To be upset by such a pigmy was the height of mortification. From Wordnik.com. [Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience] Reference
The creatures lived on an island - a kind of pigmy Jurassic Park - and were up to eight times smaller than some of their mainland cousins. From Wordnik.com. [TODAYonline] Reference
Contract their giant bulks, and shrink to pigmy size. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828] Reference
Thou'rt but a pigmy still; thy race shall soon be run. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
"Giant Generosity with his pigmy purse," suggested Ivy. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
As they rose to breathe, their noses were lashed by pigmy waves. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Twenty-three trout, and not a pigmy among them, lay at our feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
And the garment fit him as the coat of Goliath would fit a pigmy. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
Then comes a restless pigmy of a Hungarian, a jeweller, last from. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
The Colossus of Rhodes was a pigmy compared with this huge wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader] Reference
Yankee thrift was as pigmy play to these owners of bursting coffers. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War] Reference
The Colossus of Rhodes was a pigmy compared with this latter-day wonder. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Burke compared him to the "pigmy physician," who watched over the health of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Cumming, he said, being but six feet two, appeared a mere pigmy among them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
The pigmy woodrat, Neotoma goldmani, its distribution and systematic position. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
Poor little pigmy in a cockle-boat, I thought Creation was ringing with my name!. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
He brought his book to the window, contrived to read the label on a pigmy bottle. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
It was a dugout in the rear of a ruined windmill, and contained several pigmy rooms. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
He seems like some exiled pigmy prince, banished, but still regal, and doomed to wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
The pigmy also sees little but himself, but years and experience leave behind them wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
Sunshine fell thick upon the garden, and warmed even the lazy gold-fish in their pigmy lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Roses's work, which promised to be a giant, dwindled down to a miserable pigmy; and that under. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850] Reference
On the leaf point he built himself a pigmy throne of silk; and this was his citadel for a week. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
But when a giant is made to drivel, his drivelings are very little better than those of a pigmy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
But Tom Thumb was exhibiting next door, and the historical painter had no chance against the pigmy. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
It lies in ambush like a pigmy field octopus, with deadly suckers for draining the sap of its victims. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
By way of sign, an elephant was painted on the wall, enveloped by a large serpent and tended by a pigmy. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Here, for instance, is a specimen, an actual statute at large, such as they were in those pigmy days. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Paulina stops, and looks her up and down in a manner that makes Eleanor feel like a pigmy facing a giant. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Children, in brilliant night robes, run to the verandas to see the early sun; cocks strut in pigmy gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
He seemed the superior of all superiors, and major-generals shrunk into pigmy corporals in comparison with him. From Wordnik.com. [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference
At the door, of course, were the two creatures with the enormous mandibles that had escorted the pigmy men to the larder. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
For the same reason the fairy Milkah fed her foster child on this plant, "that his height might not exceed that of a pigmy". From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Furniture of any kind they are, of course, wit-out, and their destitution is only equalled by the African pigmy or the Australian black. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
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