The smile suddenly vanished, and he cursed as blood shot from his thumb.

I keep sucking the blood from my thumb, so as not to spoil things by messing the sheet.

The next time a doctor wants to take a blood sample from your thumb, tell him to stick it in the ear.

PeUetier twisted the ring from his thumb and held it out.

'Give him this,' he said, easing the ring from his thumb and forcing it into the woman's hands.

She walks about tearing shreds of flesh from her thumb.

The lid did not rise under gentle pressure from his left thumb.

On the contrary, she decided, licking cheese from her thumb.

The young buck having a cast removed from his thumb, almost all better again.

A rusty knife point impaled the table inches from her thumb.