Sentence example with the word 'mannikins'

mannikins

Last update: July 21, 2015


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So man was made first of clay, but he was strengthless and senseless and melted in the water; then they made a race of wooden mannikins, but these were useless creatures without heart or mind, and they were destroyed by a great flood and pitch poured down on them from heaven, those who were left of them being turned into the apes still to be seen in the woods.   [Please select]

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"It was indeed a wonderful trick," said Mademoiselle; "and how did you move the mannikins."   [Please select]

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Then came on the company of thirty-one maids, each one carrying a tray, on which were twelve mannikins, or minikins.   [Please select]

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Meanwhile a crowd is gathered around an outfitter's shop-window where the proprietor has contrived, with the aid of mannikins in wood and wax, a ridiculous tableau.   [Please select]

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To thirty house maids was given a tray, for each was to carry twelve mannikins, and one the last six, in the Turk's Head.   [Please select]

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