Forefinger

I must tell you about my hand: you think the swelling more important than it is; the two middle fingers were much as now for some weeks before you left, but with the thumb and forefinger I could still do much; now the forefinger is as powerless and pained as the other two; that is all the difference, but a conclusive one, for one can do nothing with only a thumb! ❋ Unknown (1883)

Make two little mittens, and two little socks with stuffed toes, remembering to stuff one sock higher than the other, as your forefinger is shorter than your middle finger, and you want your dancer to have both legs the same size. ❋ Various (N/A)

Even now, five months afterwards, my forefinger is still numba queer effect for a neck wound to have. ❋ Unknown (1938)

As we have said, he expounds himself no more, the significant forefinger is down, the eye no longer imprisons yours. ❋ Maud Howe Elliott (1915)

A bruise in the webbing between the thumb and the forefinger is a classic defense wound. ❋ Ann Rule (2003)

This is especially true if you increase the pressure in your right thumb and forefinger, which is what usually happens. ❋ BOB TOSKI (1992)

His fingers curved into a lion's open mouth; on his forefinger was the royal ring of Troizen, with the Mother being worshipped on a pillar. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

To refresh the sages, the cord must hang about the neck, and the water run over the side of the hand between the thumb and the forefinger, which is bent back. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

To make identity absolutely certain, on the forefinger was a ring of native gold, which the Dutchman always wore. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

For several days he kept expecting the religious gadfly to come buzzing about him with his sting, that is, his forefinger, stuck in the Pilgrim's Progress, and had a swashing blow ready for him; but Gibbie was beginning to learn a lesson or two, and if he was not yet so wise as some serpents, he had always been more harmless than some doves. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

The idea of Marner's money kept growing in vividness, now the want of it had become immediate; the prospect of having to make his appearance with the muddy boots of a pedestrian at Batherley, and to encounter the grinning queries of stablemen, stood unpleasantly in the way of his impatience to be back at Raveloe and carry out his felicitous plan; and a casual visitation of his waistcoat-pocket, as he was ruminating, awakened his memory to the fact that the two or three small coins his forefinger encountered there, were of too pale a color to cover that small debt, without payment of which the stable-keeper had declared he would never do any more business with Dunsey Cass. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Marner's money kept growing in vividness, now the want of it had become immediate; the prospect of having to make his appearance with the muddy boots of a pedestrian at Batherley, and to encounter the grinning queries of stablemen, stood unpleasantly in the way of his impatience to be back at Raveloe and carry out his felicitous plan; and a casual visitation of his waistcoat-pocket, as he was ruminating, awakened his memory to the fact that the two or three small coins his forefinger encountered there were of too pale a colour to cover that small debt, without payment of which the stable-keeper had declared he would never do any more business with Dunsey Cass. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

John Baptist answered with that peculiar back – handed shake of the right forefinger which is the most expressive negative in the Italian language. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"ring" finger anymore and have to divert all the work formally done by those fingers onto my forefinger, which is becoming overworked. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One night while getting drunk in an old Belfast watering hole he notices one of the ghosts pointing a thumb and forefinger in other words, a finger gun at an old mate’s head. ❋ Unknown (2009)

John Baptist answered with that peculiar back-handed shake of the right forefinger which is the most expressive negative in the Italian language. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Squeeze each mussel between your thumb and forefinger trying to slide the shells across each other. ❋ Meathead Goldwyn (2011)