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Examples
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Kagi sat down under a finger-post and asked me straight out:
THE NUMBERS 2010
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We had by this time arrived at the remains of an old finger-post, which my host had formerly pointed out as a landmark.
Redgauntlet 2008
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A finger-post suddenly jumped out at him, vainly indicating an abrupt turn to the right, and Mr. Hoopdriver would have slowed up and read the inscription, but no! — the bicycle would not let him.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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“Holloa, Mr. Biggs,” said he, “I suppose you have run against a finger-post.”
Mens Wives 2006
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‘What could a woman better be, than a finger-post, as you call it, with such a purpose?’
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In going across from the front gate of the Court to the parsonage there was a place where three roads met, and on this spot there stood a finger-post.
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‘A finger-post,’ said Johnny, ‘to show a fellow the way he ought to go.’
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‘Then you can make up your mind to be a finger-post.’
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He had called a woman a finger-post, and forthwith she had offered to come to him and be a finger-post to him for life!
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Kagi sat down under a finger-post and asked me straight out:
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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