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
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
Who has not heard of Exeter 'Change? celebrated all over England for its menagerie and merchandize—wild beasts and cutlery—kangaroos and fleecy hosiery—elephants and minikin pins—a strange assemblage of nature and art—and savage and polished life.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 by Various
It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by Austen-Leigh, William
