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"Damn the tongs," he thought; "damn the sugar." "Take it in your fingers, goose," she said. Goose! An endearment, a caress. It softened him. His tenderness for Elise came back. "My fingers are all thumbs," he said. "Your thumbs, then. You don't suppose I mind?" There was meaning in her voice, and Mr. Waddington conceived himself to be on the verge of the first exquisite intimacies of love.
After a quarter of an hour, which D'Artagnan and Porthos passed in looking mutually at each other with the white of their eyes, and turning their thumbs in all the different evolutions which go from north to south, a door of the chamber opened and His Greatness appeared, dressed in the undress, complete, of a prelate.
Their Italian neighbor in the next shack had said, "No can maka da living unless da keeds dey work, too. Dey can work. My youngest, he four year and he work good." "Likely we could take Baby along, and Jimmie could watch her while we pick," Grandma said dubiously. "But my fingers are all thumbs when I've got them children on my mind. Somebody's at the door."
He was afterwards thrown into a miserable stable as a prison; water was plentifully poured upon the cold, damp ground on which he stood with mangled feet; his hands were tied behind him by the two thumbs; a rope was passed under his shoulders and fastened to a beam over his head; and in this torturing condition he was left to stand during the night.
Not one of them, as in Italy is often the case, was ever known to cut off his thumbs to avoid the service of Mars." The polity of each race differed widely from that of the other.
By the Court: "It would be impossible to hang you by your thumbs." Prisoner: "My great toes scarcely touched the ground. Under such circumstances I was told to say the same thing at the Public Procurator's Office, and as I feared that I should be tortured there, too, I said 'Yes' to all questions." Some variety was introduced into the treatment of Cho Tok-chan, a Presbyterian pastor, at Chong-ju.
Armorial bearings as now worn by heralds embroidered on the tabard or coat. Ed. A common custom when death takes place. The two great toes are tied together, to make the body look decent; and formerly the hands were placed with the palms together, as if in the attitude of prayer, and were kept in that posture by tying the thumbs together. Ed. Without fail, or in spite of all hindrance. Ed.
As I proceeded the attorney fidgeted, puffed out his cheeks, blew out his breath, twirled his thumbs as I twirled his figures, and grated his teeth as he looked at me sideways, while I concluded a little peroration I had got up for him, which was merely to this effect, that if railway companies yielded to such extortionate demands as were made by this attorney on behalf of the poulterers' company, they would not leave their shareholders a feather to fly with.
Then for five days glorious, warm, growing, blooming days I stayed in town in a state of relapse from gardening of which the sorenesses in the calves of my legs and my thumbs were the strongest symptoms, and listened to my martyred friends' accounts of what Sam was doing to Peter. I also had a bulletin from Peter every day by the rural-delivery route.
I suppose that is why you always have us under your thumbs. No, I'm not trifling. Don't you see that I am fighting for time, that I am trying not to think, that I am putting the thing from me as far as I can, even for a few minutes. Immediately you go, I shall have to face it all again, and alone. You have been very good to me; you don't think I am ungrateful, because I I play the fool?"
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