Philosophic chiromancy. Mysteries of the hand revealed and explained: the art of determining, from an inspection of the hands, the person's temperature, appetites, passions, impulses, aspirations, mental endowments, character and tendencies (1879)
Campbell, Robert Allen · Saint Louis, J. W. Campbell & co. · leaf 89
s quick and graceful, butnot usually exact or effective. They areapt to mistake a part, clearly seen, for thewhole ; a single instance* for a general truth. * The person, who in New York saw an Arkansas trader inleather breeches, coon-skin cap and navy revolver, and whowrote home to England, that… … Pointed Fingtstcs-—Very Tapering. They may be brilliant in some directions,but not generally even or constant. Theflashing fancy, the brilliant sally, the burst ofenthusiasm, the wail of despair, exaggerateddanger, or magnified joy, are all suggestedaccording as other signs concur. Pointedfingers…
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