How To Use Thimble In A Sentence

You could wait until you've got only a thimbleful of gas in there, but why not fill up now and forget about it for the next 60,000 miles?
In front of each god was a miniature steel plate and a tumbler the size of a large thimble.
The feast begins with a few hunks of soft onion bread and a thimbleful of an intensely rich roasted-eggplant garlic spread.
He had tasted it as a prisoner of war in Germany, and the wine, a thimbleful in a mustard jar, was underripe and short on the finish. Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.

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He often requires performers to play in unconventional ways or use unusual objects as instruments - in the band, players produce sounds from tuned wine glasses, tam-tams and maracas and use metal thimbles on their strings.
Tamara, without haste, with a pin refastens the fabric more conveniently on her knee, smooths the seam down with the thimble, and speaks, without raising the narrowed eyes, her head bent just Yama: the pit
Then she would don a thimble, put a dint in the cookie, and fill it with jam.
I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
All materials (cellulose Soxhlet thimbles, silica wool, vials) were cleaned with analytical grade organic solvents prior to use.
BTW in the picture above, you can see I pinned the pleats to the middle zipper section: I had to sew them by hand (and sewing through naughahyde without a thimble is rough, I'll tell you!). Purse Diary: Nighttime Sewing Marathon #2
Margret had always hated thimbles; useless things, they never stayed on the finger long enough to serve their purpose.
Order a thimble of strong, raki-spiked elliniki coffee and hobnob with black-shirted shepherds listening to Cretan music on Radio Kriti FM at the kafeneion in the central square, then pay a call at the corner house, cluttered with memorabilia, where sweet-voiced Nikos Xylouris grew up. Insiders' guide to Greece
Whenever one of us would pour a thimbleful into his cup, the other two would jealously measure the outpouring with their eyes.
-- Henry B. Pitner, La Porte, Ind. -- This invention consists of an iron thimble or slieve provided on each end in the inside with a screw thread into which are fitted ends of brass or composition, or other metal softer than iron, in such a way that said metallic ends will not turn in the box, and so that the axle bears only upon the softer metal. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or Over the Teacups
Just a thimbleful of such water is sufficient to transform a healthy person, in hours, into a deathly ill cholera sufferer.
a shabby little hussif, containing a thimble, scissors, needles and some skeins of unbleached thread. The Wings of the Morning
He has just a thimbleful of insight into human behavior.
A thimble could be a tailor or someone with a thimble fetish. Ridley Scott Locked into Directing a Monopoly Movie « FirstShowing.net
To play fast and loose now means to behave in a deceitful or irresponsible manner. shell game This old gambling game (earlier known as thimblerig), in which the operator openly places a pea under one of three walnut shells, then rapidly shifts the shells around and challenges a sucker to bet on the location of the pea, has given its name to any kind of chicanery or subterfuge. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
To add to his challenges, Likes must deal with a high volume of brush such as thimbleberry, twinberry, elderberry, and fireweed.
He pulled a thimble off the end of his finger and put it in his pocket. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Tom's evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many standard country legends as doing a lively retail business in the Metropolis; nor did it mark him out as the prey of ring-droppers, pea and thimble-riggers, duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers, who are, perhaps, a little better known to the Police. Martin Chuzzlewit
Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
As you are now aware, you can put my knowledge of stock-handling law, rules, regulations and practices in a single thimble. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
Rub a thimbleful of water over your face and wipe off to finish.
The writer has to live it all out, months, maybe years--the writer needs a cupful of pain to get a thimbleful of prose. GRACED LAND
The men about town flocked in to have a laugh at the mess, and were amazed to find a bottle intact, or a bigger utensil to drink from than a "thimble" indeed. The Siege of Kimberley
'Maybe I do, and maybe I do not,' answered Peter; 'I am no free to answer every body's interrogatory, unless it is put judicially, and by form of law -- specially where folk think so much of a caup of sour yill, or a thimblefu' of brandy. Redgauntlet
There will also be plenty of Glaswegian humour, a thimbleful of alcohol or two, and not a Hooray Henry in sight.
Impact printers include: dot matrix, band, belt, thimble, or daisywheel machines. Computers Basic Facts
Pat Kelly on the washboard played with ten thimbles on his fingers and gave great rhythm to the band.
Gravely, over thimblesful of black coffee, the old hakim explained that regular sexual intercourse was necessary to keep a man fit and healthy, but the sexual act could either be a simple one of reproduction—no more complicated than that of a beast in a field—or it could be a subtle act of love, a discipline to be learned and practiced, in order to achieve and appreciate the most sublime gift of Allah. Lace
Betty is a keen gardener, and she collects clowns, thimbles and candles.
HE was; for he stood in a state of abstraction, mentally balancing the Doctor against the lawyers, and the lawyers against the Doctor, and their clients against both, and engaged in feeble attempts to make the thimble and nutmeg – grater (a new idea to him) square with anybody’s system of philosophy; and, in short, bewildering himself as much as ever his great namesake has done with theories and schools. The Battle of Life
A dish called colcannon, made from cabbage, potatoes, and milk, was traditionally served on Halloween with a ring, coin, thimble, and button inserted into it.
That icy thimble of spirits called grappa goes down with a chill and a burn, and now threatens to bring the roof down on one of ANC Daily News Briefing
The first female union in the Land of Oz was formed when female tailoresses tossed their collective thimbles out the window and created The Victorian Tailoresses Union.
With a reminder to use her thimble when she dealt with needles, Jemimah left.
This time, it had the shape of a trapezoid on four faces, making it look like a thimble with four right angles.
Glass thimbles of home-distilled raki were raised and clinked.
Arm in arm with thimbleberries and bearberries, they grew wild over much of the park. Blood Lure
The traditionalists use metal sewing thimbles but lot of people have trouble keeping them on their fingers.
If one might judge from his appearance, there was every probability of the coach coming past before Mr. Britain knew where HE was; for he stood in a state of abstraction, mentally balancing the Doctor against the lawyers, and the lawyers against the Doctor, and their clients against both, and engaged in feeble attempts to make the thimble and nutmeg-grater (a new idea to him) square with anybody's system of philosophy; and, in short, bewildering himself as much as ever his great namesake has done with theories and schools. Battle of Life
John, 46, runs the club with his wife, Chrissy, and has his thimbles on display there in glass cases.
A dish called colcannon, made from cabbage, potatoes, and milk, was traditionally served on Halloween with a ring, coin, thimble, and button inserted into it.
They would smouch provisions from the pantry whenever they got a chance; or a brass thimble, or a cake of wax, or an emery bag, or a paper of needles, or a silver spoon, or a dollar bill, or small articles of clothing, or any other property of light value; and so far were they from considering such reprisals sinful, that they would go to church and shout and pray the loudest and sincerest with their plunder in their pockets. Pudd'nhead Wilson
Their contents were sealed with tiny stoppers, protected beneath gold, silver-gilt or silver screw caps resembling sewing thimbles.
She drained it from the spout, then opened a cupboard and found a poor rock-hard bit of bread beside a thimble 's worth of raisins. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
In the middle of the thirteenth day, during which we rested for the purpose, the water was fairly divided among the camels; the quantity given to each was only a little over four gallons -- about equivalent to four thimblesful to a man. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
Delicious, dewy-cold thimbleberries were scattered on top.
She brews a magic liquid from checkerberries, which, I am told, if you but drink a thimbleful, will enable you to regain your natural shape. The Magic Soap Bubble
I've been studying them, wondering at the diet of the bear, how he can sustain himself on grasses and what appear to be shoots of thimbleberry and primeval horsetails.
First produced in 1876, it's immediately recognizable by the wiping rod held in thimbles beneath the barrel.
In the palm of Clovis's hand, the cupcake looked the size of a thimble.
There was Dr. Bennett, a riverboat gambler who invented thimblerig and could still outwit the best of them at 70.
Find the Lady is, except for the props used, essentially the same as the probably centuries-older shell game or thimblerig.
The convex top is impressed with diamond patterning and is brazed to the body of the thimble.
Liberty of London tana lawn is so thin that I can fold several squares into a coin purse, with enough room for a folding scissors, needle case, small spool of thread, and thimble (this one is a wooden one from Russia I stole from my daughters). Archive 2008-06-01
A mother pointed out to her daughter the sampler embroidered with the Ten Commandments, although the girl seemed more interested in thimbles.
There are old gas-light fixtures, a metal thimble, the tips of old fountain pens, a scrap of newspaper from 1858, shreds of what Lyons thinks is dark bunting from Lincoln's funeral. Clara Barton's D.C. home and office may be converted into museum
Here and there cluster flocks of light, portable booths, each also with a swaying lantern, where steaming tea is sold in thimble-cups; where saki may be drunk hot and hot, poured from long-necked porcelain bottles, or trays of queer, toothsome-looking sweetmeats are to be had for coins of infinitesimal value. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
Neal Ascherson replies: I stand convicted of buying a thimbleful of coffee for Professor G.M. TamÃ¡s in a what-d'you-call-it ” maybe a coffeehouse? ” and I probably even repeated the offense in other such places. A Cup of Coffee
Like the bulk of the caespitose, or Thimble Cactuses, it does not make much show when in flower; and it is only its stems, with their white stars of spines and clusters of little offsets hanging about them, that are attractive. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
Since the thimble was a payment from Jorô-Gumo, that confirms that we haven't jumped forward any more in time. Anime Nano!
Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
It rests in a stainless-steel thimble screwed to the bottom of the barrel.
Timothy Thomas's bass-viol bag it kept drinkably warm till they wanted it, which was just a thimbleful in the Absolution, and another after the Life's Little Ironies
The black raspberry, which we called thimble berry, was found along the stone walls, but was not abundant. Confessions of Boyhood
She says, ‘Mother had always been a binge drunker, not touching a thimbleful for weeks or months when she'd gotten her gullet full.’
Then he saw that the little mouse was standing by his mother's thimble.
At that he stepped out to his haversack, and on his return he poured out some seven thimblesful of saccharine into a hand quite cheerfully extended. My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant,
Telling the Bees," "Hey for the Ferry!" and two in the style of Frith, all thimblerig and crinolines, given them by Swithin. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
The thimble itself was made of solid gold; its base was formed of one beautifully cut sapphire, and round the margin of the top of the thimble was a row of turquoises. Girls of the Forest
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A lot of customers had been foreign tourists to York, with Americans and Australians in particular snapping up mugs, plates, thimbles and shot glasses.
Peter and Wendy's conversation about kisses and thimbles and their mother-and-father role-playing leaves no doubt of their attraction to each other.
In Mary Anne's next letter, dated ix February 1880, her only reference to her job was that her employer had given her a silver thimble for Christmas.
Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod with its brass tip threaded for jag, worm, screw or other implement.
In these circumstances, and smarting as I was under the recollection of recent defeat, it is not strange that I thought I detected the old political ruse of dressing the wolf in sheep's clothing, of using handsome pledges as a mask to deceive the gullible, and that I assumed that this scholarly amateur in politics was being used for their own purposes by masters and veterans in the old game of thimblerig. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
Turns out there was only a thimbleful of stuff left in the bottle, Jack just hadn't gotten around to throwing it out.
the front - i started with ledger paper and stamped with ink using a paper doily as a stencil, then i overstamped with a brighter blue with a stitching pattern stamp. i added a vintage snap card and the embossed scissors, needle and thread and thimble stamps by victorine originals, then glued on some vintage buttons. Archive 2008-11-01
In Kendal, a debate is going on as to the real name of the orange rubber thimble used by the counters to protect their index fingers.
