What is "pigmies"

Usage examples of "pigmies".

As far as they could tell, this manoeuvre was resented by the pigmies, whose noise redoubled.

Under this cover, on the dropping-bespattered ground, the pigmies had their rude huts, which were no more than squares of woven reed propped at any angle by sticks, to allow an entrance.

As they came nearer, they saw that the decorated area was actually a building hewn in the living rock, complete with doors, passages, rooms and windows, from the last of which pigmies watched their progress with unblinking curiosity.

Craig called, when another attempt to communicate with the pigmies had failed.

So Dangerfield had lived alone with the pigmies for ten standard years before someone had chanced to arrive with an offer of rescue.

If you had pushed your way in here twenty years ago as you did just now, the pigmies would have torn you to bits.

Firstly, we must establish the intelligence status of the pigmies, with a view to rinding out how much opposition they will offer colonists.

An excited rabble of pigmies milled everywhere, converging on a large, decaying tree stump, upon which two of their kind stood in full view, the screaming peke held tightly between them.

The two executioner pigmies, bearing the bowls of entrails clumsily in their paws, climbed from the tree stump and made their way through the crowd, which ceased its squabbling to fall back for them.

The pigmies, some of whom were still quarrelling over the pelts of the dead peke and bear, took no notice of them or the fire as the men pelted past.

On your way, take a look at what the pigmies in the clearing are up to.

However much any of the five pigmies suffered from any wounds they received in the engagements, they gave.

How much of the language of these so-called pigmies have you been able to pick up?

A few pigmies were about, moving sluggishly in the direction of the river, presumably in search of breakfast.

Tim picked up three of the dead pigmies, shouldered them, and staggering slightly under their combined weight, carried them back to the overlander.