Word: finger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...requisite preliminaries having been settled and the prescribed melancholy formalities gone through, the usual question was put: "Wilt thou have this woman for thy wife?" To which the rash youth answered, "I will," in a clear and distinct voice. He then put the fatal ring on Miss Smith's finger, the hymeneal noose was adjusted, and the poor fellow was launched into matrimony...
...felt my hand seized as by an iron grasp a moment, that forced a cry of pain from me; and when I withdrew it there were finger-marks of livid scarlet across it, - that did not fade away...