... Wolverstone hooked his thumbs into his broad leather belt, and from his great height looked down sardonically upon Lord Julian, tall man though his lordship was... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...From his crotch in the tree Tarzanwatched his companion, noting the preponderance of human attributeswhich were doubtless accentuated by the paradoxical thumbs, great toes,and tail...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
..." The tocador or performer brings out soft and pleasing tones with the sides of the thumbs and fingers...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...Aboh put his thumbs up above his head, and then with his hands described a fat animal with long hair, and made a bellowing noise...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...I'm gwineter hang yer up by yer thumbs en' take ev'y bit er yer black hide off'nyer, en' den I'm gwine ter sell yer ter de fus' specilater w'at comes'long buyin' niggers fer ter take down ter Alabam'...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...Breeding males lack nuptial excrescences on the thumbs...
William E. Duellman 「Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca」
...When any one yawns in their presencethe Hindoos always snap their thumbs, believing that this willhinder the soul from issuing through the open mouth...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Closing down only the thumb indicates six; and so on as before, until the thumbs and all the fingers of both hands are closed, whichindicates ten...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...This is not to say that they cannotreckon beyond two, for they can, by using the fingersand thumbs, and beginning always with the thumbof the right hand, reckon with tolerable accuracy up toten...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...So while we'reat the flying field I'm going to be holding back the triggers of theseguns with my thumbs...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
...But as human beings have only eight fingers andtwo thumbs it is by no means clear how the wordcame to be used for twelfths of the disc of theSun or Moon instead of tenths...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...And throwing out his stomach, he leanedback in his chair and plugged the armholes of his vest with his thumbs...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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