lay finger on
Example Sentences
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I was equally polite on my part, inly resolving, that henceforward Austrian douanier should not lay finger on my note-book.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken
Curse the day I ever saw India, and triple-curse this system of ours that enabled them to lay finger on me in a moving train and transfer me to this funeral procession!
From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Mundy, Talbot
They could not understand how any one who could handle a gun or a musical instrument could lay finger on a book.
From Madelon A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Were this not so, then would I straightway ride to the Euphrates, and hurl the thing into its depths; for, knowing what I know, I can never now lay finger on it again.
From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by Ferryman, A. F. Mockler
He received his furlough on the same day as I. I would not lay finger on him that side of the border, for we ate the same salt.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot
