Meanings of own thumb in English

In Modeg you actually press your lips to the back of your own thumb.

Turnball licked the blood rune on his own thumb.

Simon Quinn was listening to a young man describe how he'd sliced off his own thumb.

He took the print from the girl and held it between his own thumb and forefinger.

Intuiting what she expected, Dace pressed his own thumb into the opposite side of the disk from hers.

He almost laughed aloud, seeing it as just the shape of his own thumb, nail and knuckle and all.

Cutting your own thumb off.

If the General damaged his own thumb on it, I feel sure that I would have been remanded back to prison.

His fingers were slippery with blood and he got only half the brand, and managed to slice his own thumb, too.

Michael watched him, put some yarn round his own thumb in the same way, caught the knack, and twisted the yarn also.

In one scene, a con cuts off his own thumb as a form of deference to the prison boss (Damian Lewis).

Almost every horse-hoof in a large circuit of miles was known to him-aswell, he would remark, as the nail of his own thumb.

Justice Palmer said the stepmother described McRae's expression as "completely blank", saying he only stopped stabbing her when he cut his own thumb.

Medora, she felt sure, would have lent a hand without asking one to give up, in return, one's own thumb and forefinger....

I put my own thumbs on these two dark spots to see if-whenwhat was it?

At last Jane opted for raising her own thumbs in a mirror of the Todd salute.