The Orang," says he, "differs not only from the Pigmy of Tyson and from the Orang of Tulpius by its peculiar colour and its long toes, but also by its whole external form.
Against a wind-mill would'st thou try thy might, Against a giant[146] would a pigmy fight?
Against a windmill would you try your might, Against a castle would a pigmy fight?
The water-pigmy that felled the over-spreading oak-tree for Wainamoinen.
I like that," replied the pigmy in a scornful tone; "asking what this can mean, after having kept me shut up in that old leather satchel for over two thousand years!
I became in a moment a third pigmy upon my own table!
Here latterly he has entered journalism; and his journalism is what it might be expected to be: colossal to ear, but pigmy to the eye.
The sea, rolling direct from the shores of North America, has in fact eaten a chasm into the middle of a hill, and the giant, embayed and unobtrusive, stands in the rear of pigmy supporters.
A leaf on a bough at Stephen's elbow blotted out a whole hill in the contrasting district far away; a green bunch of nuts covered a complete upland there, and the great cliff itself was outvied by a pigmy crag in the bank hard by him.
After him had come Augustus, a pigmy by comparison, yet otherwise more depraved.
The long, slim legs closed in around him; like a pigmy guarded by the skeletons of giants he was led quickly away.
Bowing, he handed it to the leader of the pigmy throng, with the awed word: "Cabiri!
Standing by her chair, Reuben briefly recalled the sensation of living as a pigmy in a world of giants.
The strangely methodical skirmish came to an end with the prim grace of a minuet--but that was no dance, that shifting and interweaving of pigmy man-figures over there in the sunlight.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow--gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
A fiery soul, which, working out its way / Fretted the pigmy body to decay.
A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
They were a long line of shadow shapes whose footfall made no sound, and whose pigmy bodies melted into the tangle as impalpably as the dissipating mists.
Measured by their pigmy standards, I was a gigantic being of a new type and order, possibly I was even immortal.
But now at length the pigmy legions yield, And wing'd with terror fly the fatal field.
And now with lofty chiefs of ancient time The pigmyheroes roam'd th' Elysian clime.
Meanwhile they trim their plumes for length of flight, Whet their keen beaks and twisting claws for fight; Each crane thepigmy power in thought o'erturns, And every bosom for the battle burns.
The idea of this insipid pigmy leading an army to overthrow the king was as ridiculous as Don Quixote charging the windmills.
That disgusting pigmy of humanity, that silly idiot and false swearer shall not harm you.
The pigmy bull has no history of any particular interest.
It consists of four superb Angora sheep and a pigmy bull.
Save for the head they are more like pigmy Angora sheep than anything.
With a lightning movement he took aim, but the pigmy was too quick for him.
There is a race of dwarf pigeons of this type, called Pigmy Pouters.
But after all there is so much fun for boys and girls in growing any sort of pigmy chickens and such a good market for both eggs and pairs for pets that I wonder that more young people do not go into the business.
But the raising of pigmy fowls is not confined to the child's play of the chicken yard.
The wretched pigmy had been brought in to the city from his inaccessible retreat in the great forest; he was dazed and frightened at the white men and the things they did.
A fish could just as well live out of water as this pigmy in the white man's land.
The pigmy rabbit lives in burrows, mostly dug by itself, preferably where tall sagebrush grows densely.
Detection of the slightest movement of an enemy on the opposite side of the bush sends the pigmy rabbit, in one or a few jumps, into the mouth of its burrow and, if need be, below ground.
Still shorter of ear and hind leg is the pigmy rabbit which ventures outside its burrow to feed only among the tall and closely-spaced bushes of sagebrush among which its burrow is dug.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pigmy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
