But the only object of this argument is to show how mal-adroitly Mr. Landor plays at thimblerig. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
Our artist then can cover up faces, and yet show them quite clearly, as in the thimblerig group; or he can do without faces altogether; or he can, at a pinch, provide a countenance for a gentleman out of any given object — a beautiful Irish physiognomy being moulded upon a keg of whiskey; and a jolly. From Wordnik.com. [George Cruikshank] Reference
In these circumstances, and smarting as I was under the recollection of recent defeat, it is not strange that I thought I detected the old political ruse of dressing the wolf in sheep's clothing, of using handsome pledges as a mask to deceive the gullible, and that I assumed that this scholarly amateur in politics was being used for their own purposes by masters and veterans in the old game of thimblerig. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
Your genuine pietist would find a mystical sense in thimblerig. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
And yet every day one saw more distinctly that they were the pea in the thimblerig of life, the hub of a universe which, to the approbation of the majority they represented, they were fast making uninhabitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
Whatever their morality may be, pimps and prostitutes, confidence men and thimblerig artists are probably among the best practical psychologists in our society in that they are almost infallible judges of human character and personality: they really have a basic understanding of what motivates many people, and they didn't learn it from textbooks. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2] Reference
I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Plum Tree] Reference
Ferry! "and two in the style of Frith, all thimblerig and crinolines, given them by Swithin. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
Bees,” “Hey for the Ferry!” and two in the style of Frith, all thimblerig and crinolines, given them by Swithin. From Wordnik.com. [To Let] Reference
Not at thimblerig, lad. From Wordnik.com. [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference
Like with the thimblerig operator. From Wordnik.com. [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference
That dame can't thimblerig me! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Trail] Reference
I’ve never heard of thimblerig. From Wordnik.com. [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference
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