Bogardus pulled a book from the shelf, donned his glasses and rapidly thumbed the pages.

Marion drew a notebook from her purse and thumbed through it rapidly.

He picked up a large red leather hotel directory, sat on the edge of the bed and opened it, thumbing through the pages rapidly.

He took them and thumbed rapidly through them, stopped, then went through them again, more slowly.

The MI6 officer smiled as he thumbed rapidly through the mass of paper.

He thumbed rapidly through the thick-stacked money that it contained.

I reached into the pocket of the car, took out a sheaf of papers and thumbed through them rapidly.

He thumbed through them rapidly, keeping the green sides upward.

He went over to the work-table, studied charts and diagrams briefly, then thumbed rapidly through a book of tables.

With a sense of shock, Roger thumbed rapidly through the bundle of clippings, then returned to read them more carefully.