The dwarfish man with curvy legs and an ugly stare. From Wordnik.com. [Species 8472?] Reference
A very dwarfish variety, from six to nine inches high. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
We are feeble, dwarfish, stunted specimens of Humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
A fine, dwarfish, curled variety, long cultivated in England. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
A remarkably dwarfish, early variety, much employed in forcing. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
"Long past?" inquired Scrooge, observant of its dwarfish stature. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Alas! it is too low and dwarfish a term for this gigantic monster. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
A dwarfish sub-variety of Knight's Marrows, with wrinkled, blue seeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The variety is principally esteemed for its dwarfish habit and early maturity. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Hyssop is a hardy, evergreen, dwarfish, aromatic shrub, from the south of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Being, of the hue of rain-charged clouds with bright eyes and of dwarfish stature. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
"For, to be sure, me and me friends were attacked, and attacked by dwarfish magic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Woods Out Back]
They brought after them the dwarfish body and gnomish head of Professor Louis Norbert. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
Nor is it fair to speak of Chapman as dressing up dwarfish thoughts in stilted phrases. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
It is small and dwarfish in its habit, hearts well early in the season, and will afford. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The gigantic Patagonian, and the dwarfish Laplander; the wild Feejeeian, and docile Guinea. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
On account of the dwarfish character of the plants, the hills may be made four feet apart. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
There are three or four very dwarfish trees that undoubtedly were crossed with the heartnut. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
A monster he was except his legs, which were short and slim, giving him a dwarfish appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
The proverb adequately says: 'In the presence of a dwarf one mustn't speak of dwarfish things!'. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But there never was anything so dwarfish, so destitute of voice, so ---- But keep this to yourself. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
At best it will be dwarfish, and tend to counteract the spontaneous outflow of mental and moral life. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
OTHER POSSIBILITIESIt's going to be hard to characterize that crowd, with or without Gore, as dwarfish. From Wordnik.com. [Political Lives: Plenty Of Challenges Await Bush] Reference
Some tribes speaking Bantu languages are dwarfs or dwarfish, and belong to the group of Forest Pygmies. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The English Sea-beet is a dwarfish, spreading or trailing plant, with numerous angular, leafy branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Hopeless looks and dwarfish lives are fearful protests against the pitiless avarice of the faithless rich. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
The third is dwarfish in body and mind, and, to use his own language, "a poor, miserable remnant of a man.". From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
I had read of the generally diminutive stature of the Laplanders, and found them to be truly a dwarfish race. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Ilarker grinned to see the dwarfish shape descend, step by step under the sudden harsh hauling of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Is it a thing to be preferred, to be stunted, and little, and dwarfish, in our intellectual and moral stature?. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The Canadian buffalo berry and a dwarfish birch are two mountain plants of no small ornamental value for the plains. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
The dwarfish peaks, that had surrounded Joyce's outlook all her life, made one understand the girl's love for this picture. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
Geno was made of the stuff of mountains, but even that dwarfish trait seemed puny under the weight of the demon's huge foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Woods Out Back]
As the plants are of dwarfish character, the seeds are sometimes sown in drills; a quart being required for two hundred feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
And you must remember that I'm not one of your thin, dwarfish, anæmic blokes that you could feed out of a packet of bird-seed. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917] Reference
The American Garden-bean is a tender, annual plant from the East Indies, with a dwarfish or climbing stem and trifoliate leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
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