My childhood wouldn't have been the same without her, and I still have every one of her books (original, well-thumbed copies) on my shelves.

A well-thumbed copy of the International Jew was found in his library.

Mr. Combs began the day by placing a well-thumbed copy of the New Testament on the defense table.

I went over and grabbed their well-thumbed copies of Illustrated Lives.

He's even got props, whipping out a well-thumbed copy of Carra: The Autobiography.

On the ebony side table next to it was a well-thumbed copy of Virgil's Aeneid.

As night fell, Dar wandered to the bookcases and pulled down a well-thumbed copy of the Stoics.

Now run along and genuflect to your well-thumbed copy of Atlas Shrugged.

(But the company hardly means to convey the idea that a well-thumbed copy of Proust serves a girl better than a well-set stone.)

She put the book to one side on top of a pile of well-thumbed copies of The Gentleman's Magazine.