dwarfish
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Dwarfish in stature but broadly built, they are remarkable for the shortness of their legs.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Their Dwarfish Pages were As Cherubins, all gilt: the Madams too, Not vs'd to toyle, did almost sweat to beare The Pride vpon them, that their very labour Was to them, as a Painting.
From Henry VIII by Shakespeare, William
Dwarfish log cabins impudently nestled up to pretentious three-story hotels.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Dwarfish Lorenzino de Medici was the most solicitous among them.
From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch
Dwarfish Moon men passed viands and a sort of palm wine in the great banquet-room, which singularly resembled one of those early twentieth century interiors shown in museums.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry
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