He turned to his mannikins as he said this, and in another moment every polecat was knocked on the head.
Then comes disease to man and beast, and whenever I think of it I regret that Canetto did not serve the wretched old hag as he did her polecats and adders, and direct his mannikins to cut her in pieces with their hunting-whips.
Nobody ever saw or heard of her again to my knowledge, but there is very little doubt that the sentence of the King of the Mannikins was duly carried out.
But the mannikins proved unsuitable to their purpose, and they turned them into animals.
Kodoyanpe had buried many of the wooden mannikins whom he had at first created, and they now sprang from their places and became the Indian race.
The mannikins who had ridden in front gave way when they approached the witches, falling back on either side so as to allow the carriage to pass between their ranks.
The mannikins who stood upon a portion of the inner walls of the castle exactly opposite to that outer wall upon which the cats had climbed to the assault, opened upon the latter a fire, so to speak, of a novel character.
Then the mannikins returned to their usual lives; their swords were put away, their angry feelings forgotten, and their time spent in singing, dancing, and merriment as heretofore.
They had the impudence to send a deputation of little witchlings to me, calmly asking me to overflow and put the castle and its grounds under water, so that it might become too damp for the mannikins to dwell in any longer.
The mannikins were astir early the next morning, putting everything to rights after the confusion of the night's adventures.
I am bound to say, however, that the mannikins never wished to interfere with or annoy the witches, and would have been well content to keep out of their way altogether if they could only have managed to do so.
The origin of the expression "a man of straw" may be traced to those mannikins or effigies representing the human figure, which are (or used to be) paraded in the streets during the Carnival in most continental countries.
A representation of two mannikins occurs among the Vanities; these mannikins were moved by threads, exactly like a modern toy.
That is to say, the mannikins have red jackets and caps, and they are rolling along so fast, with Peter in the midst of them, that you will find it quite impossible to overtake them.
The mannikins paused in their gambols, and one made a bow, whilst another skipped up the scarlet runner that had suddenly shot up out of the ground, and twined in and out in fantastic knots, and brought himself to a level with the butterfly.
Mannikins in red and blue, Will bring something good for you.
And then the Wind whispered very softly to her-- "Little maid, I told you true, Mannikins in red and blue Would bring something good for you If the painting well were done Ere the setting of the sun.
And one of the mannikinstumbled over it, and turned somersaults, and rolled it up to Paulina.
Of course he must," said two mannikins who suddenly appeared in sight, rolling and pushing along what seemed to Paulina to be the half of a large orange.
Somehow the butterfly and the mannikins had got into the book that Paulina was reading to Peter.
High and low, swift and slow, Over and over, heels over head, Peter and all the mannikins red.
Then out of a side door came about fifty mannikins carrying large cakes on silver dishes, which they set down on the long table, and having cut them up handed them round to the guests.
The little mannikins seized his hands and led him up the steps between them.
In a minute or two they returned, followed by about thirty mannikins like themselves, who bore a magnificent dress which they deposited before Peter.
The Parsnip-mannikins are only roots in the day-time, you know.
The first human beings were small wooden images like those in the Popol Vuh, but these mannikins were no more tractable than were those of Guatemala, and were at last changed into animals.
They next resolved to make man, and fashioned certain mannikins out of wood; but these failed to pay them reverence, and in great wrath the gods sent a mighty flood accompanied by a resinous rain upon them.
They carved mannikins out of wood, but these were intractable and disobedient, so the gods resolved to destroy them.
The Indians then sprang from the places where the mannikins of the first creation had been buried.
They sent a deluge upon the world, and the mannikins were drowned.
The count readily gave his consent, and on the following night there came, as if they were a travelling party, over the bridge into the house a great crowd of little people, exactly such as the Hill-mannikins are described to be.
On its broad back it bears, like a good-natured elephant, the tiny mannikins which tread the earth; and in its vast cool depths it has place for all mortal woes.
And while the mannikins strain their eyes over it, the sea sings its old song.
The earth mannikins then arranged themselves in order, swung their broad hats gracefully, and, one stepping upon the shoulder of another, built up a living pyramid above the bride.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mannikins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
