pigmy
Example Sentences
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Their hope was that they could hew him down to their own pigmy size, but he died while still towering over them, loved by millions, and respected by multitudes .
From Time Magazine Archive
Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.
From Time Magazine Archive
As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lad had walked cautiously across the veranda, sniffed inquiry at the blinking pigmy who gallantly essayed to growl defiance up at the huge welcomer—and from that first moment he had taken her under his protection.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
