Lombroso gives us very exhaustive reports of the measurements of their skulls and their ears and their noses and their thumbs and their toes, etc.
Turn the palms of the hands to the front, press back the thumbs with the arms extended, and raise them to the rear until they meet above the head, the fingers pointing upwards and the thumbs locked, with the left thumb in front.
Mr. Bubble, rotating his thumbs slowly upon each other, considered that money in profound silence.
This feat is managed by holding the watch with its back to the audience between the fingers and thumbs of the two hands, the hands being on opposite sides of the watch.
For that purpose they tie the toes of the corpse together and the thumbs behind the back, which must obviously make it difficult for the dead man to arise in his might and pursue them.
In other words, that though the creature before him had the tail and thumbs and great toes of a monkey, it was, in all other respects, quite evidently a man.
The thumbs upon his hands and feet are unlike those of the races of Pal-ul-don.
Then he fitted the headdress over his shoulders and stepped from the apartment, to all appearances a priest of the temple of Jad-ben-Otho unless one examined too closely his thumbs and his great toes.
The gund examined him from head to foot, making comments, especially upon the shape and size of his thumbs and great toes.
They make these pledges in the following way: When they wish to make pledges to one another, a third man, standing in the midst of the two, cuts with a sharp stone the inside of the hands along the thumbs of the two making the pledges.
Attention was specially directed to the idiot’s hands: “The thumbs are atrophied, and cannot be opposed to the other fingers.
But in the Eskimo and Indian pictographs the elevated hand, with one or more fingers extended, serves for numeration; and where the extended fingers and thumbs of both hands are represented on an exaggerated scale, it signifies multitude.
No; but thumbs furnish subjects of investigation to the simplest understanding," said my father, modestly.
She had never noticed before how frightfully scarred his thumbs and finger-tips were.
Truth to tell, Haggerty had not expected to find anything; he had not cared to sit idly twiddling his thumbs while the Maharajah vacated his rooms.
Oh, yes: he turns his thumbs up fast enough if the vestal virgins want to have one of his pet fighting men killed.
And when your turn comes, they will remember it against you and turn their thumbs down.
If the vestals had not turned up their thumbs I should have been a dead man.
He was first strung up by the thumbs with notice that he would be cut down as soon as he apologized.
You have hung men up by the thumbs in your regiment?
He kissed both thumbs in token of alliance, showing nothing of the anger which he had experienced at the drunkenness of the feast; then he spoke at length against Carthage, but did not say what brought him among the Barbarians.
Even at the wakes the very people point their thumbs at me when I go down on my own two knees to say a prayer for the dead.
A few of the younger men winked knowingly and turned theirthumbs towards the new-comer.
Ay, tie his thumbs together till the blood burst forth, Sir Thomas," said Gauntlet.
If it fails, then cast her with her thumbs and toes tied across into a pond, and if she sink not then is she certainly a witch.
Her thumbs were blackened and swollen, and the cords had cut into the flesh, while blood trickled down from the puncture in her breast.
Garner sat down in his creaking revolving-chair and thrust his thumbs into the arm-holes of his vest.
He wore no hat nor coat, the night being warm, and one of his fat thumbswas under his broad suspender.
It was as if a priest, praying passionately to his idols, had suddenly raised his eyes to find them with their thumbs to their noses.
Eight [fingers, twothumbs and one arm,] keep moving.
Eight [fingers, twothumbs and two arms,] keep moving.
When the brother came home, the step-sister did as the robber had told her, and fastened her brother's thumbs behind his back.
The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts, and the robber told her that she must take a much stouter cord to bind his thumbs with.
If I were to fasten your thumbs behind your back with a stout silk cord, could you wrench yourself free?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thumbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
