| 单词 | dwarfish |
| 例句 | A number of them soon found that attending to his erotic desires, despite his dwarfish stature and misshapen physique, went a long way toward enhancing their career prospects. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When I first arrived at the Amazon a dwarfish, bald man in a bellhop's uniform carried my suitcase up in the elevator and unlocked my room for me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Letters were multiplied by symbols, crowded into parentheses, and set upon by dwarfish numbers drawn at odd angles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He remembered his first meeting with Perry in the interrogation room at Police Headquarters in Las Vegas—the dwarfish boy- man seated in the metal chair, his small booted feet not quite brushing the floor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Before them, at a long stone table, a dwarfish figure with a bristling yellow beard glared at the warriors. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z In some movies, he appears dwarfish and deformed with a head that’s too big for his body and empty space-alien eyes. Review: In ‘Zoolander 2,’ All Is Still Vanity 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Even the show’s most invigorating musical sequences — in which the dwarfish factory workers known as the Oompa-Loompas ply their trade — are notable for the stunt merging of people with puppets. Theater Review: ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Opens in London 2013-06-26T16:33:57Z The characters sport names like the Tick, Succuba and the Cutter, and there is lots of mumbo-jumbo about a “bloody sack” and a “dwarfish female creature.” J. K. Rowling’s New Crime Novel, ‘The Silkworm’ 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z The four others are minions, dwarfish in the way they walk around in a crouch. Dance Review: Rachel Cohen and Jody Sperling Perform at Danspace 2013-06-28T21:49:57Z But where did we get the idea that beings from outer space would most likely be dwarfish, verdant hominids? Planet Hollywood: is the universe full of little green men like Paul? 2011-02-18T12:38:22Z Across eons, large galaxies gradually assembled via countless collisions of their dwarfish kin, scientists presume. Colliding Dwarf Galaxies Reveal a Glimpse of the Early Universe 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The show was canceled by Mr. Putin, who took umbrage at his representation by an ugly, dwarfish puppet. A Sparkling Shrine to a Reviled Russian Leader 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z As in Kafka, too, there are an unusual number of physically odd, deformed, or dwarfish figures. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The large room in the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center hung loosely upon the Monday morning rally crowd like giant’s robes upon a dwarfish thief. Trump’s Waterloo 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z He remembered his first meeting with Perry in the interrogation room at Police Headquarters in Las Vegas - the dwarfish boy-man seated in the metal chair, his small booted feet not quite brushing the floor. In Cold Blood - the book that changed me 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z What are the fugitive methane levels of dwarfish gem mines? Climate Scientist Takes on Tolkien's Middle Earth 2013-12-18T16:45:03.489Z They met us at the door, two dwarfish old people who were almost identical, except that she was wearing a dress and had dyed her hair and he wasn’t and hadn’t. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Birnam Wood.” 2012-08-27T04:00:00Z And in this lofty chair crouched the most hideous figure in all that vile gathering—a dwarfish, weirdly dressed man, his face disgustingly marred by disease, his eyes glaring with the light of madness. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z He is like the heath in the desert, neither yielding fruit, nor seeing when good cometh—a stunted, dwarfish, miserable shrub.” The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z The instruments of labor—land, agricultural implements, the workshop, the tool—were the instruments of labor of single individuals, adapted for the use of one worker, and, therefore, of necessity, small, dwarfish, circumscribed. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z They all look alike, dwarfish, large-mouthed, grinning, and of hideous features and expression. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z "A crooked, dwarfish man left it," he said. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z While we dismiss as fabulous all ancient and modern accounts of dwarfish races, we must also treat with the same scepticism the relations of gigantic nations. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Tulipa.—Splendid dwarfish bulbs, thriving in deep, sandy, well-enriched garden soil, and increased by offsets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z I think I see him now--as I did see him thrice in his lifetime--a meagre dwarfish man with a long face like a horse's face, and large whiskers. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Its shores are rocky, with some patches of sandy beach, but every where covered with trees, or an impervious jungle, composed of dwarfish trees and shrubs. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z And presently a cripple in a beggar's garb, a dwarfish, filthy creature with matted hair, twitched his sleeve, and offered him a whetstone. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z When we had gone three miles on the military road, we came suddenly upon a dwarfish looking man, mounted on a horse, who was wonderfully frightened at our unexpected meeting. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z At the head of a little pond, where a clump of dwarfish willows has become rooted, is a sheltered nook, in which are the oldest stones now to be seen. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z From out the mountain's side Come thousand dwarfish shapes, That threaten and deride, And leap and grin like apes. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z He used innuendos like “dwarfish minority” to refer to Jews and Gypsies. Istvan Csurka, Hungarian Politician, Dies at 77 2012-02-12T00:17:00Z The race of men to which they belonged were not smaller than those now existing, and, consequently, afford no evidence of a dwarfish race, which has been fabulously 80 ascribed to America. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z For, though the thought is by no means dwarfish, the dress is often too big for it. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Shrimp, shrimp, n. a genus of edible crustaceans, of the order Decapoda, allied to lobsters, crayfish, and prawns: a little wizened or dwarfish person.—v.i. to catch shrimps.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z For now they reach the hill Whence those wild notes are heard; The dwarfish fiends stand still, The hills their sides uprear'd, And made a mighty void, Whence fiercer sprites glower'd grim. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z To forgive substantial injury is sometimes less a test of right temper than to turn an eye of Christian compassion upon the dwarfish distortion of a mind crippled in all its nobler parts. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The whole timber appears to have been, even in its greatest prosperity, of so crooked and dwarfish a growth as to render it of little use for any purpose but fire-wood. