| Their contents were sealed with tiny stoppers, protected beneath gold, silver-gilt or silver screw caps resembling sewing thimbles. |
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| John, 46, runs the club with his wife, Chrissy, and has his thimbles on display there in glass cases. |
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| They have come across thousands of objects ranging from Georgian coins and rings to thimbles and buckles, but this was their first big find. |
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| They were the usual set tricks, such as making things disappear from under thimbles, and card and rope tricks. |
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| First produced in 1876, it's immediately recognizable by the wiping rod held in thimbles beneath the barrel. |
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| All the brass furniture including the buttplate, sideplate, ramrod thimbles, trigger guard, and patchbox were hand polished bright. |
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| Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod with its brass tip threaded for jag, worm, screw or other implement. |
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| Their inboard ends have thimbles through which the standing parts of the topping lifts are rove. |
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| One local man came in and bought four mugs, two shot glasses and two thimbles, and all morning people have been buying things. |
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| The traditionalists use metal sewing thimbles but lot of people have trouble keeping them on their fingers. |
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| Pat Kelly on the washboard played with ten thimbles on his fingers and gave great rhythm to the band. |
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| The door was a lightwood and had needles, thread and thimbles painted around the border. |
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| A mother pointed out to her daughter the sampler embroidered with the Ten Commandments, although the girl seemed more interested in thimbles. |
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| Peter and Wendy's conversation about kisses and thimbles and their mother-and-father role-playing leaves no doubt of their attraction to each other. |
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| Betty is a keen gardener, and she collects clowns, thimbles and candles. |
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| Glass thimbles of home-distilled raki were raised and clinked. |
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| Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod. |
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| A lot of customers had been foreign tourists to York, with Americans and Australians in particular snapping up mugs, plates, thimbles and shot glasses. |
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| The first female union in the Land of Oz was formed when female tailoresses tossed their collective thimbles out the window and created The Victorian Tailoresses Union. |
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| To keep the nails in place, Ancient Egyptian embalmers sometimes either tied the nails to the fingers and toes, or covered them with metal thimbles. |
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| There are comprehensive subcollections such as walking sticks, thimbles, minute ivory skulls, Chinese cloisonne enamel vessels, Oriental carpets, and Persian miniatures. |
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| But it won't set fair when made tight around yards or round thimbles. |
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