Can see now the well-thumbed log in the agency front office.    From Wordnik.com.  [you you...mugwump! you know nothing..you you...DEMOCRAT!] Reference

I already have a couple of well-thumbed editions lying around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Lousy Bird Watcher] Reference

Son One asked, studying something in the well-thumbed magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhattan Is My Beat]

"Now just look at this," he said, opening his well-thumbed Baedeker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

A well-thumbed copy of Justice as Fairness: a Restatement and a dream?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["That is not Michigan," elites exclaim, looking at how Michigan citizens voted.] Reference

A well-thumbed edition ofPalgrave's Golden Treasury contained only poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

He sought around in his pockets and drew out his well-thumbed cheroot case.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Possessed]

He began to read through his well-thumbed ten-volume edition of Famous Crimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Gossip]

It fell open to a particular place which had been well-thumbed and much underlined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartfire]

Peter reached out for the well-thumbed report that lay behind him on the cupboard top.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Beach]

My own well-thumbed copy with all the handwritten notes in the margins will do just fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

Now reach an arm out to the sideboard, groaning with old books and well-thumbed magazines.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I cooked last night.] Reference

After I replaced the black-covered and well-thumbed pages in my pack, I stared into emptiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

Leafing through the well-thumbed pages, he quickly found the item that had stirred his memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fountains of Paradise]

"Rob Roy" and "Old Mortality," and the well-thumbed and dog-eared copy of Robert Burns 'Poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

A half dozen well-thumbed TV Guides were stacked on the table, no other reading matter visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brannon's Choice]

It is a household must-have, and a well-thumbed copy can be found in kitchens throughout France.    From Wordnik.com.  [se reposer sur ses lauriers - French Word-A-Day] Reference

I've been wanting to read this for a while, and scored a well-thumbed copy in the priced section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picking Up at Lifeline Bookfest.] Reference

Instead, he pulls a well-thumbed copy of Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" from his briefcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans] Reference

And stuffed into Cary's back pocket, a well-thumbed paperback novel, one that she had read and loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

Susannah knew how the kid must feel; their lives might very well be in those grimy, well-thumbed pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

She picked up the well-thumbed copy of the Richmond Examiner an anxious Jim had pored over on the porch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Corpse is a Corpse]

If someone requests your well-thumbed Jaws, choose a fresh title from among more than 4.4 million books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sign of the times: Going swapping, not shopping] Reference

He walked over to the bookcase and picked up his well-thumbed Colors of White, turning to the second half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colors of Chaos]

His stare was so intense she felt as though he were inside her head, reading her mind like a well-thumbed book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man From High Mountain]

But it was worth noting, which Willi Kohl now did in his well-thumbed notebook, after a lick of the pencil tip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garden of Beasts]

She opened the cover of the well-thumbed book, turning the pages until she reached the last one with entries on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

But, they spent their summer cheering Mitch McConnell at AstroTurf town halls, they have a well-thumbed copy of Glenn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Thy Birther] Reference

My well-thumbed dictionary defines job as "an individual piece of work or task, an occupation, a duty or responsibility".    From Wordnik.com.  [Is your writing a job or a vocation?] Reference

The woman, thin-lipped and unsmiling, carries a well-thumbed book of poetry and has a spiral notebook tucked under her arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Underbelly of Technology] Reference

I'm glad I thought of this because it made me get down my well-thumbed copy of Hagen's book for the first time in quite a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Title Changes] Reference

Other books will be written about Barack Obama's time in the White House; this snapshot of 2009 will be a durable, well-thumbed guide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review Roundup] Reference

I sat and she reached to a shelf full of well-thumbed mystery novels and pulled down what looked like a restaurant menu and gave it to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrows]