Yes, Miss Rosie; I used to belong to their show before I came to master; and once I had a fever, and Mother Manikin nursed me all the time I had it, so I knew she would know what to do.
And then she suddenly turned shy, as she looked at the two young ladies, and led the way to the parlour, where Mother Manikin was sitting.
Mother Manikin shook her fist at him, saying-- 'Old age must have its liberties, and young things should not be so impatient.
About six o'clock there came a rap on the caravan door, and a woman in a long cloak appeared, asking if Mother Manikin were there.
All day long Rosalie sat by her mother's side, watching her tenderly and carefully, and trying to imitate Mother Manikin in the way she arranged her pillows and waited upon her.
It was a great comfort having little Mother Manikin there, she was so kind and considerate, so thoughtful and clever, and she always seemed to know exactly what was wanted, though Rosalie's mother was too weak to ask for anything.
Mother Manikin told me you said something about sheep, mammie.
Some men were already passing by to their work; so the woman wrapped Mother Manikin in a shawl, and carried her home like a baby, covering her with her cloak, so that no one should see who she was.
It was Mother Manikin I wanted; she knew all about my mother.
Mother Manikin did everything that had to be done.
Here, ma'am,' said the woman who had come for Mother Manikin that morning.
One was, to buy a present for Popsey, the little girl with the pitcher of milk; and the other was, to call on Mother Manikin to see if Betsey Ann had arrived.
She belonged to the Royal Show of Dwarfs, and she had come to take Mother Manikin home before the business of the market-place commenced.
They had already detached the manikin to make room for him.
He found himself chasing Serena Lamb around an enormous bass drum, as big as the Heidelberg tun, on the stretched skin of which the oaf, the manikin and the pantaloon were dancing a fandango.
Emily caught the impertinent stare of the manikin within just as she was turning to leave.
But the manikin took no account of the boy, merely cuffing him over the ears, and endeavoring to force a kiss upon Emily.
Weak and weary as he was, he drew off after a moment's survey, to get the import of the conversation, and sent the manikin spinning with a blow that brought blood drops from his nose.
A manikinfor a large snake, like an anaconda or python, is best made of excelsior, and its exact form secured by sewing through it with a needle.
When the manikin has been fully covered with clay from end of nose to tip of tail, not a single inch of surface having been missed, you then have a complete clay statue of the animal, except the feet.
Beginners nearly always make a manikin too large, especially in circumference.
An ostrich or emu requires a manikin constructed on the same principles as that built for the tiger, except that each leg-rod should have two iron squares instead of one.
During all this process the skin has been tried on the manikin from time to time, to make sure that the structure is of the right size in every respect.
Inasmuch as the legs of an ostrich or emu always require to be cut open and completely skinned, the manikin method is perfectly adapted to their wants.
When all is ready, cover each fingermanikin with clay, make the palm hollow and flat, and let the end of the iron rod come out in the centre of the palm.
I mounted his vast, expansive skin over a clay-covered manikin that had edges like a Damascus razor, and I made him flat.
The unchallenged superiority of the clay-covered manikin process is due to the following reasons: 1.
There must be no looseness, or the manikin will lean over immediately.
Is the manikin now so secure that you can sit upon it without racking it?
This is a manikin covered with a coat of mail and a shield, and set on a post.
The Queen was horror-struck, and offered the manikin all the riches of the kingdom if he would leave her the child.
When the girl was alone the manikin came again for the third time, and said, "What will you give me if I spin the straw for you this time also?
On the second day she had inquiries made in the neighborhood as to the names of the people there, and she repeated to the manikin the most uncommon and curious.
Then the Queen began to weep and cry, so that the manikin pitied her.
But themanikin said, "No, something that is living is dearer to me than all the treasures in the world.
It was only by a great effort that he was able to deposit the manikin on the floor.
The movement brought a bellow of rage, and the manikin saw two enormous hands converging on him in a sweep that bade fair to crush every bone in his dwarfed body.
Silently, the manikin clasped the nearest table leg, shinnied up and hauled himself over the top.
Ripples like ordinary waves washed up the struggling manikin and left him gasping as he stood braced in the cold water and tugged one log after another out and wound the rope under and over it.
Dimly the manikin glimpsed the chamber's walls sinking down, the wreckage-strewn room outside diminishing to normal size.
For the time being, they are useful conceptions, similar to the manikin Ampere who swims in the stream of the electric current.
Now since every ¹/₁₂ inch on the paper is equal to 1 inch for a man 6 feet tall your manikin will be 6 inches high when it is jointed and complete.
To get the right proportions rule a sheet of paper a couple of inches wide and about 8 inches long so that the divisions will be ¹/₁₂ inch square and draw on this the different parts of the manikin as shown at B in Fig.
The fact was that Emanuel Prockter and the manikin airs of Emanuel Prockter made him positively sick.
And he disappeared through the double doors that led to the drawing-room, which doors were parted for him by a manikinwhose clothes seemed to be held together by new sixpences.
Perhaps he would not have plumped himself straight into the drawing-room had not the manikin clad in sixpences assumed that the drawing-room was his Mecca and thrown open the doors.
Why couldn't the manikin go away and take his silly exaggerated--and disturbing--sentimentalities with him?
But meantime obstetrics must be taught, and a manikin must be had.
A woman's fancy, doubtless; but her words came back upon my mind with a very odd sort of start as the manikin knits his brow and hisses at the English fleet.
Then while her face was hidden, the mist slowly cleared away, and a little gray manikin with a little sack upon his back came out of the shadows.
Tobie was standing in an ecstasy of admiration before a manikin in front of a draper's shop.
Balivan himself was filling the glasses with punch, and Dupétrain sat in front of the manikin dressed as a woman, which he seemed to be scrutinizing with care.
The tailor adapts the manikin as well as the clothes to his patron's wants.
Since his time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes.
Round went the wheel again to the old song, and the manikinonce more spun the heap into gold.
The manikin said: 'That is an easy thing for me to do, but a very dangerous thing for you, for if it is discovered, you will fare ill.
At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was.
But unseen by the king, the manikin was standing beside him when he said that, and heard all.
When the first cock crowed, the manikin carried her back to the royal palace, and laid her in her bed.
Then the manikin fell on them like lightning, darting this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his cudgel fell to earth, and did not venture to stir again.
When twelve o'clock had struck, the door sprang open, and the manikin carried in the princess.
Then the soldier pulled out his pipe and lighted it at the blue light, and as soon as a few wreaths of smoke had ascended, the manikin was there with a small cudgel in his hand, and said: 'What does my lord command?
He almost forgot about the Princess, but remembered, as an afterthought, and he told the Manikin that when the ship was done he would fly in it to the palace and marry the Princess.
As Simple neared the woods he met a Manikin who asked him for something to eat.
But each time the manikinshook his head haughtily and answered, "No!
Then the Manikin asked Simple where he was going, and Simple told him that he was going to build a flying ship.
The Queen was so happy about her child that she quite forgot the promise she had made to the manikin who had saved her life.
After one day the manikin came back to find out whether his name had been discovered.
So Simple and the Manikinsat down by the roadside and ate together.
It now occurred to him to make a manikin of a bird, using cork or wood, or wires for the purpose.
But his bird manikin only excited the laughter and ridicule of his friends.
But the manikin said: "No, a living creature is dearer to me than all the treasures in the world.
Illustration: The Simpleton Awakes & Sees the Flying Ship] The Simpleton thanked the manikinvery kindly, bade him farewell, and went into the road.
They greeted one another, and the manikin asked him where he was going.
The most popular plays in this volume are Lima Beans, and Manikin and Minikin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manikin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
