It didn't even have enough energy to warm a thimbleful of water.
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A thimbleful of cerium is used to polish our smartphone screens atomically smooth.
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Soon, $100 will buy you no more than a single thimbleful of water.
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A single thimbleful of a neutron star weighs as much as several million elephants.
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It is largely thanks to Sula that consumption has grown from a thimbleful to a tablespoon.
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These 10 wines represent a mere thimbleful of the rosés produced in the United States each year.
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Sweaty, square-jawed close-ups substitute for fighting, and fake blood is doled out by the thimbleful.
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That's a little bit like setting a barn on fire then congratulating yourself for bringing a thimbleful of water.
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So night school gives Amy a thimbleful of growth, and gives her something to pursue outside of [Cloud 9].
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In my experience, American office Christmas parties mean that everyone gets a thimbleful of lukewarm Champagne in a plastic cup.
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I also have a wee thimbleful of leftover red wine to accompany it, so I can imagine I'm picnicking in France instead of holed up in my apartment.
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After one participant in Wednesday's meetings mentioned environmental concerns, Trump said he agreed but did not want an "extra thimbleful of fuel" to get in the way of growth.
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But Brown's own go-to body-care product is Dr. Bronner's all-natural liquid Castile soap, which costs $13 for 32 ounces so concentrated that a thimbleful will have you smothered in suds.
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Aedes aegypti like to lay their eggs in stagnant water, and they need only a thimbleful left behind in a dog bowl, a puddle in a shower drain, or the drops that pool on potted plants.
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He expresses contempt at civilians' unwillingness to forego certain comforts, such as having more than "a thimbleful of water a day" and seems genuinely shocked they refuse to accept martial law. He has an unrelenting moral vision and sense of duty, to the extent he publicly refuses to shake hands with Tom Zarek, a former Sagittaron rebel turned politician, even though it would be politically expedient to do so.
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18th century Early Meissen porcelain and elaborate, decorated gold thimbles were also given as 'keepsakes' and were usually quite unsuitable for sewing. This tradition has continued to the present day. In the early modern period, thimbles were used to measure spirits, and gunpowder, which brought rise to the phrase "just a thimbleful". Prostitutes used them in the practice of thimble-knocking where they would tap on a window to announce their presence.
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When eaten, the fufu is rolled into golf ball-sized balls and dipped into the spicy stew—often an indentation is made with the thumb in order to bring up a thimbleful of sauce. A type of fermented bread, kwanga, made from cassava, is commercially produced throughout the country. Lituma is a popular plantain dish made from mashed plantains which are formed into balls and baked. Sweet potatoes are prepared in a similar way, and mixed with roasted peanuts in some parts of the country.
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Brendan Phelan's website Several of Phelan's songs, such as "Seven Sober Nights", "The Equalizer", "Easter Lily" and "Four Sons" have been recorded by the Beer Mats.The Beer Mats web site "Paddy's Walk to China" has been recorded by Tim Dennehy on A Thimbleful of Song.Oidhreacht an Chláir One of his songs, "Cavan Always Follows Me Around", sung by Jerry Crilly, won the Cavan International Song Contest in the early 1990s. The first of his songs to be recorded was 'Paddy On The Screeve' by Na Seanchai, in 1979.
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Semi-demon. Uncle to Diantha and her late sister, Gladiola. Lawyer for the Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne Leclerq, in which capacity he handled the estate of Sookie's cousin Hadley, who was Sophie- Anne's former lover. In Dead Reckoning, it is implied that he handles supernatural cases since he is also handling Sandra Pelt's inheritance until she turns 21. His brother, Nargal, is a full demon. It is revealed in Dead Reckoning (novel) that he is Sookie's “sponsor”, and responsible for the telepathic ability in the Stackhouse line: as a baby gift to his close friend Fintan, Sookie's fairy biological grandfather, he gave a thimbleful of his blood to both Adele and Fintan. This allowed descendants of the couple with an “essential spark” (an openness to the other world) to have telepathy, just like he does.
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On the 53rd anniversary of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, January 17, 1946, Territorial Senator Alice Kamokila Campbell, one of the few voices that opposed statehood for Hawaii, offered her testimony to the joint congressional committee sent to investigate and report on statehood. Kamokila Campbell testified at Iolani Palace in front of a small crowd of 600 to frequent applause. There she stated. > I do not feel...we should forfeit the traditional rights and privileges of > the natives of our islands for a mere thimbleful of votes in Congress, that > we, the lovers of Hawaii from long association with it should sacrifice our > birthright for the greed of alien desires to remain on our shores, that we > should satisfy the thirst for power and control of some inflated > industrialists and politicians who hide under the guise of friends of > Hawaii, yet still keeping an eagle eye on the financial and political > pressure button of subjugation over the people in general of these > islands.
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