Sentence: In this connexion we find one printer relieving his troubled soul thus Working for forty editors and scores of authors, every one of whom is as sensitive as a sore thumb, and as lively and interesting as a hornet, no wonder that printers die young, and only pachydermatus, grizzly, mulish specimens get their share of life.
Combination: a sore thumb (root: thumb, modifier: sore)
Property: obvious
Property type: emergent