Sentence example with the word 'pigmy'

pigmy

Definition n. an unusually small individual

Last update: November 2, 2015


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Several local races of African elephant have been described, mainly distinguished from one another by the form and size of the ears, shape of the head, &c. The most interesting of these is the pigmy Congo race, africanus pumilio, named on the evidence of an immature specimen in the possession of C. Hagenbeck, the well-known animal-dealer of Hamburg, in 1905.   [Please select]

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What a pigmy intellect she had, and what giant propensities.   [Please select]

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Paul, whose basilica at the second milestone of the Via Ostiensis appears like a pigmy structure in comparison to that of S.   [Please select]

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The difference in the size of the two birds was great; it was like a pigmy feeding a giant.   [Please select]

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She was as a pigmy in the grip of a giant.   [Please select]

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Has this pigmy of the family the same talents as the giant, the ravager of the oak-tree.   [Please select]

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When the time comes for changing its shape, the pigmy concerns itself, like the others, with future and present needs.   [Please select]

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How does the pigmy measure the enormous monument that is the human body.   [Please select]

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Wayne, The Scourge Of The Indians "This federal republic," wrote the Spanish Count d'Aranda to his royal master in 1782, "is born a pigmy."'   [Please select]

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The chuckles and cackles of the spotted owlets no longer fill the welkin; the silence of the darkness is broken in the mountains by the low monotonous whistle of the pigmy-collared owlet.   [Please select]

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