The archivist was silent while Tiamak looked for the well-thumbed pages that described Ineluki creating Sor- row in the forges below Asu'a.

Susannah knew how the kid must feel; their lives might very well be in those grimy, well-thumbed pages.

She was unable to read the book's well-thumbed pages, but it was a point of honor with her that they not be falsified.

It was old, the leather cover abraded and worn, and there was sand between the well-thumbed pages.

Leafing through the well-thumbed pages, he quickly found the item that had stirred his memory.

After I replaced the black-covered and well-thumbed pages in my pack, I stared into emptiness.

And still the problem remained unsolved, space-time refused to warp for him, the equations remained dark unfathomed squiggles on the now grubby, well-thumbed pages of his mind.

Being the biggest may be a well-thumbed page in Detroit's playbook; being one of the best has the makings of a long-term plan.

Dreading his bed, George took refuge in his office, reading the well-thumbed pages of a book.