144 examples of pigmies in sentences

" We set to work then in the roaring, steaming valley with the vapour swirling about us, sometimes concealing us, sometimes half revealing us gigantic, again in the utterness of exposure showing us dwindled pigmies against the magnitudes about us.

The northern Iduna kept guarded the sacred apples which, by a touch, restored the aged gods to youth; and according to Sir J. Maundeville, the apples of Pyban fed the pigmies with their smell only.

104):'He might still be a giant among the pigmies, the one-eyed monarch of the blind.'

There I shall hope to see your lordship outstrip your contemporaries, and tower above the pigmies of the day.

Your Self, high-seated charioteer, Master of cowardice and fear, Your Self that sees the shining length Of all the fearful road ahead, Knows that the terrors that you dread Are pigmies to your splendid strength; Strength you have never even guessed, Strength that has never needed rest.

People perceived, it is true, that the clothes that were made for giants, were too wide for you pigmies; they hung round your figures like collapsed balloons; but you, cunning that you were, you said, "We have been wasted by persecution."

You perceived that Mr. Oxford's club was a monument, a relic of the days when there were giants on earth, that it had come down unimpaired to a race of pigmies, who were making the best of it.

Of this last kind I am afraid is that in the First Book, where speaking of the Pigmies, he calls them, The small Infantry Warrdon by Cranes

For, leaving out of view the pigmies of the former place, whose like we know is never found in Congress, what is there in that Australian bird with the voice of a jackass to excite the feeblest interest in the mind of a man who has listened to the debates on Kansas? or what marvel is an amphibian with the bill of a duck to him who has gazed aghast at the intricate anatomy of the bill of English?

So shall Russia be made a power before which all other European powers shall be pigmies.

The great wrong is enslaving a man; all other wrongs are pigmies, compared with that.

The shape of the animal, their curious motions, and their most extraordinary voices, made me fancy myself in a kingdom of pigmies.

I have "bostoned" with the best At a ball in Bukharest, I've reversed with Congo pigmies, dark and hairy; I have one-stepped in Sing-Sing And performed the Highland Fling, I have razzled in the reel at Inveraray.

" "It is a sure mark of a certain obliquity, to take pleasure in caricatures and monstrous faces, and pigmies.

Its friends had increased in number, and so marked was the inferiority of their opponents in talents and influence, at this time, that the contest was known as "The War of the Pigmies against the Giants."

But the pigmies, being numerous, gained the vote, and it only remained for the giants to return with renewed vigor to the contest in the following year.

Contrasting her proportions with the numerous yachts around her, we might compare her commanding appearance to that of some mountain giant, seated on a precipice, and watching the trial for mastery amongst a crowd of pigmies below.

with royal blood in her veins! met,frequently met,the hypertrophied offspring of a common professor of chemistry, a creature of no rank, no position, no wealth, and talked to him as though there were no Kings and Princes, no order, no reverencenothing but Giants and Pigmies in the world, talked to him and, it was only too certain, held him as her lover.

They knowit is time that we also knewthat you cannot have pigmies and giants in one world together.

O! gentle Cambridge! sadly say, Why fates are so unkind To snatch thy giant sons away, Whilst pigmies stay behind? 6.

Of this last kind I am afraid is that in the First Book, where speaking of the Pigmies, he calls them, The small Infantry Warrdon by Cranes

BLEFUSCU, an island separated from Lilliput by a strait 800 yards wide, inhabited by pigmies; understood to represent France.

GULLIVER, the hero of Swift's satirical romance entitled "Gulliver's Travels," which records his adventures among the pigmies of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the quacks of Laputa, and the HOUYHNHNMS (q. v.).

The trees followed the tortuous course of the cañon, and two men that we saw far below us looked like pigmies.

"Your ancestors were pigmies.

144 examples of  pigmies  in sentences