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
With me, my fine treble knave? umh, thou dost tickle minikin as nimbly— Mus.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
"No great mystery; only——" "Only—some minikin mystery?" said Mr. Walsingham.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Edgeworth, Maria
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
