Instead, after pinching the teacup handle with your forefinger and thumb, the remaining fingers are either used to neatly steady the bottom of the teacup or otherwise tucked into the palm of your hand.
She would place her thumb on the throat of the speaker, her forefinger on their lips and her middle finger on their nose, allowing her to translate the vibrations into sound.
Then Votini fell to twirling his very handsome white castor hat on the tip of his forefinger; but the boy—and it seemed as though he did it on purpose—did not deign even a glance at the hat.
Into the right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from behind the chair, held it in position.
With her right forefinger she points to a scroll, and she holds this very proudly, rather like a graduate showing off a degree scroll in a graduation photograph.
" Just prattle about something unimportant until I calm down, " he clarified, closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose with his thumb and forefinger.