John sees, in that entirely insignificant thing, a kind of fingerpost pointing to far more important, deeper, and real correspondences. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
I think of the Tower of London like a tall fingerpost pointing up to God. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)
But they were all written with the same size lettering and there seemed to be a maximum permitted length for a fingerpost. ❋ Child, Lee (2006)
The road dropped a little into Milford, and the thing shied, put down its head and bolted, and Mr. Hoopdriver only thought of the brake when the fingerpost was passed. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
But if nothing of the kind can be found, it must be regarded as questionable, and recourse be had to other instances of the fingerpost about it. ❋ Unknown (2005)
We may here take for an instance of the fingerpost the following. ❋ Unknown (2005)
These are what occur to me at present as instances of the fingerpost with reference to this question, and better may perhaps be found. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I have dwelt on them at some length to the end that men may gradually learn and accustom themselves to judge of nature by instances of the fingerpost and experiments of light, and not by probable reasonings. ❋ Unknown (2005)
At length then, we have come to an instance of the fingerpost in this case, and it is this. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But we may have an instance of the fingerpost more nicely adapted to this purpose, if the thing can be made manifest with bicolored lights. ❋ Unknown (2005)
On this subject therefore we may take the following as an instance of the fingerpost. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Thus at length we come to an instance of the fingerpost on this subject. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Among others the following would be an instance of the fingerpost on this subject: that a thin iron plate or stiffish iron wire, or even a reed or pen split in half, when pressed into a curve between the finger and thumb, leaps away. ❋ Unknown (2005)
They differ from instances of the fingerpost, in that they determine nothing, but simply notify the separability of one nature from another. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Therefore instances of the fingerpost on this question will (if any) be those which prove that reflection may take place from a rare body, as flame, provided it be of sufficient denseness. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Now with regard to this question an instance of the fingerpost would be the following. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The following would be an instance of the fingerpost on this subject. ❋ Unknown (2005)
With regard to this, then, the following would be an instance of the fingerpost. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Sometimes these instances of the fingerpost meet us accidentally among those already noticed, but for the most part they are new, and are expressly and designedly sought for and applied, and discovered only by earnest and active diligence. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Class [Fingerpost] [innit] [lad] ❋ PhilShandy (2023)
