Three fingers from the soldier's right hand was traumatically amputated during WWI.

The code was entered on a keyboard which had just five piano type keys, operated with two fingers of the left hand and three fingers of the right hand.

Placing a somewhat closed right hand on the plane with the thumb pointing up, the fingers point from the x-axis to the y-axis, in a positively oriented coordinate system.

If the index finger of the right hand is pointed forward, the middle finger bent inward at a right angle to it, and the thumb placed at a right angle to both, the three fingers indicate the relative directions of the x -, y -, and z-axes in a right-handed system.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

Atkins's trademark " Atkins Style " of playing uses the thumb and first two — sometimes three — fingers of the right hand.

The keyboard had just five piano type keys, operated with two fingers of the left hand and three fingers of the right hand.

Professional models have three top-action valves, played with the first three fingers of the right hand, plus a " compensating " fourth valve, generally found midway down the right side of the instrument, played with the left index finger ; such an instrument is shown in the above picture.

With my right hand on his left ear, I give it a jerk, and you hear the bones go snaps his fingers BEEK, and he's dead.

Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch ( from the bowler's perspective ).

Skeletons of longbow archers are recognisably adapted, with enlarged left arms and often bone spurs on left wrists, left shoulders and right fingers.

The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers of its right hand ( the blessing fingers ), clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried ; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber.

The papal vestments were torn from his body, the three fingers from his right hand that he had used in consecrations were cut off and the corpse was thrown into the Tiber ( later to be retrieved by a monk ).

The British Army's salute is given with the right hand palm facing forwards with the fingers almost touching the beret badge.

Even rendering similar salutes, for example raising the left instead of the right hand, or raising only three fingers, are put under prosecution.

For the three horizontal orientations on the right side of the diagram, the hand is held outward, with the fingers pointing away from the signer, and presumably toward the viewer.

Straight lines represent straight fingers ( these may be at an angle to indicate that they are not in line with the palm ; if they point toward or away from the signer, they have a diamond shape at the tip ); curved lines for curved ( cupped ) fingers ; hooked lines for hooked fingers ; right-angle lines, for fingers bent at only one joint ; and crossed lines, for crossed fingers, as shown in the chart at right.

Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.

The man brought one hand up slowly and the fingers fumbled across his face until he touched his mouth.

Fly cutters can fool you into putting your hand too close to the tool, so if you want to avoid nicked fingers, keep your hands well out of the way.

Orlick shakes his hand at Pip, bangs the table with his fist, draws his unclenched hand `` across his mouth as if his mouth watered '' for his victim, lets his hands hang `` loose and heavy at his sides '', and Pip observes him so intensely that he knows `` of the slightest action of his fingers ''.

We take leave of Pumblechook as he gloats over Pip's loss of fortune, extending his hand `` with a magnificently forgiving air '' and exhibiting `` the same fat five fingers '', one of which he identifies with `` the finger of Providence '' and shakes at Pip in a canting imputation of the latter's `` ingratitoode '' and his own generosity as Pip's `` earliest benefactor ''.

After a moment he extended one hand, the fingers curled.

Most of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep with a cigarette.

However, no direct connection can be demonstrated, and the similarity of the abaci may be coincidental, both ultimately arising from counting with five fingers per hand.

The EkaPad is a 12-key chorded keyboard operated with the four fingers of one hand.

If a boy struck his father they would cut off the boy's hand or fingers ( translations vary ).

The importance of 12 has been attributed to the number of lunar cycles in a year, and also to the fact that humans have 12 finger bones ( phalanges ) on one hand ( three on each of four fingers ).

Sullivan's two fingers distracted the audience, and so to television viewers, who could not see Ed's hand, it seemed as though Mason's jokes were falling flat.

