Adjective : bantam editions of the classics. From Dictionary.com.
But about other matters, the bantam is belligerent. From Wordnik.com. [January 2006] Reference
Both compete in bantam/featherweight. From Wordnik.com. [Taekwondo siblings share path to Olympic qualifying] Reference
Told you my bantam was the form horse, didn't I? ". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
"Not to keep in your bedroom as you did the bantam.". From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
A full-grown bird is about the size of a bantam fowl. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Get a setting of bantam eggs from a local bird dealer. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
And here are the dear old cocks and the wounded bantam. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"You bet, cap'n," says Anderson, who was a jaunty bantam. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
The bantam fowls and China pigs at equally moderate prices. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829] Reference
His blood was up and he strangely resembled a little bantam cockerel. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
"Don't you crow too loudly, my young bantam," said a veteran near him. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Mintie was a bantam biddy, very small, white as snow, and very pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories] Reference
The tiny bantam tattoo on her forehead glowed redly in the candlelight. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
HARDING: It is my goal to be a future undisputed bantam weight champion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2004] Reference
He glanced at the red-dyed bantam tattoo on the back of the child's hand. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Six of them do, at any rate, but Tillie, an audacious white bantam, will not. From Wordnik.com. [Tillie Lays an Egg] Reference
At any moment some Terrible Magyar may wrest the bantam championship from us. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference
Yes, I guess she will marry him and carry him round in a basket, like a lame bantam!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
American diplomacy in the Middle East right now is struggling to make bantam-weight. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Levy: Bush's Dwarf Diplomacy and the Seven Gazans] Reference
Hephaistion's boiled fowl, about the size of a modern bantam, would be more than enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
He smiled grimly and thought of the little no-count and the tragedy of the white bantam. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
"Have no fear, bantam," said a jolly Dominican in his ear, "that toad's blood was never hot.". From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
But no amount of mannered cajoling by the bantam-like editor could get Mr. Dean to come clean. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Sh*t] Reference
He is one of those high-strung bantam roosters who can strut sitting down and can't sit still. From Wordnik.com. [The Phillies' Mr. Start-Me-Up] Reference
A bantam-sized hopper named Hank Janns spoke from beside Nelsen as they floated near each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Kucinich for all his peace talk looks like he's gonna punch somebody, reminds me of a bantam boxer. From Wordnik.com. [A Campaign Expert Tells Us What To Look For In The Debates] Reference
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