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Thumbless Mitt or Wristlet The thumbless mitt or wristlet requires one half hank of knitting-yarn, gray, with No. 2 Red Cross needles or No. 11 or No. 12 steel needles.

From Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet by Anonymous

Out from the sparkling mist stretched two hands, enormously long, six-fingered, thumbless, a faint tracery of golden scales upon their white backs, utterly unhuman and still in some strange way beautiful, radiating power and—all womanly!

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

He held three pennies deftly in his thumbless hand.

From The Great Discovery by Maclean, Norman

Yet the apparently thumbless hands were constantly occupied in bearing gifts of all kinds to his friends.

From Jan and Her Job by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)

On the way, the thought of the damned and thumbless Benny accompanied him.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar