Some of the amulets were as large as her fist, others smaller than her smallest fingernail.

Placing his hand on his map, he demonstrated his own system for judging disances - using his smallest fingernail to measure 100 meters.

Fjord shrimp are a rare delicacy: very small and flavorful, about the size of the smallest fingernail.

I remembered impossibly small fingernails, the sweet smell of a brand-new neck and a cardigan onto which my mother had long ago sewn duck buttons.

I really wish you wouldn't wear this,' she said, picking at his mail-shirt with one small fingernail.

Broad beans, also called fava beans, in their wild state the size of a small fingernail, were gathered in Afghanistan and the Himalayan foothills.

Cadderly heard himself gulp, didn't realize that he was gawking at the brazen display until Danica's small fingernails dug deep lines into his upper arm.

Dominic ran a callused hand through a bowl of shimmering emerald spheres, each the size of his small fingernail.

I swear that I touched, raked, scarified him with only one thing: the smallest fingernail of my right hand.

The nodule had grown in the last year and was about the size of my smallest fingernail.