Pigmy
noun
Pigmies
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pluralof Pigmy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Some writers trace a resemblance between this Mohammedan legend and the story of the "Pigmies and the Cranes."
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
Belonging to the same century is the chapter "Of Pigmies" in Sir Thomas Browne's "Vulgar Errors," wherein he makes several very interesting statements, although he argues from the opposite side.
From Fians, Fairies and Picts by David MacRitchie
Place sinnes with Gold, and the strong Lance of Iustice, hurtlesse breakes: Arme it in ragges, a Pigmies straw do's pierce it.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare
Our favourite piece is the Battle of the Cranes and Pigmies; for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humour which many years later enlivened thousands of breakfast tables.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language: "The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes," "The Barometer," and "A Bowling-green."
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
