How To Use thimbleful In A Sentence
- Neal Ascherson replies: I stand convicted of buying a thimbleful of coffee for Professor G.M. Tamás 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
- ‘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
- 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.
- 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’.
- We were disconcerted by Northern Ireland's aggressive vegetation, all of it a deep dayglo green and sprouting in every available thimbleful of soil.
- An over-eager fellow taster twirls his glass with a flourish and sends four deadly thimblefuls of Pinot Noir flying in your direction.
- She has just a thimbleful of insight into human behavior.
- A bird had flown up at me, curious about my beer, so I consciously poured a thimbleful down to his ledge.
- 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
- Neal Ascherson replies: I stand convicted of buying a thimbleful of coffee for Professor G.M. Tamás 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
