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Example sentences for "thimbleful"

Lexicographically close words:
thill; thills; thim; thimble; thimbled; thimbles; thimsilves; thin; thinck; thincke
  1. Stir till they begin to turn color, then put in a thimbleful of flour melted in milk.

  2. To your healthy hogs give one-half thimbleful of arsenic in slop to every hog, once per month.

  3. There is not a thimbleful of light remaining, and your grandmama will be impatient to hear all the news.

  4. I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house.

  5. Having a desperate sore head, our wife, poor body, put a thimbleful of brandy into my first cup of tea which had a wonderful virtue in putting all things to rights.

  6. Sir Bingo, soothed by the consequence he had acquired, readily imparted to the invalid a thimbleful of his cordial, which, we believe, had been prepared by some cunning chemist in the wilds of Glenlivat.

  7. Lucy, bright and good Lucy, had become queen and mistress of the boarding-house--albeit she had not a thimbleful of the blood of the Whytes of Battersea in her veins.

  8. Lucy Rowe was favoured with these observations, heightened by occasional hits at her own misfortune in that she was a Rowe, and could not boast one thimbleful of Whyte blood in her veins.

  9. And now let us all go in and stir up the fire--and, please, one of you bring me a thimbleful of brandy.

  10. No, that is quite enough; a thimbleful of cognac is just what I need--more than that I have given up these many years.

  11. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love.

  12. The young woman had now come from securing a priceless thimbleful of water that bathed the roots of forget-me-nots.

  13. Stay, Doubledick," he said, "you must take a thimbleful before you go.

  14. Have a thimbleful before you go, Mildmay.

  15. G and H--Eskimo pipes of true Oriental type, the bowl holding only half a thimbleful of tobacco.

  16. These pipes are identical with those used by the Chinese, and hold but half a thimbleful of tobacco, the smoke being inhaled and swallowed with dreamy joy.

  17. One would like to know for how much black brooding and for how many revengeful deeds that morning thimbleful of black coffee is responsible.

  18. Your ordinary employe begins his day with a thimbleful of black coffee, nothing more.

  19. Why, Alf, that gal hain't had a thimbleful sence she was a baby.

  20. You ought to shift the mortgage to somebody more human--somebody with at least a thimbleful of soul.

  21. So the next day they all went to church, and Rushen Coatie was left behind, to make dinner out of a thimbleful of water, a grain of barley, a crumb of bread, and a thread of meat.

  22. And when dinner-time came, the nasty stepmother sent her out a thimbleful of broth, a grain of barley, a thread of meat, and a crumb of bread.

  23. They dined on dry biscuit and another thimbleful of water apiece and took watch by amiable agreement.

  24. He poured the thimbleful and handed it over quickly, and when Perroquet had tossed it off he filled again and again.

  25. In front is an artistic but most untidy conglomeration of awnings to protect from the sun pedlars, merchants and people enjoying their kalians, or a thimbleful of tea.

  26. Yet, how great a difference, in appearance and value, between that precious gem and a thimbleful of coal-dust!

  27. Bang's "mucho mucho" even failed him, for he had only in his modesty got a thimbleful of brandy to qualify the olla podrida.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thimbleful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.