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.

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

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

I run my thumbnail along the edges of it.