Meanings of open fingers in English

Uncle Ryan weeps through open fingers, keeping watch on his birds.

Express, he decided, feeling the air against his open fingers.

A ball of white fire emerged from her open fingers and raced towards him.

He knew only that victory had been between his open fingers and had slipped away.

Again the pleading gesture of her half- open fingers.

She took the whole parcel awkwardly with open fingers, unable to find pockets to put them in.

And then the hilt slipped from the half- open fingers, and the sword was mine, and my hand held the jarl's.

Instead they watch these midterms like children watching a horror movie - peeking through open fingers with their hands half-covering their eyes.

He toyed with the weapon in loosely opened fingers again, and it slid deftly.

But the wind swept coldly between his opened fingers.

The other tumbled from opening fingers, bounced on the ledge, and fell through the rain toward the distant alleys below.

With his other hand he grabbed for it, half missed, grabbed again, missed completely, then again; opened fingers grappled the closed ones.