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Buck Mulligan made way for him to scramble past and, glancing at Haines and Stephen, crossed himself piously with his thumbnail at brow and lips and breastbone. Seymour's back in town, the young man said, grasping again his spur of rock. Chucked medicine and going in for the army. Ah, go to God! Buck Mulligan said. Going over next week to stew. You know that red Carlisle girl, Lily? Yes.
Here, she said. What does that mean? He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail. Metempsychosis? Yes. Who's he when he's at home? Metempsychosis, he said, frowning. It's Greek: from the Greek. That means the transmigration of souls. O, rocks! she said. Tell us in plain words. He smiled, glancing askance at her mocking eyes. The same young eyes. The first night after the charades.
It was always hard to manage a halfpenny was generally needed to get it open at all. This time Bobbie somehow got it open with her thumbnail. She broke the nail, and it hurt horribly. Then she cut the boy's bootlace, and got the boot off. She tried to pull off his stocking, but his leg was dreadfully swollen, and it did not seem to be the proper shape.
He then made an incision, about five inches in length, through the skin and walls of the abdomen, midway between the pelvis bone and the last rib on the left side, passing in his right hand, cutting away the ovaries from the Fallopian tubes with the thumbnail. The opening on the side was then closed by means of the interrupted suture.
Higher than Goatfell they are, with streams of fire pouring down their glens." "A most marvellous country!" exclaimed Alpin. "I wonder much if I shall ever behold that land." "There you will have no such lordly feast as that we have just risen from," added Roderic, picking his teeth with his broad thumbnail. Alpin and Allan watched him, hoping he would tell them something of his roving life.
He raised his glasses to stare at the horizon. "You are right," he said. "You are right.... It is land." He gnawed his thumbnail as was his habit when in perplexity. The next moment the seaman pointed again. "The Hunters," he said. Von Sperrgebiet gave one glance ahead and kicked the man down through the open hatchway of the conning-tower. He himself followed, and the hatch closed.
Miss Goldrick is very conscientious, and always keeps her thumbnail against the questions printed on the lesson-leaf, so as not to ask twice, "What did the disciples then do?" It were a grave error to suppose that no secular learning is acquired in the modern Sabbath-school.
"But I had a light on it!" insisted Harris. "It's thar, I tell ye, and I made sure. I don't come botherin' of ye with no cock-and-bull story like this unless I know. I held a bull's-eye light on it and it showed plain as Cape Cod Light. One of them chists got sprung, and I thought maybe I'd made a mistake when I put the light on it, but when I rubbed my thumbnail on it I knew I was right.
Miss Keller reads by means of embossed print or the various kinds of braille. The ordinary embossed book is made with roman letters, both small letters and capitals. These letters are of simple, square, angular design. The small letters are about three-sixteenths of an inch high, and are raised from the page the thickness of the thumbnail.
It was all as new and delightful as the steady 'scrunch' of the snow-shoes and the dazzling silence of the hills. Beyond the very furthest range, where the pines turn to a faint blue haze against the one solitary peak a real mountain and not a hill showed like a gigantic thumbnail pointing heavenward. 'And that's Monadnock, said the man from the West; 'all the hills have Indian names.
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