pigmy

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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.

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Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

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Like some pigmy umpire nervously staging a handshake between quarrelsome giants, small Norway last week brought Imperial Britain and Communist Russia into their first diplomatic contact in more than two years.

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Yet on Madagascar, the extinction of giant lemurs and pigmy hippopotamuses did not occur until within the past 1,000 years.

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Producing an unexpected box of pastels, the Boy began to make a rapid sketch of the pigmy harbour with its blue water and the half circle of houses that outlined its rocky coast.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart