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Definition of Thimblesful
1. thimbleful [n] - See also: thimbleful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thimblesful
Literary usage of Thimblesful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Scamper Through America: Or, Fifteen Thousand Miles of Ocean and Continent by T. S. Hudson (1882)
"... at a bar inferior to that of the Criterion or Gaiety at home a generous friend
had to pay ninety cents for two thimblesful of brandy and a " split soda. ..."
2. Potter's American Monthly (1877)
"Just as I said, honorable captain, nature is above all rules; and a few grains
of powder more or less is not thought of. thimblesful in the heat of battle, ..."
3. The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on by Charles Adolphus Murray Dunmore (1893)
"This he poured into my little ash-tray, which held about two thimblesful and, on
accepting my host's invitation to drink with him, I found the liquor bore a ..."
4. China the Mysterious and Marvellous: By Victor Murdock by Victor Murdock (1920)
"It was poured into small cups—holding about two thimblesful—and was heated.
It is rice wine and quite weak. When the bird nest soup had disappeared we were ..."
5. The Irish Penny Journal (1841)
"These wretched people do not begin with thimblesful, and end with gills—the stroke
seizes them like a thief in the night—sometimes in the prime of ..."
6. Labor and Liberty: A Model Constitution, Embodying All the Benefits of by Samuel Rabinowitz (1917)
"Are you of those who bring to the cause buckets- ful of sympathy and fine words,
or of the others, who rather give it thimblesful of service and sacrifice? ..."
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