Definitionadj. (of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning
Last update: November 1, 2015
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The next few happy years were devoted to his profession and a good deal of miscellaneous reading, especially of Shakespeare (he learnt English in order to compare the original with his well-thumbed German version) and Homer. [Please select]
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Thumbed pages: read and read. [Please select]
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He pulled out the manuscript Gospel as he spoke, and turning over the well-thumbed leaves, read the words-- "`Jesus saith." [Please select]
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It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. [Please select]
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Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography. [Please select]
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As he mused he idly thumbed the pages of a magazine. [Please select]
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As they rode across the valley the mullah thumbed a long string of beads. [Please select]
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The collector handed us a well thumbed copy of the Red Book. [Please select]
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It was a very old volume, thumbed by generations of readers. [Please select]
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Marguerite turned the leaf; but she found that the other pages on the theme were too thumbed and faint to be legible. [Please select]
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There were the books, held up to common gaze, that a beloved parent had thumbed with affection. [Please select]
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