John sees, in that entirely insignificant thing, a kind of fingerpost pointing to far more important, deeper, and real correspondences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference

We may here take for an instance of the fingerpost the following.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

The following would be an instance of the fingerpost on this subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

On this subject we may have instances of the fingerpost of two kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

Here we observed the first fingerpost we had seen since leaving John o '.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

Thus at length we come to an instance of the fingerpost on this subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

With regard to this, then, the following would be an instance of the fingerpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

On this subject therefore we may take the following as an instance of the fingerpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

Now with regard to this question an instance of the fingerpost would be the following.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

At length then, we have come to an instance of the fingerpost in this case, and it is this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

But they were all written with the same size lettering and there seemed to be a maximum permitted length for a fingerpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hard War]

These are what occur to me at present as instances of the fingerpost with reference to this question, and better may perhaps be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

But we may have an instance of the fingerpost more nicely adapted to this purpose, if the thing can be made manifest with bicolored lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

They differ from instances of the fingerpost, in that they determine nothing, but simply notify the separability of one nature from another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

But if nothing of the kind can be found, it must be regarded as questionable, and recourse be had to other instances of the fingerpost about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

The road dropped a little into Milford, and the thing shied, put down its head and bolted, and Mr. Hoopdriver only thought of the brake when the fingerpost was passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference

Therefore instances of the fingerpost on this question will (if any) be those which prove that reflection may take place from a rare body, as flame, provided it be of sufficient denseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

While Dove hesitated thus, torn between his reputation on the one hand, his missionary zeal on the other; while he hesitated, an incident occurred, which acted as a kind of moral fingerpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

I have dwelt on them at some length to the end that men may gradually learn and accustom themselves to judge of nature by instances of the fingerpost and experiments of light, and not by probable reasonings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

Among others the following would be an instance of the fingerpost on this subject: that a thin iron plate or stiffish iron wire, or even a reed or pen split in half, when pressed into a curve between the finger and thumb, leaps away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

Sometimes these instances of the fingerpost meet us accidentally among those already noticed, but for the most part they are new, and are expressly and designedly sought for and applied, and discovered only by earnest and active diligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

To return to elasticity: if we could make out of matter devoid of elasticity a combined system of relatively moving parts which, in virtue of motion, has the essential characteristics of an elastic body, this would surely be, if not positively a step in the kinetic theory of matter, at least a fingerpost pointing a way which we may hope will lead to a kinetic theory of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference

Here the boy leaned over the gig and examined the fingerpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference

Then she would have had a fingerpost to warn her off our ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference

And all ways have the same fingerpost at the head of them, and at every turning in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870] Reference

You may stand in Piccadilly Circus at midnight and fingerpost yourself to the country of your dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights in London] Reference

Cross the stile at the end of the field by a fingerpost and turn left through a farm gate onto the Military Road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable, -- yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

An old straggling red brick house at Crossways, a stone's throw from a fingerpost on a square of green: roads to Brasted, London, Wickford, Riddlehurst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn - gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable, -- yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present] Reference

When in the investigation of any nature the understanding is so balanced as to be uncertain to which of two or more natures the cause of the nature in question should be assigned on account of the frequent and ordinary concurrence of many natures, instances of the fingerpost show the union of one of the natures with the nature in question to be sure and indissoluble, of the other to be varied and separable; and thus the question is decided, and the former nature is admitted as the cause, while the latter is dismissed and rejected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

6. When the fingerpost signed BS75 is reached, cross a stile on the left and follow the field edge with the fence on the left to the field corner then cross more stiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Let this suffice for instances of the fingerpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

Aloud, "Here we are at the fingerpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference