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  • And those neat-fingered parlour-queens, prim over-housemaids, reigning Cooks, raging Nannies, who ordered her labours - what could they have made of her?

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • And one of them had a neat-fingered daughter, who had been in good service till the plague sent her family into the country and she was packed off home.

    The Sign of the Red Cross Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • "You're a neat-fingered little thing; I don't know what we shall do without you."

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • “A very neat-fingered person, wouldn’t you say, Mr. Alleyn?” said Fox.

    Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

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