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Updated: June 28, 2025
It was a very small much-thumbed book a religious story for infants, given her by her mother when she had first learn'd to read. While they were all keeping this solemn stillness-broken only by the suppress'd sobs of those who stood and watch'd for the passing away of the girl's soul a confusion of some one entering rudely, and speaking in a turbulent voice, was heard in an adjoining apartment.
Marjoram took from the cottage with pious love an ancient and much-thumbed book, on whose fly-leaf was written 'Jason Fletcher, His Bible. Then, having no longer any reason to conceal the early history of the deceased, she related to the village gossips as a warning against trusting too fully to evil appearances the following
Bäader inscribed my name in a much-thumbed, ink stained register, which looked like a neglected ship's log, and then added his own. This, by the by, Bäader never neglected. Neither did he neglect a certain little ceremony always connected with it.
It was a much-thumbed cookbook, and it was open where two once-blank pages bore his wife's handwriting. On the first page, under the printed heading "Things to Remember," he read these sentences: "That rice swells till every dish in the house is full, and that spinach shrinks till you can't find it. "That beets boil dry if you look out the window.
Soon, however, Stuart drew from his pocket a blue-bound and much-thumbed manuscript and fell to scribbling upon it with a stubby pencil. Into this preoccupied trance broke a somewhat heavy framed man whose smoothly-shaved face bore, despite traces of equal stress, certain remnants of an inexhaustible humor.
"Now, I heard about you boys and your air-ship, and I heard, too, that you was planning a little trip to Africa and thought you might like to combine business and pleasure." He drew from his pocket a much-thumbed, crudely drawn map and spread it out on the table.
There was a rag carpet on the floor; a pine bureau neatly varnished; a half dozen plain but whole chairs; a bedstead, upon which the bedding was scrupulously neat; a pine table, upon which lay a much-thumbed leather-bound family Bible and a few religious books; and between the windows, over the bureau, hung a common engraving of Christ upon the Cross.
Trotter was not ignorant of the fact that steel of this character was used almost exclusively in the construction of high grade safes and bank vaults. He stood up, suddenly, and crossed the room to his little bookshelf. From this shelf he took down a much-thumbed "World Almanac," a paper-bound volume which for months past had been serving as his only guide to New York.
An hour after arrival, having refused the offer of refreshments, which in such places are not always refreshing, I betook myself to a comparatively cool back verandah to further investigate my temporary surroundings. A yellow-haired girl with rings on her fingers sprawled in a hammock reading a much-thumbed circulating-library novel and eating peaches.
There was an old divan, with a patched, faded covering of silk, and a grandfather's arm-chair near it, the cushion of which the general knew, by the long years of experience, to be hard as a stone. A round table stood near the divan, covered with a shabby woollen cover, to hide the much-thumbed, dull polish.
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