"Now we'll see how well you hide, you insolent little pismire!". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
The little pismire tried to have me arrested and confined, but I escaped him using two of my sigils. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether he is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Urad, perceiving that they were gone, wished herself into her original form, but alas! her wish was not granted, and the once beautiful Urad still continued an ugly pismire. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
I can't believe this pathetic pismire is still with us. From Wordnik.com. [I can't believe it's not a democracy!] Reference
Solomon sends us to the ant and pismire to learn labour. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
Imagine what a similar shenanigan would to a pismire like Syria. From Wordnik.com. [Antiwar.com Original] Reference
And a pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of a wren. From Wordnik.com. [Wonkette » top] Reference
Bache tells us that pismire was also banned, antmire being substituted for it. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words] Reference
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
Observe how the whole swarm divide and make way for the pismire that passes through them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
The pismire wars we're fighting now are a boon for the military-industrial-congressional complex. From Wordnik.com. [RedStateEclectic] Reference
The humblest of creatures has its uses -- 'even the little pismire,' you know, as Izaak Walton tells us. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
I've got a thousand-legged worm at the head of a pismire flush, and it serves us right, for a lot of slovens. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
As if we should look upon an ant or pismire, the parts fly the sight, and the whole considered is almost nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference
You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood in his veins than any pismire in the mole-hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
Timour called Bajazet a pismire, whom he would crush with his elephants; and Bajazet retaliated with a worse insult on. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
Yet all this lenity will not overcome their spleen; they will be doing with the pismire, raising a hill a man may spurn abroad with his foot at pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
Yspaddaden Penkawr had required of Kilhwch, and they brought the full measure, without lacking any, except one flax-seed, and that the lame pismire brought in before night. From Wordnik.com. [The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that, whether he is a man of worth or a sot, is not so great a matter as we say. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
And it stood up there jest as the Lord meant wimmen to stand, not lookin 'like a hour-glass or a pismire, but a good sensible waist on her, jest as human creeters ort to have. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha at the World's Fair] Reference
A "shrimp of an author," and expressed the fear that his works might be mistaken for those of "a pismire or a flea.". From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
A pismire could not suit with a horse or an elephant: there is need of a strong winged soul to believe, especially against hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan.] Reference
"let him be beaten with four stripes: He that eateth a pismire, let him be beaten with five: He that eateth a hornet, let him have six.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
I saw a pismire swallow up a whale. From Wordnik.com. [Luskin: Dual-Coding Genes "Nearly Impossible by Chance" --- How Would Francisco Ayala Respond? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"Well, you see as how I waited, and my mind was like as it might ha 'been set on a pismire hillock, I waur so uneasy. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
I saw a pismire swallow up a whale. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
I saw a pismire swallow up a whale. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery Rhyme Book] Reference
But dread the crawling worm or pismire mean. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
Mark the vanity of the pismire on your left hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
pismire. From Wordnik.com. [caramel shoe shoe] Reference
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