thimbles

• “He recalled the thimbles his mother and Anella wore on the ends of their fingers when they worked their embroidery or stitched his torn trousers.”

  Reiffeins Choice

• “Other teeny sewing implements such as thimbles and buttons are strongly recommended, but not subject to law.”

  weeme Diary Entry

• “The latter were served on the smallest of wooden plates, with the most extravagant little butter plates -- really sauce or cream "thimbles," all fluted and shaped from white paper.”

  The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar

• “More than half of these hand injuries were due to fingertips and nails making contact with the hard "thimbles" inside the glove fingertips.”

  National Geographic News

• “After a while, I felt buried alive in all of those pigs, so I stopped collecting them and started collecting thimbles, teacups, dolls, antique fire hats, and alcohol-advertising posters and buttons instead.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

• “After all, neither of us have had a new pair of shoes since the Bush administration, and what with her uncontrolled growth that started at birth and my throbbing bunion that started at mid-life, we both hobble around wincing like nineteenth century Chinese dowagers wearing shoes the size of thimbles.”

  The Huffington Post: Janice Harper: Three Chairs to Rattle My Walls

• “Q: A woman I work with is always going on about her daughter Lu Ann—her daughter is an expert water-skier, her daughter has a collection of antique thimbles, her daughter makes prize-winning congo bars, etc.”

  Fictionaut: The Language Monitor

• ““Fairy thimbles” (although it sounds like timbles with her broad Irish accent!)”

  PhotoHunter: “Pink” « Mudpuddle

• “The next man who speaks tells a story about how Dave drove around trying to find his wife thimbles for her collection when they were away on business.”

  The Huffington Post: Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Welcome to My World

• “The large view of thimbles across straw-colored estuarine marshes struck me as a smooth professional production, and a generous nod toward the art of watercolor, so number 10 wins the prize in the print category.”

  Friends of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Art Show, Stony Creek, Conn.

Show 10 more examples...