A robot dolphin is not a real dolphin, any more than a mannikin is a man. From Wordnik.com. [Recycled Robot Fish Teach Japanese Children About Sealife | Inhabitat] Reference
Before starting I rigged up a kind of mannikin with old coats and a cushion -- something to cast a shadow on the blind. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
The mannikin looked at the Red Emperor in surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Cf. the German “Mannerchen machen,” “play the mannikin.”. From Wordnik.com. [On Hunting] Reference
The huntsman was about to do so and stooped, on which the mannikin took. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
‘They say that little mannikin — —’ suddenly the vicar stopped. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
There's one comfort -- if my mannikin lives, I can't have another eldest. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
About a week after our return, “the little mannikin,” Sheikh Sayd bin. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
I'm not quite the tailor's mannikin that I was in the old days at the 'Varsity. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
The ignition instantly disintegrated the rubberized mannikin in the front seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
As they went back to the register, Allie's gaze fell on a mannikin in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN] Reference
Jupp had never come across such a self-possessed young mannikin in his life before. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
The relatives pass the rice mannikin around, each one taking a bite or two out of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
He frowned angrily upon his thought and on the shrivelled mannikin who had called it forth. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
He was unmoved, stoic, hands melded to the wheel, a white-haired mannikin set up for display. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
But unseen by the King, the mannikin was standing beside him when he said that, and heard all. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
The prince promptly named the mannikin Mem, and the horses were christened Patience and Blade. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
“Mardumak-i-chashm” (mannikin of the eye); the Greeks and the Latins pupa, pupula, pupilla. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The mannikin no longer danced; but toward him, from the hillside, some men in steel were running. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Towards evening I meet the mannikin once more, driving home again after his venture into the world. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
Grotesquely it convulsed into a misshapen mannikin figure, swelling and thinning into the semblance of a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
She wore a tailored gray suit that clung to her body with all the perfection and sexlessness of a window mannikin. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference
On the third day, the youngest stayed at home, and again the little mannikin came and begged for a piece of bread. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
And when at last a strip is cut off and weighed, the mannikin finds it a marvel, sure, that ever it could weigh so much!. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
This was not treated - a la Monty Python as a clothed mannikin - this was a 'real' woman crashing to her death in the street. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Doll could have offered his leader no better disguise, for naturally all eyes turned on the mannikin rather than on his steed. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
As he watches, the outlines of a diminutive human being -- a mannikin or 'homunculus' -- become visible and rapidly gain distinct form. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
The redoubtable breast of our master the mannikin, 790. From Wordnik.com. [Dramatic Romances] Reference
Tony, an inflated mannikin, danced on the piled-up nets and fish. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
Faith has gone on to the headland, with that heroic mannikin, Johnny. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
"Well, my mannikin, what do you think of us?" asked Rose, to break an awkward pause. From Wordnik.com. [Rose in Bloom] Reference
The mannikin seemed alive and more than alive, the embodiment of the spirit of the place. From Wordnik.com. [They Shall Not Pass] Reference
The mannikin, of course, followed, but, coming to a crossway, was compelled to give up the chase. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference
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