In little more than an hour, fingers trembling, I had booked a round-trip ticket to Madrid and a vastly discounted reservation at the Hotel Adler, a luxury boutique hotel that would ordinarily have been out of my range.
Heres where Ive spent many a happy hour fingering the full-bodied Merlots and loamy Chardonnays — and been seduced into spending $2,496 a year.
Those parties were basically five-hour finger-a-thons in a shit club called Inferno, a bottomless pit of rampant toffs, pressed up against each other in gay abandon.
In both parent and knockout, we observed loose aggregates at about 10 hours, tight aggregates at 12 hours, fingers at 16 hours and Mexican hats at 20 hours.
Jeter will hold up fingers, guessing how fast the pitcher is throwing -- four fingers, for instance, for 94 miles an hour, three fingers for 93 m.p.h.
Or, as Mientkiewicz put it, "Any time he can throw an 88- or 89-mile-an-hour split finger, you're in trouble".
If the child had an axillary temp > = 37.5°C or a history of fever in the last 48 hours, a finger prick blood sample was taken for malaria diagnosis by rapid test and a blood film obtained to be read later.
If the child presented itself with fever, an axillary body temperature ≥ 37.5°C or when the mother or guardian reported that the child had fever in the past 24 hours, a finger prick blood sample was taken.
"And when I go skiing, after a couple of hours, my fingers are killing me.
For five or six hours, your fingers reach out to Yorda and pull her along with you.
It's long ago and the house naps in the plush silence of a house asleep, like absence, I'm dreaming on the white bear's shoulder, paddling the slow hours, my fingers in his fur.
