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The operator goes thoroughly over every portion of the scalp with his finger-tips and finishes by washing away the lather with an abundance of warm water poured over the head while the subject of the operation bends over a basin.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The operator goes thoroughly over every portion of the scalp with his finger-tips and finishes by washing away the lather with an abundance of warm water poured over the head while the subject of the operation bends over a basin.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Approaching from the front you should press your thumb into the jugular notch and spread your fingers out over the top of the trapezuis muscle running from the neck to the shoulder, digging your finger-tips in for a good grip.
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The hands of both of them, little altered or defaced by age, were wonderful in their slender, tapering finger-tips, love-lomied and love-formed while they were babies by old Hawaiian women like to the one even then eating poi and iamaka and limu in the house.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Time and again I paused and held on until my finger-tips hurt.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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And while the trained-nurse-apparelled young woman seated Dag Daughtry in the enamelled surgeon's chair and leaned him back under direction, and while Doctor Emory dipped his finger-tips into the strongest antiseptic his office possessed, behind Doctor Emory's eyes, in the midst of his brain, burned the image of a desired Irish terrier who did turns in sailor-town cabarets, was rough-coated, and answered to the full name of Killeny Boy.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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Coolly she had squatted on her hams, spat on his arm, and with her finger-tips scrubbed away the dirt of days and nights of muck and jungle that sullied the pristine whiteness of his skin.
THE RED ONE 2010
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He moved his finger-tips, which up to that had merely rested, along the surface, and felt the whole gigantic sphere quicken and live and respond.
THE RED ONE 2010
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The ball shoots between the 'keeper and the slip, where Strauss just gets his finger-tips to it.
Pakistan v England – day one live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth 2012
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So they stood and faced each other, death in their finger-tips, forty feet apart.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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