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In Suetonius and Florus we already see the pioneers of a pigmy race; in Gellius, Fronto, and Apuleius, they are present in all their uncouth dwarfishness.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

Such homely memorials are distinguished in nearly every instance by dwarfishness and clumsiness.

From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by Vincent, W.T. (William Thomas)

It is in twenty-fours;272 but to contract the mighty book into this dwarfishness, all the original Hebrew text prefixed to the Psalms, explaining the occasion and the subject of their composition, is wholly expunged.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac