Let us now turn our attention to some of thepigmies among the fresh-water snails.
All of the different groups of the mollusca have their giants and their pigmies and the fresh-water mollusks are no exception to the rule.
The whole prospect, as they drew nearer, became more and more suggestive of a raid of pigmies upon a dolls' house that has been left in a neglected corner of some great garden.
They know--it is time that we also knew--that you cannot have pigmies and giants in one world together.
This device appeared to be successful for a few seconds; but when the scraps of paper had disappeared or fallen to the ground the pigmies resumed their stealthy silent advance.
With an outward calmness that corresponded little to his inward sensations Smith lit a cigarette, racking his wits for some means of keeping the pigmies at a distance without provoking a cloud of arrows or a dash in force.
They were pigmies in size, yellowish-brown in color, hollow-backed, and with skins so loose that in times of famine their bodies were covered with wrinkles and flaps.
Some writers trace a resemblance between this Mohammedan legend and the story of the "Pigmies and the Cranes.
The lecture tour closed stormily in a pitched battle with American critics who had thrown doubt on his records of the Patagonian pigmies and the Andine temples.
In his Harmas he is like a stranger discovering an unknown world; "like a kindly giant from Sirius, holding a magnifying glass to his eye, retaining his breath, lest it should overturn and sweep away the pigmies which he is observing.
These pigmies therefore have a memory, an experience of facts" (and how one is tempted to add, a glimmering of intelligence!
The last thing she saw, as the launch shot up the bay towards San Pablo, was a wave of fire roll down Telegraph Hill, and hundreds of black pigmies fleeing before it.
You are a refreshing young woman, and some day I expect to see you stretch out your arm with imperial dignity and clear off all the pigmies from the face of the earth with a 'Go away, small people!
All the pigmies in this picture are crowned with laurel, as though the painter intended to turn to ridicule some over-pompous triumph, or some public, perhaps religious, ceremony.
Among the subjects of burlesque which the monuments of Roman art presented to them, the stumpy figures of the pigmies appear to have gained special favour, and they are employed in a manner which reminds us of the pictures found in Pompeii.
The pigmies are introduced in these borders very freely, and are grouped with great spirit.
I was thinking," said Mark, "that if these traders came right up here and dealt with the pigmies we should have heard about it.
It pleases you and it doesn't hurt me; but all the same if we do come back this way I mean to stop when we get to our old camp, and then give the pigmies a call.
The little party of pigmies stared at him blankly, and then at each other.
Here and there a few modern elms and pines have been planted in the Chapultepec grove; and though they are of respectable or average size, they look like pigmies beside these gigantic trees.
The mounds of our Western and Southwestern States are almost the counterpart of this grand elevation at Cholula, so far as the idea goes, except that they are mere pigmies in comparison.
If the reader can accept the possible existence of pigmies and giants, his credulity is put to no further strain.
Then there were some nuts like horse-chestnuts which we found the pigmiespartial to, but we cannot speak very highly of them.
The Wahuma] The Wahuma are the most interesting people, next to the Pigmies in all Central Africa.
The pigmies taught us the art, and it may be well conceived that they have had often need of it to support life during their forest wanderings.
And thus the Pigmies showed by their conduct that they were related to all that was best and noble in human nature.
According to him the great Egyptian river takes its rise at the southern extremity of Africa, where the pigmies live.
The forest would soon be denuded of game if the pigmies confined themselves to the few square miles around a clearing; they are therefore compelled to move, as soon as it becomes scarce, to other settlements.
For small and often inadequate returns of fur and meat, they must allow the pigmies free access to their plantains, groves, and gardens.
When arrows are arrayed against arrows, poison against poison, and craft against craft, probably the party assisted by the pigmies would prevail.
Kollmann, of Basle, has described a group of Neolithic pigmies as having existed at Schaffhausen.
There is an Iroquois tale of dwarfs, in which the summons to the Pigmies was given by knocking upon a large stone.
It seems difficult to me not to associate them with the Pigmies of Pomponius Mela.
In his account of the Akkas, Mr. Stanley believed that he had discovered the representatives of the Pigmies mentioned in this history.
At every period the geographers of this nation have placed their River of Pigmies much more to the south.
The samePigmies seem to be alluded to in the rubric of the Catalan map of the world in the National Library of Paris, the date of which is A.
The continent of Africa yielded its share of Pigmies to the same writers.
The French writer whom I have so often cited says, "The tradition of Eastern African Pigmies has never been lost by the Arabs.
This passage, as will be noted, incorporates the Homeric tale of the battles between the Pigmies and the Cranes, and is adorned with a representation of such an encounter.
The Akoas of the Gaboon district were a race of pigmies who, now apparently extinct, formerly dwelt on the north of the Nazareth River.
Vossius as to the trade driven by the Pigmies in elephants' tusks, since, as we have seen, this corresponds with what we now know as to the habits of the Akkas.
The people felt it, and the army and navy; the political pigmies about the throne felt it, as well as the king.
England had found her man but the pigmies in power shrank from acknowledging him.
This is the worst of all thy trials, for thou canst not defend thyself; and, in thy helplessness, fools and pigmies cut capers over thy grave.
What is their city to the magnificent city of old, among whose ruins they walk like pigmies amid the relics of giants?
Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps; / And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
The Pigmieshad not the same glamour of romance about them that was associated with the dwellers in elf-land.
The apples of Istkahar were all sweetness on one side, all bitterness on the other; while Sir John Mandeville tells us that the pigmies were fed with the odour alone of the apples of Pyban.
The former were a race in Scythia, and were legendarily supposed to be in constant war with the gryphons, as elsewhere we find recorded the continuous hostilities between the pigmies and the cranes.
Even the home of the pigmieswas a point quite open to dispute.
The advance guard scanning the track, and fully lessoned in all the crooked ways and wiles of the pigmies and aborigines, picked up many a cleverly-hidden skewer from the path.
Ten scouts patrol the plantations every morning, that the mischievous pigmiesmay not destroy the supplies of the garrison, and that no sudden onsets of natives may be made upon the field hands while at work.
Good varieties are the Major, Greenriver, Niblack, Indiana, Busseron and Posey.
Recently I have had a good many people come down to my place to look at the small orchard I have there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pigmies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
