| 单词 | thimble |
| 例句 | “Shall I fetch my prince a thimble cup of milk of the poppy?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her needle made little clicking sounds against her thimble and then the thread went softly, swish! through the pretty calico that Pa had traded furs for. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, trying to cram Butler’s head into the original helmet would be like trying to fit a potato into a thimble. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z There was a tiny china duck, a thimble, a strange little brass coin, two paper clips and a stone with a hole in it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Our stores are still intact, save for the Anacin tablets taken by our mother and the thimble lost down the latrine hole by Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A silver thimble clenched, for luck, in her little fist. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The trunk of a car would be better, or a thimble. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A cork, a fishhook, a silver dollar, a fancy key, and a tiny wooden baby doll, no bigger than a thimble, painted in bright colors, with a face and everything. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The electric thimble moved like a praying mantis on the pillow, touched by her hand. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Buttercups and violets, thimble flowers and tiny starry grassflowers were everywhere. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “An old cork and a tiny wooden baby doll, no bigger than a thimble and all painted up in bright colors.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Helenwood was the size of a thimble, if that, and the Calliope Inn was a historical landmark. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Thor and Tyr gripped the thimbles, which were the size of buckets, and they drank the beer with enthusiasm. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Far, far below me, the trash can seemed like a thimble. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe you haven’t been outside lately, but there’s not much growing around here. There’s not enough water to fill a thimble.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They were bmtes and bullies, without a thimble of honor between them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A pebble the size of a thimble dropped to the path at his feet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He remembered standing there in his rags while she measured him and then put on her thimble to stitch the cloth ing for him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I don’t know the number of times I’d have to climb that tree and get my mother’s scissors, buttons, needles, and thimble from his den. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I pour out my thimble of liquor onto the grass when Locke isn’t looking. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “None of us have money. All we have to sell are store vouchers and perhaps a few silver spoons and thimbles brought Over from our homelands.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Harry, who had expected something much more exciting, saw a mess of small, everyday objects: a yo-yo, a silver thimble, and a tarnished mouth organ among them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z If my life were squeezed into such a thimble, I doubt I could make it smell any better. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “See, you can be a pretty girl,” she said, handing me her precious pouch of needles, thimbles, and thread. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Mama had trimmed a matching shawl with thimbles, so that when she walked Angeline jingled softly and enticingly. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I want to be in a thimble with you. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The thimble was a crucial part of architect Frank Burnham’s design, meant to shield the surrounding wooden walls from the superheated gases exiting the stack. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She was dressed in golden cloth, and she was as beautiful as her mother-in-law was alarming; she carried two of the tiniest giant thimbles, which she had filled with beer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Her tongue pushed through the trap of teeth and had Mammachi’s silver thimble fitted on the end of it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had a thimble full of sense, I would have gone with Salla. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They should have given you your mother’s name,” she said, taking the pouch of needles, thread, and thimbles from me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z With a silver thimble clenched for luck in its little fist. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "If I had a thimble o' sense, I would've left you in King's Landing. You hear me, boy?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All of this was heady news of a world far removed from hankies and thimbles, patiently delivered to me under a tree amidst the drowsing bees and nodding wildflowers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Ages indicated a small corked bottle, no bigger than a thimble, on the ground beside them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He sewed skillfully, and the calluses on the tips of his fingers were so hard that he pushed the needle through the cloth without a thimble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z With an Imperial Entomologists’ nose, and a silver thimble clenched for luck in her fist. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother, who stuffs thimbles in her mouth and then blows up her cheeks like Dizzy Gillespie while sewing yet another Raggedy Ann doll that she names Suzette after me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z When Judith doesn't show up at the appointed time, Willem jokes that she has forfeited the right to one of her thimbles, and he should get to drink it instead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He filled the thimble bowl with tobacco so fine- cut it looked like hair, then lighted the pipe, took four long puffs, and let the pipe go out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In a drugstore she buys a Timex watch for her father-in-law, Bic pens for her cousins, embroidery thread and thimbles for her mother and her aunts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Laura and Mary were allowed to take Ma’s thimble and make pretty patterns of circles in the frost on the glass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The shame was nothing I ever could have conveyed with thimbles or squirt guns filled with mayonnaise. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The host and the victim were each fitted with a thimble- size clip-on mike; the jury passed around a hand mike. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He pushed past her and dug furiously through a pile of paper scraps, until he uncovered a thimble with a piece of leather stretched across its open end. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She poured the honey wine for both of us, drinking hers in a series of dainty sips from a silver beggar’s cup hardly bigger than a thimble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The string players double as percussionists, executing trills while wearing thimbles and playing water-filled crystal goblets to create the ghostly whisper of a glass harmonica. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z The other tokens are a racecar, a shoe, thimble, top hat, wheelbarrow and battleship. Monopoly fans vote to add cat, toss iron tokens 2013-02-06T13:32:22Z And it was suffocatingly hot, and the poor extras were barely being offered a thimble of water. Emily Blunt Rides the Unnerving Rails of Addiction in ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Returning to the subject of episodically dominant conservative media figures, Maddow's purpose was less about offering true context than blunt honesty with a thimble of comfort. What Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon's firings say about the impact of episodically dominant figures 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Consider the light that falls softly on the woman’s face, blurring her features, but glints off the needle and thimble in her right hand. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z Next to that, Charlotte's pudge paranoia is a thimble of that bone broth she forlornly sucks down in her quick weight-loss quest. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z But an elevator operator takes her to the store's ninth floor, deserted except for an insulting sales girl and, in the showcases, just one object: her thimble. Honey from the Forbidden Planet: Remembering Anne Francis (1930-2011) 2011-01-08T14:05:00Z It’s a common refrain, but trying to raise a kid in New York is like growing an oak tree in a thimble. I Quit New York 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z He starts out as a loudmouthed overweight mover and shaker, the classic big fish in a small pond -- plankton in a thimble. A bittersweet farewell to "Friday Night Lights" 2011-07-15T17:10:00Z At 7, the witch is still the size of a thimble, yet already plotting evil for the world. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z The thimble nailed the car in less than ninety minutes. Playing Monopoly With the Woman Who Wrote the Book on It 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z She played Marsha White, a young woman shopping in a department store for a gift, a golden thimble, for her mother. Honey from the Forbidden Planet: Remembering Anne Francis (1930-2011) 2011-01-08T14:05:00Z He also had us do tricks, one involving socks, one using a thimble. Is the Hand Quicker Than the Zoom Window? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z One more thing: The Daily Mail, playing on Mr. Hollander’s 5’5” frame, has named him a “sex thimble.” Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z On a tidy street in a resurgent New England mill town, where the trimmed bushes look like green thimbles mounted in mulch, Melvin’s large Victorian house sticks out. Is it normal to hoard? 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z Among its exhibits are the stomach contents of a pica patient who swallowed 1,446 such objects, including saltshaker tops, thimbles and pins. Eight U.S. museums that chronicle and celebrate the history of medicine 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z “Think the size and shape of a sewing thimble soft, wine cork erect.” “I’m hung like a toddler”: Meet a man with a micropenis 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z My youngest child and I pluck the red thimbles on summer mornings. The First (and Last) Time She Didn’t Come Home 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Enterprising institutions routinely offer programs in cosmetology, astrology, thimble repair, linen folding and bikini waxing. I flunked out of clown school 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z The original 10 tokens were an iron, purse, lantern, race car, thimble, shoe, top hat, battleship, cannon and a rocking horse. Monopoly gets a makeover as millions vote on new board game tokens 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The book here is presented inside a hollowed-out walnut with a golden inner edge, alongside a thimble and other sewing implements. Behold, the Tiniest of Books 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Which book includes the line “You could have put what was left of me into a thimble?” Books of The Times: Her Life Since Then: Different Views of It 2011-08-18T23:00:12Z As a woman quite a bit taller than he is, I can second the Daily Mail's assessment -- "sex thimble" is spot on. Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z It's hard to imagine Gordon Brown or David Cameron saying the same about a pile of old autograph manuscripts and a few memorabilia such as Anna Magdalena Bach's thimble. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Paintings dark with age line the walls, and the audience sits on rough benches drinking thimbles of pruneau brandy. Edith Piaf’s Paris: exploring the Little Sparrow’s city 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Whoever got the iron or thimble received a bonus for “unpaid domestic labor.” Review: ‘Straight White Men,’ Now Checking Their Privilege on Broadway 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z One night, everybody warmed up to a thimble of vodka flavored with lemon verbena tea, hibiscus and cinnamon. Review | A young chef goes for the buzz at Bresca 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z They were working collectively to reimagine a system that, for too many, dispenses prosperity by the thimble and punishment by the jug. Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ Helped Me Beat the Odds. Will We Finally Even Them? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z In a particularly compelling detail shot, a crucifix shares mug-space with toothbrushes and clippers, a thimble and thread with other detritus of day-to-day life. 'Dream of a House' tours the eclectic home of writer Reynolds Price 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Slip on a thimble and start embroidering the initials of the one you love. Rick Owens Stitches a Souvenir 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Fans of Monopoly voted to kick the silver-colored token, along with the thimble and the wheelbarrow, from the classic board game, the toymaker Hasbro announced Friday. Monopoly fans kick the boot, thimble and wheelbarrow tokens in favor of animals 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Among those luxuries is the thimbleberry, named for its thimble shape. On your next summer vacation, look for berried treasure 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z A quince poached in candied wine sauce, served with thimble glasses of a liqueur, capped it off. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Wearing a thimble but no gloves, Ms. Whelan layered fine, nearly invisible netting over and under each hole, then used polyester thread finer than human hair to stitch around the damage to prevent further fraying. Where George Washington Slept (Perhaps Not Well) 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The novel in its spaciousness allows world enough and time for epochs to evolve, but the short story must seize in its thimble, all at once, crisis and its crux. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z As I said, places you never thought you and your thimble would go. Art in Review: ‘Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community’ 2014-02-21T16:40:39Z The pasta customarily used to make the beloved Italian soup pasta e fagioli is ditalini, which roughly translates to "little thimbles." This new copycat SpaghettiOs recipe captures the family-friendly nostalgia of the canned stuff 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Above all, the gift shop looms large, hawking Mozart pencils, key chains, perfumes, playing cards, paper napkins, thimbles, miniature busts, chocolates, golf balls and snap-on cases for cellphones. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z On a wall above Robin Benway’s dining room table rest dozens of porcelain thimbles, each one housed in its own tiny curio-cabinet shelf. In her sixth book for teens — 'Far From the Tree,' a National Book Award finalist — Robin Benway strikes at the heart 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But we have incredible nonprofits like GreenWave by the thimble islands outside of New Haven, and they're helping people build more sustainable seaweed farms. If you're not interested in adventure Ducks Eatery is not for you and neither is chef Will Horowitz 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z NIF drew headlines in 2022 when it produced more energy from the thimble than the lasers put in, a milestone relevant to civilian efforts to generate fusion power. Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Olympus Medical Systems produces duodenoscopes with disposable tip covers shaped like tiny thimbles that cover the camera at the far end of the instrument. These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too. 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z His friends tabulate that Lamb’s complaints in all those years wouldn’t fill a thimble. World War II derailed ‘Wink’ Lamb’s UW swimming career. Now, nearly 100, he’s setting new swim records 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Any buyback system, while it may be good publicity for police departments, is like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble. What comes next for US gun control? 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Larval thimble jellyfish in Florida: Larvae that get under people’s bathing suit sting their skin and cause “seabather’s eruption,” an itchy rash. See the Mysterious Sea Creatures that Only Come Up at Night 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Musicians shouted and whispered in addition to playing their instruments, from which they drew eerie sounds by bowing on the underside of the strings and wearing thimbles on their fingers. George Crumb, quintessential composer of the avant-garde, dies at 92 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z A shiatsu mode will apparently rub your palms with firm pressure, while a “thimble” mode will pull and stretch each finger one by one. Gamers! Protect your precious tendons with this tabletop hand massager 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z They also recorded snap times when fingers were covered in various materials, such as thimbles, latex gloves, or lotion, to study the role of friction. The perfect amount of friction gives finger snaps their signature pop 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z “What we knew about horses you could put in a thimble. Bob had the personality and he was honest. You could trust him and that never changed.” The last stand of Bob Baffert, horse racing's most successful and embattled trainer 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Ruby McGregor-Smith, president of the Confederation of British Industry, said the announcement was "the equivalent of throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire." Gas crisis in England: what to know 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The British Chambers of Commerce likened the announcement to “throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire.” Britain opens up visa rules as it wrestles with critical truck driver shortage 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Ruby McGregor-Smith, president of the Confederation of British Industry, said the announcement was “the equivalent of throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire.” UK gas stations run dry as trucker shortage sparks hoarding 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z However, some business leaders said the measures did not go far enough, with the British Chambers of Commerce saying they were the equivalent of "throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire". Farmers warn of Christmas turkey shortage due to lack of staff 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z However, the British Chambers of Commerce said the measures were equivalent to "throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire". Covid-19: Government approves temporary visas, and stars perform at Global Citizen festival 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z But the British Chamber of Commerce said the measures were the equivalent of "throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire". Hauliers and poultry workers to get temporary visas 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Inside was a vial the size of a thimble, containing five doses of vaccine. How to Vaccinate Homebound Seniors? Take the Shots to Them. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z “It’s like a thimble in an Olympic-size swimming pool,” he said. Annie’s Pledges to Purge a Class of Chemicals From Its Mac and Cheese 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Maybe a year of our lives will end up shrunken till it fits in a thimble. Perspective | This pandemic will end, and when it does, please take me out to the ballgame 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z “It’s so close, it’s not a thimble full of difference.” Georgia Secretary of State says hand audit of ballots has not altered Biden's victory 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z British Chamber of Commerce president Baroness McGregor-Smith said the changes were the "equivalent of throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire", as it would "not be enough to address the scale of the problem". Hauliers and poultry workers to get temporary visas 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z I could push him over with a little thimble.” Are Lindsey Graham's stupid stunts just meant to keep Daddy Trump quiet? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In fact, if you are a fan of country ham and prosciutto, I suggest you serve some thin slices with a thimble of this bourbon as an appetizer. Bourbon can make many foods better 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Eventually, he reveals a molybdenum capsule not much bigger than a thimble. Meet the crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Last year, a sword handle, an unusual brass thimble, a knife, tin-glazed Earthenware and Chinese porcelain were also discovered at the site. Ornate colonial era musket part discovered in Michigan 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Last year a sword handle, an unusual brass thimble, a knife, tin-glazed Earthenware and Chinese porcelain were also discovered at the site. Colonial era Michigan fort reveals more of its secrets 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z “I don’t think endorsements are worth a thimble of spit,” Romney said. Mitt Romney says he may not endorse Trump for re-election in 2020 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z "I don't think endorsements are worth a thimble of spit," Romney said. Romney says he may decline to endorse Trump again 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Romney says he doesn’t think endorsements are “worth a thimble of spit” and wouldn’t be surprised if he skips them altogether. Mitt Romney says he may skip 2020 presidential endorsement 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Having emptied Alice’s pockets to provide rewards for everyone else, the Dodo solemnly presents her with the only thing that’s left: her own thimble. It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Pond snails, smaller than a thimble and found in freshwater habitats across the northern hemisphere, ingest food by opening their mouths, like this: What a Hungry Snail Reveals About Your Grocery Store Breakdowns 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z An unusual brass thimble, ceramics, a knife and shards of a glazed tin jar were unearthed last month during an archaeological excavation at Colonial Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City, Michigan. 325-year-old colonial French fortifications discovered in Canada 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Or maybe crinkling paper, sorting a thimble collection or pretending to give the viewer an ear exam? The blissful and bizarre world of ASMR 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Zeolite-based catalysts are notorious for their fast deactivation, and the paper reports the synthesis of the fuels in a reactor the size of a thimble, using just a single gram of catalyst. Clever chemistry offers new source of jet fuel 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.” It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z There weren’t enough protesters on the “Unite the Right” side to fill a thimble. Opinion | The media made a nothingburger into a big story 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z When asked by presenter Kirsty Young what luxury item he would like with him on an desert island, Mr Treacy said he would want a sewing thimble. Royal hat-maker 'feared head on spike' 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z The so-called sea lice that just appeared in Florida aren’t lice at all—they seem to be the larvae of jellyfish, most likely a small species called the thimble jellyfish. What's Giving Florida Beachgoers Rashes? 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z While she completed the overcast stitch, the thimble on her index finger protected her from the needle pokes. 5 High Schoolers and Their College Application Essays About Work, Money and Social Class 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The Brexit game is patently not worth the thimble to be presented at the end of it. It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The D.C. government spent untold amounts of money to create a secure perimeter around this tiny little thimble of supremacists. Opinion | The media made a nothingburger into a big story 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The courage and fortitude of these politicians would almost fill a thimble. Florida Governor Signs Gun Limits Into Law, Breaking With the N.R.A. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z President Trump is no student of history, nor does he take even a thimble full of interest in it. Opinion | Casting Aside Presidential Norms 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The scenes range in size, from one about waist high to another the size of a thimble. Vermont woman displays more than 1,400 nativity scenes 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z As the reactions came in, many invoked words that we turn to when experience has defied the boundaries of language, when English seems to be offering us thimbles to empty a well. Unspeakable: Why Words Can't Describe the Las Vegas Shooting 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Also, the pie cup is more of a pie thimble, in case paying $2 a bite for a lukewarm pecan pie bothers you. We binge ate our way through the most expensive food at the U.S. Open 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z After just a thimble full, I was turned off of alcohol altogether for another eight or so years. When life hands you lemons, try this version of Limoncello | Cannabis recipe 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z In this final task, the thimble was slightly better than the ring. Finger devices let users ‘touch’ virtual objects 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z To be in law enforcement is often to feel condemned to bailing an ocean with a thimble. Opinion | The Sisyphean battle against sex trafficking of minors 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z But the same can’t be said for the thimble, boot or wheelbarrow. Monopoly Booted the Thimble; Fans Are Sew Mad 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z But the boot got the boot, and so did the wheelbarrow and the thimble. Meet the New Monopoly Tokens: A Rubber Ducky, a T-rex and a Penguin 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Voters ultimately ranked the thimble last, the game maker announced last month. Monopoly ditches thimble, boot and wheelbarrow for three new game tokens 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Participants wore thimbles, rings, or nothing on the thumb and index finger. Finger devices let users ‘touch’ virtual objects 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z “If it takes an extra thimble of fuel, we don’t want that to stop you,” Trump said. Trump says he will review Obama administration fuel efficiency standards 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Hasbro said Thursday it’ll swap the thimble for something else in future editions of Monopoly after voters rejected the game piece in an online poll. Voters tell Monopoly to nix iconic thimble token 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Say goodbye to the thimble, the boot and the wheelbarrow, Monopoly fans. Meet the New Monopoly Tokens: A Rubber Ducky, a T-rex and a Penguin 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Tucked in the rover's belly are nine stainless steel thimbles, each filled with solvent, that are the mission's best shot for detecting signs of ancient martian life. Mars rover steps up hunt for molecular signs of life 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z One fits over the fingertip, like a chunky thimble. Finger devices let users ‘touch’ virtual objects 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z What Needs Work: Finding some of those features is like trying to find a thimble in a Wal-Mart. iOS 10 Review: You Don’t Have to Buy a New iPhone 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Along with the top hat, iron, shoe, battleship and cannon, the thimble was one of six tokens used to represent Monopoly players when the game began selling in the 1930s. Voters tell Monopoly to nix iconic thimble token 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But the hottest scene in the whole film is probably its tamest, involving little more than a thimble and a tooth. The Handmaiden is a twisty thriller obsessed with class, ethnicity, and tentacle porn 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z To them, the reward is a thimble full of wine when they desire a double magnum. Why eating steamed crabs is totally worth the effort 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z His aunt Katheryn liked to sit at her dressing table with no clothes on, arranging her miniature porcelain dolls or her collection of “valuable thimbles.” The Voyeur’s Motel 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z “He might have been among the last of a breed in that there wasn’t a thimble’s worth of cynicism in him,” Costas told the Tampa Bay Times. Hubert Mizell, well-known Florida sportswriter, dies at 76 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z “President Obama will never debate me on guns. His knowledge of that issue couldn’t fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it. “ NRA chief tells Hillary Clinton to 'bring it on' in gun control fight 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “I could push him over with a little thimble,” says Trump, adding: “This guy knows nothing.” The Latest: Rapper’s remark raises heat in Dem fight 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z None of 2,500 species described is known from more than five locations, and for a few of them the total global supply could fit in a thimble. Earth's rarest minerals catalogued - BBC News 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “People will ask for anything from a thimble to bottle openers to crock bowls,” Reddish said. 90-year-old antique-store owner operates 40-year business 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Almost everything Spurrier ever said that was accused of being arrogant or cocky now seems innocent, forgivable, without enough malice even to fill a thimble. Steve Spurrier’s retirement shows the value of a life spent basking in the fun 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The champagne in the clubhouse would be a thimble of what was poured in the concession stands. Angels' rallying cry next year: Remember Game No. 161 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z His spokesman called the allegation a "storm in a thimble". George Galloway to challenge Bradford West election result - BBC News 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Honestly, I think it’s like a thimble in the ocean. Ohio governor’s State of the State speech 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z He composed his first drafts longhand, wearing rubber thimbles on finger and thumb. My Dad, the Pornographer 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Yes, I’m sure that old lady can’t wait to climb over you so that she can go urinate in a lurching thimble. Air travel has always been dismal. It's crazy to blame fat people for 'ruining' it 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z No wonder he said the “hole looks like a thimble to me right now.” Kaymer and everyone else at the US Open 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z "The hole looks like a thimble to me right now," he said. Phil Mickelson's putting struggles continue at U.S. Open “The hole looks like a thimble to me right now,” Mickelson said. Mickelson struggles with putter at US Open 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z And the thing went in like it was going in a thimble. From the Archive: Remembering The Final Round In 1999 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Watkins says she draws the line at shot glasses, thimbles, and spoons, but that doesn’t stop people from asking for them. The 9/11 Gift Shop Sells Tacky Tchotchkes Because We'll Buy Them 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Though no bigger than thimbles, Irukandji box jellyfish are a menace to swimmers. Forecast for deadly jellyfish blooms 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately, in the game of basketball there are nights when that basket looks big and sometimes it looks like a little thimble,” Iowa State Coach Fred Hoiberg said. Feinstein: In NCAA tournament Sweet 16, home cooking for U-Conn. 2014-03-29T03:29:47Z The objects inside are designed by artist Andrew Logan: a stair of mirrors, a ladder, a diving board, a few thimbles, a chain, a propeller. Dolls' houses designed for charity 2013-11-11T16:05:48Z It mixes ambition, common sense and a thimble of modesty. Washington Nationals had a much-needed reality check that could help them in 2014 2013-09-25T22:02:07Z Its little mouse ear pads were hardly bigger than thimbles. In the Garden: Native Flora Garden Opens at Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2013-06-12T22:57:31Z Nevertheless, if the mobilisations and sabre-rattling are taking place within a tea cup, the storm is brewing not in a dainty Chinese thimble cup but a hefty mug. Korea is the focus, but this is China versus Japan 2013-04-10T19:30:01Z The crack came out in ziplock bags too small for thimbles. Addicts Are Professional Vagabonds 2012-11-12T22:45:02.917Z There are 30-year-olds who would kill for an ounce of his natural assurance, never mind a thimble full of his playmaking talent. Gloucester's Freddie Burns only three steps to rugby heaven and England 2012-09-28T12:14:00Z All the mass of Earth might be compressed into a thimble, an entire universe into a single point ... Solidarity 2012-09-26T17:22:02.687Z Was the "tempest in a teapot," as Mr. Dimon once called it, really just a flash flood in a thimble? Whose Teapot Is It Anyway? Dimon's or Ours? 2012-06-14T02:58:33Z At the bottom of the cylinder was a crystalline cube, about the size of a thimble. A Noble Betrayal 2012-04-28T19:15:00.450Z Enrico Jaures next devoted his attention to the shackle that secured the thimble spliced in the end of the cable to the big ring bolt of the buoy. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z She wanted a thimble, and was going for that, and with no other motive whatever. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z "I was thinking about saucepans," said Wyn, peacefully, as she drew her needleful of silk out of the cloth and stuck in her needle with a click of her thimble. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Four farthings and a thimble make a tailor's pocket jingle. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z You cannot put the compressing thimbles on them, therefore, you have to consider the question, How can you make holes near enough, and how can you turn the bolts near enough alike?” Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z It was like a thimble, only longer and slenderer, and it had the wide end closed and the narrower tapering end open. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z The diligence was full—so full that there would hardly have been space for an added thimble. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z "I don't see no other way for it," said Jane, calmly, drawing her thimble down a seam to flatten it, with a rasping noise which set her charge's teeth on edge. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Like a gambler who has once played for high stakes, she no longer found pleasure in thimbles and needles and pins. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z No. 1 was sealed with beeswax and stamped with a thimble; and from its brown complexion, I should think it had fallen into the dishwater, and been dried with a hot flatiron. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z Always master of ceremonies in such matters, Billy did the carving and a good-sized thimble would have contained all that remained of the roast fowl, apart from the dismembered skeleton, when supper was over. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z He had just lost his thimble while he was thinking thus; and though he hunted for it a full hour, he was not able to find it! Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z Mother was a notable woman, so, if she did but look round, away flew her thimble. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z It is about the size of a thimble and costs four sous. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z His mother rubbed his gums with her thimble to help his teeth through, and he cried harder than ever. Little Friend Lydia 2012-02-14T03:00:25.563Z Everywhere they have been delighted with gifts of English needles and thread, steel thimbles, and scissors. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z It will probably be about half the size of a thimble. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z She remembered her first sewing-lesson; how being told to take the needle in one hand she straightway placed the thimble on the other. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The sub-class Nuda have no tentacles of any kind; they are conical or ovoid, with a capacious stomodaeum like the cavity of a thimble. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z As well essay to crowd the universe into your pocket, or the Himalayas Mountains into a thimble. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z "You see I can't get up," she said, giving him her hand, adorned as it was by the thimble. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Now, the bet's made, and the gentleman with the stick, lifts obviously the wrong thimble, and loses. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z For example, one afternoon, standing in the summer-house, she showed us a thimble that she had bought. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z The loss of his money made him indignant, and he took up another of the thimbles. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z For light shapes, thimbles and fired tiles will serve the purpose. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z An interesting array of hair pins, matches, buttons, a thimble and a silver spoon were raked out of his favourite cache under the eaves. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Use a large thimble as a cutter, and cut biscuits as close to each other as possible. The Mary Frances Cook Book Adventures Among the Kitchen People 2011-12-06T03:00:20.300Z But when we left the mirador to go to our picnic she crossed in front of me and said without looking at me: "Put the thimble in this little basket." The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z The game was to guess under which of the thimbles the pea was concealed. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z One soon learns to pack a biscuit kiln, using saddles, spurs, stilts, thimbles, bits of tile or biscuit, and sand or flint as necessary. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z The thimble has a beveled edge which is graduated into twenty-five parts. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z She used the large thimble she had brought down from the sewing room in the same way as she had used the biscuit cutter. The Mary Frances Cook Book Adventures Among the Kitchen People 2011-12-06T03:00:20.300Z A good while passed; nothing more was said about the thimble. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z Then the irate man who had lost his money took up the other thimble and brushed the pea off the cushion. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z Here at last is the thimble that covers 291 the pea. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z For example: if there are ten divisions visible on the sleeve, multiply this number by 25, then add the number of divisions shown on the bevel of the thimble, which is 10. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z I do not care at all what you do with your thimble, and I respect myself too much to quarrel with you or to mind your coarse and shameless accusation. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z As they went they ate hungrily, swallowing sea animals so tiny that scores of them would go into a small girl's thimble. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z The dealer took him up, and lifted the thimble, and lo! there was the pea. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z It is the same old question of the thimble and the pea. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The screw has a movement of one-half inch and a hardened anvil is placed in the end of the thimble in order to prevent undue wear at that point. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z She scarcely knew what to devise to cause me vexation; she had a silver thimble on which a strange name was engraved; she had found it, she said, in a dust-heap in the street. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z But it is impossible to measure whether opinions are changing — and, if so, whether the team is a significant influence, or simply trying to empty the ocean of militancy one thimble at a time. U.S. Military Goes Online to Rebut Extremists 2011-11-18T04:12:52Z I went with him, and saw a man playing a game with three thimbles, a pea, and a green cushion. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The top piece of the hill is curiously symmetrical, and resembles a haycock or a thimble. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z When the instrument is closed the graduation on the beveled edge of the thimble marked 0 should correspond to the 0 line on the barrel. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z There was in it also a golden thimble, which Elsa found a little too large. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z There are young ladies who go from home on long visits, quite unprovided with even thimbles and scissors; depending all the time on borrowing. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Nearest to Dot was a great pyramid of thimbles, of all sizes and made of many different materials. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z There was her ivory workbox, with her initials in silver and turquoise on it, and her small gold thimble had rolled into a corner of the drawer. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z Somebody wanted a book or a newspaper also on the table; turned everything upside down, and the work, silk, needles, thimble, etc., went rolling all over the floor. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z She turned out her pocket, and displayed two handkerchiefs, a thimble, a small whistle and her jack-knife. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z Saying something about hunting for a thimble, Laura went to the kitchen, took the bread-knife from the table drawer, stole quietly out of the back door, and slipped between the bars of the back fence. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z Upon the work-table lay a housewife and thimble, and scissors and skeins of worsted and thread, and little scraps of linen and cloth for patches. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z On it, there lay a beautiful, gold thimble. Peter and Polly in Winter 2011-10-26T02:00:31.240Z Once mother lost a silver thimble, and, suspecting it was stolen, stated her case to old Sagamaw. Pioneer Day Exercises 2011-10-19T02:00:21.770Z You bet a shilling or half-a-crown that when you lift up a thimble you will find a pea you have seen a man place under it. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Her face flushed; she sat up very straight and tapped the table with her thimble. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z That was give to me when I was a young woman, all fitted up as nice as anything, with scissors, and thimble, and cottons and all. Mother Meg or, The Story of Dickie's Attic 2011-10-13T02:00:40.380Z A 4-inch block, strapped, with copper hook and thimble, probably for the boat's sheet. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The thimble had a hole in it where she had strung it to wear around her neck. Pioneer Day Exercises 2011-10-19T02:00:21.770Z Call it the game with the pea and thimble. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Each trooper in turn displays his "thimble belt" and extra pocket package, to show that he has the prescribed one hundred rounds. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z "I wish I could leave school," grumbled Kit, as she fumbled in her pocket for her thimble; "there's lots o' girls as young as me has left." Mother Meg or, The Story of Dickie's Attic 2011-10-13T02:00:40.380Z To-night, as on other occasions, it consisted of watercress salad, a mere nibble of it; a delicate dab of ice-cream, no bigger than a thimble; a small cup of tea, and, perhaps, a lady-finger. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z I found the child already livid, but the moment I pulled the thimble out, the infant went away playing and everything was in the best order. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z I am not an engineer myself, and what I know about surveying and triangulation could be put into a thimble, but I think I know enough to give you an idea of what I mean. The Secret Toll 2011-09-12T02:00:26.853Z "Too small again," said Jack: indeed the purple monstrosity sat upon the massive hairless head like a thimble on a billiard-ball. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z She rummages the work-basket, and hops off with every thimble she can find. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Did you know the bride’s cake always had a ring and a thimble and a coin hidden in it for luck? Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z Why, a thimble stuck in a child's throat. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Well, put your work away then," said nurse, "and when we go out I'll buy you a dear little brass thimble. Little Susy's Little Servants 2011-08-28T02:00:39.053Z A short conversation about the thimble should precede the game—how it is smooth inside and rough outside. Games Without Music for Children 2011-08-24T02:00:22.693Z With what vigor will she take to her thimble in the autumn! Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z She took off her thimble and looked at old Pan in the armchair—old Pan, Bevis’s friend. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z You are no bigger than a titmouse; you can live on a grain of millet and drink out of a thimble. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z So nurse wound a large piece of paper round and round Susy's finger, and crowded the thimble over the whole. Little Susy's Little Servants 2011-08-28T02:00:39.053Z As soon as any child sees the thimble, he takes a seat and remains quite still until all the seekers have seen it, and each in turn has sat down. Games Without Music for Children 2011-08-24T02:00:22.693Z “You didn’t think that your gold thimble would make pretty things for Dr. Lake’s wife, did you?” Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z She had a frill in her hand, a thimble on her finger, and a lot of needles in her bodice. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z When Dan'l reached the deck, he saw her standing with her sewing gathered in her hands, the gold thimble gleaming on her middle finger, watching Brander. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z I was the first woman to wear a gold thimble. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Then the child who first saw the thimble takes it from its hiding-place, and has the privilege of remaining behind to hide it next time. Games Without Music for Children 2011-08-24T02:00:22.693Z Mary was seated opposite to me, crooning some ditty in a low voice as she sat sewing, the needle clicking against her thimble as she thrust it through the work. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z You are getting 'warm', as we used to say when we played 'hunt the thimble'; you are certainly traveling toward milder climes, Evelyn. St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-07-18T02:00:22.977Z Sewing!" the prince went on, "of course, without a thimble, for those in the house did not fit, and there was none among Her Highness' trinkets. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z He spied my thimble, and, being a goldsmith, then and there vowed that on my birthday I should receive a gift. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z There, by the work-table, was still the little box containing thread, scissors, and thimble, which he himself had made when he was a clerk. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z The length, breadth and depth of a box, or of a thimble, are very different from those of a walking stick, or of a hair. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z Prior to, and immediately after the trick, the thimble may be palmed as instructed elsewhere. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z "You won't, you dogged, insulting being?" roared the roadmaker, and rushed at him, knocking over the pipe, which fell and broke on the floor, and trampling flat the thimble. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z I was seated at my work one day with an ivory thimble, big and cumbersome, on my fingers, the kind ’tis claimed the tailors use. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z "Yes, before I came to this chamber the princess gave me her thimble, and told me to have it for her in the morning." Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z One moment he will buy a silver candelabra, the next a silver thimble. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The left hand is then brought down with some force on the head and the thimble produced from the mouth on the forefinger of the right hand. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z I've got my pipe, black as your back shall be before to-morrow, and mother has an old thimble as full o' holes as I'll make your skin before the night is much older. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z "For your own ladies, and pale-visaged maids, Like Amazons, come tripping after drums; Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change, Their needles to lances." The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z When he gave up the thimble, the king said, "You have won one third of my daughter." Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z We are getting ‘warm’ as they say 136 in hunt the thimble. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Trick When about to present the trick the performer comes forward with a thimble on the forefinger of the right hand, the second one being in the left-hand trousers pocket. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z "Count, here you have America in a thimble." The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Now while this eye in a fine frenzy rolls, That, soberly casts up a bill for coals; Black pins and daggers in one leaf she sticks, And tears, and thread, and balls, and thimbles mix. The Fatal Falsehood 2011-05-31T02:00:36.033Z At night when the king's son was going to bed, the princess gave him a thimble, and said: "Have this for me in the morning." Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z The inlaid one, with nice velvet beds for the thimble, scissors, and bodkin, and a glass in the cover, and a little drawer for my silk-reels. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z He now appears to place the thimble in the left hand, but really, when the right hand is in motion toward the left, it is palmed as described. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Molly’s was beautiful, but had she not had her hand in Aunt Mary’s dough ever since she could climb up to the table and cut out little “bis’it wif a thimble”? Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z "I have no thimble,—" was all she said. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z He put the thimble on his finger; and she thought it could be easily taken away, if he would sleep. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z Even if Mr. Madoff’s collection commands a multiple of the expected bids, the proceeds from this particular auction won’t amount to a thimble of carton wine. DealBook: At This Event, the Drinks Are on Bernie Madoff 2011-05-18T20:17:58Z Finally the second thimble should be secretly disposed of, and the trick brought to a conclusion with a pass performed with the one only. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Well, one day about a month ago Mildred had gone down town for something when Mabel wanting scissors, or thimble or something which she had mislaid, went to Mildred's work basket to get hers. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z Mrs. Busby sought her out an old thimble of her own, too big for Rotha, and it kept slipping off. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Then the princess and the maid set out for the eastern world, taking the thimble with them. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z I won't forget my thimble or my scissors,' added she, laughing—'though I used to forget them when I was a giddy girl. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z The one left on the finger is then vanished, under cover of a throwing movement toward the cone, which is then removed by the apex and the thimble discovered. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Old Captain rose ponderously to his feet, shuffled about inside his cabin and finally returned with a large spool of dingy thread, a mammoth thimble, and a huge darning needle. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z In the south of Scotland it is called bloody fingers; farther north, dead-men’s-bells; and on the eastern borders, ladies’ thimbles, wild mercury and Scotch mercury. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The princess greeted him and gave him the thimble, saying: "You're to keep this so no man can get it." Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z A thimble made of leather, which goes round the finger. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z For the purpose of the trick, in its entirety, the performer must be provided with two thimbles exactly alike; but very many surprising passes can be made with one thimble only. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z "A thimble, a needle, a thread!" shouted the desperate Captain. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z In Ireland it is generally known under the name of fairy thimble. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Shaking-head caught the thimble from the ground and put it in his pocket. