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Usage examples of diminutive.

Lady Dulce was small, dainty, diminutive, tiny, miniature, animalcular, microscopic, sub-molecular .

She would be swinging in the midst of them, with one tiny black maiden on the seat beside her, and one little black man with high stomach and shaven poll holding on to the rope behind her, and another mighty Moor in a diminutive white jellab pushing at their feet in front, and all laughing together, or the children singing as the swing rose, and she herself listening with head aslant and all her fair hair rip-rip-rippling down her back and over her neck, and her smiling white face resting on her shoulder.

The bowers and boskages stretched behind them, the artificial lakes and cockneyfied landscapes, making all the region bright with the sense of air and space, and raw natural tints, and vegetation too diminutive to overshadow.

Picture Caption: Diminutive Bunkie learned to improve upon his stature by standing up on his hind legs.

It is a Cruciferous plant, made familiar by the diminutive pouches, or flattened pods at the end of its branching stems.

THE elegant Julia sat in her chamber, with her slaves around her--like the cubiculum which adjoined it, the room was small, but much larger than the usual apartments appropriated to sleep, which were so diminutive, that few who have not seen the bed-chambers, even in the gayest mansions, can form any notion of the petty pigeon-holes in which the citizens of Pompeii evidently thought it desirable to pass the night.

The diminutive ecca, or small horse, became a rough-coated and sturdy little pony in the Kro-lu country.

The woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the pubes.

This bull stood six-foot-four at the shoulders, and I thought the gaur was a sort of diminutive goat.

The diminutive florets on its flat disk are so shallow that lepidopterous and hymenopterous insects, with their long proboses, stand no chance of getting a meal.

The figures of the friends, despite their diminutive size, were extremely lifelike and there was real virtuosity in every line of them.

Frascati and Tivoli she inflicted her good-humoured ponderosity on diminutive donkeys with a relish which seemed to prove that a passion for scenery, like all our passions, is capable of making the best of us pitiless.

Grotesque shadows lumbered along the wall, bending around the flame like pteranodon moths about a diminutive candle.

Foul pustules erupted like diminutive volcanoes, only to subside and reappear elsewhere.

I felt quite diminutive and vulnerable under his gaze, rather as I imagine small forest creatures must have felt when, far from the safety of their dens and with no covert nearby in which to shelter, they realized they were being eyed by my raptorial juika-bloth.