I have filled in with some detail this thumbnail sketch of thyroid deprivation as it occurs in infancy to illustrate how wide a sweep the gland's lariat embraces.

The idea the Germans betrayed at Brest, that things were going to be done in the Versailles fashion by great moustached heroes frowning and drawing lines with a large black soldierly thumbnail across maps, isold-fashioned.

His first act was to withdraw from under his pillow the turnip, his next to re-open the back of its silver case and then the inner lidsomething which a deft thumbnail accomplished without a sound.

My breath came very fast, and I shook so that I had a difficulty to keep my thumbnail in the nick, yet hardly was it opened before exalted expectation gave place to deepest disappointment.

I run my thumbnail along the edges of it.

One of them chists got sprung, and I thought maybe I'd made a mistake when I put the light on it, but when I rubbed my thumbnail on it

She placed her thumbnail against the tip of her nose; spread her fingers; and made him a curtsy.

I had been surprised to see small and large shells moving fast over the reef, and on the beach at the water's-edge; shells as big as my thumbnail and nearly as big as my head.

And as he sipped his grenadine syrup and soda water, he admired his three-inch thumbnail, the token of his rise from the estate of a half-naked coolie in Quan-tung to equality with these Taipans, the whites of Tahiti.

Three of the aides successively and successfully damaged their thumbnails in their eagerness to pry open the back cover.

A brass bell no larger than his thumbnail, a tarnished little trinket, no longer new, which tinkled merrily under his astonished gaze.

© on thumbnail illus.

© on thumbnail illus.

Beyond the very furthest range, where the pines turn to a faint blue haze against the one solitary peaka real mountain and not a hillshowed like a gigantic thumbnail pointing heavenward.

To the right Fuji, the graceful, ever lovely Fuji; capricious as a coquette and bewitching in her mystery, with a thumbnail moon over her peak, like a silver tiara on the head of a proud beauty; at her base the last fleecy clouds of the day, gathered like worshipers at the feet of some holy saint.

Presently he walked over to the window and scraped a peep-hole on the frosted pane with his dirty thumbnail.