingers traced up his arms to the nape of his neck. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Because that smell...the way the words drooped...I pressed my fingers against the Psi symbol and they came away sticky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A hand grabbed his shoulder, five fingers hard as iron digging deep into his flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I reach into my pocket and wrap my fingers around the rock he gave me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hot shame flooded him as the scene in the car came back; he felt again the pressure of Jan’s fingers upon his hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moss reached out to his friend and a shiny boot slammed his own fingers down, too, and the rage and terror finally overwhelmed him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Jason doesn’t circle his fingers on the joystick. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to look closer at his fingers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers wove the sweetgrass in her lap, twisting and tugging the strands into perfect place. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He held up one finger as if to say, I'll be just a moment. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In his last moments, she said, he had run his fingers over his bedding as if playing the piano. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The fingers grabbed at something that felt like a nerve; it electrified Nathan’s entire head. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He held the twenty cent one in his hands, drawing it through his fingers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy sat patiently, the line hanging down from his finger into the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wolf padded closer, sniffed at her fingers, then licked at the blood with a wet rough tongue. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She raised her finger and pointed at both of them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was slouched down childishly low against the door, staring straight ahead and drumming on the armrest with his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Liyana pulled a feather free and smoothed her finger over it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Favell began to laugh, the laugh of a drunkard, high-pitched, forced and foolish, and all the while twisting Rebecca’s note between his fingers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The trees—long, slim silhouettes—seemed to guide them most of the time, but sometimes the branches looked like arms with hands of many fingers, ready to attack. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked up and down in the street, crying and pulling a ring on and off her finger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My fingers, which a second before had been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his gaze. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped my fingers between hers, and she gripped my hand good. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desperation on his face, he pointed a gnarled finger at Håkon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We stared at our twisted reflections in the mirror maze, ate powdered-sugar-dusted elephant ears, banged out our aggression on the bumper cars, and got sticky fingers from cotton candy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He stood and ran his big sausage fingers around Nathan's waist. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Piper barely had time to withdraw her fingers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Waking up with his Bible beside him, Cabot stuck a finger into his left eye to adjust his contact, stood up, and then knelt down on the floor, placing his elbows onto the bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Momma admits, running her fingers through my hair. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That means our fingers, if you're wondering why there are food smears on this letter. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as she moved her hand, blood flowed, so she clenched her fingers down on her arm again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He kept his blues harp in his jacket pocket and rubbed his fingers across the holes every now and again. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He dipped a finger into the dregs and very cautiously just touched the finger with the tip of his tongue. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Then he began slowly stroking her hand, running his fingers along hers. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Each bead slipping through her fingers was another resentment recorded and released. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Man, when I see myself in the future, it’s on a bandstand, fingering my alto. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few twisted shapes of metal remained, rising above the trees like skeletal fingers grasping at the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the parlor, she would finger a vase as if it were some sort of talisman. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She bade me join her at her cupboard, where her busy fingers darted through small drawers, poured powders into folded papers, and filled several small jars with essences and extracts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Hood raised the other arm, twitched fingers, let the hand fall. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a moment to realise, so that by the time I turned back to her she was breathing over her fingers and looking down, engrossed by something beside her feet. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You didn’t have to bury those books, right? They burned beautifully, like the very best firewood, and their pages—ah, they quivered like pale little fingers." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was something about how you needed all ten fingers to play a piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd thought she was going to die then, but the fingers had twitched, all five at once, and the man had shrieked loud as a horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually I found my way with tongue, fingers, and breath. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s blood on my knuckles, blood on my fingers, but not much. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I feel around for the parachute and slide my fingers inside until they close around the pearl. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When she saw Coraline she reached out one long white hand, and she crooked a finger. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

When she wrestles to get free, he knocks her onto the grass and pins her there, trying to force her ring back on her finger, alternately murmuring entreaties and spitting threats. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to do but cross their fingers and make a run for it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The maester’s fingers, normally so sure and deft, turned clumsy as he worked the latch and opened thelid, to reveal the skull within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My unborn daughter waved at me, and my two sons hopped up and down, and a drill sergeant named Blyton sneered and shot up a finger and shook his head. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All in black, I saw the loa of Don Carlos putting his finger to his lips in mockery of the last gesture I had seen him make to me that morning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Everything looked fresh, and the new green of Spring was shimmering in the fields and on the tips of the trees’ fingers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I slid Where the Red Fern Grows off to the side and dug into the earth with my finger. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

By morning, my fingers are sore, but I’m still holding on. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I brought my fingers up to make the quotes around date. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wagged her finger at the garbage bag. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

That finger still don’t do everything he wants it to do, but at least it’s still there. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Shadow took the quarter he had used for the coin-toss from the table, enjoying the sensation of a freshly milled coin against his fingers, producing it in his right hand between forefinger and thumb. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Her lip trembled as she pulled the gold ring off the skeleton’s finger. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but draw them with crooked fingers, weirdly shaped palms, or unnatural bends to the wrists. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he digs his fingers against the surface and pushes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My hands reach in and my fingers take hold of one last envelope. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her finger stopped near the top of the list. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They like people with motor cars who stick out their little fingers when they pick up their teacups. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra tried to pinch the edges together after they went through, but her fingers couldn’t find it at all; nor could the spies, despite the fineness of their hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a rigor mortis—style grin, Agent Jones put a finger to his lips to remind MoMo of the need for secrecy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He spins her; her fingers flicker through the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This tree flooded me with a sensation of alarm all the way to my tingling fingers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny added the leaves to the steaming water and poked them under with a quick finger. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were tracing the book's outline and as the shape became familiar her face looked surprised and then stunned. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers found stiff cloth where they should have found flesh, lips, teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger down the grades... he had passed well in Transfiguration and Herbology, he had even exceeded expectations at Potions! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I move up one a her fingers, chant what my daddy used to say to me on my birthdays, “Three little soldiers, come out the doe, two say stop, one say go.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

These would kill in a finger snap for one single tortilla. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was the water of the Styx flowing beneath his fingers, or maybe the Lethe? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She stood and began digging her fingers into the dirt trickling through the broken shelves. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Blood was spurting through his fingers, and his helmet had been knocked off. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man beckons us to follow him with one crooked finger. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Colonel blew smoke rings, and Takumi called them “pretentious,” while Alaska followed the smoke rings with her fingers, stabbing at them like a kid trying to pop bubbles. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was holding the brooch between her fingers. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days following, he can hardly manage to comb his hair or convince his fingers to button his coat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She picked up the ash with her fingers and put it in. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their ears, necks, fingers, and hands are heavy with yellow twenty-four-carat gold jewels as they beckon you over to their counters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press my arms against my stomach and dig my fingers into my sides. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the next day of my attendance, when our usual exercise was over, and I had landed her at her dressing-table, she stayed me with a movement of her impatient fingers:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The woman balanced her finger on the long blade of the wooden dagger in Anya’s hand. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He kissed her fingers deliberately, tamed stiffly, and began to pace in silence down the long length of the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women whom Ignatius indicated ambled slowly to the cutting table, gingerly took the banner with their thumbs and index fingers, and held it between them as if it were a leper’s shroud. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take it,” she said, pushing it into Genie’s hands and wrapping his fingers around it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Milton played his instrument with the same fingers he used for the Boy Scout salute, but his thoughts were anything but wholesome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Leo’s fingers heated up like they were about to catch fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he put the ring on his finger. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My own fingers walk and bridge the gap to cup hers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Aru hadn’t noticed until now that images covered Urvashi’s skin from the tips of her fingers all the way up to her elbows. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lurz asked, running his finger down a list of names written in careful script next to page numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As if he’d read her thoughts, Brullo snapped his fingers, and a guard standing by the wall pulled the curtain back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her eyes dried out like an old woman’s and her fingers curled like claws until she could hardly pick up her spoon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think she’s fainted. I don’t know what happened, she didn’t even stick her finger.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were shaped like a man’s fingers when they are crisped like claws. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ends of their long sweeping boughs hung down like searching fingers, their roots stood up from the ground like the limbs of strange monsters, and dark caverns opened beneath them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers through the thick layer of bubbles in my tub. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Franz, come!” she said sternly, jabbing her finger at the floor next to her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My shoes squeak loud when I walk, and my fingers are all wrinkled. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I point down the line with both index fingers and slide next to Ben-Ben. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She curved my fingers around the handle, pressing the iron against the fabric while with the other hand she pulled the cloth taut. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

So he sits next to the dying man’s head, poking his finger into the blood clot every few minutes, making sure there’s not too much pressure on Lincoln’s brain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He reached behind him and placed his fingers on the spine of his book, but he didn’t pull it out. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Comb through my damp hair with my fingers and braid it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My fingers brush Daddy’s notebook, and that makes me imagine myself as Isaiah Dunn, Superhero. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

"I'll just have one of her people"—she points a sticky finger in my direction—"fix me right up. Slim me down even smaller next time, so I have more room to grow." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Estella had cut herself on a plate and hidden the bleeding finger in a dishrag. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur Lee became suspicious, but while he was pointing a finger at Bancroft, Franklin learned from his agents in London that Lee’s own private secretary was a British spy! George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veins had been thick and knotted under the thin, frail skin; the fingers were thickened at the joints. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even though my texting fingers are going to hate me. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Taylor nods and twists a strand of hair around her finger. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But when I held out my 15p he just did this sly grin and closed my fingers round my coins so it looked like he'd taken them. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Cain, his features set with fury, stood not too far behind, blood seeping through his fingers as he clutched his side. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My finger hooked into the first circle on the dial and my fingers pulled around, dialing for a long-distance line, the area code, followed by “AT7” and the last four digits. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him—just a little—and read over his shoulder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he realized the man was tapping his fingers on the arm of his chair, but the tapping wasn’t random. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Expert marksmanship is a must because you always got to aim for fingers or toes, and them’s small targets.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downtown, the Smith Tower pointed, like an upraised finger, toward somber skies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the center there was a slight glistening, and as she touched it again, she felt it slide easily under her fingers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She picks up her armband, which was twisted up like a snake on her bed, and starts pulling it through her fingers. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Almost unconsciously he traced with his finger in the dust on the table: 2 + 2 = 5. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With every snap of his finger the sterile paper crackled, the bandage jumped. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Inside I found things long forgotten: my mother fitting words together for a song, diction for the stage, three recipes for tea to calm nerves and promote sleep, finger scales for the lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor held my white broken arm like a big bone in his two hands, feeling how my fingers bent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie needed only to point his fingers to poke his sister in the ribs. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rubs his fingers up and down the back of his neck. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He sniffed my finger, then followed with a gentle love nip. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I shift the flashlight into the crook of my thumb and reach for her hand to squeeze her sweaty fingers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Jamie smiles next to me and scratches his fingers at the back of his neck. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She slashed down hard, and Needle's castle-forged steel bit into the grasping fingers between the knuckles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I reach, my fingers scrambling to catch it before it hits the patio. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Snap your fingers and blow up the cannibals.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Shanti had been setting goals since she was four and won her preschool’s finger painting contest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His fingers were throbbing worse than they had in days, and his head was pounding too. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I still remember how cold it would get, so cold that my fingers would hurt. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne indicated the queen mother with a finger and whispered to Jacob, “She scares me.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Its gray nose came close, sniffing loudly, and then the lips drew back and the strong teeth closed on Jody’s fingers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even her fingers are too tired to tap. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ll prove it,” said the other mother, and brushed the surface of the mirror with her long white fingers. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I can do that,” I answered quickly, forming the chords with my fingers. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His short stubby fingers were touching the instrument with what looked to Coram like the tenderness of a lover, as if he thought it was alive. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I won’t even tell you what my fingers felt like by the time we turned at old First Congregational. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He fastidiously wiped his fingers on the napkin and laid it on his right arm, folding it neatly with his left. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His finger marks the last page read and on his face are the wonder and will to understand after the book is closed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch her cheek, sliding my fingers into her hair. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, they’ll have to go,” said Fudge, running his fingers distractedly through his hair. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Helmuth's fingers fly over the keys, and by midnight he has a stack of new leaflets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when my fingers felt like molten lead and my arm muscles were shaking from exhaustion, we hauled ourselves over the top of the difF and collapsed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and open up my fingers, letting my hand cut through the wind. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the hair on my head was no more than a finger’s length all over. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the corner of my eye, I watched him draw a match from his brass vesta case and light it with an unassuming flick of his fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Riccio wrinkled his nose and pushed a finger into his mouth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was just in time to wave and put his finger to his lips, and she slowed, realizing that he was aware Sir Charles had returned. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deedee raised her scarred arm and squeezed his middle finger, held on to it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Humbug shuddered down to his shoes, and Milo felt the tips of his fingers suddenly grow cold. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he heard the second click, his fingers seemed to plug them on their own accord. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at the cards, and then at the flame of the match burning with an unwavering clarity between his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There is an almost unbearable pain needling my fingers as a result of these overabundant scribblings. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had picked up the sliced-off fingers and was holding them like a bouquet of bloody asparagus. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stick flashed out, and cracked against his fingers, sending his own stick clattering to the floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pencil wrote, “Thank you,” and fell from her fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Donatelli's fingers dug into one arm and Bud's into the other. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their heads were circlets, gold chains were about their waists, and on their fingers were many rings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She traces the first line with her index finger. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“For this you need your fingers,” he said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In flute class on Friday, I watch Deb and try to follow her fingers and look at the notes at the same time. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She looked up from her lap and her twisted fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doc sitting cross-legged on the table smiled and tapped his fingers gently on his knee. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head and holds up one finger. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia dug her fingers into the leather casing and ripped it away. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She went over to one of the registers, which was actually a computer, and typed something on the screen with her finger. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How many fingers do you see ?” asked the leader, holding up one. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass sat very still, watching him, her cigarette burning low between her fingers. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I shivered at the recollection of his killer’s fingers stroking my throat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The stranger drew back his left fist to punch Mr. Flux, and a silver band on his ring finger gleamed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nan cleared her throat, and instead of looking up, the woman raised her index finger and turned the page. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Ash had been fingering the stem of her goblet, looking at its fine workmanship, when Kaisa asked, “Will you come to the ball?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia thrust the brush back into the paint and crossed her fingers, one over the other. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Heather twirls her hair, up and down, through each finger, and up and down again. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Just as my fingers closed around the braided leather cord, Grigori landed atop me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sinjin raised three fingers on his right hand like a scout’s pledge. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth, let his finger slide in, sucking it clean. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollister tapped a finger to the tip of his nose, contemplating, then turned and with his swaying shuffle led them deeper into the book maze. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Again, he puts his finger to his lips. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I gave him the finger, took a deep breath, and pushed open the locker room door to join my team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Min would squeeze handfuls of the purified clay, or rub it between his fingers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His brow was crisscrossed with wrinkles, his dark eyes brooded and burned with some kind of invisible suffering, and the fingers of his right hand played aimlessly with a long, gray earlock. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But he scarcely heard Hermione: He had pulled out his Invisibility Cloak and was running it through his fingers, the cloth supple as water, light as air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He ran a finger down her arm and reveled in the way goose bumps sprouted on her skin. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On her lap was a book, her fingers resting on the page. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I put my hands on the hood, my fingers digging into the metal almost as though I was going to lift the car and shake the answer out of it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When the tape finished playing, he sat up and made a whirling motion with his finger. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had felt loved, love pouring from their fingers when the adults tucked red money in our pockets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry ran his fingers over the scar again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the trailer Mrs. Moss drummed her fingers on the counter as she contemplated my punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The line moved past the water fonts where we wet our fingers and genuflected as we made the sign of the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if you try to catch all of it with wide hands and fingers spread apart—it will slip through. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Jermaine turned to me and this time stuck his finger in my face. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He harangued the others in a braying voice and punctuated his statements by poking them in the chest with a finger. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I'm licking the last of the chili off my fingers, I hear a door close somewhere in the house and, moments later, footsteps rushing toward our room. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Next, I slipped my finger into the opening of the letter from Justin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When he was finished he sucked his fingers noisily, and threw the bones to his ugly spotted dog. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dad, who knew that Mother’s favorite poet was Browning and suspected where the Robert came from, nevertheless bunched the fingers of his right hand, kissed their tips, and threw his hand into the air. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I waited till Zach inserted himself into our awkward conversation before sneaking inside to thaw my fingers beneath running water. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Always use your ten fingers, which in her parlance meant that you should be the best little cook and housekeeper who ever lived. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Hector Bowen takes his daughter’s face in his gloved hand, scrutinizing her expression for a moment before releasing her, his fingers leaving long red marks across her cheeks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her fingers brushed against a book, and when she pulled it out she saw the faded fabric cover of her mother’s herbal. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had soft, sweet skin, and tiny fingers and dimpled knuckles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He has pot and he’s so much more laid back than you; you spent the last year studying for this test; he didn’t lift a finger for it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Stanley sifted his fingers through the fresh piles of dirt, in case he had missed anything. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Still holding her cigarette between her first two fingers, she leaned forward and picked up her wineglass in her cigarette-holding hand. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers moved quickly as she stitched the pieces together. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He hefted up the jug in the crook of his finger. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I run my finger under cold water in our bathroom. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He puts his hand on the rock next to him, his fingers lining up with mine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And I put my finger in my mouth. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He had only just touched it when all of the hair on his head seemed to stand on end, and a burst of light flashed under his fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As I raked bits of hay from my hair with my fingers and bit into a loaf of inedible bread, the Gypsies and their children watched us with mournful faces. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The pain in her hands was abated, and it seemed to her that her fingers were straighter, the knuckles not so swollen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With nostalgia he glanced down at the wedding ring on his fifth finger that had once been hers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“This is my fault,” she said, running her fingers across his scars. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She dug her fingers into the ground, clinging to the earth where her mother lay buried. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants only to go home, to stand in their four-room flat and hear the chestnut tree rustle outside her window; hear the cheese seller raise his awning; feel her father’s fingers close around hers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She fingered the hem of the red dress, then lifted a shoe in either hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was burning with shame and fury, and she could still feel his fingers as if they had left marks on her skin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He drummed his large fingers on the suitcase, just beside the three small dimples. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the tough woman seized her hand and bent her fingers around the handle of the cup. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

