Your fingernails are filthy.

Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.

O'Hanlon found that in scraping under her fingernails.

We nearly went extinct. We were hanging on by our fingernails.

I never once touched her. These fingernails have to be trimmed.

There's a nobility of real, hands on, dirt under your fingernails work.

Bassington studies his fingernails like a man of the world, crosses to left.

The police have that specimen of hair and flesh found under Mrs. Grant's fingernails.

Imported a troupe of Balinese dancers with those bells on their ankles and long fingernails.

So, as soon as a crab touches them, they retract down into their shells, just like your fingernails.

He was further said to have been threatened with electric shocks and the pulling out of his fingernails.

After all, she had ended up with a Hollywood contract... and I was still pounding a typewriter and breaking my fingernails.

He washed his face, cleaned his fingernails, made his mind a blank, combed his hair, and came back all ready to go.

The detainees had allegedly been whipped, their fingernails and toenails had been removed, and they had been forced to walk on sharp objects.

The fingernails of his thumbs and big toes were also pulled out (Human Rights Watch Asia September 1997, Vol. 9, No. 9 C).

Because if you actually look through your fingernails, you can see blood vessels, and once you see blood vessels, we think we can see the malaria.

quot Operating table quot (the victim is forced to lie on a table with the upper body unsupported while being struck on the abdomen) Tearing out fingernails

The first of these is natural selection that's random mutation and selective retention along with our basic anatomy and physiology the evolution of the pancreas or the eye or the fingernails.

I want you to say, or I want you to convey, that you are going to die if you have to, with your very last breath, with your fingernails scratching as they drag you out.

This was a place where fingernails of countless victims were ripped out, where others were strung upside down and dunked in barrels of water, where many were brutalized with metal prongs and batons. This was a place of utter brokenness.

Sources have reported that, on the day of his arrest, he was taken to a torture centre in Colmera, Dili, where he was subjected to electric shock, burned with cigarettes, cut with razor blades and had his fingernails pulled out (ETHRC, Ref. UA 27 97).

The methods of torture and ill treatment reported included hanging upside down scalding with hot water extraction of fingernails or toenails application of electric shocks systematic beating, sometimes resulting in fractured bones or broken teeth and issuing of threats that members of the detainee s family would be killed or tortured.

Confucian literati, shunning manual labor, grew their fingernails long, but they never displayed antipathy towards the world of affairs. The Chinese myth of success was the bright peasant boy whose village clubbed together to educate him and whose subsequent success resulted in the elevation of all who had helped him on his way into the civil service.

Other forms of torture reported were the removal of toenails and fingernails near asphyxiation caused by the immersion of the head in dirty water being held in a cell filled with two inches of water for several days (the swimming pool ) beatings administered while the victim is suspended from a tree in the forest at night rape or the insertion of objects into the vagina and pricking the penis with large pins or tying the penis with a string and pulling.