47 collocations for dwarf

"His works," said Carlyle, "and the memory of what he was, will arise afar off, like a towering landmark in the solitude of the past, when distance shall have dwarfed into invisibility many lesser people that once encompassed him, and hid them forever from the near beholder.

And the glass answered "Thou, Queen, thou are fairest in all this land; But over the Hills, in the greenwood shade, Where the seven dwarfs their dwelling have made, There Snow-White is hiding; and she Is lovelier far, O Queen, than thee.

Above all, in the far distance towered the Jama Masjid, or Great Mosque, its three huge domes of pure white marble, with two high minarets, dwarfing into insignificance the buildings by which it was surroundedsurely, the noblest work of art ever built by man for the service of the Creator.

The sound case against the legal profession in Anglo-Saxon countries is not that it is unnecessary, but that it is almost incredibly antiquated, almost incredibly careless of the public well-being, and that it corrupts or dwarfs all the men who enter it.

No better rule could have been devised for dwarfing poetic power and for making poetry artificial.

Whether this noxious power will be exercised, depends on whether mankind have by that time become aware that it cannot be exercised without stunting and dwarfing human nature.

As all muscular action depends on the integrity of the nervous system, whatever lays its deadening hand upon that, saps the vigor and growth of the entire frame, dwarfs the body, and retards mental development.

After breakfast, the artist received another lesson in packing, and they moved on toward the world that already seemed to dwarf that other world which they had left, by one day's walking, so far below.

There sprang up in conquered southern Britain, when its name had been significantly changed to England, that branch of the Germanic stock which was in the end to grasp almost literally world-wide power, and by its overshadowing growth to dwarf into comparative insignificance all its kindred folk.

The argument of these unreasoning mothers is that of the Chinese, who dwarf their children's feet by beginning at an early period, and, doubtless, if these youths were similarly questioned, they, too, would complain of no inconvenience.

Often, too, he would conduct games at night, and sometimes he would pit dwarfs [Footnote: Reading [Greek: nanous] (Dindorf)] and women against each other.

Moreover, the white-flowered Douglas spiraea and dwarf evergreen oak form graceful fringes along the narrower seams, wherever the slightest hold can be effected.

In orchards standards should be from 20 to 25 ft. apart; dwarfs 12 ft. to 1 rod.

She suddenly rose to her full majestic height, dwarfing the girl before her with conscious triumph.

With coldness they have no sympathy, yet coldness may be broad and large and lofty in its aspects; but they have no tolerance for what makes religion little and poor and superficial, for what contracts its horizon and dwarfs its infinite greatness and vulgarises its mystery.

These dwarfed the fast-gathering group that stood peering up at them, like pygmies under the pinions of the fabled roc in Sinbad the Sailor's story.

Spenser's benefactor was sufficiently wise not to give the student enough to dwarf the growth of self-reliance.

Behind the low red roofs tower the churches of St. Walburga and St. Nicholas, dwarfing the houses which nestle at their base.

The great height of the surrounding walls dwarfs your idea of distance.

Exactly how many thousands of feet there were Angela refused to be told, for the distance seemed illimitable, and cold facts might dwarf imagination.

It should not be forgotten, too, that the gigantic upheaval which changed the fundamental condition of life overnight and threatened the very existence of nations naturally dwarfed the individual into nothingness, and the existing interest in the common welfare left practically no room for personal considerations.

Beyond this wide area of curved lines rose another wall, dwarfing the lower; dark red, horizon-long, magnificent in frowning boldness, and because of its limitless deceiving surfaces incomprehensible to the gaze of man.

The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession of its long generations.

It dwarfs the mind, I think,said I,to feed it on any localism.

Nature's slightest effort dwarfs man's mightiest achievements.

47 collocations for  dwarf