So I drew a blobby version of me, a fraction of my real size, fingers and toes accounted for, stones in my belly, cute earrings, ponytail. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A muscle twitched unpleasantly at the corner of Snape’s thin mouth every time he looked at Harry, and he was constantly flexing his fingers, as though itching to place them around Harry’s throat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As I draw my finger through the gooey cream, I think about the words “learning differences.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sami shouts, as he beats his fingers on his desk. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As a doctor, with his finger against a pulse, is able to feel the heart rate, when I am up there speaking, I can feel the reaction to what I am saying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was shaking from my feet to my fingers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Susan said, “Have you finished?” and came in to run her fingers over the shiny surface of the chairs and tables. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their hands had only three fingers and a thumb, with sharp black claws instead of nails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I sit at the window, drinking my coffee, biting my fingers, looking down the five stories. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wait until they are sucking the grease from their fingers to ask, “So, what’s your story?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man grasped the bowl in his shriveled, knotty fingers, muttering, uttering little grunts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I looked him straight on, with my face all serious, and I may have even jabbed a finger in his direction, but he wasn’t having any of my nonsense, Stan being Stan and all. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She wears a different ring on each finger—even her thumbs—and about fifty gold bangle bracelets on her arms; they rattle as she plays. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The egg and hot sauce has made it glow like yellow, orange, and red finger paint. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I reach my hands over the tray and quickly brush the bits of cookie from my palm and fingers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The good part was, with so little traffic there'd be no one to point the finger and say which way they'd gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He puts a hand on my shoulder, then runs his fingers under my throat, applying just the slightest pressure. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shay sat next to her, touching Tally’s cheek with one finger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The pounding on the window stops, but a screeching sound replaces it, and the fists turn into hands with bent fingers, scratching at the glass, fighting to get in. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Grandpa bent down to put a finger in the cage, and Goldilocks instantly pecked at it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

With our jeans unfastened, Mabel's fingers grazing the elastic of my underwear, she said, "If we regret this tomorrow, we can blame it on the whiskey." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then I disable my browser’s history, and type in the URL with trembling fingers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“How did you...I mean...you and Jessa...how did you…” Ivy swallowed hard, and her fingers felt sweaty on her cards. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I picked it up and spun it on my finger. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She placed her finger in the center of it, and the top opened like the petals of a flower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was pointing his finger at me, speaking of Hitler. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Illuminating the bags of food, the sack of silver and tableware, the thick wool blankets of the North, the gold glittering on the drowned girl’s fingers, shining like stars in the crackle of the campfire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped our fingers together and smiled at me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I felt his body dimly, rushing past my clumsy fingers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The lesson book is about half finger exercises. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She opened the cage door, and picked out the sleeping dormouse with bony fingers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Peach looked through his fingers and there was Dismay, wagging his tail and panting at him. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding the unlit cigarette between his fingers, flicking at it as if to get rid of the ash. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When she tried to break it apart, it was actually squishy and left a big smudge of brown on her finger. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Whole family?” he said, pressing my fingers with his moist palm. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sara puts a finger to her cheek, as if she has to give this serious thought. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then he hooked his finger and yanked it down, and all the tools ripped off the walls and shot straight for the house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t put her finger on it yet, but it was there. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He listens very intently, with his elbows on the table, his hands together, and his fingers entwined beneath his chin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A crown of finger bones circled his greasy black hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, sir,” said Mr. Ketch, and he patted his mustache with one gloved finger, looked up the hill and down again, and whistled through his teeth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Or do you want to waste the rest of your life here?” and with bony fingers he indicated the graveyard and the night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The border guards wore silver gloves and moved the game pieces by waving their fingers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Favonius spun the hoop on his finger, and Jason’s body dissolved into air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nana kept knitting in the passenger seat, and Granddad tapped a finger on the steering wheel, humming along to a song only he could hear. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her limbs were so delicate he was afraid his fingers would break them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s obvious she has a thing for you,” he said, and began counting on his fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had a large amber ring on her middle finger. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When her finger brushed the clay, a strange thought burst into Aru’s head. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brightbill tried to squirm away, but thick fingers locked around him like a cage. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The doctors probed Lincoln’s bullet wound with their bare, dirty fingers, sticking their pinkies inside Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baby would wail, raising the offending arm or leg, and Olanna would stick a finger in her mouth and run it over Baby’s injury. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Catelyn clenched her hands, feeling the tightness in her scarred fingers where the assassin's steel had cut to the bone as she fought to save her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hold up your finger in front of you, close your left eye, and note where your finger appears to be against the background. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She twisted the ring around and around her finger, glancing towards the car at the bottom of the drive. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers felt numb and inflexible, frozen around the shard as though my skin was just a glove for the dybbuk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“This the girl?” he asks, pointing a sausagey finger at me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He pops all the fingers on his right hand and then his left. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“No,” she said, and noticed blood seeping between his gloved fingers on his side. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers over the brass body of the machine, feeling the vibrating hum of the gears working, and the indentations of the numbers that will soon fill with light to reveal my levels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers across the tray table, feeling the coolness. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the outside Daniel has brown skin, brown hair, hazel eyes, long fingers, bitten-down fingernails, and he’s very short, and strong. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lender the opening fingers of the dawn; Alkinoos, the sacred prince, arose, and then arose Odysseus, raider of cities. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twig, wait,” I said again, gripping the phone so tightly that my fingers started going numb. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He peeks at the TV through his fingers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She rubs the sheet between her fingers as if it were an expensive piece of silk. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The other man slid two fingers across his mouth. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

On top of the pyre, Harison’s body lay with a single red feather between his stiff fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Tiara’s fingers tried to grab hold of an invisible ladder. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She looks like she’s thinking hard, holding her fingers to her forehead. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Or the pain medication for her finger made her brain wibbly. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the full, silver moon with two bent fingers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Gripping my pen with sweaty fingers, I attempted writing a few words, just to make sure I didn’t forget anything. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Look yonder,” said Merlyn, and both of them looked in the direction of his outstretched finger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She pinched the runt petal between the nails of her thumb and finger and plucked it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kanue caught a finger to the eye and crumpled to the ground, only to rise moments later in anger. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She shrugged her delicate shoulders, and allowed a thin smile to cross her little face as she tamped out a cigarette with long fingers. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He searched the pockets of his trousers with nervous fingers and found the knife. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he held up his right hand and extended his finger toward the steering wheel; kind of like the way a kid might pretend to be holding a gun. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benedict signaled Number Two, whose fingers flew over the computer keyboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Put a ribbon round your hair and be Alice-in-Wonderland,” said Maxim lightly; “you look like it now, with your finger in your mouth.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of them wiggled his fingers as people began to vote on who won, which consisted of them shouting out either “Vinnie!” or “Lola!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tiny Tim, on a shelf nearby, heard me and crawled out of his newspaper nest, so I let him sniff my finger, then I gave him a few sunflower seeds. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her brother took her by the arm as Illyrio waddled over to the khal, his fingers squeezing so hard that they hurt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Keeping my head down, I ran my finger over the initials Georgie had carved into the tabletop. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Miranda said, taking a step closer to Naomi and plucking the sleeve of Gilbert’s jacket between index finger and thumb. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the burning in my middle finger from the hand sanitizer I’d applied just before leaving, and so I was pressing the Band-Aid into my middle finger, simultaneously worsening and relieving the pain. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was only one thing he could do: trembling he pulled out the Ring upon its chain and quickly slipped it on his finger, even as Boromir sprang at him again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know it was a stupid thing to do, but anything’s better than allowing those fingers to hurt somebody else. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything, because there’s no reason to talk to people who are just waiting to pounce on your flaws and put their fingers in the holes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A tall person, holding her hand so tightly that her finger bones hurt when they climbed the boulders to the cliffs, side by side. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He spoke with his mouth full, licking his greasy fingers when he was done and then tweezing a handkerchief out of his back pocket to wipe himself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kate put her elbows on her knees and cupped her hands under her chin so that her fingers covered her pointed ears. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt something hard at the corners of his lips and touched it with his fingers; it was frozen saliva. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And now a girl named Lorelei Lumley was writing me notes about how she’d love to run her fingers through my hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down and began to play with his mother’s hair, attempting with awkward fingers to braid it. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jam felt her palm twinge in memory, and she curled her fingers around the bandage sticking to her skin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She stretched her fingers toward mine, and we held hands as the plane rose above the clouds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He got down on his knees and laced his fingers behind his head. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He does a fancy turn on his heel, aims two pointer fingers at us says, I'll catch up with all of you later. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hank, a retired professor of classical archaeology, always brings a small volume of Greek poetry to read, his long sun-spotted fingers curling over the tops of the pages. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She lunged for me and touched my cheeks with her chubby fingers, like it was just any other day. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She could undo locks with a twitch of her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Fighting!" she said, stabbing her index finger into his chest. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Lark whispers, twirling her finger at the hem of her shirt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I curl my fingers to make a cradle for the baby, my other hand an awning. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a powerful grip for such delicate- looking fingers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the cool, clean hands bending his fingers, twisting his thumb until he gritted his teeth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out my hand to touch the wall and tasted my fingers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even tell how many fingers he had. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He scratched his chest, and his fingers made a soft rustling sound on his cotton shirt. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mateo is about to protest, but I hold up my finger, shutting that down real fast. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I try to hook my finger around the fabric, but it doesn’t come loose. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” he said coldly, reaching for a cigarette with his long, nicotine-stained fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had held it between his fingers for as long as thirty seconds. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I hold my hands above me, my fingers fanning out in a delicate performance, my palms coming together, warm and smooth. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She held the thin cup with her bandaged fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dill climbed out the window and shut it behind him, leaving himself enough space to get his fingers under it and open it again when he returned. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I’d better dash down to the shops and get some fish fingers or something,” said her mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The building cast a warm yellow glow on the snow, a glow that sent fingers of light into the dark classrooms of King. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the guards was shaking his finger at Sadge and saying something in a voice almost loud enough for Lina to hear. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I reach down, tug a flower from my mom’s flower bed, and twist it around in my fingers until it’s limp in my hands. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her head turned left and right a hundred times a second and her index finger moved from side to side as fast as a windshield wiper on a rainy day. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure of his hard and tight little fingers was still in Sula’s palms as she stood looking at the closed place in the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Schiem laid his finger alongside his nose and then pointed to her, smiling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She just lay there, stretched across the car, her fingers struggling for a grip on steel. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would a mere thornbush have felt quite so much like clutching fingers? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

After a few moments the sheriff closed his eyes and laced his fingers together. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reek had tried to bite his own ring finger off once, to stop it hurting after they had stripped the skin from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to protest that I wasn’t tired and I’d never made up a haiku in my life, but Apollo snapped his fingers, and the next thing I knew I was closing my eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Except for a funny-shaped finger and that evil birthmark, she was free of any normal signs of vulnerability. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I do not hear his fingers strike a match against the side of the box. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the locket from my coat and dangle it over my middle fingers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deputy standing by the door made a grunting noise and held up five chubby fingers, which was the number of minutes left before he took my father back to the cell. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

With furious, disinterested fingers, Henry reached beneath the neck of her dress, drew out the offending appurtenances, and flung them as far as he could into the night. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She clasped her free hand around mine, sandwiching my fist between her small but strong fingers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her outstretched fingers find an old shaving bowl, an umbrella stand, and a crate full of who knows what. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She moved in jerky birdlike twitches, her coffee-brown eyes darting restlessly, her fingers clawing at her plumage, her earlobes, her shaggy red hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I plucked the pendant up and held it between my thumb and index finger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Don Little dropped out of school and left town shortly after, and no one in Bellmont has ever laid a finger on Erin or me since. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tripp held on to the door frame with one hand, and the other he held high, his fingers spread out as if he were blessing them all. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I drummed my fingers on the counter, impatient for a cigarette, wondering if anyone had ever told him something could be done about those pimples on his neck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo fingered the top of his beer and watched Toby until Jimmy yelled his name from outside. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I slid on my belly, my arms stretched out, my fingers reaching. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He kept fingering the two coins and moving them around in a circle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I forget to be careful—my finger slides along the blade. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The window was open enough for me to wedge my fingers underneath and pull it up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Now he held one in his hands, and it was only making his bruised fingers hurt more. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each man can respond only when the finger of bravery curls and beckons him forth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hank forced his fingers through his wiry hair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I nestle in his arms, in the nooks of his knees, his body bowed around mine, his breath on my neck, fingers tracing my outline. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Different smells kept luring Victor into the kitchen, but every time he tried to sneak a taste he got his fingers rapped with a wooden spoon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sam picks Misty up, running her fingers through her body of black fur. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He put his finger to his lips so our gasps wouldn’t be audible. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said the witch, placing a long finger on her cheek. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Blood pooled through the cloth, between her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He considered holding up one finger for permission to go to the outhouse and, once outside, running home to put the pony in. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like Mrs. Larkin wasn’t going to make it after all, but then the door burst open and Mrs. Larkin came in, wagging her finger. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s crying now, the shameless abandoned weeping of a child; her fingers clutch my sleeve. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was far, far more homesick for you two, she wrote on the palm of it, and Meggie closed her fingers over the words as if to hold them fast. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She walks past me and perches on the table, her fingers curled around the edge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ewell was nodding again, pointing at Early, wagging a bony finger. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skin would be shined with Vaseline, while the forgotten bits—between the fingers or at the elbows—turned a dull ash. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She dipped her finger into the cup, studying the purple liquid as it dripped off her nail. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I know about frostbite: your fingers and toes fall off, as punishment for drink. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There he spied a mullet no larger than a man’s index finger, flipping and splashing to protest its captivity. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I promise—with my invisible fingers crossed, of course. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care whose son he is. I won’t go belly-up like some timid pup. If he’s fool enough to take a poke at me, I’ll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She put her hands over her mouth and shook with it, the only sound was a low huffing that escaped through her fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she narrowed her eyes and snapped her fingers at his face, it dawned on him that the woman might be crazy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She forms her hands into a finger tiara and pretends to place it on her head and says, “What they don’t know will never hurt them, right?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She put her fingers to her forehead and said, “I don’t know. I honestly don’t know.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me where it is and I’ll get it,” I growl, poking my finger into Earl’s chest. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he tramped across to the bathroom to run his finger under the tap. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You worked quietly, your fingers sifting through the beads, searching for another that matched. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Everywhere in Annapolis fingers of water would appear at the ends of streets or around corners, unexpectedly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honey and grease ran over his fingers and dripped down into his beard as he nibbled at the tender meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seven had her tongue out on one side, holding up two fingers like she’d seen humdrums do in a textbook once, and Thorn smiled wide. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As we walk, I absently run a hand along one of the walls, watching as the colors streak behind my fingers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Along with the others Fadi took out a sheet of paper with shaking fingers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Odin, father of the gods, held on to his staff with knobby, arthritic fingers, blue-veined and twisted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As we bump along, I hang on to the wooden bench with my mittened fingers so I don’t fall onto the floor when we hit a rough patch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“That girl—” She shakes her knobby finger at me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You don’t fight against the handcuffs. You push your fingers in, not out. That loosens the braid.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was sucking peacefully on one of Mama’s fingers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She was so little. I can still feel her fingers sliding across my biceps, and then letting go. I never even turned to look back.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” the grandmother pleads, her bony fingers dragging the snot from her nose onto her cheeks, “please give me some medicine. It hurts very much.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I molded my fufu into small balls with my fingers, dipped it in the soup, making sure to scoop up fish chunks, and then brought it to my mouth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize he's stepped closer to me until I feel his fingers trail along the top of my shoulder. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She sends strong air across the silver hole, rippling her fingers up and down the keys like lightning. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, we passed around a single bowl and each boy dipped into the food with his fingers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the captain gently drew it from her fingers and as he took it down the hall, she felt its pull on her growing weaker and weaker, until she could barely feel it at all. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He twirled the basketball on the tip of his index finger. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I had my fingers crossed,” Lloyd said haughtily. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she asked Kaori where the crystals came from, Kaori put her finger to her lips and said, “The keeper of secrets may ask no questions.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. Dalton, her white eyes held wide and stony, her hands lifted sensitively upward toward her lips, the fingers long and white and wide apart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chess pressed the button hidden at the back of the bookcase—just with his finger this time, not his shoe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He held it a moment, casually enough, between thumb and finger, as if deciding whether or not to give it to me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was not an organ of his body that had not been drugged and derogated, dusted and dredged, fingered and photographed, removed, plundered and replaced. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The kids in Mama’s class giggle and look at their phones, their bored fingers swiping the screens. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His father slid his fingers under the necklace and gave it a yank so hard it was like to take Theon's head off, had the chain not snapped first. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The white fingers closed around the black key.... Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She wrapped him in blankets, ran her finger around the crevices and sides of the lard can and stumbled to the outhouse with him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja looked down, too, as if he were just then noticing the gnarled finger, deformed like a dried stick. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not long before his departure, the doctor came and placed his familiar small dry hand on Briony’s forehead, fingered her pulse and was satisfied. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“From our fingers,” Fayge said suddenly, the first time she had spoken in days. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, he turned in my direction, pointed his finger at me, and went on attacking me without my ever really understanding why. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Only when he spotted Meggie did a ball escape his fingers and roll at her feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her fingers stopped for the first time, as she retorted rather angrily, “What have I told you? Do you still think, in spite of it, that I do not mean what I say?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie's mother came up to him and mimed writing with her finger in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sophia is peering into two flower terrariums, tapping her fingers against the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I think of nothing except passing the buckets of water, until my fingers are blistered and my arms ache. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers across the smooth wood of the grand piano in the music room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I dig my fingers in the pocket and pull out a torn scrap of brown paper. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down at a table, facing the cutting machine, and fitted his diamond knife into it, taking extreme care not to let his fingers touch the edge of the knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jerk back, but she holds on tight, her fingers lacing through mine. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Pri rushes to me and puts her finger in my face. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He let the pages slip past his fingers to the fly leaf where was written with a broad carpenter’s pencil, “Sam’l Hamilton.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he turns his hand upside down so that the bill sticks to his fingers even as they’re pointed downward, seeming to defy the pull of gravity for it to drop to the ground. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hollis and Sonny were sprawled on the long, sagging couch, snapping their fingers to a scratchy record. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept twisting the ends of her soft yellow headscarf around her fingers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She could hear the Special’s fingers and feet scrabbling for purchase. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He turned away from her contemptuously and began clicking his fingers to the child. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet smiled his ragged smile, grumbled, jerked a finger over his shoulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Work it out on your fingers!’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, she reached into her shoulder bag, fingers wrapping around the neck of the old water gourd. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers strayed to the winding key on its bottom, but glancing at the sleeping Tuck, she shook her head, gave the little box a pat, and dropped it into her pocket. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push her third finger down on her left hand. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After I'm done, I stand at the cracked sink and use my fingers to rub tooth powder on my teeth. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Biter sat on top of one of the dead men, holding a limp hand as he gnawed at the fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The older men called to Bud and Dr. Corey, who waved or shouted back, but Donatelli kept his fingers digging into Alfred's arm. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran a finger along the edge of the desk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her left hand disappeared into the pocket of her skirt, and she ran her finger in rapid circles around the birds on her ring. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Teenagers stood on the steps and watched, some lighting cigarettes, others slipping fingers behind their sunglasses to wipe hidden tears. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I glanced sideways at the beautiful boy, who was looking at his tray now, picking a bagel to pieces with long, pale fingers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You know which animal in the ocean is a real fighter? And your mom’s favorite, Delsie?” he says, pointing at the ring on my finger. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Shoji wedges his index finger against the pages like a bookmark and presses the book against his chest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I put the note in my pocket, curling and uncurling my fingers around it for the rest of the period. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The little girl with the dolly put her finger to her lips and nodded. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He takes her by the hand, her small fingers hanging limp within his. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Any boy with grubby fingers can flail about. Only you can open it. You are Anansesem—act like it.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His fingers brush my elbow, and I suck in a breath. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I followed the jumping light into the garden, where dry stalks pointed to the skies like scrawny fingers, and rotted, wormy vegetables sank into the cracks of the parched soil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Like . . . one bee is a finger? Two bees are his eyes?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She straightened up and reached out to touch the jewels around Ash’s neck, her fingers warm against her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Bilbo Baggins, even while he was making his speech, he had been fingering the golden ring in his pocket: his magic ring that he had kept secret for so many years. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He twirled the wand between his long fingers like a baton and it emitted a number of pink and gold sparks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When they arrive, Mrs. Morehouse looks to Jason’s finger stabbing his communication book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With fumbling fingers he got it into the lock and pushed the door open. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We Lindy-Hop until the blues leak out of our fingers, until the music ends and shades of sunrise streak the sky. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In pain he gripped his temples, ran fingers through his hair, turned away from her, toward her, paced across the room and back, stopped at a window, lowered his voice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you’re still little,” her mom said, reaching for Bridge with her fingers wiggling. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pointing with his finger, he said in a loud voice, “Look, there!” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I ran a finger over my own upper lip. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my finger to the next plate and send it shattering to the floor as well. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

