minim
Example Sentences
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What they meant was that Meredith Willson, 63, was a missed minim who didn't belong on the council.
From Time Magazine Archive
At such an hour as this Malone wasted no minim of strength in futile anger.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above, below, on every side, Their little minim forms arrayed In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride!
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
The cheques he received varied greatly in amount,—from handsome remittances of a hundred pounds or so, down to minim gifts which made the young man feel uncomfortable when he received them.
From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George
Nay, and I wonder less at God's respect For man, a minim jot in time and space, Than at the soaring faith of His elect, That gift of gifts, the comfort of His grace.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
