10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «THIMBLESFUL»
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thimblesful en la siguiente selección bibliográfica. Libros relacionados con
thimblesful y pequeños extractos de los mismos para contextualizar su uso en la literatura.
It is said that all men, not being teetotalers, drink an average aggregate of strong
liquors in the course of their lives : only some take it in sips, and some in swigs ;
some by thimblesful, and some by flagons ; some a petits coups extending over ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon,
1872
2
Duffy's Hibernian Magazine
He had an ugly habit of winking continually with his left eye whilst the right
remained stationary, and of taking snuff in thimblesful from a green box slung
around his neck. Walking up and down between the steaming groups, his hands
thrust ...
3
The Complete Writings of Charles Reade
The tube of the life-preserver was held over the baler, and out trickled a small
quantity of pure water, two thimblesful a-piece. Even that, as it passed over their
swollen tongues and parched swallows, was a heavenly relief; but, alas ! the
supply ...
4
Practical Hints for Concrete Constructors
Then take a small portion of the proposed sample, about three thimblesful (on my
own work I have given the inspector an ordinary test tube, with a mark on the test
tube indicating the height of the final sample of sand required). Take this small ...
Walter Jules Douglas,
1906
5
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
His clenched fist of anger is just a nut — his love is an intense burning drop —
the dance of his fancy is as if " on the point of a needle ;" and when in the
Anacreontic vein he tipples, it is in " thimblesful." His spite and hatied, again, form
a sting ...
6
The events of a year [tr. from Ett år].
As her little boy, must indisputably have a tender chest, which was already
perceptible in his voice, it was necessary that he should drink, daily, a few
thimblesful of goat's milk ; and then he was to have nothing from a stranger's
hand — " for," ...
7
A Scamper Through America, Or, Fifteen Thousand Miles of ...
The famous sign of " Delnionico's " struck our eye, and at a bar inferior to that of
the Criterion or Gaiety at home a generous friend had to pay ninety cents for two
thimblesful of brandy and a " split soda." The charges at the hotels are large, but ...
8
Labor and Liberty: A Model Constitution, Embodying All the ...
Are you of those who bring to the cause buckets- ful of sympathy and fine words,
or of the others, who rather give it thimblesful of service and sacrifice? If you are
of the latter, duty calls you — you must help place this work in the hands of every
...
Afterward, he mingled with colonists and families, exchanging hugs and kisses,
toasting them with thimblesful of vodka. When the farewell ceremony concluded
and teary-eyed families were escorted from the auditorium, the colonists lay
down ...
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Autumn Into Winter: City of Roses, Season One
Twoorthree of them each filledin turnwith a dozen littleplastic baggies twisted
tightly about thimblesful of gold dust,the rest fatwithloose dust, untwisted, lighting
thetrunk with a fitful mimicry of daylight. He pats one, shakes his head, closes the
...
NOTICIAS EN LAS QUE SE INCLUYE EL TÉRMINO «THIMBLESFUL»
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thimblesful en el contexto de las siguientes noticias.
Porsche invents its own muscly laws of physics
The PDK box also has optional stop-start and coasting functions, which save thimblesful of fuel and are an expensive, complex nod at eco-correctness. «New Zealand Herald, May 12»