Hop-o'-my-Thumb

I wish to eat! and immediately her little table set with food so marvelously appears; or Hop-o'-my-Thumb when he steps into his Seven-League Boots and goes like the wind.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

_Hop-o'-my-Thumb_, _Bluebeard_, and the rest, -- so that the children who roamed the gardens, and in their play gathered about the statues of their beloved fairy friends, might have with them also a reminder of the giver of all this joy, their friend Perrault.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

But since her very-small-girlhood, there had been always that red-letter night when "The Little Minister" or "Hop-o'-my-Thumb" or "Peter Pan" had transported her straight from the real world to that whimsical, tender, delightful realm where Barrie reigns.

The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey

For, like Hop-o'-my-Thumb and his brothers, we are driven out early in the morning to the edge of the forest, and are obliged to grope our way back to the little house whence we come, by the crumbs dropped on the road.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

Jehosophat wished he were as small as Hop-o'-my-Thumb, so that he could creep through the keyhole and never be seen at all.

Seven O'Clock Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

At that moment Van Alen hated him -- that Hop-o'-my-Thumb of another age, founder of a pigmy race, who, by his braggart will, had that night brought upon this one of his descendants the scorn of a woman.

The Gay Cockade Temple Bailey

Hop-o'-my-Thumb behind his back, and he didn't give a straw for it.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

"This is how Hop-o'-my-Thumb found his way home," she thought.

Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances 1869

Hop-o'-my-Thumb, hiding under the woodcutter's stool, listened to his parents overcome by want.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

'I did what Hop-o'-my-Thumb did: I scattered little white stones along the road.'

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869