And Mr. Dainopoulos flicked his thumbs outward.
"Command"
William McFee
Then someone, with a deftness of habit that told of long custom, tied his thumbs together, and then his little fingers.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
In the meantime the stout person had given the tipsy one a final departing shove, and now he stood aside, with thumbs crooked in the armpits of his vest, his face glowing with the consciousness of a job well performed.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon