1.   His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate.

2.   His fingers were beginning to uncurl, his own weight dragging him down.

3.   All across America, sticky mouse fingers began stabbing at the reply or reply-to-all button.

4.   Delicate fingers began combing through the hairs of my chest.

5.   My wrist ached, my fingers began to seize up in the gathering darkness and deepening cold.

6.   No sooner had we opened the atlas than my fingers began to twitch.

7.   Now, though, as she sat in a Long Island church, half-distractedly watching the wedding ceremony, the finger began to itch.

8.   Now, though, as she sat in the Long Island church, half-distractedly watching the wedding ceremony, the finger began to itch.

9.   Then his frozen fingers began to slip.

10.   When his fingers began to fail, he switched to a computerized system that translated his spoken words to text.