She pointed an ink-stained finger along the bookshelves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lines]

There was some love in there for the ink-stained wretches.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Simon: The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed] Reference

Threw away the latest ink-stained towel mess when I returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference

Rune pulled a thick, water - and ink-stained booklet off the shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhattan Is My Beat]

Then she displayed her pretty little ink-stained hands, and ran away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference

Her ink-stained fingers squeezed tight for a second and smudged my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Beat]

Like these reports, everything here is ink-stained, including the author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom McCarthy's "C," reviewed by Samantha Hunt] Reference

Today, a day after the dancing and ink-stained fingers, the waiting began.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2005] Reference

Lots of pictures today of proud fingers held up, ink-stained fingers there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2005] Reference

We're working on an alternative photo-op to your waving an ink-stained finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danielle Crittenden: Presidential Statement on the Mid-Term Elections, Draft #2] Reference

A man comes out and shows us his ink-stained finger and his infant son's, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2005] Reference

An Afghan women raises her purple ink-stained finger, symbol of her voting power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: First-Hand: Afghanistan Election Reports] Reference

If I could answer that question, I'd be a rich investor, not an ink-stained wretch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nice Triple Play] Reference

But who could blame Mr. Tweedy for growing out of his ink-stained country-poet denim?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mellowing Jeff Tweedy Trades His Denim for Cords] Reference

We've seen jubilant Iraqis holding up ink-stained fingers and celebrating their freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2008] Reference

Ride like you'd ride an ink-stained white supremacist on the couch in your office, Jesse!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Note To Jesse James: Here's Your Chance to Finally Dump Sandra Bullock] Reference

In January it was largely symbolic, holding up ink-stained fingers, defying insurgent threats.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2005] Reference

Who knew we journalists, we ink-stained wretches, were like physicists, biologists and chemists?.    From Wordnik.com.  [E. J. Dionne Jr.: The Making of Democracy 2006: How the New Media and the Old Media Could Live Together Happily and Enhance Public Life] Reference

However, I walked back upstairs an hour later with ink-stained hands but a mind little enlightened.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]

Sprained ankles, strained eyes, ink-stained or lopped-off fingers: all these are now things of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: From Diebold, Inc.: Democracy Unbound] Reference

We see that desire in the jubilant Iraqis who held up ink-stained fingers, who celebrated their freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 28, 2008] Reference

KURTZ: Big corporation -- but of course now it includes everything from ink-stained retches to bloggers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2008] Reference

In Iraq, 12 million people waved ink-stained fingers to celebrate the first democratic election in decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 World Economic Forum Address] Reference

And stop the presses: The end to the egregious flummery of these ink-stained wretches has yet to be written.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered Glass Is Quietly Shocking] Reference

The ink-stained crowd scoffs at Slate's prospects of making money in a medium known as a financial black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheafless In Seattle: Will This Cyber Mag Fly?] Reference

Voters show their ink-stained fingers, though, indicating they voted in elections for a 275-member Parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2005] Reference

We have seen jubilant Iraqis dancing in the streets, holding up ink-stained fingers, celebrating their freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 27, 2006] Reference

He spoke today about the election, standing with Iraqi expatriates who's ink-stained fingered showed they had voted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2005] Reference

Their ink-stained fingers a symbolic badge of honor and perhaps a sign they will not be intimidated by the insurgents.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2005] Reference

ZAHN: The ink-stained fingers, a powerful remembrance of what happened in Iraq today and the importance of that vote there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2005] Reference

The classrooms, their ghostly fluorescent lighting, and the blinding glare off the ink-stained white boards were all huge, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even the Good Days] Reference

And the prosecutor, interestingly enough, it seems had an ink-stained finger, a sign that he voted in this weekend's referendum.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2005] Reference

It was intended as a "feel-good" news story, light-hearted -- what many ink-stained newsfolk, in trade parlance, call a "bright.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rankled cartoonist says National Intelligence chief used altered image without OK] Reference

The modern publishing business has been in existence since about 1800, but things are not looking so rosy in the ink-stained world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh McGuire: What Publishing Can Learn From Music] Reference

Harold Evans on running British newspapers in the heyday of ink-stained wretches (ph) and why he thinks so little of television news.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2009] Reference

The popular sentiment among the ink-stained wretches here at Wrigley Field was the Cubs had to win Wednesday in order to win the series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jon Greenberg: DeRosa Puts Cubs Up By 2, Dempster Avoiding Trouble] Reference

DURBIN: Well, Dana Milbank, one of those ink-stained retches of the press, has to generate an interesting column, and did it again today.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2008] Reference