What is "smallish"

Usage examples of "smallish".

It was a smallish, blond man the stranger wanted, a young man, a borderer, the rider of the horse that imaged himself as fire, pain and dark: those who knew Stuart called the creature Burn.

Meandering, he entered and paced through the dim coolth of a smallish wood, mostly oak and the chestnuts beloved of Galician swine.

He was a smallish man, not much taller than themselves, with a strong-featured face creased by humour at the eyes and mouth, though with no sign of a smile now.

A smallish, eupeptic gentleman, he inquired politely if they were bringing any items to Earth for sale.

Ceremoniously shooting them for destroying a smallish city did seem ludicrous, since humans had gone on to kill every Gekko on the planet.

Smallish man, with a long neck and a little bit of a round head, and big goggly eyes behind his thick glasses.

Tier told Jes, spying a man peering out from a smallish hut on the far side of the cluster of buildings.

Born to lower-middle-class, not particularly bookish parents in 1948 in the smallish city of Lorain, Ohio, Dirda quickly fell in love with the printed word.

He returned carrying his sword in one hand, the belt dangling from its sheath, and led the way through a thicket of brambleberry to a smallish clearing.

A smallish gang of werewolves and ghouls who did not come up to his recently rebuckled belt were being escorted down the street under the protective eyes of two moms.

Quimby appeared at the drugstore to await Astrand, a smallish, hunch-shoulder taximan slowly cruised his cab outside on Twenty-seventh Street.

Sorority babes, the noted Tri- Delts were smallish but perfectly beautiful, proportioned, and mature beyond their years.

A good guess, since the dragon was smallish by draconic standards, and bright blue, and the rider no larger than Shana herself.

In his office, Cedric Malvin, a smallish, birdlike man, was seated behind a large desk, chatting with two visitors: Commissioner Weston and Inspector Cardona.

A water world, even more so than Terra, Neverland possessed four modest-sized continents, a few dozen smallish archipelagos, and little else.