minikin
Example Sentences
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They are mounted each year with grand ingenuity and minikin budgets.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2010
No, she is borne on a whispering bejeweled wind of minikin glittering wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No great mystery; only——" "Only—some minikin mystery?" said Mr. Walsingham.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Maria Edgeworth
A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh
