 | John Johnson - Printers - 1824 - 648 pages
...which he loosens from the rest of the heap by drawing the bar k of the nail of his right thumb nimbly over the bottom part of the heap, (but in the reiteration care should be taken to draw the thumb on the margin, or between the gutters, that the sheet may not smear or set... | |
 | Thomas Curson Hansard - Printing - 1825 - 1114 pages
...of his body a little backwards towards the heap, the better to see that he takes but one sheet off, which he loosens from the rest of the heap by drawing...and, receiving the near end of the sheet with his left-hand fingers and thumb, catches it with his right hand about two inches within the further edge... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - Booksellers and bookselling - 1839 - 1266 pages
...little backwards i heap, the better to see that he takes but one sheet off, which he loosens from N the rest of the heap by drawing the back of the nail...receiving the near end of the sheet with his left hand fingers and thumb, catches it with his right hand about two inches within the further edge of... | |
 | Thomas F. Adams - Printing - 1857 - 300 pages
...of his body a little backwards towards the heap, the better to see that he takes but one sheet off, which he loosens from the rest of the heap by drawing...receiving the near .end of the sheet with his left hand fingers and thumb, catches it by the further edge with his right hand, about four inches from... | |
 | Bruce Michelson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 332 pages
...of his body a little backwards towards the heap, the better to see that he takes but one sheet off, which he loosens from the rest of the heap by drawing...receiving the near end of the sheet with his left hand fingers and thumb, catches it by the further edge with his right hand, about four inches from... | |
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... but nimbly twists the upper part of his body a little backwards towards the heap, the better to see that he takes but one sheet off, which he loosens from the rest of the heap by drawing the back of the nail of his right thumb quickly over the bottom... 