They were swipes of a finger dipped in red pigment that resembled a bar code, or symbolic flames.
Bloodied but defiant, Maathai took a finger, dipped it in her blood and signed the complaint with an X.
He made money merely by lifting a little finger dipped in ink, but he was a Communist who longed, naively no doubt, for the classless society.
Many voters were desperate for the protection offered by a pinky finger dipped in red ink, evidence that they had voted.
When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing "Om," which means "I am" in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a little finger dipped in honey.
ON APRIL 30th Nuri al-Maliki stepped behind a cardboard voting booth in a hotel ballroom in Baghdad, cast his ballot and raised a triumphant finger dipped in purple ink, urging other Iraqis to head for the polls, too.
And in a Dan Brown thriller, the last words Skippy manages to scrawl, by writing with a finger dipped in raspberry doughnut filling, would also demand to be taken seriously.
What he was saying, I now know, is that a favourite local treat is to lick your finger, dip it into a bag of salt, then add a scoop of fish roe before downing a shot of vodka.
[Guy instructing his girlfriend on the art of the finger dip].
Moisten the tip of your finger, dip it into some salt, and dab the tip of your tongue with that.
