They are mounted each year with grand ingenuity and minikin budgets. From Wordnik.com. [Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25] Reference
The only room I could obtain, which contained a small bed, a minikin table, and two common chairs, cost me fifty francs a month, (about two pounds sterling), and I was considered fortunate in having such good lodgings. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Corking, minikin, and all description of pins, were obliged to be made in the regular way; and cows even departed this world without the honour of the human immolations formerly considered the necessary sacrifice for the loss of their inestimable lives. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841] Reference
Angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
"Only -- some minikin mystery?" said Mr. Walsingham. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 05] Reference
Sister Annot, leave that minikin fiddle-faddle, and come and help with the real work. From Wordnik.com. [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference
"Ha! is it thou, my minikin -- my miller's thumb -- my prince of cacodemons -- my little mouse?". From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
I'm good for half a score o 'them leetle minikin Mexikins, an' I reck'n you, Frank, kin wipe out as many. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
'SItepeJij or wakeft tkou, jelly Jbepberdf Thy fiieep he in the com j And'fer one blafi of thy minikin mouthy Tlrf fieep Jball take no barm. From Wordnik.com. [The Plays of William Shakspeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations ...] Reference
Against such minikin blossoms a drop of dew looks the size of a gazing-crystal, and the ordinary lemon-yellow hawkbit towers above them like a sunflower. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
It consists of a narrow strip of flowered silk, embroidered at the back, which measures four inches by one and a quarter, and is furnished with minikin needles and fine thread. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends] Reference
Judy, talking the whole time, pulled all her treasures out in a heap, took a quick glance at them and went straight for the one she liked best -- a minikin black baby 2 in a wicker cradle. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Miniver] Reference
This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
I and my Tom Thumb of a boat, and my minikin crew, I could well understand, though my hosts spoke in their mother tongue, were the subjects of their incessant and uncontrollable bursts of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
It may be said of it, as Thackery said of Gay's pastorals: "It is to poetry what charming little Dresden china figures are to sculpture, graceful, minikin, fantastic, with a certain beauty always accompanying them.". From Wordnik.com. [From Chaucer to Tennyson] Reference
Adrian Le Roy's book, published in Paris about 1570, says the six strings were tuned as follows -- 1st (minikin), C in third space, treble staff; 2nd (small mean), G on second line; 3rd (great mean), D under the staff; 4th (counter-tenor), B flat over the bass staff; 5th. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference
No doubt the fur loving minikin magnate can well afford to lose a couple hundred thousand dollars but, children, whether y'all like it or not rich people bleed just like every one else and no matter how much money a person might have it's never nice to lose a few hundred thousand bucks. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Estalker] Reference
Mark, what a set of merry open-faced rogues surround Punch, who peeps down at them as cunningly as "a magpie peeping into a marrow bone;" -- how luxuriantly they laugh, or stand with their eyes and mouths equally distended, staring at the minikin effigy of fun and phantasy; thinking, no doubt. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
“Ha! is it thou, my minikin — my miller’s thumb — my prince of cacodemons — my little mouse?”. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Dresden china figures are to sculpture, graceful, minikin, fantastic, with a certain beauty always accompanying them. ". From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Of which consort you two are grounds; one touches the bass, and the other tickles the minikin. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
To build up that minikin pile. From Wordnik.com. [The Confederate First Reader: Containing Selections in Prose and Poetry as Reading Exercises for the Younger Children in the Schools and Families of the Confederate States.] Reference
Sold his wife for a minikin pin. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery Rhyme Book] Reference
A bleak gleam in four minikin eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
A little minikin I came upon earth. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
Nor run upon a high-stretch'd minikin. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
And for one blast of thy minikin mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies] Reference
To meet the dread foe in this minikin man!. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
Yet servants, knowing minikin < 34.3 > nor base. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
The minikin man gave. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
A minikin hound. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
Ask any pretty minikin! ". From Wordnik.com. [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference
Nor run upon a high-strecht minikin. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
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