What is "thumbless"

Usage examples of "thumbless".

It is that beastly Thumbless Hand, no woman could have stood it, not to mention the chance of catching cold when it pulled the blankets off.

One caught hold of a scraggly throat ornamented with gray spongy masses, probably external gills, thrown out by a body that thereafter forgot what they were for, then he jabbed at the captive with a two-fingered thumbless hand.

The Khaa stretched out an arm: The arm just peeled away from its torso, its hand a thumbless black mitten.

He took them for granted, had learned to stay out of range of the painful electric shocks they could give when they were excited or threatened, had been tended by their odd thumbless hands when it would have been unendurable to have near him human telepaths who could read his mind or reach it.

With his partially thumbless left hand, he gave Anne the lightest imaginable slap on the cheek.

Leaving the thumbless archer and his brood, the wayfarers struck through the scattered huts of Emery Down, and out on to the broad rolling heath covered deep in ferns and in heather, where droves of the half-wild black forest pigs were rooting about amongst the hillocks.

Et was impaled on a stake in the Great Square, and next to him was the thumbless Master of Warriors.

And then from beneath his cloak he reached with his thumbless bandage of a hand and scooped up the instrument and the bow, to his chest, quickly bracing it with the other maimed hand.

He was a little, elderly, thumbless man, who gave Cazaril a wide smile that showed a truncated tongue, accounting for a welcome that was a kind of mouthed hum, the meaning made clear by his friendly gestures.

The thumbless groom set down a pail, hurried up to him, bowed, and made welcoming noises.

The man waved his thumbless hand when he saw Cazaril, and hurried his step.

The thumbless man beckoned him through the chamber, furnished up as a sitting room, and out to a little wooden balcony, festooned with twining vines and rose geraniums in pots, overlooking the Temple Square.

There was a young boy, no older than six or seven, who thrust his thumbless hands through the window, grimy palms open and empty.

They are slender-legged, sluggish, and thumbless, with a most perfectly prehensile tail, terminating in a naked palm, which answers for a fifth hand.

Jacob rubbed his battered face with his thumbless hand, and the fury slid aside for an instant.