I chose the second alternative, raced back down the hall, and thumbed my way into my apartment.
Verkan Vall thumbed on his safety and stood motionless, while the servants advanced, took Sirzob's body by the heels, and dragged it over beside Marnark's.
Then Dirzed the Assassin drew the pistol he had lately received as a gift, hefted it in his hand, thumbed off the safety, and aimed at the back of Garnon's head.
That night the door of Old Man Curry's tack room swung gently open, and the aged horseman, looking up from his well-thumbed copy of the Old Testament, nodded to an expected visitor.
Both guns began jumping with delight as Larkin thumbed the releases.
With bitterest venom McGee thumbed his trigger releases as he caught a fleeting glimpse of the Albatross in the ring sight.
He had thumbed it well in past years, searching it for passages of violence and denunciation.
He had just started for Slow Down Ranch armed with his greasy, well- thumbed Bible like a weapon in his pocket, when he heard a voice call him.
Cheerfulness was a personality trait Manet had thumbed out for him.
From morn to night he thumbed and pushed about the ductile clay.
He did this so far as he was able by producing a well-thumbed copy of the "Pilgrim's Progress," the leaves of which Miss Herbert condescended to turn daintily over until she was quite terrified by the picture of the combat with Apollyon.
He asked me a few more questions, then thumbed a button centered in a ring of grime on the wall behind him.
He crossed to his desk, thumbed a lever and spoke to someone outside.
My grammars I regarded as mines whose ores were to enrich me; and my well-thumbed copy of Telemachus, and an odd volume of Lessing's comedies, were in themselves stores of pleasure and amusement.
And while I was still bewildered, he drew from an inner pocket a small, well-thumbed volume which I took from him and saw to be entitled "One Hundred Masterpieces of the Louvre.
To my acute distress he here thumbed me in the ribs and laughed again.
He thumbed over another page, thrust his finger between the sheet and turned to the photos.
The prim lady who knew a gentleman when she saw one, raised her brows and rapidly thumbed over a filing-card system.
He thumbedthe sheath of papers he had collected on the Stockbridge case.
Mike the Angel thumbed the switch, and his secretary's face appeared on the screen.
Just a second, Commander," he said as he thumbedthe phone switch.
Lieutenant Keku thumbed the opener to Mellon's stateroom, shoved the door aside, stepped in, and slapped at the switch plaque.
Books were also a source of great amusement and interest to many of the men who were studiously inclined, as the well-thumbed volumes in our library soon testified.
The well-thumbed old doctor's prescription she had purloined even back in the hotel days, and embargo and legislation were daily making more and more furtive and prohibitive the traffic in drugs.
The prisoner at the bar thumbed his derby hat after the immemorial dry-fingered fashion of the hunted meek, his mouth like an open wound puckering to close.
The long evenings full of the smell of tallow; maps that curled under the fingers; the well-thumbed letters from Aaron Turkletaub, older brother to Mosher and already a successful pieceworker on skirts in Brooklyn.
Then, still pensive, he thumbed over a pile of flimsy.
He could descry nothing, but pointing his forefinger along the barrel to where he thought an object crouched, he thumbed the hammer.
The bartender read a much-thumbed letter, and I builded a fort of my pile of dominoes.
Their next business was to collect the treasures, including a few well-thumbed books, which Roger wished to take with him, and which he at once placed in the bottom of the chest.
But best beloved of books, I ween, Are those which one perceives Are hallowed by ashes dropped between The yellow, well-thumbed leaves.
From my encounter with my bookseller I went straight home and took down my favorite copy of the "Decameron" and thumbed it over very tenderly; for you must know that I am particularly attached to that little volume.
I had now a good deal of time to myself, and thumbed over several books, completing my reading of Shakspeare, to which I have already alluded.
Here, as in so many places, I saw the well-worn cover and much-thumbed pages of Self Help.
I saw several of these diaries, well thumbed by their authors after having been laboured at for a year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thumbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
