But' - he held up an admonitory finger - 'that's only one of the advantages.

Memories of the priest with the raised, admonitory finger: the father to his errant daughter.

Crossbrace, still keeping his eyes averted, held up an admonitory finger.

"You have to be careful," the ladies would tell me, shaking an admonitory finger.

"You," he said, shaking an admonitory finger at the bird, "are going to wind up too fat to fly."

He frowned at this and shook an admonitory finger at me.

She waved an admonitory finger at her younger sister.

Remember all the admonitory fingers shaken at the French, warning them to cut prices or lose our love?

"There is where you are wrong," he said, shaking a thick admonitory finger.

What you do"- He held up one admonitory finger when she started to protest.