A somewhat similar experiment was concerned with a magazine editor and a life-size mannikinmade up to resemble a muckraker.
This," pointing to a little mannikin about four inches high, "is the man of straw whose defeat in debate gave one of our United States Senators his brilliant reputation.
The telepathy hypothesis was eliminated because, in the first place, the mannikin had no mind, of course, and in the second place, the editor changed his own mind so fast that no external mind could possibly keep up with it.
Cooper pointed to a sturdy little mannikin in boots and a Russian blouse, who, with mouth fearfully distended, was endeavouring to swallow an iron bar four or five times his own size.
Here, as we shall see, the Mannikin breaks free from his glass retort and is poured out like phosphorescent light on the waves of the great ocean.
Prince Mannikin was quite of the same opinion; nevertheless he said what we should all have said in the same circumstances: 'Your Majesty must have patience.
Prince Mannikin rushed down eagerly to examine it, and saw with amazement that the masts and spars were all branched, and covered thickly with leaves until it looked like a little wood.
At last they drove rapidly into a large town, which Prince Mannikin had no doubt was the capital of the kingdom.
Tomorrow I am to fight this ugly, overgrown Prince, and I beg you to honour the combat with your presence, and prove to the world that there is nothing in a name, and that you deign to accept Mannikin as your knight.
One of the Fairies immediately despatched her chariot for the Queen of the Spice Islands, and their wedding took place at the same time as that of Prince Mannikin and the lovely and gracious Sabella.
The King and Prince parted with much regret, and the former insisted that Mannikin should take with him one of his own pages, named Mousta, who was charged to attend to him everywhere, and serve him faithfully, which he promised to do.
But when Mannikin perceived his intention, he begged permission to speak first, and told his whole story, even to the fact that he believed himself to be a peasant's son.
As she was thus expressing her feelings, the wall suddenly opened, and a little mannikin stood before the terrified Hanka, with a red cap on his head and an apron girt round his waist; before him he pushed a little golden hand-cart.
And when at last a strip is cut off and weighed, the mannikin finds it a marvel, sure, that ever it could weigh so much!
Towards evening I meet the mannikin once more, driving home again after his venture into the world.
Slowly and cautiously the heavy fist draws forth the coins, one skilling after another; both parties count the money over again and again, then the mannikin closes his purse with an anxious movement; that is all he has!
A French soldier had crept in and raised the stiff arm of the mannikin to the salute, pushed back the hat to a rakish angle.
The mannikin seemed alive and more than alive, the embodiment of the spirit of the place.
The little mannikin immediately began to stamp about and scold the lad roundly for letting the box down so violently.
At these words the mannikin suddenly shot up into a terribly tall demon, whereupon the Knifegrinder's courage disappeared, and, falling on his knees, he begged for mercy.
Dame Stokes was just commencing a loud howl at the news of her impending fate, when a gaily attired young mannikin stepped before the fairy, and, making a low obeisance, craved leave to speak, which was at once graciously accorded.
Noble master," said he, "if a poor mannikin may put in a word, is this sentence one which requires any transformation at all?
All this time not a mannikin had shown himself, and no visible sign, other than the obstacles which I have mentioned, had been given that the castle was defended by any one.
Wolfframb heard the mannikin making a low whimpering and sobbing.
At this instant the little mannikin who had been writing tumbled down from his stool, and, as he fell hard on to the floor, he gave a little delicate cry of pain.
Now Peter quickly put his hand into his pocket to feel whether the glass-mannikin had been true to his word, and lo!
It appeared to him enough to know part of the verse, and to be born on a Sunday, for the glass-mannikin to show himself.
On passing the spot where the glass-mannikin had first spoken to him, he felt as if an invisible hand were stopping him, but he tore himself away and ran onwards till he came to the boundary which he had well marked.
The relatives pass the rice mannikin around, each one taking a bite or two out of it.
He came quickly forward, glancing at the denuded mannikin in the absurd pose of gesticulation into which they had put it.
It was torn from the mannikin upon a projecting piece of tin and hung from the gutter outside.
He had taken the clothing from the mannikin and put the lay figure out in the darkness on the ledge outside the north window.
Before starting I rigged up a kind ofmannikin with old coats and a cushion--something to cast a shadow on the blind.
Mannikin was struck with pity for their miserable plight, and set to work with might and main to release them.
Illustration] Prince Mannikin bounded forward, and had just strength left to grasp the precious diamond which contained all he coveted in the world before he fell insensible upon the snowy cushion.
In order to carry out her plans for his welfare the Fairy now began to send Prince Mannikin the most wonderful dreams of adventure by sea and land, and of these adventures he himself was always the hero.
This was accordingly done, and Prince Mannikin heard that already five hundred Princes had perished in the snow and ice, not to mention their squires and pages, and that more continued to arrive daily, eager to try their fortune.
In short they became firm friends, and the King proudly displayed to Mannikin the portrait of the Queen of the Spice Islands, and he quite agreed that it was worth while to go through anything for the sake of a creature so lovely.
And the mannikin laughed with a shrill, piercing sound.
After Johannes had been gazing a long time into this wonderful world of shadows, he saw the form of a mannikinclose by the window, half hidden by a large ivy leaf.
The mannikin nodded very seriously a couple of times, and raised a tiny forefinger.
Illustration: {The Son made a circle, and his Father and he took their places within it, and the little black Mannikin appeared.
To turn his thoughts from his misfortune, he went out into this field, and as he was walking up and down a little black Mannikin suddenly appeared before him, and asked why he was so sad.
He never thought of his boy, but said Yes, and gave the Mannikin his bond signed and sealed, and went home.
The Mannikin said, 'My business is with your father, and not with you.
Now it so happened that as he was passing a thicket, that a little Mannikin came out and cried: 'Whither away, my merry fellow?
When the little black Mannikin appeared, he said to the father, 'Have you brought what you promised me?
The mannikin shrieked to the warrior for help, affirming that the monster was about to eat him alive.
Stooping from his horse, he caught up the mannikin and placed him in front of him.
While the heroes were thus talking together, a tiny little mannikin dressed in full armour suddenly stood before them.
It was a little mannikin with a beard big enough for a full-grown man, his clothes drenched with the rain, and slung over his shoulder a tiny bundle tied in a handkerchief, which yet seemed to bow him down with its weight.
He bid him remember what a little, wee mannikin he was; that his was not the right tone in which he ought to talk to princes.
And the Miserable saw before his eyes the little mannikin coming out of the stones of the wall, who said to him, grinning: "Heart on heart gives strength and beauty.
And upon the other side of the blade the mannikin read further: Whoso thou art shalt do this thing, Writing read and song sing: Seek well, hark and go; No man shall lay thee low.
Still wearing her shroud she approached and fell at the feet of the mannikin Prince of the Stones.
And the stony cheek of the little mannikin was alongside his own, and his two eyes lit up the hole better than lanterns would have done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mannikin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
