| Whenever one of us would pour a thimbleful into his cup, the other two would jealously measure the outpouring with their eyes. |
| Just a thimbleful of such water is sufficient to transform a healthy person, in hours, into a deathly ill cholera sufferer. |
| There will also be plenty of Glaswegian humour, a thimbleful of alcohol or two, and not a Hooray Henry in sight. |
| A bird had flown up at me, curious about my beer, so I consciously poured a thimbleful down to his ledge. |
| Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine. |
| Turns out there was only a thimbleful of stuff left in the bottle, Jack just hadn't gotten around to throwing it out. |
