f. parmağıyla çevirmek (sayfa), yıpratmak (kitap)
i. başparmak
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. Gabriel Byrne
The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor.
The matter is a perfectly trivial one-he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat-but there are points in connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and even of instruction.
The sabre or saber is a kind of backsword that usually but not always has a curved, single-edged blade and a rather large hand guard, covering the knuckles of the hand as well as the thumb and forefinger.
Then holding the pages between his finger and thumb he said, Friend John, to you with so much experience already, and you too, dear Madam Mina, that are young, here is a lesson.
Well, said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?
