For a moment, I wonder; then it comes to me, that it is not unlike the four fingers and thumb of a hand.

Dilly giggled, and put her thumb in her mouth, watching the effect with widely opened eyes.

"You're wanted in there," proclaimed Dalzell, jerking a thumb over his shoulder.

The venerable commanding Muskeeter had dodged, and was settin' on the burow, with his thumb on his nose, wrigglin' his fingers at me in a very ongentlemanly manner.

" "Mr. George is there," said the Captain, pointing with his thumb to the deck.

He jerked his thumb toward the beach.

If the book is visible, I point my thumb at it without a word.

She popped her thumb into her mouth, and looked shyly about from one to another, but never a word could I get her to say.

But instead of jumping up and flinging her arms about him, she only looked at him, gave a little sigh, drew her thumb from her mouth, pointed with it up into the tree, and said, "I can't get up there!

"There goes a right smart little girl," said Horace, with a sweep of his thumb towards the Cleveland cars.

Here, in further explanation, he rubbed the tip of his thumb against his middle and forefinger.

I'll show you a trick of the twelves, and turn him over the thumbs with a trice; I'll make him fly swifter than meditation.

Hearing of the wonderful cures performed by this prince, one of the nuns in the above convent, who had been afflicted for a considerable length of time with a swelling and inflammation extending from the ball of the thumb along the fore arm, and up as high as the armpit, wrote to Prince Hohenlohehaving previously been attended by the most eminent practitioners in London without any apparent benefitto relieve her from her sufferings.

He killed the biggest moose with a blow of his fist, and caught whales with his crooked thumb for a hook.

"ErJukesbury," said the Colonel, mysteriously, "there's a little cognac in the cellar thater" The Colonel jerked his thumb across the hallway with the air of a conspirator.

A seal of red wax had been affixed at either end, and my uncle had apparently used his thumb as a signet.

They cast the thumb under the girdle, gravity; and because they can hardly smell at all their posies are under their girdles.

My grandfather and I went together to the matinee, his great thumb within my fist.

The ceaseless wagging of a wagtail is a mere habit of cheerfulness, like the twirling of her thumbs by an idle Scotswoman.

he said, pointing with his thumb through the half open door.

" People with thumbs like this ought not to be allowed to handle delicate instruments.

I reached for his hair, and he tried to bite my thumb, actually getting it in his mouth, but I jerked it aside and caught his cheek in my grip, my thumb inside the cheek-pouch, and my fingers outside.

There was a book called Glanvil on Witches, which used to lie about in this closet; it was thumbed about, and shewed it had been much read in former times.

When putting on the skins lay them along the Skis from the tip towards the back and run your thumb down the line of the centre groove in the Ski, while you press the skin on evenly over the whole Ski.

He then placed his thumb beneath the slates, and turned them in such a way that the left hand, or top slate, came to be the one furthest from him as it was held behind Dr. Pepper's head.