pigmy
Example Sentences
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Like some pigmy umpire nervously staging a handshake between quarrelsome giants, small Norway last week brought Imperial Britain and Communist Russia into their first diplomatic contact in more than two years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Permission to kill or capture gorillas, pigmy hippopotamuses, white rhinoceroses, small-tusked elephants will be almost unobtainable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Moods changed a little as they took up their wandering again and presently waded, single file, through a jungle of bushes, scrub oak, dwarf pine, pigmy cedar and birch, laced with brambles.
From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook
