pigmy

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Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.

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

By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Curlew Sandpiper, or Pigmy Curlew as it is sometimes called, can only be considered a rare occasional visitant to the Channel Islands.

From Birds of Guernsey (1879) And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands by Smith, Cecil

Pigmy seraphs gone astray, Pink, small, and punctual, Pompless no life can pass away; Poor little heart!

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily