Crossword-Solution: THIMBLES 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
Hint 2 anagram
MONIOET
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with THIMBLES (5)

Her mouth is full of thimbles, but not so full as my mother’s was.” Of course he knew nothing whatever about his mother; but he sometimes bragged about her.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
However, he at last agreed to take me to be his companion, or bonnet as he called it; and I was to keep a look-out, and let him know when constables were coming, and to spake a good word for him occasionally, whilst he was chating folks with his thimbles and his pea.
The Romany Rye George Borrow 2007
Presently I came to where the man of the thimbles was standing, with the table before him, and many people about him.
Lavengro George Borrow 2006
All races, fairs, and other such conglomerations of those whom Heaven had blessed with more money than wit, used to be frequented by minor members of 'The Fancy,' who are technically called flat-catchers, and who picked up a very pretty living by a quick hand, a rattling tongue, a deal board, three thimbles, and a pepper-corn.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Andrew Steinmetz 1996
His saintship was larger around the body, too, and (between ourselves) he had a pair of thimbles in his mouth, which this gentleman certain has not.
Hans Brinker Mary Mapes Dodge 1996

Quotes with THIMBLES (3)

Suppose neutral angels were able to talk, Yahweh and Lucifer — God and Satan, to use their popular titles — into settling out of court. What would be the terms of the compromise? Specifically, how would they divide the assets of their early kingdom? Would God be satisfied the loaves and fishes and itty-bitty thimbles of Communion wine, while Satan to have the red-eye gravy, eighteen-ounce New York Stakes, and buckets of chilled champagne? Would God really accept twice-a-month…
Tom Robbins
When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands, collect her tears in thimbles for her to drink the next morning (The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it, he said), and more than that: once her eyes closed and she fell back asleep, he was left to bear the insomnia. There was a complete transfer, like a speeding billiard ball colliding with a resting one. Should Brod feel depressed - she was always depr…
Jonathan Safran Foer
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like sticky plaster-dust. (House-cleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything sc…
Robin McKinley Spindle's End
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Appears in: Boston Globe, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1999–2023).