| Perhaps it may be as well to add that a Chinese cup holds about a thimbleful. |
| There will also be plenty of Glaswegian humour, a thimbleful of alcohol or two, and not a Hooray Henry in sight. |
| Just a thimbleful of such water is sufficient to transform a healthy person, in hours, into a deathly ill cholera sufferer. |
| Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine. |
| With its thimbleful of poison, the Goldstone report has made the job all the harder. |
| Whenever one of us would pour a thimbleful into his cup, the other two would jealously measure the outpouring with their eyes. |
