thimblerig

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The heroine of this cheerful thimblerig of a novel is an eleven-year-old orphan whose mother was "the wildest girl in Marengo County, Alabama."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, well! and did they ever come the thimblerig on you?"

From A Desperate Chance The Wizard Tramp's Revelation, a Thrilling Narrative by Halsey, Harlan Page

How terribly alike are all human rogueries, whether the scene be a conference at Vienna, or the tent of a thimblerig at Ascot!

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

Your genuine pietist would find a mystical sense in thimblerig.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard

But the only object of this argument is to show how mal-adroitly Mr. Landor plays at thimblerig.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various