How To Use Thimbleful In A Sentence
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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
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‘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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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.
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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’.
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We were disconcerted by Northern Ireland's aggressive vegetation, all of it a deep dayglo green and sprouting in every available thimbleful of soil.
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An over-eager fellow taster twirls his glass with a flourish and sends four deadly thimblefuls of Pinot Noir flying in your direction.
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She has just a thimbleful of insight into human behavior.
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A bird had flown up at me, curious about my beer, so I consciously poured a thimbleful down to his ledge.
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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
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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
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Turns out there was only a thimbleful of stuff left in the bottle, Jack just hadn't gotten around to throwing it out.
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Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
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She says, ‘Mother had always been a binge drunker, not touching a thimbleful for weeks or months when she'd gotten her gullet full.’
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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
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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?
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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
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There will also be plenty of Glaswegian humour, a thimbleful of alcohol or two, and not a Hooray Henry in sight.
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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
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Rub a thimbleful of water over your face and wipe off to finish.
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He has just a thimbleful of insight into human behavior.
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Just a thimbleful of such water is sufficient to transform a healthy person, in hours, into a deathly ill cholera sufferer.
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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
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Whenever one of us would pour a thimbleful into his cup, the other two would jealously measure the outpouring with their eyes.
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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
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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 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
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The feast begins with a few hunks of soft onion bread and a thimbleful of an intensely rich roasted-eggplant garlic spread.
