pigmy

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Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their hope was that they could hew him down to their own pigmy size, but he died while still towering over them, loved by millions, and respected by multitudes .

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

This little personage was one of the most famous and agreeable of the pigmy race to which he belonged.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous