long-fingered

Updated: June 12, 2025

Nor could it be compared to the way in which he stripped off his black bombazine office-coat with its baggy pockets quite a disreputable-looking coat I must say taking it by the nape of the neck, as if it were some loathsome object to be got rid of, and hanging it upon a hook behind him; nor to the way in which he pulled up his shirt sleeves and plunged his white, long-fingered, delicately modeled hands into the basin, as if cleanliness were a thing to be welcomed as a part of his life.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero