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Thumb mark

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The mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a book.
The dark spot over each foot in finely bred black and tan terriers.
- Longfellow.

See also: Thumb Thumb



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A colleague returned from a weekend in the Cotswolds to report visiting a secondhand bookshop in which he noticed an entire shelf of pristine, Booker-entered novels, none of which (as the thumb marks made plain) had been read beyond page 21, and most of which had apparently never even been opened at all.
No doubt a beautiful object resting on a prominent foot with what appears to have Cochrane's trademark signature of a slip-dipped thumb mark reminiscent of some types of Japanese pottery.
Then "out of jealousy or simple bitterness" he took the knife and thrust it into his cellmate's chest with such force that it left an impression on the skin that the state pathologist concluded was the attacker's thumb mark.
 
 
 
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