Word: fingering
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...step in real life is the foundation of his library; he collects about him works on whose authority he can rely, writers to whose judgment he can defer. His next course is to acquire a superficial knowledge of this extended encyclopaedia, so that when necessary he can lay his finger on the right volume and page, and name his authority; the larger his library grows, the greater the knowledge he has at his service. He does not store his brain with facts, he lays them aside on his shelves. Few of us are gifted with the memory of a Macaulay...
...Finger-tips...
...turned her wasted finger toward the spot