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As I thumbed through the pages, I found a red rose, perfectly pressed between the passages.

He couldn't afford the fare; he thumbed his way all over Europe.

Eva thumbed her nose at her mother's command to stay home.

Intimate relationships were limited to a stack of old nudie magazines with well-thumbed pages, which he kept on the floor beneath his cot.

I thumbed through my copy of Escape Velocity on more time to see if there was anything I'd forgotten.

The big boy always thumbed his nose at the weak boy , one of his classmate .

It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use.

The bid also represents a sharp departure from Microsoft's well-thumbed playbook of building new businesses on its own.

The boss thumbed up and praised me for my great achievement this month.

The doctor thumbed through the rest of the manuscript.

Fascinated, Harry thumbed through the rest of the envelope's contents.

He thumbed his way to Boston.

Until now, Tehran's theocrats have thumbed their nose at the world, knowing their petrodollars have been beyond reach.

As I thumbed through the pages, the image of my friend rose up in my mind.

Another officer checked each ticket; a third lazily thumbed through our passports; a fourth stamped them; a fifth scanned them.

the other American students once in a while smiled and thumbed up at us.

But when he stubbornly thumbed his nose at the Kremlin instead, Mr Medvedev had to act in order to avoid looking weak.

As soon as he checked out the book from the library, he thumbed through its pages by the corridor light.

She took the novel down and busily thumbed it through.

But I bet it was my 2 friends that thumbed It down just to annoy me.

you ' ve thumbed through it , taken in the pictures , scanned the contents and the translations.

He thumbed through the report; She leafed through the volume.

Europeans have long thumbed their noses at America's bloated health-care system.

he thumbed through a big , black book , full of names , hunting for jordache.

They walked as far as the cross-roads, and then thumbed a life to the railway station.

In short, Mr. Abe has thumbed his nose at orthodoxy, with excellent results.

The thin phone book was grimy from being thumbed by filling station hands.

You want to have sex with person you thumbed.

Thus the enthusiastic dumb man thumbed the humble man' s umbrella.

Judy thumbed her nose at convention by wearing old clothes.

He thumbed the pages of a book.

I thumbed the pages and saw strange words and strange names.

We sit on a couch on set, a well-thumbed script beside her.

He thumbed through the book.

The punk kids just thumbed their noses at us and walked off.

We thumbed a lift to London for the weekend.

She has thumbed through the new dictionary.

After Bob ran into the house he thumbed his nose at Tom through the window.

It can move in opposition to, or against, the other fingers, so the thumbed hand can grasp food and other objects readily.

He thumbed a lift by the roadside.

A clerk thumbed through the files looking for a letter.

i thumbed through the report quickly on the train