Usa "thimble" in una frase

1. Thimble Downers also liked to talk while eating, causing the volume in the little shop to reach deafening levels as Rufus Lickspittle answered their many questions, all the while being peppered with flying bits of cake, pie, and cobbler from the yammering village folk

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2. “Greetings to the good folk of Thimble Down,” announced Rufus, standing near the rear of the shop and gesturing with his arms in a most welcoming way

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3. To make things worse, others were beginning to say how good the school would be for Thimble Down, and inquire why Dorro hadn’t thought of it first

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4. And the girl had been right—it was delicious and there was nothing like it in Thimble Down

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5. Not twenty minutes later, in the middle of Thimble Down the pair strode through the doors of the Bumbling Badger, gasping for water from the parching heat outside

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6. This isn’t unusual—she’s an inquisitive child of four and is inclined to explore with her siblings the alleys of Thimble Down, as well as the fields and pastures that surround us

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7. So we dispatched the children to the far points of Thimble Down to find her—as we’ve done before—but by dark, she still hadn’t come home

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8. An hour later, the door to Lickspittle’s Books & Antiquaria, LLC, creaked open, and the bookmaster of Thimble Down stepped inside

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9. Lickspittle have come to Thimble Down

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10. In return, the two Thimble Downers brought their friend up to date on the goings-on back in their village, the search for the missing children, and the news of Rufus Lickspittle’s new school

11. After more than a few days away from his desk, Dorro Fox Winderiver was finally back where he belonged in the Thimble Down library

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12. Longleaf told the tale of the missing younglings from Thimble Down, the request from the Mayor and Sheriff to assist the deputy named Bosco, and his subsequent investigations

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13. “What is it, little one? No harm has come to the Thimble Downers, I pray

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14. Granted, the Winderiver family is one of means and resources, which we’ve always used to fund the library for the betterment of Thimble Down and its denizens

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15. And frankly, you can pay me back when you want! Just remind everyone that ours is a generous family and one committed to the betterment of Thimble Down, and do tell the gossipmongers to stop bringing down the name of Winderiver!”

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16. Sitting around the table were Bosco, Porge, Longleaf, Coal, and, newly returned from Thimble Down, Dumpus, who’d brought a note from Sheriff Forgo with him

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17. Apparently, he likes Thimble Down so much, he’s rented a pasture on the far side of town and intends to keep a herd of goats there

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18. I reeled in this monster, he mused, but there’s another monster in Thimble Down that needs to be caught

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19. He’s a loyal Thimble Downer and said we could count on him for anything!”

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20. (Indeed, there were few things more terrifying in Thimble Down than the sight of the Sheriff flippin’ his lid and employing that formidable voice of his

21. He’d been propping up the lousy Mayor for years, mostly because of his sense of duty to the Halflings of Thimble Down

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22. But he knew something more important had just happened—the hunt for the lost younglings of Thimble Down had begun

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23. Those remaining were securing the younglings, while the rest were on the trail of a certain Miss Cheeryup Tunbridge, the fastest girl in all Thimble Down

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24. And Porge and Dumpus were homesick for Thimble Down—the wonders of Water-Down had evaporated long ago

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25. “I do—he said, if he were us, he would get the children, return to Thimble Down, and move with our lives as best we could,” noted Bosco

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26. Behind them was a wagon driven by Dorro, with Nutylla Parfinn next to him, while about twenty more Thimble Downers followed in their wake on pony, wagon, and foot

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27. None of the Thimble Downers could believe who it was

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28. There was one Halfling, however, who wasn’t going back to Thimble Down as directed

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29. At that, the army of Thimble Downers lurched down the road, each step getting closer and closer to the pirates and the inevitable clash of violence

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30. This was no longer the jovial Bosco, a Thimble Down lad who used to tease Forgo in public

31. The Thimble Down deputy chimed in

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32. Timmo of Thimble Down

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33. There were shouts, around the entire area and the Thimble Downers observed figures running towards the dock area

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34. “They’re escaping! They’re escaping!” From his vantage point at the far end of the vast encampment, Dorro and Minty could see everything, including about two dozen children running for the woods, accompanied by some sword-wielding Thimble Downers led by Sheriff Forgo

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35. “It’s Thimble Down, if you don’t mind, dear-y,” peeped Minty Pinter, but a pirate kicked him in the ribs and he fell silent after that

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36. This troupe included Rufus Lickspittle, Nutylla Parfinn, and many of his best archers, all of them expert hunters from Thimble Down

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37. This is truly the last charge of the Thimble Downers

