Pigmies
- plural of Pigmy.
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Page 220 Stanley conducts the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition across Africa, and discovers the Pigmies, and the Mountains of the Moon.
From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph
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 Shakespeare, William
Captayne? s'hart, and thou hast under thy charge any other then Pigmies I am a Gogmagog.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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 Johnson, Samuel
Pomponius Mela has also his account of African Pigmies.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
