He filled two tiny thimble-shaped glasses with an amber liquid, giving her one. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Defiance] Reference
The cups are thimble-shaped and rest in a copper or silver frame made with a handle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Major Orvenalix sat in his thimble-shaped chair and stared across at Kitten and Porsupah. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
The woman looked at her companion, shrugged, and withdrew a small, thimble-shaped object from an inside breast pocket. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Mother-Not]
This is followed by the Kumamoto oyster (Crassostrea sikamea) in Japan, a tiny thimble-shaped oyster grown in the Pacific Northwest. From Wordnik.com. [Oysters Come Back in Vogue] Reference
For the past few years, Ms. Hanley, 60 years old, has been a partner in Shy Brothers Farm, a small outfit in southeastern Massachusetts that is turning milk into thimble-shaped pieces of cheese. From Wordnik.com. [Cheese Whizzes] Reference
In the middle of this downy mass hangs a fine, silk, thimble-shaped purse, closed with a movable lid. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
One perpendicular cut of a gouge driven in with the mallet, and one side cut, should form one of these crescent or thimble-shaped holes. From Wordnik.com. [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference
If you pull off the little thimble-shaped fruit from its stem, you will find beneath a dry, white cone; this is the receptacle, and the very part which you eat in the strawberry. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852] Reference
These carpels are so crowded together, that they at last grow into one mass, and form the little thimble-shaped fruit which we eat, the juices of the receptacle being all absorbed by the carpels, which eventually separate from it, and leave the dry cone below. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852] Reference
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