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
This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his of angling with a minikin, a gut- string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron
I and my Tom Thumb of a boat, and my minikin crew, I could well understand, though my hosts spoke in their mother tongue, were the subjects of their incessant and uncontrollable bursts of laughter.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
In a very small bag is deposited a little rolled up housewife, furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward