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z The cause of their weakness is to be found in their own stunted, dwarfish, clipped, contracted, hurried, little, narrow, diminutive prayers. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Later, when we returned to the house, we found a motor-bicycle, dusty and dwarfish, leaning against the hall door steps. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z They are called little miners, because of their dwarfish stature, which is about two feet. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z A large swelling at the back told that the little man had put far more force behind the blow than one would have thought it possible for such a dwarfish creature to exert. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z And it came into my thought that the dwarfish Bartholomews had given her news of my doings and my whereabouts. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z And there on the cliff stood the father, Last of the dwarfish men. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z Goliah, with most hideous grimaces of visage and contortions of his dwarfish body, held a proud and threatening discourse, which King David only now and then interrupted by a shrill and contemptuous laughter. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z "Why, dear me, can I help it?" wailed the dwarfish creature. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z He had expected Pinto to walk in with one or more of his colleagues, but instead he saw the dwarfish creature who had handed him the paper bearing the Duke’s emblem. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z He is described by Mr. Browning in the poem as “the thin, grey, wizened, dwarfish devil Ecelin.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The big negro is often afraid to withhold his banana from the pygmy, and the dwarfish Lapps and Finns have long been regarded as powerful sorcerers by their more civilized neighbours. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z Thus we have a case in which a young child beheld a vision of dwarfish gnomes dancing on the wall. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z At this juncture the boss, a dwarfish little Jew, with a vivid pair of eyes and a shaggy black beard, darted into the chamber. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z His usual form is that of a dwarfish human being, with large eyes and covered with long hair, and apt to breathe with a heavy snoring kind of noise. Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z In Tokay the bottle suggests a pygmy castle-warder, dwarfish, but able and determined, strutting about with his huge brass spurs and daring anybody to interfere with him. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In the traditions alike of Switzerland and of Ireland we hear of a dwarfish people, dwellers in mountain caves or in artificial souterrains, who are gifted with magical powers. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z Height and all other measurements greatly below average; the whole frame stunted and dwarfish. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So 2011-07-01T02:00:12.520Z One of them was remarkable for his dwarfish stature and strange withered features. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z When you were the director of our puppet-show, for instance, how many times were fresh clothes got ready for the dwarfish troop, fresh decorations furbished up? Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Then he led me to the rear of his hut, where there was a little dwarfish house, which we entered. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z Wars were frequent; the giant could hurl the unwieldy mass of stone, and the dwarfish man could send his arrow tipped with flint. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z Owen looked in the direction indicated and was surprised to find, not the dwarfish farmer, but the book which he had come to get. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z They were a race of short but not dwarfish men with a much higher skull capacity than that of the average Bush race. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Then General Carleton manned himself "to whip the dwarfish war from out his territories." The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The rest divert themselves with the dwarfish satisfactions of recognized vice, the meagre routine of pleasure, or still more timidly with sport and games—those new unscheduled perversions of the soul. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Many are of small stature, though by no means dwarfish. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z I little thought the time would ever be, That I should Wit in dwarfish Posies see. The Art of English Poetry (1708) 2011-01-29T03:00:20.010Z Yet they were probably preceded by the microcephalous dwarfish race described by Sergi as one of the early Mediterranean stocks. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z A derisive laugh from a dwarfish figure in the crowd interrupted the reading. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Dividing the available time among seven candidates rendered them all curiously equal and dwarfish. Paladino debates Cuomo -- and a madam 2010-10-19T01:36:00Z "Here," cried the old man, stopping beside a dwarfish fir tree, "here is the spot where we found the mortal remains of Clara Douglas." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 The inhabitants belong to the Bantu stock, and among them are a dwarfish people, the Obongo, said to be about 4� feet high at most. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Akkas, a dwarfish race of Central Africa, dwelling in scattered settlements to the north-west of Lake Albert Nyanza, about lat. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide "The Holy One blasteth only that which is holy," grimly rejoined the dwarfish stranger, exhibiting the Scroll, while a low sound of applause went up from the audience. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z The fourth generation from the patriarch of ninety-seven was puny and feeble—exceedingly so; the fifth and sixth not only puny and feeble, but absolutely sickly, not to say dwarfish. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician "True enough; I never saw such puny children—but what else could be expected from a dwarfish and almost imbecile father?" The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter A large-headed dwarfish individual, of smoke-bleared aspect, shambles forward, opening his blue lips, for there is sense in him; and croaks, "Alight then, and give up your arms!" Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII They are a dwarfish race, never exceeding 5 ft. in height. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The obscene object of this worship was huddled in a corner—a dwarfish abortion, hideous and malignant enough for such rites. The Unveiling of Lhasa We passed some old fields, and entered the great Wilderness,—a high and dry country, thickly overgrown with dwarfish timber, chiefly scrub oaks, pines, and cedars. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 A few scantlings of wild thyme, and two or three other dwarfish plants, alone appear in the interstices of the scoriæ, while the Vesuvian lava of 1767 is already covered with a luxuriant vegetation. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Why had I been given a soul that could not express itself in the frame of a coward, a weakling, a thin, nervous, dwarfish, almost a deformed, creature? Bye-Ways They are so perfect in their outward frame, that I never heard of one single Indian that was either dwarfish, crooked, bandy-legged, or otherwise misshapen. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts A little later two men sprang together through the front door; a sloe-eyed Mexican and the dwarfish friend of the Australian giant. Stepsons of Light At the other end of the passage a blue flame burned; before the flame there stood, or sat, or jumped, a dwarfish figure all in white. Black Diamonds Two squat dwarfish men crouched at the far side of the clearing. Restricted Tool This son he could not endure, as he was ashamed of his dwarfish shape, and he therefore allowed him to grow up in ignorance. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace Unobserved, a dwarfish figure stole noiselessly from the shadow, and seizing upon the nearest bag—it was Jim’s—he ran swiftly down the wharf. Frontier Boys in the South Seas There is nothing diminutive in generous admiration, and nothing dwarfish in being a younger brother; Mr. Swinburne's charge is too coarse a way of stating the position. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. The only product of its soil worth mentioning is the cocoa-tree; and those are of so dwarfish and miserable a growth as to bear but very few nuts. A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island He was a short, dwarfish creature, with an enormous head, covered with a fell of black hair, falling in masses down his back and on his shoulders. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II "It is very certain that thousands of American Indians, especially those of small stature or of dwarfish tribes, bear a most extraordinary likeness to Mongols." Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning They are, like the latter, indispensable in romances, where their feats, far from being dwarfish, are absolutely gigantic, though these diminutive heroes seldom occupy any more ostensible post than that of humble attendant. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Amongst them was a dwarfish little oddity of a man, the assistant editor of the Eletképek, the gallant little Sükey, who, despite a chronic asthma, fought through the whole campaign, musket in hand. Eyes Like the Sea Suppose we had business with his majesty by day: we strolled over the sand and by the dwarfish palms, exchanged a “Kŏnamaori” with the crone on duty, and entered the compound. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The negro under the equinoctial line, the dwarfish Laplander beyond the Arctic Circle—man everywhere, in his barbarous state, is a believer in sorcery, witchcraft, enchantments; he is fascinated by the incomprehensible. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The allusion to Nancy's dwarfish plainness was what peculiarly provoked James Cheshire. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. They quarrelled three or four times like this, and the dwarfish sempstress's shamelessness and evil-mindedness always showed themselves. The Grandee The inhabitants had identified him for a Pict, as, by some singular confusion of name, they called the dark and dwarfish aboriginal people of the land. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Perhaps these primitive folk were elfish, dwarfish, or otherwise peculiar in 86 appearance to the superior new-comers, who would in pride of race scorn the small, swarthy aborigines, and refuse all communion with them. Legends & Romances of Brittany They make the dwarfish races of Europe instinctive miners and metallurgists. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The dwarfish furniture was specially designed in green-stained wood and the floor was of cork carpet diversified by white furry rugs. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Concha in particular, the dwarfish maid, felt an indescribable delight, peculiar to her malignant, spiteful character, every time that the se�ora evinced in any way her scorn for the adopted child. The Grandee On the south-western slope lies a neat and carefully dressed vineyard, the vine-stakes of which, dwarfish as they are, already cast long shadows on the eastern side. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Rudely plucked from their hiding, Never a word they spoke: A son and his aged father— Last of the dwarfish folk. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) "Long past?" inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature. A Christmas Carol The original manuscript The khor was wide, covered on the bottom with stones among which grew dwarfish, thorny shrubs. In Desert and Wilderness There is scarcely a high purpose in all the world that has no dwarfish footman at its stirrup, no base intention over which there does not ride at least the phantom of an angel. The Passionate Friends Johnson, though spiritually akin to the giants, was the firmest ally and subject of the dwarfish dynasty which supplanted them. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Over miles of the red mountain He hunted as they fled, And strewed the dwarfish bodies Of the dying and the dead. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) A few trees, or rather a few burnt stumps, fringed the banks, but the trees which here and there remained unburned were so crooked and dwarfish as merely to heighten the desolation of the scene. Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas He looked like some dwarfish general of old times. Dwellers in the Hills The great brick tower stood aloft among the sand-hills, making the little house which nestled at its base look dwarfish and cramped. Harper's Young People, September 7, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly He is a dwarfish, clumsy figure, wearing a feline skin on his back, with the tail hanging down to his heels. The Religion of Ancient Egypt The king sat high on his charger, He looked on the little men; And the dwarfish and swarthy couple Looked at the king again. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) Those he commands, move only in command Nothing in love: now does he feel the —— Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Who could say what ugly, dwarfish things, what evil fairies, what dangerous dead men might climb up over the rim of the world? Dwellers in the Hills The calf of the leg is not developed in any of these dwarfish people. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution “There never was a time we were not fond of each other,—ever since you were so high,” pointing to what would represent the height of an extremely dwarfish infant of seven or eight months. Not Like Other Girls Or the dwarfish lemon tree with its golden balls and lacquered leaves, short and dumpy, like a woman who is small and ugly, but rich? Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 This Lizaveta was a dwarfish creature, “not five foot within a wee bit,” as many of the pious old women said pathetically about her, after her death. The Brothers Karamazov But while those in the fossil slate and the recent specimens from the tropics correspond in size, individuals of the same species from the Mediterranean are dwarfish and degenerate. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The conflict with the animal world appears to have ended in the production of a dwarfish, forest-dwelling variety of man, in the lowest human stage of mental evolution. