My hand burned and pounded as if I had hit the base of my thumb with a rock.

Something was driving itself against the base of his thumb - a hard, edged object.

Hold the clam with the hinge against the base of your thumb.

Blood was flowing from a deep cut in the base of Wheatley's thumb.

The area at the base of his left thumb, where he was hit initially, also bothered him.

A slash ran across the base of his thumb, scarcely more than skin deep, but blood welled out.

The staff landed with a crack at the base of his thumb.

The blood was his own, flowing from a small wound near the base of his thumb.

He urged the base of his thumb around the catch.

She jerked her hand back and sucked at the base of her thumb.