For a while his fingers were thoughtful over the bronze paper-weight that was the only ornament on his desk. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I glanced back up and shrugged, bread between my fingers like a pinch of cotton. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Jay asked, mashing his fingers into the soft beeswax Mama used to seal her jars. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I heard more beeping and wondered if his finger was getting tired. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fish nibbled bread from Matt’s fingers, and coyotes darted forward to gobble down chunks of his sandwiches. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached into my pocket and wrapped my fingers around the stone. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now she was going to meet the fingers that knotted the thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ella plucked a feather from her wings and turned it in her fingers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The cloth was so smooth that it seemed to run through her fingers like water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He reached forward and touched its sleeve, rubbing the fabric between his fingers for a moment. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He raised a finger, took a long sip of the water that Mariam had placed in front of him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now, as she talked, the fingers of one hand played over its yarn, as if inspecting her own workmanship. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minty smell of his soap, the warmth of his arms, how when our fingers intertwine, the brown of my skin and the brown of his are nearly a perfect match. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He called a cicada to his finger and said, “Welcome, Sister Cicada. Praise God with your joyful music.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz flexed his fingers, but that was all he could do. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He poked my temple with his index finger as he got up to get himself a Diet Coke. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Louvenia work all day for Miss Lou Anne and then come home ever afternoon and take Robert to blind school so he can learn to read with his fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Felicia, Mr. Alacran’s wife, was a frail woman with long, nervous fingers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She removed her coat, tugging at the sleeves with reluctant fat gloved fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brian plucked some of them loose, rolled them in his fingers. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped the others were safe, but she had to put all that out of her head and concentrate on the scribbled names flying beneath her fingers. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Three delicate little fingers protruded from the towel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He paused a sec, picked up a stick and spun it around in his fingers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The pig proposition was full of holes, and Will was able to put his finger in the holes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His finger traced the red Thruway markings down to Bridgeport. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reach fingers around the bag again and don’t you know it, something bites me—and I mean with teeth. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But, when he was tying the satchel up again, he noticed a wart on the back of his middle finger. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I ran my finger down the long, winding sartorius muscle, which looped around the thigh. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If it's a song I like, I sing loud until my sister shushes me with a finger to her mouth. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Afraid to wake her and have her freak out, my dad put a finger up to his lips, mouthed, Be quiet, and walked lightly to the kitchen sink. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

April drummed her fingers on the countertop and thought for a second. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Connor surveys me with his finger to his lip like he now has to send all of his mosh pit extras home. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The little girl dug in her nose with a finger. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before your fingers could close over them, he jerked them away. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’d been shooting so long, his fingers were starting to lose their feeling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I looked at the lemonade bottle as I spoke, tracing the circle of the opening with my pinkie finger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Glancing over her shoulder at me, she slowly walked two fingers of her right hand up and down the keyboard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Only his hand moved down by his side; his fingers flexed, then tightened. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He burrowed his hands into his pockets for warmth, and his fingers closed about the gold coin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She gives me the wait finger, and I lean up against the back of the car until she’s done. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she used those same fingers to push me in my chest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it’s somewhere between pride and hope. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The carpenter held the name between his thick tarry fingers and murmured, “You miss a man so much.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Fulton acts like she doesn’t remember because she starts counting on her fingers. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Watch. Watch how she laughs when I snap my fingers. There. See? Did you see?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But her finger is already over the trigger. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could not bend the last two fingers on her left hand, and the others would never again be dexterous. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even when we walked down the halls, he’d run his fingers lightly against the walls. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You hold your fingers and wrist stiff. All the movement comes from your arm. You begin by rotating the flesh on your arm so that your pen will form slanting circles.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran my finger around my initials again. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

David asks as I pry his fingers off the door handle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gnarled hands touched the raised pink flesh and followed the map of it with one finger. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I jammed my fingers in beside hers, and together we lifted a small section, revealing a hole about the width of my shoulders: the priest hole. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She could wrap them around her fingers, and by the time she was done, she had extra-credit points without even having to do the work. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He worked his fingers on the pup’s limp ear. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The touch of those small fingers on his face—tracing the furrows and ridges of the scars—made Antairis heart constrict, just a little. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mom tapped her fingers on the side of a steaming mug. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I hold up a finger to silence her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He slides his hands down my arms and then squeezes my hips, his fingers sliding over the skin just above my belt, and I shiver. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I smell of you,” he said, sniffing at his fingers and grinning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I bled so much—you wouldn’t think that much blood could come out of a finger. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers around the edge, searching for a place where the powerjack could get purchase. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He kept one hand on the cloth and with the other dribbled more of the liquid between his fingers into its folds, delighting in the sensation of frost where the chloroform coated his fingers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The driver turns down the street, wagging his finger. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He daintily sewed their hoods from white sacks of flour but could barely move his fingers after their visit—his fists swelled for two days from beating the man’s face in. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then one man didn’t jump back in on time, and as the train started, he tried to catch it, his fingers clutching at the window. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Virginia blows bubbles and grasps my finger even tighter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ivy gave June a small smile back, but something nudged at her, like a finger poking her in the shoulder over and over again. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He crooks his finger, and then he and Destiny go to dance, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His left hand had three fingers, his right four. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth got Mama’s nimble fingers but Papa’s large feet. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Harry, give me the locket! Come on,” she said impatiently, clicking her fingers at him when he did not react, “the Horcrux, Harry, you’re still wearing it!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He lifted it to the level of the door and the draft sucked it from his fingers; he watched it fly into the red trembling heat, smoke, turn black, blaze, then vanish. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She understands the fear for his people that makes a coward of him, so that, that night when I attacked her, he would not lift a finger to preserve her. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Long fingers," she says, noticing my stare, "better for making munitions than playing Mozart, I guess. Oh, but it is good to see you, Gerta. You look well." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The way he goes on you would think we had a grand cellar in this half-built house in the middle of nowhere,” Kainene muttered, combing her wig with her fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It could talk, but only in Portuguese, and it bit anyone who stuck his fingers through the bars. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iaided in the pounding of boiled clothes; I translated dull tags; I daily ran my fingers through Mr. Sharpe’s hair, greasing it and feeding his graying queue into a bag. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel reached down and curled his strong fingers into the snow leopard’s fur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Two ears, three toes, and the little finger off my left hand. I got off light. We found my brother frozen at his watch, with a smile on his face." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He pursed his lips and tented his fingers in front of him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I woke him by touching his arm with one finger, softly at first, then harder and harder till I was jabbing into his flesh, marveling at how hard it was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof buckled and three huge metal fingers tore through the skin of the car like a fork through an eggshell, trailing dust and sunlight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers across glass pots, opening and closing compacts as if I'm preparing, until Bree returns moments later. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I dig my fingers in the damp jar, retrieving two—one for me and one for Amber. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Have you been chewing on your fingers again, Reek?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I want these men drilled until they can cast loose their guns, run them out, and fire—” he snapped his fingers—“like that! Do you understand?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he moved his fingers, though, he wasn’t pulling threads. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, she almost declared the book so she could get double points, but—thinking of Babbage poaching her books—she pulled her finger back from the mouse right before she clicked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She placed the flesh in his mouth, her fingers streaking dark red over his lips, and she marked his cheeks as well with crimson slashes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember the blow behind the knees, the bodiless something rushing past him, the clawing fingers. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She unlocked her fingers and smoothed her skirt. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darius pushed his glasses up on his nose with trembling fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But what are you and Dad going to—” Her mother ran her fingers over the bone between them on the armrest. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I fight the urge to snap each of her flapping fingers in half, but I hold my tongue. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Beside me David steps close to the lights, his fingers flickering at his sides, fast as moth wings. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as there are ten finger and ten toe,” Ashima replies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He got me a stool so my mouth would be at the right height, and I stuck my fingers in the holes and moved the dial around. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I drummed my fingers against the keyboard, wondering what to say. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Shadow palmed it in his right hand, classic palm, then produced it from between his third and fourth fingers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He puts a finger to his lips and his other hand out to still me, but I flinch. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

