minikin
Example Sentences
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They are mounted each year with grand ingenuity and minikin budgets.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010
No, she is borne on a whispering bejeweled wind of minikin glittering wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No great mystery; only——" "Only—some minikin mystery?" said Mr. Walsingham.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Edgeworth, Maria
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 Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
In a very small bag is deposited a little rolled up housewife, furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward
