Says he: "I may tell you moreover that when people bring over pygmies which they allege to come from India, 'tis all a lie and a cheat.
Pygmaeogeranomachia, a poem on the battle between the Pygmies and the Cranes, 26.
But to bring the history of pygmies down to modern times--I quote from "Giants and Dwarfs," by E.
Olaus Magnus not only reproduces the classical story, but tells of the Pygmies of Greenland--the modern Esquimaux.
Homer also wrote a poem, "Pygmaeogeranomachia," about the Pygmies and Cranes.
Even the first war against Vestoia, in the third year of Spearman's deification, was part of a transitional phase, although Spearman did not feel that his pygmies were advanced enough to be troubled with fine distinctions.
The pygmies were still some distance away, slipping along the edge of the woods in plain sight.
Freedom to kill the pygmies and be hunted by them, never an end to it--that's your freedom without the laws, without the words.
And the pygmies were choosing, not as she or the witches had hoped--choosing headlong retreat from this sacrilege, dissolving away into the forest with sick-eyed backward looks.
Frontal attack first, because the pygmies couldn't be led into anything else.
The scout had shown the kind of nerve the pygmies took for granted: she had crossed the creek to listen in the reeds and had drifted downstream the entire length of the encampment.
Remaining uneasily close to Wright, as he did whenever the pygmies appeared, Mijok had said carefully, "Telephone?
The pygmies gained the trees; the omasha scouted the edge of the woods, squawking, three of them drifting toward the lifeboat, weaving heads surveying the ground.
Spearman wondered: "Will thepygmies have a season too?
Meanwhile the strengthened crowd of pygmies worked on till the sand was redder than the sky and there was no more to be done.
Vengeance, divine or human, was a thing the pygmies had understood from the first biting and scratching of infancy.
Any attempt to reconcile thepygmies of the classic writers with actual dwarfs of flesh and blood is outside my province.
There is little doubt that the original inhabitants of the continent were dwarf people, ancestors of the pygmies of the high Ituri forest, and the Batua of the upper Kasai.
Practically the whole of the Congo population are Bantu—there being almost no true negroes and but few pygmies in the area.
To-day the pygmies are mere fragments, scattered and separated, but retaining with tenacity their ancient life.
Negrillo Group: Differences of the Pygmies and the Bushmen--/VI/.
Now that the gigantic defender of the Pygmies no longer blocked his way, Hercules traveled onward in search of Atlas, whom he finally found supporting the heavens on his broad shoulders.
To guard against these constant inroads, the Pygmies finally accepted the services of Antaeus, a giant son of Gaea, who generously offered to defend them against all their enemies.
They then pack them in wooden boxes and sell them to traders, by whom they are vended for pygmies in all parts of the world.
But there are no such things as pygmies in India or anywhere else.
LIV The Pygmies were a nation of dwarfs, so called from a Greek word meaning the cubit or measure of about thirteen inches, which was said to be the height of these people.
By using scientific methods, I can absolutely refute the ideas of those who say that Oklahoma doesn't matter, or that the Pygmies might as well be exterminated.
I'm doing it in a scientific way so that I can absolutely refute the idea of those who say that Oklahoma doesn't matter, or that the Pygmies might as well be exterminated.
So the Pygmies resolved to set aside all foolish punctilios, and assail their antagonist at once.
The poor little Pygmies (who really never dreamed that anybody in the world was half so strong as their brother Antaeus) were a good deal dismayed at this.
Indeed, it has always seemed to me that the Giant needed the little people more than the Pygmies needed the Giant.
Still the stranger drew nearer; and now the Pygmies could plainly discern that if his stature were less lofty than the Giant's, yet his shoulders were even broader.
Some writers say, that Hercules gathered up the whole race of Pygmies in his lion's skin, and carried them home to Greece, for the children of King Eurystheus to play with.
The Pygmies had but one thing to trouble them in the world.
And, on their parts, the Pygmies loved Antaeus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold.
In those histories, perhaps, it stands recorded, that, a great many centuries ago, the valiant Pygmiesavenged the death of the Giant Antaeus by scaring away the mighty Hercules.
By this time, the whole nation of Pygmies had seen the new wonder, and a million of them set up a shout, all together; so that it really made quite an audible squeak.
In fact, if the Giant had been no bigger than the Pygmies (who stood pricking up their ears, and looking and listening to what was going forward), the stranger could not have been less afraid of him.
In short, as I said before, Antaeus loved the Pygmies, and the Pygmies loved Antaeus.
Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
This may also be a convenient place for mentioning the common decorative subject of Pygmies fighting with cranes.
The cave had another great advantage,--that of being surrounded on all sides by a wide belt of desert, so the pygmies were not at all likely to be disturbed by inconvenient callers.
Thus, the pygmies might have crept right up to the wagon without being noticed, and discharged their deadly shafts from within point-blank range, settling the business with one noiseless volley.
Aristotle did not believe that the accounts of the Pygmies were altogether fabulous, but thought that they were a tribe in Upper Egypt, who had exceedingly small horses, and lived in caves.
And if the moderns have confined the term of Ethiopians to those only who dwell near to Egypt, and have also restricted the Pygmies in like manner, this must not be allowed to interfere with the meaning of the ancients.
Later writers tell of an army of Pygmies which, finding Hercules asleep after his defeat of Antaeus, made preparations to attack him, as if they were about to attack a city.
Pygmies=: James Beattie, Battle of the Pygmiesand the Cranes.
These Sylphs, commonly described as little spirits like pygmies in form, correspond to most of the fairies who are not of the Tuatha De Danann or 'gentry' type, and who as a race are beautiful and graceful.
Ancient and thoroughly reliable manuscript records testify to the existence of pygmies in China during the twenty-third century B.
Yet, are they any more wonderful than the pygmies of classic tradition?
Similarly in Hindu mythology pygmies hold an important place, being sculptured on most temples in company with the gods; e.
When the Celtic nations appeared, these pygmies were driven into mountain fastnesses and into the most inaccessible places, where a few of them may have survived until comparatively historical times.
Pygmies arepygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
He selects pygmies for his cabinet and for his aides in order that they may proffer him no advice, resent no contradiction or protest indignities to their offices.
If he and hispygmies accomplished this, I am one who maintains they are myrmidons and giants.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pygmies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