All the brass furniture including the buttplate, sideplate, ramrod thimbles, trigger guard, and patchbox were hand polished bright.
Select your character and find it hidden beneath one of the three containers in the game of thimblerig.
Digitalis is derived from the Latin for ‘finger‘because the little flowers resemble a thimble.
Many objects associated with domestic tool kits have changed relatively little over the past few centuries, such as thimbles, scissors, and other items used to produce clothing.
Neal Ascherson replies: I stand convicted of buying a thimbleful of coffee for Professor G.M. TamÃ¡s in a what-d'you-call-it ” maybe a coffeehouse? ” and I probably even repeated the offense in other such places. A Cup of Coffee
They have come across thousands of objects ranging from Georgian coins and rings to thimbles and buckles, but this was their first big find.
This is followed by the Kumamoto oyster (Crassostrea sikamea) in Japan, a tiny thimble-shaped oyster grown in the Pacific Northwest. Oysters Come Back in Vogue
This product comes with circuit breaker protector, weather sealed solenoid contactor, 4-way roller fairlead and heavy duty latched hook with thimble. Amazon.com Gold Box Deals
It was over three hours until the band were on, I wasn't sure if my notoriously thimble-sized bladder would hold out that long.
She put a thimble over the finger when sewing.
However, not to part uncivilly, and be as good as my word, I brought ben Nanse's bottle, and gave him a cawker at the shop counter; and, after taking a thimbleful to myself, to drink a good journey to him, I bade him take care of his feet, as the causeway was frozen, and saw the auld flunkie safely over the strand with The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
They were the usual set tricks, such as making things disappear from under thimbles, and card and rope tricks.
Thimbles, scissars, needles, all of the coarsest kind, of Nuremberg manufacture; Nails, steels to strike fire; Sword-blades, of the kind, which I have already described, and which are in common use all over the Black countries to the east of the Fezzan trade. Travels in Nubia
And yet every day one saw more distinctly that they were the pea in the thimblerig of life, the hub of a universe which, to the approbation of the majority they represented, they were fast making uninhabitable. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
The loops which are made with a small hook, called a tambour needle, form a fine chain stitch and must be regular and even; to facilitate this a sort of thimble, fig. 842, is worn on the forefinger of the right hand, formed of a small plate of sheet brass, rolled up but not joined, so as to fit any finger; it is open at the top like a tailor's thimble and has a little notch on the side which is placed above the nail, and in which you lay the tambour needle whilst you work. Encyclopedia of Needlework
Opening his eyes he saw on the floor a metal tray with a frothing briki of coffee on it and two thimble sized cups. COUP D'ETAT
A bird had flown up at me, curious about my beer, so I consciously poured a thimbleful down to his ledge.
To keep the nails in place, Ancient Egyptian embalmers sometimes either tied the nails to the fingers and toes, or covered them with metal thimbles.
She has just a thimbleful of insight into human behavior.
Her shellback thimblecasket mirror only can show her dearest friendeen. Finnegans Wake
An over-eager fellow taster twirls his glass with a flourish and sends four deadly thimblefuls of Pinot Noir flying in your direction.
In Spain sherry has traditionally been served in the copita, and tastes infinitely better in a part-filled glass in this elongated tulip shape than it does brimming over a cut glass thimble as it is so often served elsewhere.
Red coralroot orchids, pale irises, white-flowered thimbleberry, and tanoak look up to madrones that would be the giants of any other forest.
A refusal on either side must, of course, be atoned for by a "wadd," or forfeit -- which may consist of a piece of money, a knife, a thimble, or any little article which the owner finds convenient for the purpose. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
Mary was sitting on the bed, tapping her foot and humming a tune as she set her needles, thimble, and thread into a sack.
What he knows about any part of the world would not fill a thimble.
Grandpa worries that your thimble is the size of your brain …. Think Progress » Friedman Defends Repeated Prediction That ‘The Next Six Months Are Crucial’ In Iraq
We were disconcerted by Northern Ireland's aggressive vegetation, all of it a deep dayglo green and sprouting in every available thimbleful of soil.
Daily, a monitor or more advanced student, distributed to each girl in her class a pinafore to wear and a thimble, needle, thread, and materials for work.
But the only object of this argument is to show how mal-adroitly Mr. Landor plays at thimblerig. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
Your genuine pietist would find a mystical sense in thimblerig. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Opening his eyes he saw on the floor a metal tray with a frothing briki of coffee on it and two thimble sized cups. COUP D'ETAT
Sixty bee stomachfuls of honey are needed to fill one thimble full of honey.
Most brambles grow in full sun; the fragrant thimbleberry grows at the edges of moist, shady woodlands.
Meanwhile some Indian corn has been roasted by a peculiar process, so that the grains have swelled up to the size of thimbles; they are mixed with a lot of silver coins, and the whole conglomeration is then scattered over the child's head, young brothers and sisters making a tremendous rush for the spoils. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
Cloudberry and thimbleberry are harvested from bogs in Quebec for juice and liqueur production.
Our artist then can cover up faces, and yet show them quite clearly, as in the thimblerig group; or he can do without faces altogether; or he can, at a pinch, provide a countenance for a gentleman out of any given object — a beautiful Irish physiognomy being moulded upon a keg of whiskey; and a jolly George Cruikshank
So, in ascending order, for the third prize I chose Night Passage, The Thimbles, number 53, especially pleased and heartened to find that in your midst there appears to be a conceptual artist hard at work. Archive 2009-06-01
On our way thither, between six and seven o'clock in the morning, we passed many a long queue waiting outside butchers 'shops for pittances of meat, and outside certain municipal dépôts where after prolonged waiting a few thimblesful of milk were doled out to those who could prove that they had young children. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
The typical daily food ration was, according to one civilian, ‘five slices bread, half a small cutlet, half a tumbler of milk, two thimblefuls of fat, a few potatoes and an eggcup of sugar’.
I warn't sure, sir," faltered Nance, whose honor had outweighed her longing for money and the comfort it would bring, and had brought her through the long city to seek the rightful owner of the thimble -- "I warn't _sure_; but I knew her name, for herself an 'a gennelman came onst to see mother long ago. Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water.
So going again to his dark closet, he groped for it among his multifarious things, and came back with one similar, except that it was of raw-hide, and the thimble was a little projection looking like a pig's toe. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls
A concentrated solution of iodine is prepared by putting into a common bottle two thimblesful of hyposulphite of soda and a rather larger quantity of iodine, so that there may be more than sufficient. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
There are comprehensive subcollections such as walking sticks, thimbles, minute ivory skulls, Chinese cloisonne enamel vessels, Oriental carpets, and Persian miniatures.
Other names for this plant include fairy bells, rabbit flower, throatwort and witches’ thimbles.
Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod.
Russian carnival on the ice, oxen being sometimes roasted whole, and all kinds of "fakirs," as they are now termed, selling doughnuts, spruce-beer, and gingerbread, or tempting the adventurous with thimblerig; many pedestrians stopping at the old-fashioned inn on Smith's Memoirs
I was instantly reminded of my time in Italy, where I spent all day and night in pavement cafes, sipping thimblefuls of espresso, strong and bitter.
‘So he brought a gallon of hot brandy and beer, ready mixed, to church with him in the afternoon, and by keeping the jar well wrapped up in Timothy Thomas’s bass-viol bag it kept drinkably warm till they wanted it, which was just a thimbleful in the Absolution, and another after the Creed, and the remainder at the beginning o’ the sermon. Life's Little Ironies

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