He hurried up the back stairs with the hot water, scooping up a fingernailful of frost off the window in the back hall where there wasn't any register.
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Fingernailful
Synonyms for "fingernailful" (2 found)
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He said, “A bag of heroin is about two little fingernailsful.[…]”
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Clara gave me salts and bath oil and I continued examining the day in fingernailfuls.
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He scraped up a fingernailful and, holding it to a nostril, slowly inhaled it. He waited for another minute or two for it to take effect, then he scraped up another fingernailful and put it in his mouth and tasted it.
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