With his index finger, he found the shutter release. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I love you,” David whispers, and runs his index finger across the necklace he gave me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Dad stuck his hand out of the window just as the song came on and said, “Feel that coolness. It feels like you’re running your fingers through silk.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his fingers slipped away, and he strode on ahead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of the time she’d been plugging a frayed lamp cord into the wall and her finger had landed on bare wire. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once you do, your fingers fumble and hit the wrong keys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, like, do you want to”—he made a gesture with two fingers like a pair of scissors—“go all the way?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute, Auggie,” he said, pointing his finger at me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Later that summer, when a far greater explosion would rock Durham, another reporter for the alternative Anvil, Elizabeth Tornquist, would put her finger squarely on this problem of white ignorance. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But before I could even get my fingers on the money, the cop had me knotted up in a submission hold, my arms twisted behind me, pain searing up to my shoulders. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature looked up and stretched its fingers, revealing enormous brown eyes and a nose the exact size and shape of a large tomato. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I'm quiet, letting his strong fingers work on the knots of muscle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Smithers pulled out the string, holding it between a pudgy finger and thumb. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even my own hair is longing for her thick fingers in my scalp—the way she would part and grease and braid and hum and tell sad or funny stories. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You can’t move your fingers at all?” she asked, as if she might not have heard right the first time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was giddy from staring down at the terrace, and my fingers ached from holding to the ledge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dari held a finger up for silence, trying not to laugh, and I could tell he felt as tom as I did. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So I breathe sweet peace to them — not with my lips, but through my fingers — and they hear me, not with their ears but through their skins. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, the dear little things,” she whispered, reaching one reverent finger. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He switched off the light, turned toward the wall and his fingers felt over the cold floor for the brick. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. V’s fingers fly as she keeps adding words for me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I lay my hand on her head and under the pretext of lifting her eyelid a little, I pressed my finger against the bruise on her temple, hard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Blake handed some papers to Papa and pointed at some parts with his finger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers seemed to hammer the keyboard of their own will. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He gestures with his index finger for me to come closer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Seeing their fingers coming toward me I rolled away as a fumbled football rolls off the receiver's fingertips, back into the coals. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The armor had been made of silver and gold, the knights of jade and beryl and onyx and tourmaline, of amber and opal and amethyst, each as tall'as her little finger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The stout woman slid her eyes down the nurse’s finger and looked at the child she was pointing to. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you so disgrace yourself in these rags?” she said, fingering the dress in disbelief before dropping it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I checked the mirror to see if I could get out, but Papa pointed his finger at me and said, “Stay put.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The woman said gracias, holding the flyer between her finger and the plate. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He identifies them for me with a pointed finger: Lakshmi; Shakti, the mother goddess, in the form of Parvati; and Krishna, this time as a playful baby crawling on all fours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fingers of his right hand were nervously tapping his knee. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Max just thinks, fingering his plank of wood. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So my mom was at a spin class with her ‘girls,’ he said, holding up quotation fingers. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As one, the Weasley boys and Harry stuffed their fingers into their ears, but Hermione, who hadn’t bothered, was soon tugging on Harry’s arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They eagerly scoop them up, frozen fingers struggling with the strings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The mouse struggled, biting at Cole’s fingers with razor-sharp teeth, its tiny feet clawing frantically to escape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Look here, pal,” he says, reaching up to jab his finger into my chest. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She was with a very small boy, unmistakably her brother, whose cap she removed by lifting it off his head with two fingers, as if it were a laboratory specimen. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We hooked our fingers through the grates to keep from being washed into the sea. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She fumbled the soap packet open, squishing it between her fingers, across her skin, and into her hair. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mam turns toward the dead ashes in the fire and sucks at the last bit of goodness in the Woodbine butt caught between the brown thumb and the burnt middle finger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I snapped the ball to Marcus, who put two fingers in the air to call a play. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In his sleep, his fingers tug his shirt ruffles loose. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Peewee put his hand on mine, moved my fingers off the trigger. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wisps of smoke rose from between his fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She drew her fingers along the carved dragon, unable to believe the presence of a dragon on the stone was a coincidence. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Benerro jabbed a finger at the moon, made a fist, spread his hands wide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He reached for his mother’s hand and felt her fingers tighten around his. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Lydia had her fingers crossed to get in. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his temples with the fingers on his right hand. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Taylor clicked her fingers like castanets and the others followed till it sounded like Cinco de Mayo night at the senior home. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ben saw his father stabbing the air with his fingers, saw his lips move and his face grimace as someone responded to his interrogation improperly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plugs her finger against her ear and speaks into the phone. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Outside, the crack was tiny, but farther in it grew as wide as her little finger. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers ground into my wrist bones as he struggled to pry my fingers off him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We gathered them with flying fingers and greedy hearts and bore them away in triumph, with a glow at least as bright as the sun on those shining scales. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even eats the squash, and then he licks my hands and fingers to get all the salt off, anyplace I’d touched a piece of chicken. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers cramped and my arms shook with exhaustion. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He gripped the edges of the tank again, digging his fingers into the snow and ice. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my fingers and squeezed, pretending like somehow if I squeezed hard enough, I could hold on to her forever. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He hooked his fingers around a magic thread and walked with it a few paces away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

His icy fingers touched inside of her and at once she spoke, not a word, but a sound that gave forth a meaning of horror accepted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders put some salad and fish on his plate and ate a small piece of the fish, holding it in his fingers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“These animals can actually feel heartbeats in the room. You really don’t need to wiggle your fingers.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He chuckled and chattered, cracking his long fingers, and pawing at Frodo’s knees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His long fingers danced with the rag against the metal. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her momentary glee at the adjustment is crushed by the pain that follows as the ring continues to close around her finger, the metal burning into her skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dr. Barnes stood up, too, and tapping on the newspaper sheet with his index finger, he asked, “Then you take full responsibility for this newspaper and whatever is printed in it?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Hard to say,” he said, letting the match fall, still burning, from his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I scooped it off the patch kit with my fingers and quickly spread it around the rim of the faceplate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She read the thank-yous, the little things they wrote, run her fingers over the ink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh Phoebe,” her mother said, pressing her fingers to her cheek, and when she made that familiar gesture, Phoebe looked as if her heart was splitting into a thousand pieces. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He had seen diem in a pet-shop window, and when he went inside and put his finger to their cage, one of them had come and licked it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Annie seemed equally surprised by her action, because she pulled her finger back so quickly, Luke swore he’d hurt her somehow. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I played with Miig’s pouch around my neck to keep me grounded, pulling on the mud-stained shoelace, fingering the contents through the hide. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His finger slid right through mine, and he paused to look around. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I took it, but my fingers trembled as I lifted the pen. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

So they put their fingers in their mouths to cool them, and watched Pa make more bullets. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially someone who can’t even be bothered to move his fingers along the frets. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Father laced his fingers together in front of his chest, then tapped his lips with his knuckles. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

You had to learn fast or your fingers would turn into fried sausages. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something in his voice sent icy fingers running up Bran’s back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He can take my fingers and my toes, he can put out my eyes and slice my ears off, but he cannot take my wits unless I let him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even before I could think my head turned around and I followed Dad’s finger. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He licked a finger and flipped to a blank page, uncapped his pen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I plucked off yellow al- lamanda flowers, still wet, and slid them over my fingers, as I had seen Chima do. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With shaking fingers, I pressed the last drop of liquid from the root and poured it back into the wine. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She stared at him and her fingers wandered delicately up and down the blade of the knife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse put her finger to her lips, then stood up and came to the door. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I walked around back of him and locked my fingers in front of his chest and held on to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poked at it with a finger, then began kneading it again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake is lying on the ground, clutching his stomach, blood oozing from between his fingers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She taps her fingers against her leg for a few seconds and then says, “I don’t think of it as stopping. More like I’m... waiting for my opportunity.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I took my time, running my fingers along the textured wall along the hallway, my eyes on Audrey’s bedroom doorway. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He seems arrogant, but I notice that his fingers tremble when he moves them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He held his finger above an inconspicuous silver button. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only by digging my fingers into his ribs that I’m able to make Otto let go. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I sit here?” says Will, tapping the table with his finger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The old woman licks her fingers and thumbs through the pages in the red folder. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Ron ran his finger around his plate and said, “I don’t know.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, I pried my black-gloved fingers back, trying to straighten out my warped hand. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her fingers through the dirt, and grabbed a handful of grass to wipe between her legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of the minute, he tested it with his finger. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He bent at the hip and stretched his spaghetti arms, his flattened dough hands, and his spider-leg fingers toward the camera. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I squeezed my fingers tighter around the revolver’s ivory handle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I dug through my Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag, wishing again for my old backpack, my fingers fumbling for the passport I had slid inside only a few minutes before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder if, right this minute, all those hundreds of miles away, Philbert’s fingers might be tingling. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explored the long fingers, the shapely nails, the work-hardened palm with its row of calluses, the smooth flesh under the wrist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Celia puts her hand out, letting the water from the fountain rush over her fingers as she presses against the cold stone below. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He studies the clay model beside the large rock, then closes his eyes and combs the surface with his fingers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ferocious fingers fastened themselves to her breasts, crushing her nipples. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, her fingers did not direct the threads, but followed where they led. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It leaped towards him; almost like a finger he felt it, searching for him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks and fingers were sticky as she forced down the last of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sunflowers floated in the apothecary bottles, their petals pale and bloated like drowned fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then they hooked little fingers and shook hands gravely with the mien of bankers at a convention. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I point at him and shoot a finger gun. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A funnel cloud snaked its way down toward the hill like an inky black finger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I can feel the heat of your fingers, which is the heat of your blood pulsing through your veins. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She walked over and very tenderly started fingering the long red leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers dug into my side, reaching in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath the table, I slid the old Band-Aid into my pocket and, without looking, pulled out a new one, unwrapped it, and then glanced down to apply it to my finger. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our pinkie fingers are maybe an inch apart, and it’s as if an invisible current runs between them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I could tell Dad was on to something, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I looked at Mong, who cracked his fingers and then hopped down from the bleachers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Becky put a finger to her lips and pulled me away from the window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open them, he’s holding a ring between his fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

