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Updated: July 28, 2025
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 a nicety. It is women's work to collect the beans, make the shell-planes, and do the shredding. In the first place the beans are cooked, the oven consisting of hot stones covered with leaves.
These little baby flat fish, not much larger than your thumb-nail, crowd in the shallow, sandy parts of the sea near the coast. There they often end their lives in the shrimp-trawl, as we have already noticed. After leaving this "infants' school" the Plaice, and other small flat fish, go to deeper water. There they feed and grow fat. Our fishermen know where to find them.
Wilbur queried interestedly. "Rain?" "Rain would only make it worse. Have you ever noticed, son, that when somethin' pretty bad comes along, there's always somethin' else comes to sort o' take off the smart? Nothin's bad all the time. Well, this time, there came a fly." "A fly?" "Yes, son, a fly, lookin' somethin' like a wasp, only not as long as your thumb-nail.
"May I ask what I can do for you?" he asked, picking up his stethoscope and tapping it gently against his thumb-nail. "Yes, I was just going to tell you. I heard of your coming, but I couldn't get round before " He broke into a nervous little cough. "Yes?" said the doctor encouragingly. "I should have been here three weeks ago, but you know how these things get put off."
He had seen this same Peter handle a shot-gun: you'd think the little devil had been born with a gun in his fist! He had a thumb-nail vision of Mrs. McMasters collecting his life-insurance getting new clothes, and the piano she had been plaguing him for, too, and her mother always in the house with her. He turned purple. "You why, you beggarly whelp! You you damned Champneys!" he roared.
"But sure-ly didn't he send for 'un? Let the master have the row himself, then; that's what I'd do, my lady," added Hannah, seeing that her ladyship still stood trembling in doubt, biting her thumb-nail. "You couldn't go up to the master yourself, could you now, Hannah?" said Lady Scatcherd in her most persuasive tone.
"How can I know whether I want to 'ear it or not when I don't know wot it is?" said Mr. Silk, judiciously. Mr. Kybird sat biting his thumb-nail, then he looked up suddenly. "'Melia," he said, with an outburst of desperate frankness, "'Melia is crying 'er eyes out." Mr. Silk, with a smothered exclamation, started up from his chair and regarded him eagerly. "If she knew I'd been 'ere," pursued Mr.
Hogarth pencilled on his thumb-nail a striking face in a crowd that he wished to preserve; Dickens with his transcendent memory chronicled in his mind whatever of interest met his eye or reached his ear, any time or anywhere. Speaking of memory one day, he said the memory of children was prodigious; it was a mistake to fancy children ever forgot anything.
Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her thou, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, indefinitely.
Then, very slowly, he put one hand in his pocket and drew out the whole bundle of money. It looked opulent, it looked fulsome. "'Savinien, he said. 'I will do even more than you ask. Two-fifty, is it not? See, now, here is five hundred, and I will toss you whether I pay you five hundred or nothing." "He balanced a coin on his thumb-nail, and smiled at me sidelong.
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