My right ankle and my left wrist and one thumb and both great toes are swollen sufficiently to more or less impair their usefulness, and I am well mottled with bruises elsewhere.
There was forty-sivin times I thought I had mine," admitted Flannery, "but every time whin I took up me thumb he had gone some other place.
I could put me thumb on him this minute, if he would but wait 'till I did it.
Holding our razor firmly in the right hand we take our specimen in the thumb and index finger of the left hand.
A straight thumb will be out of the danger zone of a slipping razor.
Killing may best be accomplished by means of a killing bottle, failing this a hard nip on the body, between thumb and finger, will do, but it must be no half-hearted proceeding or the insect will be injured without being killed.
With the thumb, the stem is pressed firmly against the first joint of the index finger and the first joint of the thumb must not be bent upwards.
With thumb and finger bring the glasses into close contact, so that the milk forms a thin film.
There shot into my mind a hope that Olalla herself might be my helper, and I turned and went down stairs, still keeping my thumb upon the wound.
The blood spurted from my wrist; and with an instantaneous quietude and command of myself, I pressed my thumb on the little leaping fountain, and reflected what to do.
To be young once more, and bite my thumb At the world and all its cares with you, I'd Give no inconsiderable sum.
Take a small piece of cinnamon, hold your nose tightly, rather high up, between the thumb and finger, and begin chewing it.
Just try, as you read, to draw with the forefinger and thumb of your right hand an imaginary human profile on the page on which these words are printed.
Then, again, draw with your left thumb and forefinger another imaginary profile, and you will find, for the same reason, that the face in this case looks rightward.
Try now to draw it with the profile to the right, and you will find it requires a far greater effort of the thumb and fingers.
Having so flaccid a cheek that the parish barber, who shaves you, is obliged to introduce his thumb into your mouth to give it a proper projection, cutting his thumb in this position with the razor.
And the king put his thumb to his lips and turned another page.
It is as if General Tom Thumb were to grow to a decent size, and still go on imitating Napoleon, and insisting on people paying a shilling to see his smallness.
You may convince yourself of this, by observing the condition of those ladies who take particular notice of General Tom Thumb at the Egyptian Hall, during his hours of performance.
Having selected the locality for instruction during the day, he put his forefinger and thumb into his mouth, and emitted a whistle that went over half the country.
For whilst Reilly and his captors were engaged in a fierce and powerful conflict, he placed his fore-finger and thumb in his mouth, from which proceeded a whistle so piercingly loud and shrill that it awoke the midnight echoes around them.
The moment ever your children, boys, are able to give a squall, clap their forefinger and thumb in their mouth, and leave the rest to nature.
He wiped his finger and thumb on the tail of his coat.
When he had laid her down, she opened her eyes wide, stared him in the face for a moment, as if she knew all about everything except just what she was looking at, put her thumb in her mouth, and was fast asleep.
Once more she took her thumbfrom her mouth to give a little scream, and did not put it in again.
I wish I was a bird," and put her thumb in her mouth again.
Between her thumb and forefinger was a bit of red, which she was waving gleefully as she came towards them.
The flow of paint at the nozzle is controlled by a small plug valve and spring lever, on which the operator keeps his thumb while working, and which, on release, closes automatically.
Any carpenter can imagine the advantage of a drill which has merely to be forced against its work, the movement of a small lever by the thumb doing the rest!
An empty phial, but--" Holding the little bottle up between his thumband forefinger, he turned it slowly about until the label faced them.
A jerk of Hexford's thumb in Zadok's direction emphasised this statement.
Honest" Wetherbee shifted a thumbto his throat and smiled into his face.
Such people as that rat Van Goor over there--" He jerked a thumb toward the bulbous-eyed man.
He hooked a thumbtoward the mountains that wall the almost unknown North Coast.
This can be demonstrated by drawing a piece of tape tightly around the lower part of the chest of a vigorous adult, and confining it with the thumb and finger.
He wiled the pain from my thumb when 'twas crushed in our printing press.
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite my thumb, sir.
I will bite my thumb at them; which is disgrace to them if they bare it.
The right arm must then be held out with the palm open, the fingers straight and close, the thumb almost as distant from them as it will go, and the flat of the hand neither horizontal nor vertical, but exactly between both.
I held the dagger so that the edge was above the thumb and the fist, and struck directly out, neither from above nor from below.
And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
Press a little of the syrup between the thumb and finger.
It has a very fine grain, and can easily be distinguished from ordinary flour by rubbing a little between the thumb and forefinger.
The archer, nothing loath, drew bow, and with incredible swiftness shot one after another five shafts that pierced fingers and thumb of the glove, the first arrow still quivering while the last struck into its place.
