How To Use dwarfish In A Sentence
- To the character which alone appears in the first cross is given the name dominant (in this instance tallness is dominant), and to the hidden character that of recessive (dwarfishness, in the example). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- She had conceived of a barren desolate waste, shrubless and treeless; and she saw grassy hillocks, leafy copses, and even, as she thought, patches of dwarfish woods. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
- Thoughts of the dwarfish little thief brought a fresh ache to a throat sore and throbbing. Earl of Durkness
- one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
- There can be few among today's absintheurs whose skills are on a par with this dwarfish playwright, author of Ubu Roi and creator of the monstrous stage figure Pere Ubu.
- Science explains this dwarfishness produced by great abstraction of heat; showing that, food and other things being equal, it unavoidably results. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
- dwarfish", subsumed to their mode of transport, or scattered about - as are the backpackers outside Venice station in Vertigo - like corpses. The Guardian World News
- If the cold of winter were to continue unmitigated from year to year, without the genial influence of summer, the human race, as is apparent in polar regions and upland mountainous districts, would degenerate into dwarfishness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
- You stuff the little rosy foot of a Chinese young lady of fashion into a slipper that is about the size of a salt-cruet, and keep the poor little toes there imprisoned and twisted up so long that the dwarfishness becomes irremediable. The Book of Snobs
- Her dwarfish spouse still smoked his cigar and drank his rum without heeding her.
