A bookshelf displays an array of well-thumbed cookbooks, and the kettle bubbles on the hob. |
|
All the well-thumbed books are coded and their numbers recorded in the cards which pack the specially designed drawers of the little desk. |
|
I had a well-thumbed copy of the Female Eunuch, given to me by my very socially aware sister. |
|
He carries a foldaway pine stool, a well-thumbed copy of yesterday's Evening Standard and a small frying pan in a crumpled polythene bag. |
|
It's dotted with low glass tables, Eastern religious icons and some well-thumbed books on astrology. |
|
Leaving his boyhood club was like closing the last page on a well-thumbed book. |
|
As one laved one's chest one could conjure up images of bowler hats on the coat rack, well-thumbed Police Gazettes, shoe polish and cigars. |
|
He pulled out a well-thumbed dictionary and began searching for a translation. |
|
His well-thumbed copy of Herodotus, with its intriguing mementos inside, underscores the historic context. |
|
He is fond of waving aloft his well-thumbed copy of the UN charter. |
|
Between the dust covers of our favorite volumes are well-thumbed verses, quotations and simple lines that bring us peace and, sometimes, the needed release of tears. |
|
He reached into a deep pocket of his white coat and produced not a well-thumbed handbook but his iPhone. |
|
He opens the briefcase to reveal hundreds of well-thumbed sheets of paper filled with typewritten words. |
|
Bob still has the book, well-thumbed and well-preserved. |
|
Goat's scant and apocryphal biography is already well-thumbed. |
|
Simon rummaged around and came out with a well-thumbed paperback. |
|