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
This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his of angling with a minikin, a gut- string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron
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)
Come, Sister Annot, leave that minikin fiddle-faddle, and come and help with the real work.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
