Thumbs
[θʌmz]
Examples
- He suggested it, by creasing his face with his two thumbs, from the corners of his mouth to his ears. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There was nobody at all disposed to contest the point, as it happened; and so, on he went, with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, like a lamb. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I think I shall trade, also, said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They suffocated some in mud, and suspended others by the feet, or the head, or the thumbs, kindling fires below them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Because man had ten fingers and thumbs, he learned to count in tens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No, no, I thank you, answered Smith, putting on a pair of his thickest beaver gloves as though to defend his thumbs. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He ran his finger along the scar; put his thumbs together over the kneecap and rocked the knee gently with his fingers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The first man’s ten fingers and thumbs represented units; the second man represented tens, and the third hundreds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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