| Turns out there was only a thimbleful of stuff left in the bottle, Jack just hadn't gotten around to throwing it out. |
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| Just a thimbleful of such water is sufficient to transform a healthy person, in hours, into a deathly ill cholera sufferer. |
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| You could wait until you've got only a thimbleful of gas in there, but why not fill up now and forget about it for the next 60,000 miles? |
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| The feast begins with a few hunks of soft onion bread and a thimbleful of an intensely rich roasted-eggplant garlic spread. |
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| Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine. |
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| There will also be plenty of Glaswegian humour, a thimbleful of alcohol or two, and not a Hooray Henry in sight. |
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| A bird had flown up at me, curious about my beer, so I consciously poured a thimbleful down to his ledge. |
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| Whenever one of us would pour a thimbleful into his cup, the other two would jealously measure the outpouring with their eyes. |
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| Rub a thimbleful of water over your face and wipe off to finish. |
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| Even more important, I got in my thimbleful of quality time with the man himself. |
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| We were disconcerted by Northern Ireland's aggressive vegetation, all of it a deep dayglo green and sprouting in every available thimbleful of soil. |
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| With its thimbleful of poison, the Goldstone report has made the job all the harder. |
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| I broke off from my journey at the Brys Estate for a thimbleful of Riesling, then felt honour-bound to sample the Pinot Noir at Chateau Chantal. |
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| This duty is a mere thimbleful of the responsibilities that you are to assume as a fully conscious Being of Light. |
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| Deposits are graded at 3.58 grams of gold per tonne of ore, meaning that miners must sift through a tonne of rock to get half a thimbleful of gold, according to the company president. |
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| Our arrival marked yet another stage in my winter-sports education: the first time I'd used skis to make my way from A to B. I sipped a thimbleful of glühwein in celebration. |
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| It's worth comparing the prices and sizes first, though: a braadworst the size of my arm cost €5 at one stall, while a thimbleful of mulled cider was €3.50 at another. |
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| Business men who are accustomed to doing a great deal of long-range planning for the firms which provide them with their living find satisfaction in doing just a thimbleful for the communities in which they live their lives. |
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| But I'm a mystery to my family who will drink wine only by the thimbleful and if it tastes like Vimto, and a lost cause to my in-laws who think that when you uncork a bottle you let the devil out. |
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