" Videotapes of the incident are inconclusive as to whether Mason's upswept hand was intended to be an indecent gesture ( as Mason's fingers are just barely off-camera ), but Sullivan's body language immediately afterward made it clear that he was convinced of it, despite Mason's panic-stricken denials later, claiming that he did not know what the " middle finger " meant, and that he did not make the gesture anyways.

Outside, the old man, beyond all the curses of the spirits his daughter bore, went to her and twisted the gnarled talons of his fingers in her hair and turned her and pushed her rudely ahead of him into the trees where the moon sent out a thousand arms.

' Whereupon she was seized by a tetanic spasm that progressed relentlessly to a state of severe rigidity: her jaws clamped shut, her thighs opened widely, her feet twisted inwards, her fingers and thumbs clenched into tight fists, and her head drew back.

Fibers that are laid down in the zone are quickly turned between the thumb and index fingers and twisted to interlock the fibers, creating a long thread.

Once inside they were threatened with detention for the rest of their lives, verbally abused, exposed to cold, deprived of sleep, and had their hands, cuffed arms, and fingers severely twisted.

His broad flat fingers, petrified into massive sausages by years of bricklaying, snatched the bills clumsily.

Point with two fingers spread into a V formation.

* Valved brass instruments use a set of valves ( typically three or four but as many as seven or more in some cases ) operated by the player's fingers that introduce additional tubing, or crooks, into the instrument, changing its overall length.

To deliberately produce the clicking sounds, many people bend their fingers into unusual positions.

The neighbor women who take part in the operation then plunge their fingers into the bloody hole to verify that every remnant of the clitoris is removed.

A recipe calling for the addition of additional gelatin to regular jelly gives a rubbery product that can be cut into shapes with cookie cutters and eaten with fingers ( called " Knox Blox " by the Knox company, makers of unflavored gelatin ).

: My fingers into glue,

: My fingers into glue,

The pads built into drum machines are typically too small and fragile to be played with sticks, and are played with fingers.

" In order to harden a quill that is soft, thrust the barrel into hot ashes, stirring it till it is soft ; then taking it out, press it almost flat upon your knees with the back of a penknife, and afterwards reduce it to a roundness with your fingers.

Travis shoots him, then walks into Iris ’ brothel and shoots off the bouncer's fingers.

Pietro di Vinciolo goes from home to sup: his wife brings a boy into the house to bear her company: Pietro returns, and she hides her gallant under a hen-coop: Pietro explains that in the house of Ercolano, with whom he was to have supped, there was discovered a young man bestowed there by Ercolano's wife: the lady thereupon censures Ercolano's wife: but unluckily an ass treads on the fingers of the boy that is hidden under the hen-coop, so that he cries for pain: Pietro runs to the place, sees him, and apprehends the trick played on him by his wife, which nevertheless he finally condones, for that he is not himself free from blame.

Gypsies drove steel or iron needles into a corpse's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial.

A well-executed soft-block is performed by jumping and placing one's hands above the net with no penetration into the opponent's court and with the palms up and fingers pointing backward.

The song includes a reference to Van Diemen's land " subtracting till my fingers dropped ; into Van Diemen's Land ".

* From " The Potato Factory " by Bryce Courtenay ( 1995 ): "... subtracting till my fingers dropped ; into Van Diemen's Land.

Mudde is broken with fingers into small chunks, dipped in saaru or curry and swallowed without chewing.

Secondary infections, in turn, can result in tissue loss causing fingers and toes to become shortened and deformed, as cartilage is absorbed into the body.

When unhooking a Chub with a disgorger be very careful not to poke your fingers into the Chubs mouth as they have sharp / bone crushing pharyngeal teeth at the back of their mouths.

The mallets are held between the thumb and index finger of each hand, with the remaining three fingers of each hand pressing the shafts into the down-facing palms.

There is a type of leaf, rather wide and about two fingers in length, which is widely sold, as people would consume these leaves just as they are ; unlike betel leaves, which need certain condiments to go with them, these leaves were just stuffed fully into the mouth and munched.