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Definition of Thimblefuls
1. thimbleful [n] - See also: thimbleful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thimblefuls
Literary usage of Thimblefuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"... declares that the most powerful restorative known to him is the old-fashioned
combination of rum and milk. Ye who are weak drink thimblefuls of rum in ..."
2. The Common Sense of Political Economy, Including a Study of the Human Basis by Philip Henry Wicksteed (1910)
"In taking in the milk for the day or half-day the housewife considers, consciously
or unconsciously, what the significance of the last thimblefuls applied ..."
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1881)
"There was not much to take away, for he seemed only able to inhale it by thimblefuls,
and his heart ..."
4. This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
"Amory rather scornfully avoided the popular professors who dispensed easy epigrams
and thimblefuls of Chartreuse to groups of admirers every night. ..."
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