| 单词 | Pigmy |
| 例句 | Pigmy elephants and komodo dragons were commonplace, but crocodiles, giant rats, frogs and birds shared the island with the “hobbits”. Fossil discovery on Flores provides clues to 'hobbit' ancestors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Here we see a bald-headed Pigmy hero riding triumphantly on a mighty crocodile, regardless of the open-mouthed, bellowing hippopotamus behind him. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Pigmies, men and women, were squatting around—ugly little people, but well-made and muscular, with leaves and grass aprons for all clothing, and devoid of such ornaments as an ordinary negro loves. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Years later Mr. James Harrison brought several of the Pigmy men and women to England, and they performed at the Hippodrome. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Here, Mr Pigmy, conduct Mr Stutters to his cabin, and show him where the gunroom—ah! Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z Some writers trace a resemblance between this Mohammedan legend and the story of the "Pigmies and the Cranes." The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z In other pictures, however, the scaly monster, so far from playing this submissive part, is seen plunging in fierce pursuit of a Pigmy, who flies headlong before the foe. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Pigmies are pigmies still, though perch’d on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes The only losses on this station were the capture of two gun-brigs, after a very gallant defence, by a flotilla of very superior force, off Granville; and the Pigmy cutter, which was wrecked near Jersey. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II Coahuila the Pigmy Nuthatch seems to be locally common. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico By the River of Spirits is a deep forest which stretches back and back in a dense and chaotic tangle of strangled sapling and parasitic weed to the edge of the Pigmy forest. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country He thinks these Pigmy pictures were designed to amuse the children. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z But I say, Pig—Pigmy, what a little dandy you have grown! Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites The Pigmy will return to you with the first English mail that arrives in the Tagus. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II Burrows, Land of the Pigmies, 180, for the state of fear which the pygmies cause to their neighbours. Folklore as an Historical Science That night the gentleman read The Battle of the Pigmies and the Cranes, while his wife read the evening edition of the Lurid Paragraph. The Bibliotaph and Other People A giantess she seems; but look behind, And then she dwindles to the Pigmy kind. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Gould says it is the least, also, and calls it the 'Pigmy'; but we can't keep that name without confusing it with the 'Minuta.' Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds When the doctor, politely making way, replied, "Pass, O Pigmy!" The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings No less than forty races are now represented in the world-wide Bahá’í Community, which has been recently enriched through the enrollment of representatives of the Greek, the Berber, the Pigmy, the Somali and Guanche races. Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 “Pigmies are pigmies still, though perch’d on Alps, And pyramids are pyramids in vales.” Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Belonging to the same century is the chapter "Of Pigmies" in Sir Thomas Browne's "Vulgar Errors," wherein he makes several very interesting statements, although he argues from the opposite side. Fians, Fairies and Picts Among others, the scale of the Pigmies of Central Africa103 and that of the Mosquitos104 of Central America show this tendency. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development By all means, yes, or even further fare, And Afric's forest huge and poisonous Pigmies dare. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Giant and Pigmy Successes Think of "successful" men you know. Certain Success Curlew Sandpiper, or Pigmy Curlew as it is sometimes called, can only be considered a rare occasional visitant to the Channel Islands. Birds of Guernsey (1879) And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands Page 220 Stanley conducts the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition across Africa, and discovers the Pigmies, and the Mountains of the Moon. The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known In the Pigmy scale the words for 1 and 6 are so closely akin that one cannot resist the impression that 6 was to them a new 1, and was thus named. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development The continent of Africa yielded its share of Pigmies to the same writers. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients Pigmy blood is everywhere evident, but aside from this there is a well-marked brachycephalic and a dolichocephalic element. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Pigmy seraphs gone astray, Pink, small, and punctual, Pompless no life can pass away; Poor little heart! Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete He started to march through the Congo State, and succeeded in traversing a huge tract of forest country inhabited by diminutive savages, who probably represented Page 185 the Pigmies of the ancients. The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known The usual method, where combinations appear between 6 and 10, is exhibited by the Pigmy scale. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development In his account of the Akkas, Mr. Stanley believed that he had discovered the representatives of the Pigmies mentioned in this history. