- a variation of Pygmy.
Pigmy
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Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.
From Time Magazine Archive
By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first place, then, it seems clear, so far as our present knowledge teaches us, that there never was a really Pigmy race inhabiting the northern parts of Scotland.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
The usual method, where combinations appear between 6 and 10, is exhibited by the Pigmy scale.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard
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
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
I have elsewhere expressed my obligations to M. De Quatrefage's book on Pigmies, obligations which will be at once recognised by those familiar with that monograph.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
This is the place whereabouts the Pigmies dwell.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
These other people are called the Pigmies, which means they are very small.
From People of Africa by How, Edith A.
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