Meanings of uplifted finger in English

Mr. Bacon paused a moment with his uplifted finger, and addressed the cur.

But there her father's look and uplifted finger kept her still and silent.

It is a protest, a reproof, a challenge, an uplifted finger.

Deborah met me on the threshold with uplifted finger and a resolute "Hush!"

She smiled at him with uplifted finger, trying to hide from him all traces of emotion.

One merely accepted it, enchained by that uplifted finger and "Leave it to me!"

Or refined away into a playful or delicate suggestion, pointed with an uplifted finger-"Fooli!

Esther paused with uplifted finger.

As a rule one seems to entirely absorb the other, sighed Miss Peggy happily, then turned to accost Esther with uplifted finger.

Sir Micah, the English curator of the Metropolitan, reflectively tapping an eye-glass upon an uplifted finger tip, pronounced the painting a turning-point in American art.

He then took his leave, with an uplifted finger and a sneer upon his face that haunted the artist's dreams for many a night afterwards.

If we could see and hear Patrick Henry, with uplifted finger, shouting, "Charles First had his Cromwell, and George Third-maytake warning by his example!"

Even boundless space was amplified at the bidding of their solemn uplifted fingers.

'Nay, nay,' said she, with uplifted finger, 'you shall not follow the matter further.

"It's yonder," he cried, and pointed it out to himself with uplifted finger.

"Watch," said he, pointing his uplifted finger to the hanging.