High leather boots with steel shinguards gave some protection to his legs, and discs of black iron were sewn into the fingers of his gloves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He would squeeze his eyes shut, hold his breath, and rub the clay between his fingers, trying desperately to detect whatever was different about a fifth or sixth draining. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The thought is so disturbing to me that I lose my train of thought for a few seconds, and instead stand with my finger in the air in silence. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even with her broken ankle, she could manage to avoid a giant silk finger trap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I twisted my hair with my fingers, walked around the throw rug in circles, the way a dog will do before it settles onto the floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, she shoved Rivka away, untied the knot of the kerchief with trembling fingers, and retied it about her own head. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay my fingers against his neck, long enough to feel his pulse, which feels just like my own—racing and feverish. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No funny stuff,” he said to them, waggling a bony finger. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Theodora leaned forward, courteous, interested, making conversation with a guest, and Arthur basked; at the head of the table Mrs. Montague frowned and tapped her fingers impatiently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn is fingering through the trees and rooftops. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He stroked the red cover with a finger and then touched the pages inside. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said okay and put her chocolaty fingers on his elbow. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed it around to the lee side with my fingers. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the door closed and he heard footsteps on the stairs he would shut the book on his finger and lean forward, agitated and blinking. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Moss put his left hand on his leg, and Javier looped his fingers into Moss’s. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He measured the short strip on the map with his fingers. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She pulled me closer still, so I could lean my head on her shoulder, and ran her fingers through the curls of my hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His fingers moved again, tracing a line up my calf. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Beto pressed his fingers into his armpits and bit his lip. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to the gentle whisper of her fingers against my sleeve. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mom takes a few erratic inhales and wipes her tears away with her fingers. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sits down at his desk and presses his fingers against his temples. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Holly, too, had a slim frame with long tapered fingers, perfect for wrapping around a buzz baton. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He shut his eyes and leaned against her fingers. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I started spreading my fingers to count it off again but afore I could even get to forty, Pa and the new-free folks turned up the road heading toward the schoolhouse. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He stumbled over his pant legs—and then stared in disbelief at his fingers: short, little, fat fingers, dimpled with rosy fingernails. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he curled his fingers over the glass, and blew hard, and several more golden coins dropped into the glass from his hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Not with the hope of escape, or of doing anything, either good or bad: he simply felt that he must take the Ring and put it on his finger. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There little Abdulrahman was, on the far right, maybe five years old, his tiny fingers swallowed by Mohammed’s huge hand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My fingers made air quotes for added emphasis, exactly as my mom had done. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Its windows and doors were also metal, and, as we stepped in, I touched the wall and burned my fingers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wipe my empty fingers on my crumpled napkin. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. We could do with an unbeatable wand,” said Harry, turning the blackthorn wand he so disliked over in his fingers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I pulled the covers down and grasped his fingers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers were too numb to tell me anything. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dina flips it open, jabs her finger at the inside cover. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As she sat down and opened the attendance book, she raised her right index finger to her head and very carefully she scratched so she wouldn’t disturb the waves. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plucked out the plant and held it between his finger and thumb before grinding it into dust. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She nudged an unopened box of Sal Hepatica a little with the trowel of her extended fingers to align it with the other sempervirents in its row, and then closed the cabinet door. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mom sat down next to me and ran her fingers through my hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then he reached his thumb and finger into his mouth, issued a piercing whistle, and motioned to the bulldozer, which lumbered to life. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Her short gray hair curled over her ears and forehead, which was marked with black oil as if she had pushed her hair aside with dirtied fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he came up next to her, Dicey stepped back a pace, but kept her finger on the number in the book. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked straight at me again, snapping his fingers just as he started to speak. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He laced his fingers together with a benign smile. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And then his fingers made a careful, careful diagnosis. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She appeared to be searching for fleas in Bloomberg’s coat, her fingers very busy indeed turning back tufts of fur. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I said it’s none of your business,” he snapped, pointing his crooked finger at me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As I lick the sticky pink juice off my fingers, she laughs. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He gripped the lute roughly and dragged his fingers across the strings with no thought for rhythm or tune. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lifted Grandpa Bobby’s coin from my chest and turned it back and forth in my fingers, the gold catching the sunlight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She points her finger out the kitchen window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As always, there were overdue bills mixed with throwaway flyers printed with cheap black ink that rubbed off onto his fingers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Maurice DuPre is six feet high, six feet wide, and has more fingers and toes than he has points on his IQ. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned back into the cushions, running my finger around the glass rim. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I remember the five-fingered ferns growing under little waterfalls, bobbing their green fingers as the droplets struck them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Startled, I put a finger to my lips, cautioning, and waved him away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She drummed her fingers on the plastic tablecloth. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I reached for her hand, and she closed her fingers around mine. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A new arrival—a baby girl—sits in Jutta’s lap and gums her fingers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She nods at the next order and holds up three fingers, which means I’ve got three minutes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Hmmmm?" she purrs, rearranging my hand so that my middle finger presses further into her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Moving closer, keeping low, Ishmael saw her smoothing hair from her eyes while soapsuds ran from her fingers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vonetta picked up the cover, ran her finger along the list of songs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The person dug their fingers into Stella’s shoulder. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Luke put out a tentative finger and touched the marble cupid gingerly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined a greedy surgeon with sharp teeth and long, skeletal fingers urging Marley to have the amputation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Always she had a stuffed hard-boiled egg and she would hold it in her hand, mashing the yellow with her thumb so that the print of her finger was left there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When she had finished the last bite of sandwich, she licked butter from her fingers and looked up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How cool will it be when we can just —” Seamus clicked his fingers to indicate disappearance. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He waved a hand in front of the man’s face, snapped his fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This one right here,” she said, touching her finger just over my lip—my skin still tingling there even after she took back her finger. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Chords with fingerings that you don't know but with a sound that you would recognize work best for this exercise. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In contrast I observed that Call’s hands were wide with short fingers, the nails bitten well below the quick. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four’s cold hand clamps around one of my hips, one of his fingers finding a strip of bare skin just under the hem of my T-shirt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My fingers flicked the lock over and were turning the doorknob before my brain caught up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She groped for them, and her anxious fingers came away with a film of oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back in and point my finger at the friend behind the wheel. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bast bent to pick up the iron ring by its broken cord, knotting it together again with quick fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She met and married an intense dark man—a man whose fingers were stained with chemicals, mostly silver nitrate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The god of the pit flexed his fingers, examining his own polished black talons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her hand slipped into her pocket, reaching for Vajra, but something else met her fingers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We searched all over him, poking our fingers into his socks, looking up the inside back of his coat. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z