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So, in ascending order, for the third prize I chose Night Passage, The Thimbles, number 53, especially pleased and heartened to find that in your midst there appears to be a conceptual artist hard at work.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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So, in ascending order, for the third prize I chose Night Passage, The Thimbles, number 53, especially pleased and heartened to find that in your midst there appears to be a conceptual artist hard at work.
Friends of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Art Show, Stony Creek, Conn. 2009
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Thimbles, scissars, needles, all of the coarsest kind, of Nuremberg manufacture; Nails, steels to strike fire; Sword-blades, of the kind, which I have already described, and which are in common use all over the Black countries to the east of the Fezzan trade.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Thimbles can be used for stacking flatware such as plates and tiles on top of each other as shown in fig. 1-31 provided that the flatware is made exactly same size.
1. Refractories 1987
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"Thimbles and thunderstorms!" cried Trumpkin in a rage.
Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951
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Thimbles are made by stamping, and afterwards turning in a lathe, the indentations being produced by a suitable instrument.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 Various
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Thimbles, that are worn on the finger, are used in pushing the needle.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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Thimbles and ploughs, eau-de-cologne and mangles, American stoves, cotton dresses of astounding patterns to suit the taste of Dutch ladies, harmoniums and flat-irons, -- all stood peaceably side by side together.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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Box of Pins, Spectacle Cases and Thimbles 10. 0. 0 7
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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'Tomb of the Four Thimbles,' as Livy irreverently called the ruin which has an ornament at each of its corners like a gigantic thimble of stone.
Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860
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