Like dollhouse furnishings

Usage examples of miniature.

There were some packages of pre-fabricated explosives with amatol, primer and chemical detonator combined in one neat unit with a miniature timing device that ranged from five seconds to five minutes, complete with sucker clamps.

I have not patience to relate how many initial letters of antiphonaries and sixteenth-, seventeenth- and even eighteenth-century miniatures have been touched up or repainted and passed off as true and ancient representations of Jeanne.

From his right hand sprouted thin branches hung with miniature autumnal leaves.

Repeated collisions with those huge, unyielding limbs on the way down would have demolished her miniature airplane like a balsa model.

Blanche, entreating their mercy, immediately gave up the miniature, while another of the ruffians fiercely interrogated her, concerning what she had overheard of their conversation, when, her confusion and terror too plainly telling what her tongue feared to confess, the ruffians looked expressively upon one another, and two of them withdrew to a remote part of the room, as if to consult further.

A face suddenly extruded from the front, a Yuu-zhan Vong visage in miniature.

Each shell split in the air into hundreds of bomblets which in turn burst on the next thing they touched--rock, leaf, or the face of a Molt sighting down the barrel of his power gun The sea of miniature blasts created a mist of glass-fiber shrapnel devouring life in all its forms above the microscopic--but without significantly changing the piezoelectric al constant of the rock on which the autochthons homed.

I saw, upsidedown, the two little creatures to whom I had entrusted my fate, children of eight or ten years of age at the most, who, with little monkeyish faces, had, however, fully developed muscles, like miniature men, and were already as skilful as regular old salts.

What if I said I could change all that What if I said that I had a miniature shotgun that blasts gene fragments into the cells of living organisms, altering their genetic matrices so that a monozygotic replicant would no longer be a monozygotic replicant and she could then make love to a muscleman without transgressing the incest taboo, I say, opening my shirt and exposing the device which I had stuck in the waistband of my black jeans.

He glanced at the miniature Moties, who were moving about on the big table originally used for spatball.

She was puffing when she reached the lounge,where the miniature Moties were still in flagrante delicto.

Be it admitted: Whitbread was expecting to find two miniature Moties engaged in sexual congress.

They crossed the overbridge, saying farewell to Chardin, who was too lost in his meditations of the stream to even notice, and soon discovered that the structure beside the miniature stable was an experimental farm.

There were hanging gardens, miniature forests, waterfalls, small game preserves, lakelets, parklets, and playgrounds.

Pinlighting consisted of the detonation of ultra-vivid miniature photonuclear bombs, which converted a few ounces of a magnesium isotope into pure visible radiance.