Hop-o'-my-thumb

For the younger ones there are such stories as The Three Bears, Hop-o'-my-thumb, and other old nursery favorites.

Library Work with Children 1917

Or it might be the wood that Hop-o'-my-thumb and his six brothers had to make their way through, where the birds would pick the crumbs they dropped to show the path.

The Adventures of Herr Baby 1908

Yet poor Hop-o'-my-thumb was on the front seat at last, with Melchior kneeling at his feet, and fondly stroking the head that rested against him.

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

(Melchior), what he thought that gentlefolks would say to a boy who had been playing with such youths as young Hop-o'-my-thumb had, and whether the said youths were not scoundrels?

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

Hop-o'-my-thumb could do without one, and so he took his; but in spite of this, he determined that, sooner than submit to such an indignity, he would sit up all night.

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

Hop-o'-my-thumb had taken to make signs and exchange jokes with some disreputable-looking youths in a dog-cart; and when his brother would have put him to 'sit still like a gentleman' at the bottom of the coach, he seemed positively to prefer his low companions; and the rest were little better.

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

There was that little Hop-o'-my-thumb, as lively as any of them, a young monkey, the worst of all; who was always in mischief, and consorting with the low boys in the village.

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

"It's precisely like Hop-o'-my-thumb and his little crumbs of bread," she said, laughing to herself when she saw these, "only better, because, you see, the birds can't carry them off."

The Admiral's Caravan Reginald Bathurst Birch 1880

For a few moments the man's savage look seemed to fascinate me, and I felt horribly alarmed, as I could think for the moment about nothing but the Ogre and Hop-o'-my-thumb, and wonder whether he was going to take out a big knife and threaten me.

Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden George Manville Fenn 1870

"O, here you are, you little Hop-o'-my-thumb," said Mrs. Clifford, coming into the pantry; "a baby with a cough in her throat and pills in her pocket musn't get wet."

Dotty Dimple's Flyaway Sophie May 1869