| The feast begins with a few hunks of soft onion bread and a thimbleful of an intensely rich roasted-eggplant garlic spread. |
| Whenever one of us would pour a thimbleful into his cup, the other two would jealously measure the outpouring with their eyes. |
| A bird had flown up at me, curious about my beer, so I consciously poured a thimbleful down to his ledge. |
| 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? |
| Turns out there was only a thimbleful of stuff left in the bottle, Jack just hadn't gotten around to throwing it out. |
| Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine. |