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Van Busch, broader by inches and taller by half a head, dwindled, seen in juxtaposition with this man of the iron will and the leader's temperament, to a flabby, dwarfish, and petty being. The Dop Doctor While waiting for her arrival, I investigated some caves on Leleppa, near Port Havannah, which the natives reported to be inhabited by dwarfish men; but the results were insignificant. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific They will now require upwards of an inch of air, both night and day, which will cause the plants to grow stuggy, or dwarfish, and prevent their drawing. The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted in bringing them to a complete state of perfection Some tribes speaking Bantu languages are dwarfs or dwarfish, and belong to the group of Forest Pygmies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" They are not dwarfish, being of medium stature, but they resemble the Bushmen in complexion, in which and in general cast of features they present some similarity to the Chinese. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution This species of land is of little value for cultivation, and usually has a sprinkling of dwarfish, stunted timber, like the barrens. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West It was literally covered with bush of various descriptions, from the dwarfish wattle to the lofty gum, and iron bark; presenting to each other, in their various tints of foliage, a relieving contrast of colour. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter The third is dwarfish in body and mind, and, to use his own language, “a poor, miserable remnant of a man.” Select Temperance Tracts She was a dwarfish creature, passionately fond of cards, waxing into terrible tempers over them, and with only one interest in life,—worshipful love of her only son, a not too beautiful citoyen of fifty. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 There are three or four very dwarfish trees that undoubtedly were crossed with the heartnut. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 It is frequently asked by the inexperienced, how it is, that while great trees are found in bogs, planted trees will not now grow except in a dwarfish degree, but the answer is obvious. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. Curious thoughts about his fairy-godmother crept into his head; strange thrills of pleasure and of pain shot through his dwarfish frame, and turned him well-nigh sick with emotion. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls These gigantic truths retained in view, would put to shame the littleness of their dwarfish morality. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. These shelves were literally packed with silver, some in boxes, much in bags, glimmering in the half-light like dwarfish ghosts; but the greater part uncovered, glittering in tarnished splendor wherever the lamplight fell. Fernley House I had read of the generally diminutive stature of the Laplanders, and found them to be truly a dwarfish race. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 A certain wealthy planter living near had five or six score of French or Spanish negroes, with a dwarfish stature and a gabble like so many geese. History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service From the thigh, thus rubbed, came forth a being of the complexion of a charred stake, with flattened features like a negro, and of dwarfish stature. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The latter he could not endure, because he was ashamed of his dwarfish figure, and let him therefore grow up in perfect ignorance. The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales After it had sunk through the water about a mile, it struck plump on a rock, and then it glided into a dwarfish cave at the bottom of the sea. Cricket at the Seashore At the door they found the dwarfish Grasshopper with Black Bess. Rookwood Little dwarfish steamers were flying across the channel in opposite directions; long boats, laden with sea-worn emigrants, were rowing from the shore back to their respective ships. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. I was for a moment awe-struck as I gazed at the shrivelled and dwarfish bodies, the long, ape-like arms, and huge disproportioned heads, from which fell their hair in snaky tangles, black and matted. The Scalp Hunters Here the lounging lanzeros erected their dwarfish bodies, and endeavoured to look taller. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Two little cows, two dwarfish oxen, eight sheep, and two goats completed the household, and these were housed in the turf compartment. The Land of the Long Night At length an uncouth dwarfish figure, with a shock head of black hair, hopped towards them. Rookwood The dwarfish conception of the Moderates froze up all souls, and imposed an utter change of politics upon France. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 The action of natural selection is therefore checked; the weaker, the dwarfish, those of less active limbs, or less piercing eyesight, do not suffer the extreme penalty which falls upon animals so defective. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays And Sir Geraint rode up to the dwarfish page. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls The physician is palpating the liver of a dwarfish figure whose swollen belly, wasted limbs, and anxious look tell of some such condition as that described in the Aphorism. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield But there in front of him stood the dwarfish tribe, with naked brands and battle-axes. A Child's Book of Saints On the 25th, at dawn of day, we inspanned, and trekked about five hours in a northeasterly course, through a boundless open country sparingly adorned with dwarfish old trees. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 It is a desirable variety in the kitchen garden; as, from its exceeding dwarfish habit, it may be so sown as to form a neat edging for the walk or border. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. A dwarfish yellow demon he seemed, evil and menacing. Legacy There was the scuffling rush of feet just then, and the object of his thoughts, wild and weird-looking from his dwarfish aspect, glistening head, and staring eyes, dashed up. Will of the Mill The oak is left behind, and the pine grows stunted and dwarfish. The Rifle Rangers “Long past?” inquired Scrooge, observant of its dwarfish stature. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 On account of the dwarfish character of the plants, the hills may be made four feet apart. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. They were dwarfish in stature, the tallest of the party not exceeding five feet in height, and the majority of the others quite a foot shorter. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story Is it true to say of Bussy D'Ambois that it is characterised by "dwarfish thought dressed up in gigantic words," that it is "a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense"? Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois That is not the case With me; for those who in my face Should chance to look, themselves will find Turned into things of dwarfish kind. The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses A monster he was except his legs, which were short and slim, giving him a dwarfish appearance. The Kentucky Ranger It is of a dwarfish habit of growth, closely protected by the spirally compressed leaves, with a good-sized and perfectly white head. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Its summit, a cold, fog-swept wilderness of swamp and lake beset with dwarfish growths of lehua, is used as the symbol of a woman, impulsively kind, yet in turn passionate and disdainful. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula In some instances it may even be found profitable to use the spud in destroying weeds of more dwarfish growth than those which can be clipped with the scythe. Clovers and How to Grow Them On the Island of Java are found a family of strange, dwarfish little beings, which are called by the natives malmags, or hobgoblins. The Human Side of Animals And the foremost of the troop, a thick dwarfish man with a huge two-handed sword, stood aside. The Long Night The stem is dwarfish, and the leaf-stalks come out quite close to each other; so that scarcely any portion of the stem is to be seen between them. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. It grows weak, effeminate, and dwarfish, under that condition. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry This is a dwarfish species with dull green rough leaflets often as many as 15 or 17 per leaf, which often bears nuts in clusters of a dozen or more. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 Modern refinement requires that the chief character shall be made interesting in spite of his being dwarfish, plain-featured, and a victim to pulmonary or some more prosaic disease. Sword and Gown A Novel For the first three or four hours of this march we had a scattered forest of dwarfish trees, mostly dwarf tholukhs. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government It is small and dwarfish in its habit, hearts well early in the season, and will afford a good supply of delicate sprouts throughout a large part of the summer. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Watch Macaulay banging on his antithetic drum—"servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love"—"dwarfish talents and gigantic vices"—"ability enough to deceive"—"religion enough to persecute." Studies in Early Victorian Literature But when the Huns came up suddenly from the steppes of Asia, the stately Gothic warriors fled almost without a blow from the hordes of wild dwarfish horsemen. The Arian Controversy To a certain extent he generally corresponded with his name in having some mental weakness or eccentricity, and it was a recommendation if he were dwarfish or deformed. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The Canadian buffalo berry and a dwarfish birch are two mountain plants of no small ornamental value for the plains. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The English Sea-beet is a dwarfish, spreading or trailing plant, with numerous angular, leafy branches. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. B** is a little man, dwarfish and almost deformed in person; but full of talent, spirit, and enthusiasm. The Diary of an Ennuyée She had conceived of a barren desolate waste, shrubless and treeless; and she saw grassy hillocks, leafy copses, and even, as she thought, patches of dwarfish woods. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Now, the busy streets of Soho were below me, and I clung dizzily to telephone standards and smoke stacks, rarely venturing to glance downward upon the cosmopolitan throng, surging, dwarfish, in the lighted depths. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor The dwarfish elves, with waning lamps in hand, Creeping like worms along the slimy floor, Pursued the ebbing tide collecting spoils. The Arctic Queen Plant dwarfish; head of large size, round, regularly formed, solid,—when in perfection, resembling a well-developed cabbage; the exterior leaves are broad and large, green, frilled on the margin, and coarsely blistered. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. They contain the only trees I have seen at Venice:—a few rows of dwarfish unhappy-looking shrubs, parched by the sea breezes, and are little frequented. The Diary of an Ennuyée Hundreds of youths had waited for the moment; but Chopin was the first on the summit of the wall, behind which lay a cowardly renaissance, a dwarfish Philistinism, asleep. Great Violinists And Pianists If you please, madam," said the little maiden, with her large calm eyes unwavering, "it is not my fault, but God Almighty's, that I am a little dwarfish creature. Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor The dwarfish Obelisk, like a pointed tombstone, lay swart and square in its center. The Mantooth A fine, dwarfish, curled variety, long cultivated in England. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. He was so grey and dwarfish that he looked like a mountain sprite. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross How well consorts it with thy dwarfish soul, That owns no noble feeling's high control. Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems A hulking, twenty-story modernity stands side by side with a dwarfish, Dutch anachronism, but neither possesses any right of precedence over the other. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 We are feeble, dwarfish, stunted specimens of Humanity. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series The American Garden-bean is a tender, annual plant from the East Indies, with a dwarfish or climbing stem and trifoliate leaves. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. He fought against it with tribes of memories, lower and dwarfish, but myriads strong. Foes It seemed a shame to cut these bushy, long-legged, handsome fellows back to dwarfish insignificance and brutish ugliness, but it had to be done. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm Unable to do any harm to her dwarfish foe, the Merrimac now, as if in disdain, turned her attention to the Minnesota, hurling shells through her side. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality I have been a slothful servant in thy family, an idle laborer in thy vineyard, 'an unfruitful branch,' a poor dwarfish member in thy body. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. As the plants are of dwarfish character, the seeds are sometimes sown in drills; a quart being required for two hundred feet. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. At the same time, Charcam, who seemed perfectly distracted by the recent occurrences, dragged in Thames, leaving Jack Sheppard outside in the custody of the dwarfish Jew. Jack Sheppard A Romance All the Otomis of both types, men and women, have astonishingly big heads, and many dwarfish individuals would require a 7-1/4 hat. In Indian Mexico (1908) And now, with the new day, back to the fray came the Merrimac, looking like a giant in comparison with this dwarfish antagonist. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality With daisy-roots thy dwarfish Muse is fed, A giant's body with a pigmy's head. English Satires A remarkably dwarfish, early variety, much employed in forcing. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. The dress of the dwarfish Jew was not, however, favourable to this expedient. Jack Sheppard A Romance He stepped back some paces and looked up at the three dwarfish storeys of the silent little house, and alarm fell on him as he saw that all the windows were dark. The Judge It had left his mother with a patrimony which Carl, inheriting, had chosen contemptuously to regard as a dwarfish thing of gold sufficient only for the heedless purchase of one flaming, brilliant hour of life. Diane of the Green Van But the contrast lost much of its force amid the pale green foliage of the dwarfish trees. His Masterpiece The variety is principally esteemed for its dwarfish habit and early maturity. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. As he said this, the door was opened, and Charcam entered, accompanied by a dwarfish, shabby-looking man, in a brown serge frock, with coarse Jewish features, and a long red beard. Jack Sheppard A Romance And presently a cripple in a beggar’s garb, a dwarfish, filthy creature with matted hair, twitched his sleeve, and offered him a whetstone. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France She belonged, more probably, to one of the dwarfish tribes of which Africa has so many, as Dokos, Bosjesmen, and others. Ancient Egypt It was a merry company, And they were just afloat, When lo! a man, of dwarfish span, Came up and hailed the boat. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood A very dwarfish variety, from six to nine inches high. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. "Take the prisoners below, Nab," said Jonathan, addressing the dwarfish Jew; "I'll join you in an instant." Jack Sheppard A Romance An hour, and he stood before them—dwarfish, fiendish, monstrous. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest He was of a stature much above my own, yet so gross in shape and immense of head he seemed at first almost dwarfish. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Two of them fit for timber, and differing only in the texture and colour of the bark; the third of a dwarfish kind. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Hyssop is a hardy, evergreen, dwarfish, aromatic shrub, from the south of Europe. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. P’an Ku is pictured as a man of dwarfish stature clothed in bearskin, or merely in leaves or with an apron of leaves. Myths and Legends of China In China sago is obtained from Rhapis flabelliformis, a dwarfish palm; and some sago is made from it for native use in Travancore, Mysore, and Wynaad, and the jungles in the East Indies. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. There is a dwarfish size of men and women, which is almost constantly so gross and massive in comparison of their height, that they present us with a very disagreeable image. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) And you must remember that I'm not one of your thin, dwarfish, an�mic blokes that you could feed out of a packet of bird-seed. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 This species, which was introduced from Egypt, differs from the last principally in its more dwarfish habit of growth, but also in being less branched. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. It must reach its outlet quickly and attain to its ambition without overmuch delay, else it shrivels and withers to a mere stubborn, perhaps lifelong, enmity—a dwarfish, mulish thing, devoid of any tragic splendour. Children of the Mist The only trees are dwarfish pollards, reduced to bare trunks with thin tufts of green atop by the practice of stripping off the sprouts every two or three years to make fodder for the goats. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) At best it will be dwarfish, and tend to counteract the spontaneous outflow of mental and moral life. The Christian Home Everywhere cunning, everywhere small feuds and hatreds, distrusts, dishonesties, timidities, feebleness of purpose, dwarfish imaginations, swarm over the great and simple issues.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through The shadows of the two players, all foreshortened by the approach of noontide, bobbed about in dwarfish caricature along the smooth sandy stretch. The Frontiersmen Whenever I have seen that species of document, it was strange how the hopefulest ideal dwindled away to a dwarfish actual. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Now with thine own illusive art Perform, O Lord, the helper's part: Assume a dwarfish form, and thus From fear and danger rescue us.' Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala A man came running down among the black-boled trees, a strange, squat, gnomelike man whose gait was as uncouth as his dwarfish figure. Jason Both are weak and dwarfish, the latter especially so. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients At a little distance, squatted on the ground, sat a dwarfish, humpbacked female slave, with a wide mouth, but good eyes. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa I saw living things moving to and fro—forms gigantic and forms dwarfish seemed sometimes approaching us, sometimes hiding behind masses of rock, or sinking back into nothingness. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Thus in their dread the Immortals sued The God, a dwarfish shape indued:— Before Virochan's son he came, Three steps of land his only claim. Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala For long seconds he would pause with one foot held aloft in the attitude of a high-stepping horse, which distorted his dwarfish body into a diabolic convulsion, like Durer's angel of horror. Kimono The original inhabitants were Negritos—a dwarfish race, very dark and tameless, still in existence, but driven to the parts of the country most inaccessible. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient This dwarfish personage served the purpose of a bell in our country, and what, it may be supposed, would in old times have been called a page. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa From its stem, which is very dwarfish, leaves a foot in length, six inches in breadth, and half an inch in thickness, shoot forth. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The Hualpais, a species of Digger Indians, dwarfish, miserable, and degraded, living mostly on roots, lizards, and the like, were nevertheless conscious of scalps to save. Overland It was a lovely spot, notwithstanding the stunted and dwarfish appearance of all cultivated vegetation in this cold northern latitude. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest They are a dwarfish kind of monster, with the body of a man and the head of a horse, and are otherwise called Kinnara. Sakoontala or the Lost Ring An Indian Drama And dwarfish, and childish, and fond, and flippant: If you marry her sister, you will get may-poles; and if you marry her, you will get fairies to dance about them. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 So hairy apes in three white beds, And nightcaps, one and nine, On moonlit pillows lay three heads Bemused with dwarfish wine. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. Espalin was a lean little, dried-up manikin, with legs, arms, and mustaches disproportionately long for his dwarfish body. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Diminutive and dwarfish in his form, he wanted to set up a new standard of human nature, adapted to his miserable condition. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are He had so settled down on his rheumatic old joints that he had become dwarfish in stature as well as gnarled in shape, and looked a gnomelike thing, gazing up at the tall young woman. The Port of Adventure In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. The Devil's Dictionary Mr. Samuel Wilkins was a carpenter, a journeyman carpenter of small dimensions, decidedly below the middle size—bordering, perhaps, upon the dwarfish. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people How glad I am that you will not have, for all her miserable money, that little dwarfish granddaughter of the insolent old miser!' Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor All the mockery, the malice, the hint of callous indifference that I had noted in the other dwarfish men were there, too—but intensified, touched with the satanic. The Moon Pool That thou may'st recognise the man, in height Less than six palms, observe one at this inn Of black and curly hair, the dwarfish wight! Orlando Furioso The temple was gone, and the idols were gone—and in their place the figures of dark, dwarfish men lurked murderously among the trees, with bows in their hands, and arrows fitted to the string. The Woman in White “Long Past?” inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature. A Christmas Carol My first perusal was in one of those pirated editions that swarmed at that time out of Brussels, and ran to such a troop of neat and dwarfish volumes. Memories and Portraits And at each side of the open portal stood four of the dwarfish men, grey-headed, old, clad in flowing garments of white, each pointing toward us a short silver rod. The Moon Pool As far as the eye can reach stretches the great flat plain-land, all dusted over with patches of alkali, and intersected by clumps of the dwarfish chaparral bushes. A Study in Scarlet It was a primrose—a dwarfish thing, but perfect in shape—a baby-wonder. At the Back of the North Wind Singleton was a diminutive, dwarfish personage; he looked like a precocious child. Roderick Hudson There is something intrinsically disproportionate and outrageous in the idea of the distant objects dwindling and growing dwarfish, the closer objects swelling enormous and intolerable. Alarms and Discursions And within these alcoves were gathered, score upon score, the elfin beauties, the dwarfish men of the fair-haired folk. The Moon Pool The proverb adequately says: 'In the presence of a dwarf one mustn't speak of dwarfish things!' Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Hunchbacked, dwarfish, and doting, she was adorned like a barbarian queen. Villette His dwarfish propensity to wit led him the wildest lengths. The Forest Lovers One approaches the island of Athelney along a low long road like an interminable white string stretched across the flats, and lined with those dwarfish trees that are elvish in their very dullness. Alarms and Discursions In 1834 Fuerteventura yielded, from a depth of six feet, a dwarfish image of a woman with prominent bosom and dressed in the native way: it appeared almost Chinese. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I In fact they are the small or dwarfish portion of our own family, and so many fairy familiars that we know and treat as one of ourselves. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript From time to time small groups of dwarfish figures passed into it, as tiny, heedless moths might fly into the yawning jaws of a lion. The Saint On the 24th, at the dawn of day, we inspanned, and trekked about five hours in a northeasterly course, through a boundless open country, sparingly adorned with dwarfish old tree. Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians They look like dwarfish churches—in fact, rather like many modern churches I could mention, churches all of them small and each of them a little crooked. Alarms and Discursions Among the dwarfish rhymers of the day there lingered some of the august shapes of a former age. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Mary, the reader well knows was plain in person, and as a child almost dwarfish, but wholesome food, fresh mountain air and household kindness, had modified and changed all this. The Old Homestead It was a small parlor; and, at the back window, which looked out on a garden, sat Joanna Grice, a thin, dwarfish old woman, poring over a big book which looked like a Bible. Hide and Seek These dwarfish people are jealous of men and very proud of what they can do. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks You know then, how this Horde of dwarfish, blue, warty, misformed little horrors woke to the presence of the unknown enemy. Darkness and Dawn Then the morasses, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, making one think that as he goes he treads down the forests of Labrador. John James Audubon The country, between this beautiful town and Mantua, presents one continued grove of dwarfish mulberries, among which start up innumerable barren hills. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents The "Swan" variety of the opium-poppy, a dwarfish double-flowered form of a pure white, contained some single-flowered and some red-flowered plants, when sown from commercial seed are said to be pure. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hordes of wild shaggy, dwarfish cattle and ponies, conducted by Highlanders, as wild, as shaggy, and sometimes as dwarfish, as the animals they had in charge, often traversed the streets of Glasgow. Rob Roy — Volume 02 By 1:00 o'clock we entered a desolate section of country consisting of barren sandy soil, scanty crops, and dwarfish shrubs and trees. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany The first book tells of his voyage and shipwreck in Lilliput, where the inhabitants are about as tall as one's thumb, and all their acts and motives are on the same dwarfish scale. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Would the fluids circulate, and health be promoted: or would they stagnate, and a morbid, sickly and dwarfish state be the consequence? The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health The level country of the north is covered with forests of dwarfish oak; some bear sweet, and others bitter acorns, and also the cork-tree, whose bark is a considerable object of commerce. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. They are sometimes tall, but most often dwarfish, and may be subject to epileptic seizures. The Glands Regulating Personality But it is his weakness to be proud; he derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surround him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life. Byron For Pope was deformed and sickly, dwarfish in soul and body. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World He was of a dwarfish, hump-backed figure,—most rare among this symmetrical people,—with a vicious face, and a dress consisting of a torn and shabby robe of beaver-skin. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Douglas thought little of the raw youth from the Sangamon timber, and Lincoln said the dwarfish Vermonter was "the least man he had ever seen." Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 He was naked, and it was a wonderful sight to see the muscles starting out in knots on his huge but dwarfish frame as he strained at the weight of the bridge. The People of the Mist Here there are to be seen many uneven waste spaces; it is a region of sand where stunted trees and dwarfish evergreen oaks shelter themselves behind the dunes. The Story of a Child The extreme height of Count Robert's person adapted him for a garb, which had a tendency to make persons of a lower stature appear rather dwarfish and thick when arrayed cap-a-pie. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 It was Isaac Jogues who first heard this ominous rumor, at the town of Onnentisati, and it proceeded from the dwarfish sorcerer already mentioned, who boasted himself a devil incarnate. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century The vaulted roof is very low and the pillars dwarfish, though immense in girth, as befits pillars supporting substantially a cathedral. Italian Hours Is it a thing to be preferred, to be stunted, and little, and dwarfish, in our intellectual and moral stature? The True Citizen, How to Become One It is sometimes as if she contemptuously sent us a grotesque and dwarfish messenger, who makes grimaces at us while telling us the bad news, which is ungenerous and scarcely dignified. Stories by English Authors: Ireland I tell you that your poor dwarfish spirit cannot measure the scope of mine. Peveril of the Peak I can hardly understand how they "bear some resemblance to the dwarfish Dokos of the eastern coast," seeing that the latter do not exist. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 "This is Mistress Darke's," said Loveday, and as a little dwarfish lad came to the gate, she said, "We would speak with your mistress." Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume A crowd of mostly smaller pupils surged behind a dwarfish, care-worn, lop-sided boy whose back showed the slight beginnings of a hump. The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein We all know what the Apostle Paul was physically; we know too what the world owes to that dwarfish, bald, stammering man. The Recreations of a Country Parson The young officer had associated his dwarfish follower with the service rendered by Miss Lou and was correspondingly grateful. Miss Lou And then he waited for this dwarfish voice that had been hidden under the mountains of the world. The Ball and the Cross Nothing could less resemble the tall port and sturdy bearing of a gendarme, than the diminutive and dwarfish individual before me. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 "And, oh! who is yonder dark-browed dwarfish Knight at the Prince's right hand?" cried Arthur. The Lances of Lynwood As they crossed the hall a man of dwarfish stature came towards them. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man And indeed to a careless observer the words were not inappropriate to his dwarfish proportions. Prince Eugene and His Times After six still seconds Turnbull could stand it no longer, but called out to the dwarfish thing—in what words heaven knows. The Ball and the Cross His face, too, was changed and ennobled, his gestures larger, even his small stature ceased, for once, to seem dwarfish and gnome-like. The Witch of Prague Lewis aptly described himself, as to externals, in the verses affixed to his Monk, as having "A graceless form and dwarfish stature" He had, moreover, large grey eyes, thick features, and an inexpressive countenance. Rejected Addresses The next moment, however, she saw plainly what it was—a hunchback, dwarfish and ugly, grotesquely attired in a fool's dress, with paper cap and bells. The Gadfly A quaint dwarfish figure, crippled but full of vigour, stumped up to the platform. The Major The MS. reads: "The rugged mountain's stunted screen Was dwarfish | shrubs | with cliffs between." | copse | 46. The Lady of the Lake Sir Norman, with a notion in his head that his dwarfish highness might have placed sentinels around his royal residence, endeavored to pierce the gloom in search of them. The Midnight Queen This was a dwarfish, misshapen Kanaka, a pigmy in height, but a giant in breadth, with short, thick legs, and long, powerful arms. The Green Mummy There was a little dwarfish, abortive, counter bank set up at Noirbourg this year: but the gentlemen soon disagreed among themselves; and, let us hope, were cut off in detail by the great Lenoir. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh One could but say that it was black and leathery and that it bore some resemblance to a dwarfish, human figure. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge Whereas they were dwarfish and misshapen, he was a youth of most beautiful appearance, truly worthy of admiration. History of Phoenicia He saw their pinched, brown faces, staring, hungry eyes, naked legs and throats, and noted particularly their dwarfish size. The Last of the Plainsmen Accordingly, he discharged all the old servants of the house and replaced them gradually, as he was able to find suitable successors, by others of dwarfish stature. Crome Yellow It was not a dwarfish shortness; for she had the most exact proportioned limbs in the world, very small bones, and was as fat as a little cherub. The Governess; or, Little Female Academy How little, how dwarfish it seemed as compared to the height of these pillars of water! Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North I have transplanted the Sand-Bank and dwarfish Yaupon, and find that the first Year, the Shrubs stood at a stand; but the second Year they throve as well as in their native Soil. A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc. Their dwarfish pages were As cherubins, all gilt; the madams too, Not us'd to toil, did almost sweat to bear The pride upon them, that their very labour Was to them as a painting. King Henry VIII There had been floods and the river still stood very high, with dwarfish trees waist deep in it, and rather a narrow arc of white dawn gleamed under the curve of the bridge. The Man Who Knew Too Much "It is not Alfred's dwarfish sword, Nor Egbert's pigmy crown, Shall stay us now that descend in thunder, Rending the realms and the realms thereunder, Down through the world and down." The Ballad of the White Horse "She has to keep things pretty tight, as is only natural," said Moon, glancing round the rather dwarfish room, with its wedge of slanted ceiling, like the conical hood of a dwarf. Manalive He's a dwarfish fellow with only one eye. New Grub Street Close to the opening lay a dark, dwarfish steam-launch, like a baby dragon with one red eye. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare It was just large enough to be the water-course for a small stream which vanished at intervals under green tunnels of undergrowth, as if in a dwarfish forest. The Man Who Knew Too Much That's right—that's right, my dear Dickie," replied Wayland; "haste thee, for Heaven's sake! else the poor giant will be utterly disconsolate for want of his dwarfish auxiliary. Kenilworth Many a harassed mother in a mean backyard had looked at five dwarfish shirts on the clothes-line as at some small, sick tragedy; it was as if she had hanged her five children. Manalive "Are you one of the actors?" asked the sergeant of a dwarfish youth with a middle-aged face. Whirligigs He was enlarged terribly to scale; and this sense of size was so staggering, that when Syme saw him all the other figures seemed quite suddenly to dwindle and become dwarfish. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Their dwarfish pages were As cherubins, all gilt; the madams too, Not us'd to toil, did almost sweat to bear The pride upon them, that their very labour Was to them as a painting. King Henry VIII At his knees crouches a dwarfish spectre, his father Alberic, still full of his old grievances against Wotan, and urging his son in his dreams to win back the ring for him. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring P.S.—Impress it upon your contributors that they cannot be too short; and that if not dwarfish, they must be wild—or at all events not tame. Miscellaneous Papers Their dwarfish pages were As cherubins, an gilt; the madams too, Not us'd to toil, did almost sweat to bear The pride upon them, that their very labour Was to them as a painting. King Henry VIII |
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