finger language

She handed it to me and started flashing finger language.

"I had a kid flashing finger language the other day.

"Well done," he signaled in the intricate finger language of the drow.

She studied linear shorthand with Claudia and then translated it into finger language.

Note - Drasnians have developed an elaborate 'finger language' consisting of barely perceptible gestures.

'Profiting by the experience I had gained in the other cases, I omitted several steps of the process before employed, and commenced at once with the finger language.

The proceedings were chaired by the Rev W B Sleight and all speeches were conducted entirely "in finger language, no signs whatever being permitted".

Where she cannot provide herself with a given textbook printed in the embossed letters used by the blind, she has Miss Sullivan read the lesson to her in finger language.

Foo had already had it from her; so he retailed it, aided now and then by her in the deaf and dumb finger language that they used between them.

"It has become so natural for her to use the finger language as a vehicle for the expression of her thought, that each idea, as it flashes through her busy brain, suggests the words which they should embody.

In class her teacher sits beside her and repeats in the same finger language what the lecturer is saying, Miss Keller writes: "In this respect, I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes.

Bell was also deeply affected by his mother's gradual deafness, (she began to lose her hearing when he was 12) and learned a manual finger language so he could sit at her side and tap out silently the conversations swirling around the family parlour.

But afterward, when I was restored to my human heritage, Mildred and I grew into each other's hearts, so that we were content to go hand-in-hand wherever caprice led us, although she could not understand my finger language, nor I her childish prattle.

'When left alone, she occupies and apparently amuses herself, and seems quite contented; and so strong seems to be the natural tendency of thought to put on the garb of language, that she often soliloquizes in the FINGER LANGUAGE, slow and tedious as it is.