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z She withered in poverty in a home in Brooklyn where the authorities said she had been drugged and often bound to a toddler bed by her mother, having realized a bare thimble’s worth of living. A Bleak Life, Cut Short at 4, Harrowing From the Start 2011-05-09T05:14:31Z Under cover of this the right-hand thimble is palmed, and that in the left hand produced, when it will appear to have been passed from one hand to the other. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z The cards of buttons, spools of thread, and glittering thimbles formed a sort of fancy border along the edge. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Dee got the ring, Annie the piece of money and Wink the thimble, thereby causing many a merry bit of banter from his friends. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z "Well, look at this," said Shaking-head, taking the thimble out of his pocket and giving it to him. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z "I shall line it with brown and fit it up with a thimble and threads and needles and a tiny pair of scissors." Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z While all attention is drawn to the table the duplicate thimble is dropped into the profonde. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Indeed, is not this little joker worse than that of the thimble? From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z She sat with her cat on her knee, sewing on an orange and green cushion, made in queer little puffs, and she jumped up, dropping thimble, and spectacles, in her warm-hearted welcome. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Then the king's son put the thimble in his mouth between his cheek and his teeth for safe keeping, and was soon asleep. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z The souvenirs are for Flego’s mom, who keeps a book of press clippings from the Queen’s 1947 wedding, and for his sister, who owns a thimble featuring William’s late mother Diana. Will and Kate Toilet Seats, Condoms Join Tacky London Souvenirs 2011-04-26T16:00:28Z This thimble having been placed on the forefinger of the hand, it will be found, by experiment, that the name may very easily be written on the back of a card held as instructed. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z There was a man just before me with a pea and thimble, and I never saw a trick-of-the-loop with less sense of the game. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z On the table is a little thimble with a screw at one side. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Why, what you didn’t do to that poor beast could be put into a thimble. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z Any one interested in preserving impropriety might very well endow a chain of thimble theaters with a maximum seating capacity of ten. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z This can be done with perfect ease, as, so long as the hand is kept in motion during the recovery of the thimble, there is no fear of the movement being detected. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Do you know, they call a thimble a finger hat? The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The brisk, kindly Annie Lee promptly fitted a thimble on her finger and took up the piece of muslin that Elise had been hemming. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z But, in the midst of the confusion, came Mrs. Large, the nurse, who confessed with bitter tears that, owing to her folly, the thimble was not what it was imagined to be. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Chairs and lounges tumble over, and my work-basket has received a terrible wound in the side, through which I am constantly losing scissors, thimble, and cotton. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z While doing this the performer stands with the left hand in the trousers pocket and palms the second thimble. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z The thoughtless girl had arrived at the sewing meeting without needles or thimble or scissors, but one lady or another supplied these deficiencies, and soon she was at work. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Excuse me, my dear Roderich, but I cannot find my thimble. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z When the doctors heard this, the accident naturally assumed a serious aspect, and they redoubled their efforts to bring back the thimble. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care; To pursue it with forks and hope; To threaten its life with a railway share; To charm it with smiles and soap! Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z An additional effect may be obtained by the use of two thimbles, one fitting over the other. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Miss Fisher was bent on investing Lieutenant Seymour with the thimble and requiring him to thread a needle for himself, while she soberly and with despatch basted a towel which she destined him to hem. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z One day Mrs. Miller misplaced her silver thimble and she accused me of stealing it. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z But everything failed; the wooden thimble dissolved with time, but the copper band remained. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z "Will you for shore, Mas'r Ben?" cried Candace, grasping his arm with both sets of black fingers, which sent the big horn thimble flying off under the counter. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z The cone is then removed, with slight pressure at the base, and placed on the table on the supposition that it is empty, but it really contains the uppermost thimble. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z "I wouldn't give a brass thimble to be assured that all you are telling is the truth, for I know 'tisn't!" retorted Millie. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z The very next day she found her thimble in the nursery where she remembered she put it herself, but forgot about it at the time. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z See! he is dead, and I trust you will never more put any such ‘thimbles’ into your bosom.” The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z "Well, I'm glad I found that thimble," said Ben, lifting a very red face to the counter-edge, and presently getting up to his feet. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z The well they made from an old thimble. Little Tom 2011-02-02T03:00:21.113Z Their wives, who couldn't read, led honest lives, Their households were their only learned theme, And all their books were thimble, thread and needles. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Place the thimble upon the second finger of the right hand. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z “Why, mother, it was only my—my thimble.” The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z "Oh, Ben, how hot you are!" exclaimed Polly, as Candace received her horn thimble, which she put on her black finger with great delight. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z His assortment is quite varied, for besides the requisite clothing, he has tobacco, and pepper, and mustard; needles, thimbles, tape, thread, and spool-cotton; ribbons, buttons, jack-knives, &c. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch remarked that this was "like asking us to drain the Pacific Ocean with a thimble." Republicans vs. Medicare Chief: Over Before It Starts? 2010-11-19T14:25:00Z Either the side or end of the thimble can be used. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z The divers wore clips on their noses, beeswax in their ears, leather thimbles on their fingers and baskets to carry the oysters. Kuwait City Journal: Diving for Pearls, and a Connection to the Past 2010-08-13T00:40:00Z "I'll find your thimble first," said Ben, getting down on his knees to lift the gay flowered calico curtain that hung from the counter-edge. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z "The putt would have gone in a thimble." Paul Goydos shoots a 59 to tie PGA Tour record | Golf 2010-07-09T04:33:00Z To illustrate, he likens short-term memory to a thimble and long-term memory to a large bathtub. Book asks: Is Internet ruining our minds? 2010-06-03T14:32:00Z Never allow a pupil to sew without a thimble. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z "When it's raining gold," he crowed, "reach for a bucket, not a thimble." Stuck with Sears 2010-03-25T21:00:00Z This was easier said than done, for the big horn thimble, now that it had gotten away from Candace's black finger, decided to take a holiday. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z “What’s the good of grumbling?” grunted Jared; and then there was silence, only broken by the clicking of needle against thimble. A Little World The residue remaining on the thimble consists of all substances present in soap, insoluble in alcohol. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. Putting on the steel thimble, in which her delicate finger tip was fairly lost, she took a few stitches, and asked whether he would not surrender his office and his work to her. A Divided Heart and Other Stories Bulstrode waited for a little, following her stitches through the muslin and the flash of her thimble in the light. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode And that twitched the needle and knotted up the silk thread, and then off her thimble flew with a little click—snip, and "O dear me!" exclaimed Polly, and opened her eyes. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z Lydia hardly knew on which finger to put her thimble and tied a knot in her thread like a man tying a rope. Manslaughter Maggie drew out her thimble and insisted upon being employed, and the hours flew lightly over their heads until noon, when Lewis entered. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 "When McNeal gets through with her, yes," returned Neighbor, gruffly, giving her a thimble of steam and trying the air. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories She folded up her work and dropped her thimble in the nest of snow. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode Michael's nerves were so wrought upon by the unchanging gloom of these wintry days that even to be sent by Nurse to fetch her thimble or work-bag before tea was a racking experience. Sinister Street, vol. 1 I ought to buy me a new thimble and scissors for I carried my sewing to school to-day and they were inside of it very carelessly and dropped out and got lost. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl All that he wished, thought, and felt was forthwith created by means of his scissors and iron, his thimble, needle, and cotton. Yiddish Tales "It is certainly a doctor, who has inspired me with courage, but he's no quack, and the affair is altogether--" He hesitated again and stooped to look for a thimble which he had luckily dropped. The Children of the World And now, as her long hands and her long finger, tipped by its golden thimble, handled her sewing, Bulstrode watched her interestedly and found great loveliness in her bending face. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode You can't lose a child the same as you might lay down a thimble. Sinister Street, vol. 1 When they reached home, they sent us each a reticule, with scissors, thimble, stiletto, needle-case and tiny penknife and some stamped embroidery. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl But while he was seeking with thimbles and care, A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair, For he knew it was useless to fly. Rhyme? And Reason? It is all very well for the "uppers" to laugh at the Babes, but it was no easy matter to get a thimble across a room by nose effort. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School Obviously, in the case of an idle line there will be no path to ground from the test thimbles, since normally they are merely connected to each other and are insulated from everything else. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. To have tried even to touch upon the vast subject of literature in our story would have been as futile as an attempt to transport the ocean in a thimble. The Story of Books To begin to straggle to begin to straggle and much any sealing any sealing without thimbles. Geography and Plays They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap. Rhyme? And Reason? "Chase that thimble across the room with your nose," demanded the Ranger, placing a silver thimble at Dorothy's feet. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School The cord circuit employed is of the two-conductor type, the plugs being so constructed as to connect the ring and thimble contacts of the jack when inserted. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. I brought my thimble with me and my new scissors in the green silk bag. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story "Do let me help you," says Clarissa, with entreaty, and, stooping to the basket, she rummages there until she produces a needle, a thimble, and some thread. Faith and Unfaith And the spinster gives over attention to her work, while she taps with her thimble, reflectively, upon the elbow of her chair. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 No, no! was I resolved to say to him; here, here is all I have; here is my silver thimble, and fifteen kreuzers. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. The circuit thus established allows current to flow from the test thimble of the jack through the winding of her induction coil to ground, causing a click in her telephone receiver. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Hidden carefully in their folds were old prayer books and thimbles, ostrich plumes and lace. Carnival ‘Well, of course he meant much bigger things than just picking up people’s thimbles and interfering 180 with everybody all round,’ she began rather contemptuously. The Youngest Girl in the School With the delicacy that lent something of legerdemain to all his gestures, he took out a small canvas wallet, the crude equivalent of the professional black bag, from which he drew a thimble. Where the Pavement Ends Mrs Jenkles sat looking at the fire, rubbing her nose with her thimble, both she and Sam heedless that the potatoes were burning. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One The thimble of the jack in this case forms no part of the talking circuit and is distinct from the two jack springs which form the line terminals. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. She remembered how pleased her mother had professed herself by the gift of a thimble achieved on Jenny's side by a great parsimony in sweets. Carnival "Under that," said I, pointing to the lowermost of the thimbles, which, as they stood, formed a kind of triangle. International Short Stories English Molly stood by the bed, his shirt in her hand, her brass thimble on one finger, a bib apron over her bosom. Fairfax and His Pride “I could lend you my thimble!” said Laura, searching her pocket. Holiday House A Series of Tales These circuits are normally held open in another place, that is, between the plug contacts 1 and the jack thimbles. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. A type of retractable thimble or presser foot was used to hold the fabric down as required. The Invention of the Sewing Machine Presently I came to where the man of the thimbles was standing, with the table before him, and many people about him. International Short Stories English Emmeline sent him her thimble, her lace collar, her wedding ring and a lock of her hair, shining still and without a touch of grey. Fairfax and His Pride But there seem to be no more brains in your head, Harry, than in her thimble!” Holiday House A Series of Tales Good operating requires that the tip of the calling plug be tapped against the test thimble several times in order to make sure of the state of the called line. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. It was lovely to press my thimble on it, and see all the pretty little holes it left; or to push a naughty finger deep down into the nice soft stuff. The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls Then, glancing around, and perceiving the constable, he slipped forthwith his pellet and thimbles into his pocket, and lifting up his table, he cried to the people about him, "Make way!" International Short Stories English Mrs. Carew tapped her lip with her thimble. Fairfax and His Pride But directly a second thimble is brought up beside the first, the difficulty of placing the pea becomes at once a problem. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis Missing thimbles, a plume from Chloe’s hat, Metty’s pen knife, thread, nails, buttons—anything and everything that had been missed and had captivated their apish fancy. Dorothy on a House Boat I remember when a thimble was first given to me, some simple bit of work being at the same time placed in my hand. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 "We of the thimble always calls our customers lords," said the man. International Short Stories English "Will you be so good as to seat yourself in your mamma's thimble," said the little mouse, "that I may have the pleasure of drawing you to the wedding?" Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series In a simple illustration, if there be one thimble and one pea, it is easy enough to know where the pea is. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis See, I have my needles, thimble, thread and all, all in this little apron pocket. Dorothy's Tour I did so, and, placing the thimble on a finger of the other hand, I began to sew without its aid, to the amusement of my teacher. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 And, when I lifted up the thimble, the pellet, in truth, was not under it. International Short Stories English Sharpers in plenty, roulette tables, dice, three-card trick, pea and thimble, and the pricking in a curled up strap, and every phase of gambling without let or hindrance. Rambling Recollections of Chelsea by an old inhabitant I expected every moment to hear her knock sharply on the window-pane with her thimble. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself The thimbles should be well fixed, and in so exact a circle, that the bullets may pass within a very small distance of each of them. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments Upon one occasion she observed a young princess, a newcomer in the school, working somewhat awkwardly with needle and thimble. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition All you have to do is to put a sovereign down on my table, and to find the pea, which I put under one of my thimbles. International Short Stories English Miss Spring tapped her thimble still faster on the window-sill, and thought busily. Old Friends and New She made him a warm bed near the fireplace by putting some cotton inside her sewing thimble. Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys In a circle on the table which supports the wheel, are fixed twelve small pillars of glass, at about eleven inches distance, with a thimble on the top of each. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments So she brought her thimble and needle, to join the working party who sat round the Rectory dining-table. Sowing and Sewing A Sexagesima Story "Play at what?" said I. "Only at the thimble and pea, my lord." International Short Stories English Nothing venture nothing gain, is as true with ships' rigging, as thimble rigging, and we staked all our hopes on a rapid passage. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia "Oh, this is most delightful," said the cricket as he snuggled down inside the thimble under the warm cotton. Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys The bullet nearest to a pillar moves towards the thimble on that pillar, and, passing by, electrifies it, and then pushes itself from it. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments Miss Parry gave her a thimble in a red plush case. Loyal to the School He moved the thimble and pellet about, now placing it to all appearance under one, and now under another. International Short Stories English There were boxes and containers of all sizes and shapes, some big enough to hold an elephant, others the size of thimbles. One Man's Poison No one heard the bear come in—that is, no one but the little black cricket in the thimble near the fireplace. Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys She deems herself more indispensable to an opera than an executioner to an execution, or the thimbles to a thimble-rig man. Physiology of The Opera She laid the coat over a chair and put her bent brass thimble into the paper-collar box that served as work-basket. Strangers and Wayfarers By the oak, That rolls old roots in many gnarly lines, The acorn thimble, smoothly broke, Shines by its saucer. Days and Dreams Poems Through the roof are five sewer-pipe ventilators covered by thimble tops. The Apple On an Egyptian marble table stood a work-box curiously inlaid with malachite and richly gilded, and there lay some withered flowers, a small thimble, and a pair of scissors with mother-of-pearl handles. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part "And stuck in your needle, and folded it up, and put it in the drawer, and put away your thimble, and shet the drawer, and all the rest on't?" said the Captain. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine There wasn’t water enough in her to fill a thimble. The Coming of the Law Henney dropped my thimble down the well last week, and as for buttons, the only ones I own are on the children’s clothes. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted The ancient glass has worn very thin, pitted almost through like a worn-out thimble with little holes where the alkalis have worked their way out. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass Watching now his moment He pops out, and see, Mamma's spools and thimble Quickly disagree. Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children As for any articles of jewelry, silver-spoons, forks, thimbles, or other plate and valuables, they are pocketed off-hand by the first finder. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 To save him from Helios, the sister turns him into a thimble till she has Helios’s promise to do him no harm. Indian Fairy Tales It might have been an hour later that I walked to the cedar grove to find my thimble and saw Miss Lisbet hurrying there ahead of me. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon He stays behind with a thimble, which he has to place in some position, where, though it is in sight, it will be difficult to discover. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes She looked round for Audrey, to ask her permission, but she could not see her, and helped herself to a thimble, and needle and cotton. Anxious Audrey Put a thimble over the end of rods and you can easily run it through your curtains, or an old glove finger will answer the purpose if thimble is too large. Stevenson Memorial Cook Book ‘They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care, They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.’ By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Sally moved to her place, and mechanically put away her scissors and thimble. Coquette When every one has found it, or when a long enough time has been passed in looking for it, the thimble is hidden again, this time by the player who found it first. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes If you could find me two, and a needle and cotton, and a thimble, I would sew them on for you. Anxious Audrey She seemed to think it was Susan Burr, who "would find her thimble if she looked underneath." When Ghost Meets Ghost The boy had come close to Mrs. Warrender's work-table, and was lifting up and putting down again the reels of silk, the thimbles and scissors. A Country Gentleman and his Family A little silver thimble, too, Was there among the rest; And a large waxen doll, quite new, That waited to be dress'd. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Players often stand right over the thimble, staring directly at it, and still do not see it. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes He will fashion it with "golden thimble, scissors, needle, thread"; taking velvet from the April sky as a groundwork, stars for trimming, moonlight for banding, and a web of dreams for lining. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Gold, pure and in the usual alloys, was also used in the manufacture of other articles, such as bells, beads, disks, balls, rings, whistles, thimble shaped objects, and amulets of varied shapes. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 I never tried the conjure, but they would take hair and brass nails and thimbles and needles and mix them up in a conjure bag. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 “Well, it’s fillin’, as the old woman said when she swallowed her thimble, and that boy Joe he’s going to be a drain on me to feed, I can see that now. The Bondboy All the apparatus needed for a "Hand Dragon" consists of a little cardboard thimble or finger-stall, on which the features of a dragon have been drawn in pen and ink or color. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes She took off her thimble and laid it in its velvet sheath. Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists She gathered up her work, put the embroidery, the scissors, the thimble into her bag. Shirley The paper had been sealed in several places with a thimble by way of seal; the very thimble, perhaps, that I had found in the captain’s pocket. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) When she lost her thimble, she hunted for it alone. The Benefactress Anything no bigger than a thimble will turn a woman's mind in the right direction if you spring it on her like a surprise. The Romance of a Plain Man "Ay, very glad," said the younger man, who was soon examining Maggie's silver thimble and other small matters that had been taken from her pocket. Tom and Maggie Tulliver Her thimble is scarcely fitted on, her needle scarce threaded, when a sudden thought calls her upstairs. Shirley Who was it but me that turned down her first over-and-over seam, and gave her a tentie-tointy silver thimble to take the stitches with. Phemie Frost's Experiences Very prominent is the wild cherry, the wild apple, the salmon berry, the thimble berry, the huckleberry, the salal berry, the Oregon grape, the blackberry, the strawberry, the wild currant, and the raspberry. The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists What consolation radiated from her thimble, what encouragement even in the sight of her tapeline! Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland Maggie began to think that Tom must be right about the gipsies: they must certainly be thieves, unless the man meant to return her thimble by-and-by. Tom and Maggie Tulliver She left her sewing and her thimble in the window-seat, and followed her uncle where he led. Shirley It was about twice the size of a lady's thimble, and contained two eggs, no larger than common peas. Due South or Cuba Past and Present In he hopped, and laid the great ruby on the 25 table beside the woman’s thimble. The Happy Prince and Other Tales But Walter consoled himself with the thought that it wasn’t a thimble this time. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland Next she put on her thimble, took out her needle and thread, and sewed up the hole as quickly as ever she could. The Cock, The Mouse and the Little Red Hen an old tale retold A skein of coarse thread hung about her neck, and a steel thimble was upon her long, slender finger, where it had worn a ring about the nail with incessant use. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals Then the folks |asked how to buy off them river devils, an' the Dwarfs said to throw in a thimble full of human blood an' spit in the river. Dwellers in the Hills He washed out innumerable small oil pipes with gasoline, and flushed out the crankcase itself, and had at the end of his working as many small scraps of metal as would half fill a thimble. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The room filled up; thimbles and housewives came out of pockets; work was produced from baskets and bags; and tongues went like mill-clappers. Diana See, here I have my little work-bag, and in it there is a pair of scissors, and a little thimble, and a needle and thread. The Cock, The Mouse and the Little Red Hen an old tale retold Well, that very day she sent to the store and had a thimble bought for me, and that afternoon after school I began my quilt under her eye. Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic Come, come, we must look up your things, and we have only two days for it; come away, fetch your thimble; and don't let me see any idleness.' The Fairchild Family O, ho, ho! why don't you bring some water in a thimble, and put the well out? Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine His bell-button thimbles fell off, his flat nose became long and sharp, his thread hair gave place to a bald pate, and his whole appearance became wonderfully like Bartlemy's master. Funny Big Socks Being the Fifth Book of the Series "After that speech I think you had better explain," said Bella, "if you're not in want of a thimble pie on your knuckles." Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First Being the First Book He employs no sticky element to secure the edges of his cigarette, but tucks the ends neatly in, by means of a pointed thimble which he wears on his forefinger. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba He would take her thimble and wax, and hide them too. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad He then placed some sulphuric acid in a very small silver thimble, with a fragment of zinc weighing a grain or two. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery Jean concluded her work at last, placed her needle in the cushion, and removed her thimble. The White Lie Mrs. Bennett sold china too, and glass, some homely medicines, and hoops and thimbles and skipping-ropes. The Carroll Girls We have three hundred acres, mostly pasture, with a few oak, walnut and wild cherry trees and a muddy pond or two and a thimble spring. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight She sprang up in dismayed haste, scattering thimble and scissors out on the pathway, and, seizing the cage, fled with it indoors. Treasure Valley There are several important items which must not be forgotten, and among them are hand-towels and soap, combs, hand-mirror, thread, needle and thimble, a corkscrew and a can opener. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;" and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson There are several shops, and it is not a very small place; but I could not meet with a silver thimble, and bought a halfpenny brass one. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 The boys who had thimbles, and the girls who had balls, had great fun displaying their prizes, and trying to "trade." Donald and Dorothy He never thought of so much as a pennyworth of toffee for Ethel, or a silver thimble for his mother, or a twopenny cigar for Mr. Pilkings. Oswald Bastable and Others She was always making needle rolls and thimble boxes and no doubt her skill helped to keep the family fed and clothed. A Son of the Middle Border It was made in the same manner in which silver pencil-cases and thimbles are made. Practical Education, Volume II Gazing at the dancing thimbles she was unaware that someone had entered the room behind her. Amabel Channice Dorry, gently thrusting her hand into one of these pockets, drew forth a bit of crumpled ribbon, some fragments of dried rose-leaves, and a silver thimble marked "K. R." Donald and Dorothy It contained cakes and sweets, a work-basket for Dora, lined with red satin, and dressed up with silver thimbles, and all sorts of bodkins and scissors, and knives with silver handles. Oswald Bastable and Others For the first ten years he made nothing but spoons, thimbles, and silver combs, with an occasional napkin-ring, if any one in Providence was bold enough to order one. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 He drew from his pocket a small silver thimble. The Dust Flower She drew her hand out of her stocking and put her thimble on the table. Say and Seal, Volume I And why in the name of conscience don’t you get a thimble, Jonathan? Hepsey Burke The ring presaged the next bride or groom, the darning needle single blessedness to the end, the thimble, many to sew for, or feed, the button, fickleness or disappointment. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South I just know that some menial is coming in a minute with a birthday cake—and the ring and the thimble and the coin and everything will be in my slice—Hello, Bert Chester!” The Readjustment She merely slipped the scrawl and the thimble into the pocket of her jacket, and stood up. The Dust Flower So the five other girls left the selection of the thimble to us, and went down stairs. Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly I cut out the cookies with mamma's thimble. Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly So many things had to go in it—the darning needle, thimble, picayune, ring, and button. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South |
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