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We were reading an account of the pinna the other day, and very much regretted that your pinna's brown silk tuft had been eaten by the mice what will they not eat? they have eaten my thimble case! I am sorry to say that, from these last accounts of the pinna and his cancer friend, Dr. Darwin's beautiful description is more poetic than accurate.
There wasn't water enough in her to fill a thimble. I reckon you ain't been watchin' her for the last day or so?" Hollis admitted that he had not seen the river within that time. Norton laughed shortly. "She's dry in spots now," he informed Hollis. "There ain't any water at all in the shallows. It's tricklin' through in some places, but mostly there's nothin' but water holes an' dried, baked mud.
"If ye have such a thing as a thimble full of whiskey in the store, perhaps ye will give us a drink?" he said. Fred hesitated for a moment, but at last concluded that it would be a cheap riddance by giving them a drink. He drew a couple of stiff glasses from the barrel, and they swallowed the liquor with a relish that would have delighted the heart of a manufacturer.
Steadily the work progressed; even Mabel, by the aid of her bright silver thimble and sharp needle, seemed to get on better than she had done the day before: so that not only was the night-shirt finished, but a little pinafore had been cut out and completed in less than the two hours.
Dupree, a rather interesting relic of an old silver thimble wrought in cunning filigree which she had bought in two payments of seventy-five cents each, and largely by eliminating the pie for a month, from a rapidly diminishing keep-chest of Ida Blair's. A friendship had sprung up here, which, born out of the merest propinquity, had sent down strong roots into the common ground between them.
The thimble, l, is surrounded by an envelope, q, of platinum wire netting or other refractory material of the same form. The gaseous mixture arriving by the pipe, i, escapes at the upper orifices, r, and passes down against the interior surface of the cone, o, out at the orifices, p, and escapes through the orifices in the cap, l, at which it is burned.
Tamara, without haste, with a pin refastens the fabric more conveniently on her knee, smooths the seam down with the thimble, and speaks, without raising the narrowed eyes, her head bent just a trifle to one side: "One's got to be doing something. It's wearisome just so. I don't play at cards, and I don't like them." Jennie continues to shake her head. "No, you're a queer girl, really you are.
The Frau Oberlehrer tripped on the platform followed by a very young gentleman, who blew his nose twice before he hurled his handkerchief into the bosom of the piano. "Yes, I know you have no love for me, And no forget-me-not. No love, no heart, and no forget-me-not." sang the Frau Oberlehrer, in a voice that seemed to issue from her forgotten thimble and have nothing to do with her.
At half-past four, I was feeding the hens in the yard, and, looking up, saw a strange carriage approaching. Instantly, I guessed who was in it, and was at the gate before it stopped. Elitha greeted me kindly, but not cordially. She asked why I had not come as requested, and then said, "Go, bring the silver thimble Frances left here, and the coral necklace I gave you."
Suddenly it appeared to me as if the voice of him of the thimble sounded in my ear: "Now is your time, ask enough, never such another chance of establishing yourself; respectable trade, pea and thimble". "Well," said I at last, "I have no objection to take the offer which you were about to make, though I really think five-and-twenty guineas to be scarcely enough, everything considered."
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