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
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
A withered leprechaun set eyes into the head of a minikin hound.
From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
