No other explanation seems to have been offered by science for the extreme dwarfishness in stature of this curious race of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference

If the cold of winter were to continue unmitigated from year to year, without the genial influence of summer, the human race, as is apparent in polar regions and upland mountainous districts, would degenerate into dwarfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828] Reference

In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference

And no reason is too absurd to serve as a prop for their own dwarfishness and mental attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mein Kampf]

O! into what dwarfishness the morality, and the spiritual and elevated attainments of most Christians sink in the presence of such men!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada] Reference

Science explains this dwarfishness produced by great abstraction of heat; showing that, food and other things being equal, it unavoidably results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference

It follows that the dwarfishness was not wiped out, but that it was temporarily obscured in the second generation, though present all the time potentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

To the character which alone appears in the first cross is given the name dominant (in this instance tallness is dominant), and to the hidden character that of recessive (dwarfishness, in the example).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

You stuff the little rosy foot of a Chinese young lady of fashion into a slipper that is about the size of a salt-cruet, and keep the poor little toes there imprisoned and twisted up so long that the dwarfishness becomes irremediable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

A pigmy race; in Gellius, Fronto, and Apuleius, they are present in all their uncouth dwarfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

I was always laughing: and was often put in mind (strange to say) of my little unknown friend, Undine -- I must however say, further, that I felt what Charles Lamb describes, a sense of depression at times from the overshadowing of a so much more lofty intellect than my own: this (though it may seem vain to say so) I never experienced before, though I have often been with much greater intellects: but I could not be mistaken in the universality of his mind; and perhaps I have received some benefit in the now more distinct consciousness of my dwarfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference