The secretary held the door back, motioned permission with two upraised fingers, and an old man entered.

The upraised finger comes to within a foot of Jack's nose, and the man's murky eyes search his face.

The human word stood out like an upraised finger in the flow of Hydran speech.

An elbow propped upon the table, Twingle wagged an upraised finger.

"Let me guess," Rugar proposed with an upraised finger and a wicked grin.

On sudden inspiration, she smiled and stuck an upraised finger before her.

They glared at each other, for a few seconds, over Bobby's upraised middle finger.

"And," Markov added with an upraised finger, "if he knew how to keep his mouth shut."

Giving him a cautionary sign with an upraised finger, Haplo spoke quietly, firmly.

"Organized," Gaetano agreed, emphasizing the word with an upraised finger.