fingerprint

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In a few pages it is impossible to do more than erect a fingerpost to point out a possible road to a given end.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

You may stand in Piccadilly Circus at midnight and fingerpost yourself to the country of your dreams.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

The road dropped a little into Milford, and the thing shied, put down its head and bolted, and Mr. Hoopdriver only thought of the brake when the fingerpost was passed.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

And all ways have the same fingerpost at the head of them, and at every turning in them.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

While Dove hesitated thus, torn between his reputation on the one hand, his missionary zeal on the other; while he hesitated, an incident occurred, which acted as a kind of moral fingerpost.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel