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Definition of Thimblefuls

Thimblefuls
Thimbleful Thim"ble*ful, n.; pl. Thimblefuls. As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. --Dryden.
Thimbleful
Thimbleful Thim"ble*ful, n.; pl. Thimblefuls. As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. --Dryden.

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- Velázquez expert ... "Velázquez was a painter who measured out his genius in thimblefuls." His output was so small that, depending on who's counting, Mr. Brown...
- Velázquez expert ... "Velázquez was a painter who measured out his genius in thimblefuls." His output was so small that, depending on who's counting, Mr. Brown...
- wrote, "Despite the obviously mercenary nature of this sequel, there's a thimbleful of clever ideas at work here, most notably in the way Allen's RoboSanta...
- 1957 Life cover article in which she was quoted as saying "It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a...
- stew; often an indentation is made with the thumb in order to bring up a thimbleful of sauce.[citation needed] A type of fermented bread, kwanga or chikwangue...
- However, a series of incidents reduces the amount of water available to a thimbleful, which Iznogoud touches when he prepares to mend a tear in his clothes...
- traditional rights and privileges of the natives of our islands for a mere thimbleful of votes in Congress, that we, the lovers of Hawaii from long ****ociation...
- With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day". Due to its scarcity on Arrakis, water and its preservation...
- measure spirits and gunpowder, which brought rise to the phrase "just a thimbleful". Prostitutes used them in the practice of thimble-knocking where they...
- usually elects to merely warm a teapot for his readers and pour out thimblefuls of weak chamomile". Calame was criticized by both conservatives and liberals...