When he discovered a blood-blister under a thumb-nail, which he had received the previous week, his self-identification became doubly sure, and he knew that those unfamiliar hands belonged to Marcus ❋ Unknown (2010)
On compact cameras, sensors are tiny, typically thumb-nail size or smaller. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Reich snapped his thumb-nail against the copper cube as though he were trying to flip a penny to the moon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In particular, Cheles cites the "OK" sign made by Petrarch: "If the first finger touches the middle of the right-hand edge of the thumb-nail with its extremity, the other fingers being relaxed, we shall have a graceful gesture well suited to express approval or to accompany statements of facts, and to mark the distinction between our different points." ❋ Unknown (2008)
On their site, one can go from thumb-nail shot to thumb-nail shot in order to remember the destruction this one quake caused. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Because last I checked, I could–with much greater difficulty–open my Swiss Army boy scout knife the same way, by use of the thumb-nail notch cut into the blade. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: ❋ Unknown (2008)
“You have my full permission, my dear Cuirassier, but you will not gain this much,” and the young Maitre des Requetes put his polished thumb-nail under an upper tooth with a little mocking click. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The entity known as Harriet Klausner is merely a regurgitation device that spews positive thumb-nail sketches across the land in aid of publishers and book-sellers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I realize state seals and artworks are different animals and different laws may apply but I'm thinking at the end of the day, in a game, someone can either say they were only playing a game, or only making a thumb-nail type reference, or only using it for educational purposes so it would all fit under "fair use" doctrine. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They use for snuff boxes small cocoa nut shells brought from Sennaar, or very small gourds; like the inhabitants of the Hedjaz, they lay the snuff upon the thumb-nail, and never take it between the finger and thumb. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Again, the flashes of mordant humour, which not your godliest Irishman can ever wholly subdue; or the sudden, caustic, thumb-nail sketch of friend or foe: these were so familiar to him as to seem his own: while the practical Irish habit of stripping things of false sentiment was homely and refreshing. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Round her throat were two lines that might have been scored by a thumb-nail in wet clay; and below the ribs were two more — the lines of sitting beauty — deeply indented and wavy, like the lines carved by ripples on the sea-shore. ❋ Unknown (2003)
With the implement in the right hand, between the thumb and the second finger — the sharp edge resting on the thumb-nail — the beans are planed, the operator being able to regulate the thickness of the shaving to ❋ Unknown (2003)
I measured, and found that the penknife would have killed Mr. Harley if it had gone but half the breadth of my thumb-nail lower, so near was he to death. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The oilcloth which covers the long table is so greasy that a waggish externe will write his name on the surface, using his thumb-nail as a style. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“That Annie?” asked Uncle Pentstemon, pointing a horny thumb-nail. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the middle of summer, small incisions are made in the bark; and the juice, which immediately issues, is taken off with the thumb-nail, and put into ❋ Unknown (2003)