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38. Thanks to efforts of the Thimble Down fighters and the brother bears, the pirate army had been utterly destroyed, and thanks to Carl and Frumple, in many cases devoured

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39. Forgo and Dorro both swore they saw Dalbo in the midst of the fighting, yelling commands to the two giant bears who were, unbelievably, targeting pirates and leaving the Thimble Down combatants alone

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40. Among them was the valiant Amanda Toade, who had always been first in line to fight for Thimble Down and its denizens

41. Forgo said nothing, but simply clasped his friend on the shoulder and then walked off to begin awakening villagers for the long march back to Thimble Down

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42. “Then what happens?” asked the Thimble Down deputy, who had never been to sea before and was not accustomed to the constant rocking of the ship, something reflected in his slightly green pallor

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43. Bosco’s entire nautical experience rested on fishing in the River Thimble, sometimes from a raft or small skiff

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44. They were in a small sailing craft they had chartered in Water-Down; the price had been right, and it came with a crew of three expert sailors, as neither of the Thimble Downers could manage anything more complicated than a canoe

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45. The two Halflings from Thimble Down did not share their glee

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46. One thing only she had to buy--a thimble, and that she bought for a

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47. He wrote another letter to Longleaf, this one thanking him profusely for his aid in recovering the children and saying that his name would never be forgotten in Thimble Down

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48. Many hours later, Dorro and Forgo ambled across the borders of Thimble Down in the settling dusk, leading their ponies, which were as tired as their owners

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49. The Mayor knew that the Sheriff really ran Thimble Down, but was too vain to say it out loud

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50. “You’ll always be a friend to Thimble Down

51. wouldn’t fill a thimble at this time

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52. "Git the thimble in?"

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53. The tray held two goblets, a dish, and a thimble

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54. He set the tray in the sand and handed the thimble to Why, placed the dish before Astray, and lifted the goblets for Ceder and himself

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55. from the ocean with a thimble or a pipeline as there is

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56. you a coffee, but I don't have a thimble

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57. She disappeared; and in the servants' sitting-room, while she was hastily searching for her thimble and a button that would approximately do, she told the others what they already knew but found satisfaction in repeating often, that if it weren't that Wemyss was most of the week in London, not a day, not a minute, would she stay in the place

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58. buckles and a silver thimble

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59. And when she come she was hot and red and cross, and couldn't hardly wait for the blessing; and then she went to sluicing out coffee with one hand and cracking the handiest child's head with her thimble with the other, and says:

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60. Whack comes the thimble, and the child snatches her claws out of the sugar-bowl without fooling around any

61. My whole stock was two broad pieces of my godmother's, a few shillings, silver shoebuckles and a silver thimble

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62. in the other, the small rosewood sewing box fitted with gold thimble, gold-handled He stood in the door of the dining room, crouched tensely, his pistol in one hand and, scissors and tiny goldtopped acorn of emery

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63. The sight of it brought back too many hurting Scarlett saw it was Ellen’s gold thimble that he held

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64. Ellen’s thimble! dirty palm and soon it would find its way North and onto the finger of some Yankee Scarlett dropped her head so the enemy could not see her cry and the tears fell slowly down on the baby’s head

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65. What's more, I can't taste it in this thimble

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66. Took the thimble and the thread

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67. "Aunt, here is my mother's thimble; I have always kept it carefully in my dressing-case," said Charles, presenting a pretty gold thimble to Madame Grandet, who for many years had longed for one

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68. Her treasuries were not the millions whose revenues were rolling up; they were Charles's dressing-case, the portraits hanging above her bed, the jewels recovered from her father and proudly spread upon a bed of wool in a drawer of the oaken cabinet, the thimble of her aunt, used for a while by her mother, which she wore religiously as she worked at a piece of embroidery,—a Penelope's web, begun for the sole purpose of putting upon her finger that gold so rich in memories

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69. Why, we might as well have gone to Sea in a Thimble as in this Brigantine! ’Twas ev’ry bit as small when consider’d against the Immensity of the Sea

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70. Aunt Polly raised him by the usual handle—his ear—and cracked his head soundly with her thimble

71. So she took up the thimble, meaning to catch him, but Tom Thumb hid himself amongst the shreds of cloth, and when she began to search through those, he slipped into a crack in the table, but put out his head to laugh at her; so she tried again to hit him with the shred, but did not succeed in doing so, for he slipped through the crack into the table drawer

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72. At first, being little accustomed to learn by heart, the lessons appeared to me both long and difficult; the frequent change from task to task, too, bewildered me; and I was glad when, about three o’clock in the afternoon, Miss Smith put into my hands a border of muslin two yards long, together with needle, thimble, &c

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