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Meanings of thimbleful in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "thimble"
Examples for "thimble"
1
A thimble or button is placed in plain sight by another child.
2
Miss Lining took another taste of the brass thimble, and then said:
3
Felicia made her sit down by tapping her head with the thimble.
4
He wondered what Charlotte would say when he gave her the thimble.
5
But no thimble-rigger had a keener eye for the cents than Fawcett.
Usage of thimbleful in английском
1
It didn't even have enough energy to warm a thimbleful of water.
2
He drank an extra thimbleful of whisky to try to hearten himself.
3
Would they like to taste it - only a thimbleful or so?
4
He poured himself a thimbleful of rum and drank it and went out.
5
Tim suggested that a thimbleful of rum would be mighty pleasant.
6
He was too profoundly strong to be affected by a thimbleful.
7
A thimbleful of male semen holds the planet's entire annual requirements.
8
You'll have a thimbleful of something to keep the cold out?
9
Some traces of dust, a sad thimbleful by the end of the day.
10
The Cornal gulped the merest thimbleful of spirits and resumed in a different key.
11
A thimbleful to moisten our tongues would have been worth its bulk in gold.
12
The ex-prizefighter brought him a thimbleful of brandy, but he would not take it.
13
I usually take a thimbleful myself before going to bed.
14
They had a thimbleful or two of whisky, which made them talk a lot.
15
I can't afford to pay fifty centimes for every thimbleful.
16
Lady Kentworth nearly fainted, though I took scarcely a thimbleful of blood from her.
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