Buck is a common by-name for boys in the mountains, and it could not be guessed whether the old man used it as a diminutive of the surname, or whether he meant merely to nickname this favourite of his.

Though it was thus diminutive in size, Smith declared that he had seen, and shot at, some of the largest deer that ever roamed the forest.

The tongue found diminutives for her, the heart kept her in a perpetual youth.

But the chapel of the Black Virgin is diminutive as a boudoir, and yet retains the usual character of listening and awful stillness, the ordinary impression of local sanctity.

It was a tall horse, and he looked more diminutive than ever before, pitched so high in the saddle.

The name means "at the little willow woods," being a diminutive from huexatla, place of willows.

"Thanks, thanks, good Peterchen," said the Baron de Willading, for such was the familiar diminutive by which the bustling bailiff was usually addressed by those who could take the liberty; thanks, honest Peterchen; thy kindness to Gaetano is so much love shown to myself.

She was not by any means a small or frail girlrather the contrarybut she appeared diminutive beside her giant husband.

The gallant frigate, seen from the impending rocks, looked like a light merchantman, in all but her symmetry and warlike guise; nature being moulded on so grand a scale all along that coast, as to render objects of human art unusually diminutive to the eye.

It might have pleased fortune to let the Lilliputians find some nation, where the people were as diminutive with respect to them as they were to me.