A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
Well then, I suppose this is yours, Hermione; but, I must say, I never knew a gold thimble earned so easily.
She held the thimble in the palm of her hand, and said, 'I found it in the pocket of the young lady's dress.
Turning round, she saw the flash of the gold thimble as it rested on the mantelpiece.
For if Pauline had the thimble Pen would have very little to say against her.
For a time I was motionless, holding thethimble in my hand.
That reminds me; I wonder where Aunt Sophy's thimble has got to.
I had thethimble in my pocket, and she was snuggling up close to me in her nice, engaging little fashion, and she felt the thimble hard against my side, much as I felt it when it was in your pocket.
When it is faithfully copied you will have the originalthimble back, my love, but not before.
And this beautiful thimble is to be worn on the dear little middle finger of Becky's dear little white hand.
The girl held in her hand the thimble--the thimble of gold and sapphire and turquoise.
You know I am quite likely to get into a scrape about that horrid thimble as well as everything else.
That thimble is really a very trifling matter," she said to herself, "but even that at the present moment annoys me.
Penelope's pocket proved to be quite safe, and Nancy, with a qualm at her heart which she could not account for, allowed the little girl to put the thimble therein.
The thimble itself was made of solid gold; its base was formed of one beautifully cut sapphire, and round the margin of the top of the thimble was a row of turquoises.
Presently she dived into the bottom of the basket and took out a gold thimble with a sapphire top and turquoises round the rim.
When the maid had gone Miss Tredgold remained for a minute or two holding the thimble in the palm of her hand; then she crossed the room on tiptoe, and replaced it in the pocket of Pauline's serge skirt.
It is enough that at last she triumphantly produced the thimble on her finger, and rattled the nutmeg-grater; the literature of both those trinkets being obviously in course of wearing out and wasting away, through excessive friction.
Place the thimbleupon the second finger of the right hand.
The man of the thimble looked at the gold, and then at him who produced it, and scratched his head.
I observed, on drawing nearer, that he handled the pea and thimble with some awkwardness, like that which might be expected from a novice in the trade.
Polly put on her thimble in silence, but as Miss Mills spread the white flannel over her lap, she exclaimed, "Why, it looks like a shroud!
Felicia struck her again with the thimble and began resolutely putting a new dress braid on a bedraggled serge skirt.
She tucked her thimble in her pocket, folded her apron and asked, "Will you promise not to let her go till I get my hat?
You see, at Agnes' wedding I received in my slice of bride-cake the thimble that should have consigned me to eternal spinsterhood, and Philip had the bachelor's button.
I had my thimble this morning, and had commenced my sewing, when I was called out by Juno, and Caroline went with me, and Tommy was left in the house.
Why, mother, here's the thimble in my soup," cried William.
I wanted to fill the thimble; the soup burnt my fingers, and I let the thimble drop in.
Well, then, he shall have no dinner till the thimble makes its appearance," replied Mr. Seagrave.
When I came back I found him outside, and on going back to my work, there was no thimble to be found; I asked him if he had touched it, and his answer was that he would look for it.
I think, now that the thimble is found, if he begs pardon, papa will forgive him.
And why didn't you tell your mamma where the thimble was?
If they had no art, you would ruin them in five minutes, for all you would have to do (and you insist on the unfair privilege) is to watch the thimble under which your fortune lies and snatch it.
Maggie began to think that Tom must be right about the gypsies; they must certainly be thieves, unless the man meant to return her thimble by and by.
Ay, very glad," said the younger man, who was looking at Maggie's silver thimble and other small matters that had been taken from her pocket.
You remember in that delightful fantasy a thimble was a kiss.
Wink sadly acquiesced, and then Zebedee kindly added: "Maybe that means the kind of thimble Wendy gave Peter Pan, Wink.
When I grew too big for the thimble treatment she used her tongue instead--and that hurt worse.
I said non-excitedly, getting out my thimble and patterns.
Thimble Ring I come with my ringle jingles Under my lady's apron strings.
Then the one who was found to have had the thimble takes the place of the one inside the ring, and the game is repeated.
A thimble is given to one of those who form the ring, and it is passed round from one to another, so that nobody knows who has it.
The thimble may be detained or passed on just as the players think fit.
The words are the following:-- The thimble is going, I don't know where.
When the searcher discovers the thimble she begins a new round of the game by taking the place of leader; and so on, till the accumulation of forfeits is sufficient to afford amusement in "loosing the tines.
A thimble is provided, and is held by one of the players in the right hand.
The day after her father's return, Alice Wilde sat down to try her newthimble in running up the skirt of her merino dress.
I'se got the looking glasses and the thimble my great-grandmother used to use when she worked.
Revolution) Dem day Ladies wear bodkin fastened to long gold chain on shoulder--needle in 'em and thimble and ting.
But directly a second thimble is brought up beside the first, the difficulty of placing the pea becomes at once a problem.
In a simple illustration, if there be one thimbleand one pea, it is easy enough to know where the pea is.
You didn't think that your gold thimble would make pretty things for Dr.
In the chimney, which adjoins the parlor side of this hall, may be inserted a thimble for a hall stovepipe, if this method of warming should be adopted.
It is the same old question of the thimble and the pea.
Walking in to prayers, and without his board, came my young friend of the thimble rig, and presently after sauntered in the fellow with the long coat, who had played at cards for sovereigns.
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.
The bullet nearest to a pillar moves towards the thimble on that pillar, and, passing by, electrifies it, and then pushes itself from it.
Then his father went on to tell how little Mrs. Mouse and her babies had nibbled a wondrous dinner of pink thimble cakes on the floor of pew number one while Johnnie slept.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thimble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
