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Example sentences for "liliputian"

Lexicographically close words:
lilangeni; lile; liliaceous; lilied; lilies; lill; lillies; lilo; lilt; lilted
  1. What clamor, what a liliputian Babel ensued!

  2. We now entered a sort of liliputian forest, not higher than the knee, but which must have presented an almost insuperable barrier to early explorers of the mountain.

  3. It was quite astonishing in its extent and variety, but so liliputian in the dimensions of the separate garments as to seem ridiculous to me.

  4. Hardly had the first Liliputian mounted upon the treasure, when a hundred blades flashed back a defiant answer to his, and a dozen men, sword in hand, leaped upon the yellow platform and drove him off at the sword's point.

  5. What I supposed to be my notion of St. Peter's looking like the enlargement of some liliputian edifice is also there, though I had forgotten it till I myself reread the pages.

  6. Gaetano was a consummate whip, and he carried his team down the descents and round the exciting turns at a thrilling pace, while the yards of whiplash cracked and detonated overhead like a liliputian thunder-storm.

  7. The whole was painted brilliant white, to match the liliputian cottage in which the Bull family contrived (I know not how) to ensconce itself.

  8. Nevertheless, by the simple expedient of making the interior divisions small enough, this liliputian edifice managed to contain eight rooms on its two floors (including the kitchen).

  9. Never before or after did our liliputian drawing-room harbor so large an assemblage.

  10. I once went into my cabin and found two Liliputian deer in my bed.

  11. The parents of this liliputian were anxious that I should engage and exhibit him.

  12. The captain kindly allowed the liliputian to glide through in advance of his steamer, however, when the gates were once more opened, and we felt, as we shot out, as though we had emerged from under the belly of a monster.

  13. There is a covered country toll-bridge here, and the industrial interest of the Liliputian community is quarrying.

  14. Close to him is a Liliputian chimney-sweeper, and a fellow blowing a cow's horn with force that gives a Boreas-like distension to his cheeks.

  15. The Liliputian engines, through which these tiny showers descend, are directed by a nobleman and two garretteers.

  16. From the "Liliputian Troupe," Peg graduated into the more lucrative and equally moral pursuit of theater orange vender.

  17. Her "Liliputian Troupe" scored a big success in Dublin and the provinces.

  18. Others are built in terraces a storey high and a few feet wide, with the name of the proprietor painted over the liliputian trap-door that serves for entrance hall.

  19. After the feast, which passed pleasantly and convivially, compliments being freely exchanged, and healths drunk in Liliputian cups of sake, the commissioners expressed great anxiety about the proposed visit of the Commodore to Yedo.

  20. I am not permitted to state how much exactly this hobby of Mr. Leigh's has cost him, but I am not betraying any confidence when I say that in one way and another a sum not far short of ten thousand pounds has been spent on his Liliputian line.

  21. Madame de Fleury with the air of a Liliputian belligerent.

  22. Lawler, the then pseudo Peter Pindar, and he wrote thereon: “Liliputian Navy!

  23. The mimic three-deckers and frigates were necessarily small, and they were made out of ships’ barges at Woolwich, and great was the chaff made about this “liliputian navy.

  24. It was through this liliputian suite, this strip of homeliness so artfully introduced into a palace, that Marie Antoinette fled on that fateful August morning when the mob of infuriated women invaded the Château.

  25. Need I say that the provision for ablutions was one basin and a liliputian ewer, and that there was not a fixed bath in the establishment?


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liliputian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.