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Simon was beside himself; Sarah Stack, foolish thing! said he was in love, and was observed to look in the glass several times herself; other people did not know what to think it was quite a mystery. To recount only a few of his unprecedented exploits on that day of anticipative bliss: First, he asked the porter how his gout was, and gave him a thimble-full of whiskey from his private store.
"You don't happen to have a thimble-full of redeye about, do you, Mr. Varney?" he asked chattily. "I'm Hammerton, of the Gazette and the Daily, you know, and that river down there is wet."
Now, as they prepared for the sick man a separate broth, this scullion, taking advantage of a moment when nobody saw him, cast into it a thimble-full of a powder that Diego Martinez had given him. When secretary Escovedo had taken some of this food, they found that it contained poison.
He told her she was a fool to run away; that niggers never knew when they were well off; that if she had had a thimble-full of sense she might have known she couldn't make her escape. He said they had just been offered a thousand dollars for her, which was then considered an enormous price, by a gentleman in Virginia, and they had been on the point of selling her.
"Come ye in come ye in, good friends," he called, as they approached. "There's cold bekkon, an' cold sheep's liver, an' Dutch cheese, besides bread, an' a thimble-full o' gin-an'-water for every soul among ye, to make it a day of note in the parish." He looked back over his shoulder into the kitchen. A dozen men and women, all elderly, were already gathered there.
A woman with a thimble-full of woman-wit could ravel them both up ravel them up like a cut of worsteds." "Well, the day is near over. The clock will chap twelve in ten minutes, and I'm going to my bed. I'm feared you won't sleep much, Mother. You look awake to your instep." "Never mind. I have some good thoughts for the sleepless.
"Gamble away your own money no, that wa'n't enough take your poor ma's share and your sister's, and take what little I had to keep me in my old age robbed us all that's what comes of thinkin' a damned tea-drinkin' fop could have a thimble-full of brains!" "Don't, please, not just now give it to me good later to-morrow all you want to!"
TERZKY. Nay, nay, first come, first served. There is no precedence here. TERZKY watches him at some distance. Noble count! with your permission good-night. TERKZY. Where's the hurry? Come, one other composing draught. Ho! GOETZ. Excuse me aint able. TERZKY. A thimble-full. GOETZ. Excuse me. Pardon me, nobles! This standing does not agree with me. TERZKY. Consult your own convenience, general.
I often speak of thy wonderful constitution." "Neighborly, you say, Doctor only neighborly?" asked the old man. The Doctor smiled, nodded, and seemed to exhale a more powerful herbaceous odor. "Mayhap, then, you'll take a bit of a dram? a thimble-full won't come amiss. You know the shelf where it's kep' reach to, and help yourself, and then help me to a drop." Dr.
Simon was beside himself; Sarah Stack, foolish thing! said he was in love, and was observed to look in the glass several times herself; other people did not know what to think it was quite a mystery. To recount only a few of his unprecedented exploits on that day of anticipative bliss: First, he asked the porter how his gout was, and gave him a thimble-full of whiskey from his private store.