lay finger on
Example Sentences
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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 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Without rhyme or reason that doctors or mother could lay finger on, the little mite just grew thinner and more peevish day by day, and visibly faded under their eyes.
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley
You can't lay finger on man, woman, or child in this Colony, and, by God, you sha'n't!
From Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
“Len’s appointed me special dep’ty till he comes back, and he says nobody is to lay finger on hide ner hair of the corpse; not even the doc, if he comes.”
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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 A. F. Mockler Ferryman
