thimble

• His hat was shaped like a thimble, and he had a tiny feather stuck in the side of it I'm much obliged to you for getting me out of that scrape," he said with a bow to all the children. —  Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country
• While one careless little girl is looking for her thimble, another will have finished her work I assure you I never should have known what can be done by order and arrangement, if I had not been pressed on board of a man-of-war. —  Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
• Part of a railroad tie carried the window sash and curtains in with it and landed on the piano I have a vague recollection of searching vainly for my thimble, and then of grimly determining to locate the Chief's gun. —  I Married a Ranger
• It is composed of vermilion and mica laminae, ground very fine and put into a thimble which is carried suspended from the neck or from some part of the wearing apparel. —  Primitive Love and Love-Stories
• Cependant, as the thimble is pretty, and the metal looks good, we will say five and thirty sous, and have no more words about it Jamais = never; three days = the three days of the July Revolution; Cependant = nevertheless Adrienne sighed, and then she received the money and returned home. —  Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

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