How To Use Dwarfish In A Sentence
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I photographed one group of trees to illustrate their dainty elfish dwarfishness, but realising that no one could guess the height without a scale, I took a second of the same with a small Indian sitting next it.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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You would frequently think, from the character of the surface, the dwarfish trees, and the bearberries around, that you were on the top of a mountain.
Cape Cod
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A dwarfish, funny-looking man dressed in a fine suit leaped down from the driver's seat, smiling like a child.
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And no reason is too absurd to serve as a prop for their own dwarfishness and mental attitude.
Mein Kampf
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No other explanation seems to have been offered by science for the extreme dwarfishness in stature of this curious race of people.
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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As in cyberfantasy, there are side trips and narrow escapes and dwarfish types with helpful tips, and if Time book critic Grossman weren't so smooth and dry, one might think about hitting esc.
Codex by Lev Grossman: Book summary
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In size, fairies were described as dwarfish, and certain deformities such as the absence of a nose would identify these beings.
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O! into what dwarfishness the morality, and the spiritual and elevated attainments of most Christians sink in the presence of such men!
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
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Kenzi is then approached by a muscular, dwarfish, middle aged-looking man calling himself only Gauntlet.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Eren’s Review Forum
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A small dwarfish creature, largely hidden by rag coverings with a protruding hook of a nose and sparkling yellow eyes emerged from the heavy undergrowth.
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Each floor had several components of live artistry — from a man in burlesque drag modeling for a few fidgety painters on art horses (floor 5) to a sword swallower swallowing swords next to a student spraying water on his lineup of dwarfish clay figures (floor 2).
In Tribeca Snowstorm, Parker Posey Makes Us Melt
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In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
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It follows that the dwarfishness was not wiped out, but that it was temporarily obscured in the second generation, though present all the time potentially.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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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
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He stamped twice upon mosaicked stones between two of the pillars, and a screen rolled aside, revealing an immense hall scattered about with low divans on which lolled a dozen or more of the dwarfish men, dressed identically as he.
The Moon Pool
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To the character which alone appears in the first cross is given the name dominant (in this instance tallness is dominant), and to the hidden character that of recessive (dwarfishness, in the example).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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That Palmeto grows with us, which we call the dwarfish sort; but the Palmeto-Tree I have not yet met withal in North-Carolina, of which you have a Description elsewhere.
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 T
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The intimidating old man stood to his full height, which was tall but nowhere close to Grady's two-meter form, and glowered down at the dwarfish Jerwon.
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These trees also differ in their manner of growth: "the greengage is a very short-jointed, slow-growing tree, of spreading and rather dwarfish habit;" whilst its offspring, the imperial gage, "grows freely and rises rapidly, and has long dark shoots.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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Outside faint dwarfish footprints led away on the crushed stone surface of the street.
Masdy's Silver
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Lake we had boiled the Indian tea plant, _ledum palustre_, which produced a beverage in smell much resembling rhubarb; notwithstanding which we found it refreshing, and were gratified to see this plant flourishing abundantly on the sea-shore, though of dwarfish growth.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2
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Her dwarfish spouse still smoked his cigar and drank his rum without heeding her.
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You stuff the little rosy foot of a Chinese young lady of fashion into a slipper that is about the size of a salt-cruet, and keep the poor little toes there imprisoned and twisted up so long that the dwarfishness becomes irremediable.
The Book of Snobs
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If the cold of winter were to continue unmitigated from year to year, without the genial influence of summer, the human race, as is apparent in polar regions and upland mountainous districts, would degenerate into dwarfishness.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
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dwarfish", subsumed to their mode of transport, or scattered about - as are the backpackers outside Venice station in Vertigo - like corpses.
The Guardian World News
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Science explains this dwarfishness produced by great abstraction of heat; showing that, food and other things being equal, it unavoidably results.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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There can be few among today's absintheurs whose skills are on a par with this dwarfish playwright, author of Ubu Roi and creator of the monstrous stage figure Pere Ubu.
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one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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Thoughts of the dwarfish little thief brought a fresh ache to a throat sore and throbbing.
Earl of Durkness
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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