pigmy

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Butte looked at Clark's youngest son, now in his early 50's, saw the same crested dome, pigmy stature, ruddy face.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Permission to kill or capture gorillas, pigmy hippopotamuses, white rhinoceroses, small-tusked elephants will be almost unobtainable.

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As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese.

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The fire of his genius, the never-ceasing, burning desire to embody the immortal inspirations which floated so richly in his brain, had "fretted the pigmy body to decay."

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various