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians —who are Hogmies. The Devil's Dictionary But the small be as dwarfs, but not so little as be the Pigmies. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Our thoughts become like the mists that rise above this awful scene, and we are mute—Pigmies of an hour! By Water to the Columbian Exposition Fourth prize Red or Yellow Pigmy Pouter, hen. New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission The soul is supposed by various races to be a little man, an idea which at once links the manes of the departed with Pigmy people. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients These Pigmies are only three spans in height, yet they manufacture larger and better cloths of cotton and silk, than any other people. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 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 Be that as it may, the Pigmy had the better of the Colossus. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness These other people are called the Pigmies, which means they are very small. People of Africa Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language: "The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes," "The Barometer," and "A Bowling-green." Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 More within the Arabian bay than the Panchæans are the Pigmies, a minute race, which became exterminated in the wars which it was compelled to wage with the Cranes for the preservation of its fruits. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients It should believe, among other things, that It is a very precious Pigmy among natural forces, destined to be immortal, and to share with Divine Intelligence the privileges of Heaven. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance He looks like a colonel of the Pigmies horse, or one of these motions in a great antique clock; he would shew well upon a haberdasher's stall, at a corner shop, rarely. Every Man out of His Humour The Pigmy people are not so dark-skinned as the other races of Central Africa, and they are very small, not so high as an ordinary man's shoulder. People of Africa Our favourite piece is the Battle of the Cranes and Pigmies; for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humour which many years later enlivened thousands of breakfast tables. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 It is still more difficult to explain how similar legends can have originated in America in connection with mounds, since there never were Pigmy races in that continent. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients The normal and strictly reasonable attitude of the healthy human Pigmy is that It should accept as gospel all that It is told of a nature soothing and agreeable to Itself. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Pigmies rummaging the armory of a giant, and contending for the possession of weapons which they could not wield. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon The Pigmy man respects the chief whose village he settles in, but he does not fight for him or serve him as the other people do in his village. People of Africa Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions, the Pigmy to the fever-rotten jungles of Africa. A Collection of Stories Tales of little people are to be found in countries where there never were any Pigmy races. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients It was called "Priests and Pigmies," and she asked Barnum to read it. The Life of Phineas T. Barnum They are certainly, on the average, a people of less than middle stature, yet they can in no sense be described as Pigmies. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients If the Pigmies want fruit or anything the villagers have, they shoot an arrow into it. People of Africa This passage, as will be noted, incorporates the Homeric tale of the battles between the Pigmies and the Cranes, and is adorned with a representation of such an encounter. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients I have elsewhere expressed my obligations to M. De Quatrefage's book on Pigmies, obligations which will be at once recognised by those familiar with that monograph. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients The same Pigmies seem to be alluded to in the rubric of the Catalan map of the world in the National Library of Paris, the date of which is A.D. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients This is the place whereabouts the Pigmies dwell. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients The Baganda are among the cleverest Central Africans, and these Pigmies and the cannibal tribes are among the most ignorant. People of Africa At every period the geographers of this nation have placed their River of Pigmies much more to the south. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients The tradition of Eastern African Pigmies has never been lost by the Arabs. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients These little red and black Pigmy peoples do not have villages at all. People of Africa The Pigmy men wear a small strip of cloth, and the women wear a bunch of leaves for their clothes. People of Africa These Congo people have learnt very little, and some eat the flesh of men and women, and the little Pigmies do not even live in villages, but each family by itself. People of Africa Most people of Central Africa like to be clean, and when there is enough water they always wash and bathe, but the Pigmies hate water and are always very dirty. People of Africa In the first place, then, it seems clear, so far as our present knowledge teaches us, that there never was a really Pigmy race inhabiting the northern parts of Scotland. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients |
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