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  • An "exchange of words" was something of a polite diminution of the facts.†   (source)
  • The diminutive Cilka stands beside Schwarzhuber.†   (source)
  • Symbologists often remarked that France—a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short—could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.†   (source)
  • The diminutive 58-year-old retired school librarian is neatly dressed.†   (source)
  • Take, for example, your female friend, the diminutive Miss Contraire.†   (source)
  • He addressed me as Mosiek, the diminutive for Moshe.†   (source)
  • "WHY IS IT NECESSARY TO REFER TO ME AS 'LITTLE,' AS DIMINUTIVE,' AS 'MINIATURE'?"†   (source)
  • She imagines a diminutive pianist, dressed in a tuxedo, playing inside the machine.†   (source)
  • In fact, the chauffeur was a diminutive fellow almost lost behind the front wheel.†   (source)
  • A diminutive gentleman with a wispy mustache approached.†   (source)
  • AFTER MY LAST CLASS of my first week at Culver Creek, I entered Room 43 to an unlikely sight: the diminutive and shirtless Colonel, hunched over an ironing board, attacking a pink button-down shirt.†   (source)
  • In spite of his diminutive stature he has a commanding, captivating presence in the room.†   (source)
  • With them was the master himself, Merchant Captain Byan Votyris, a diminutive Norvoshi with skin like old leather and a bristling blue mustachio that swept up to his ears.†   (source)
  • WE ARE TOLD, THAT THE SUBJECTION OF AMERICANS MAY TEND TO THE DIMINUTION OF OUR OWN LIBERTIES; ….†   (source)
  • Five hundred feet above the South Col, where the steep shale gave way to a gentler slope of snow, Namba's oxygen ran out, and the diminutive Japanese woman sat down, refusing to move.†   (source)
  • Two diminutive white fangs curved down out of its upper jaw.†   (source)
  • He noted that the walkways, pods, and platforms were conspicuously empty except for a few Templars and their diminutive crew clone counterparts.†   (source)
  • As soon as he spread it on the table, a flickering hologram appeared above the surface: Leo Valdez, looking impish as usual with his dark wispy hair, his mischievous grin, and his diminutive stature.†   (source)
  • In my mind Betsy Bolt was a diminutive blond Southern-belle white girl.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus guessed that Aristotle's diminution of dialectic, from Plato's sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato.†   (source)
  • The diminutives were killing me.†   (source)
  • The cab let us off in the Marais district, a place of narrow streets and sidewalks, of bistros, diminutive hotels, and shops.†   (source)
  • A set of doll-house teacups, anchored to a diminutive tray, trembled in the palm of her hand.†   (source)
  • A diminutive slave-girl opens the front door of the house.†   (source)
  • The Valiants' star player was a diminutive and rabbit-quick forward from Austria named Jonathan Scherzer.†   (source)
  • Buck is a common by-name for boys in the mountains, and it could not be guessed whether the old man used it as a diminutive of the surname, or whether he meant merely to nickname this favourite of his.†   (source)
  • The bungalow was easily the oldest property on Wrightsville Beach and sandwiched between two massive homes that had gone up within the last ten years, making it seem even more diminutive.†   (source)
  • After a tense argument, in which Aureliano Segundo acted as the laughing go-between, they baptized her with the name Renata Remedios, but Fernanda went on calling her just Renata while her husband's family and everyone in town called her Meme, a diminutive of Remedios.†   (source)
  • Jackson was leading a two-plane section under the direction of one of the Kennedy's E-2C Hawkeyes, the navy's more diminutive version of the air force's AWACS and close brother to the COD, a twin-prop aircraft whose radome makes it look like an airplane being terrorized by a UFO.†   (source)
  • And her diminutive stature, at four and a half feet tall, is accentuated by a congenital cleft foot that causes her to limp.†   (source)
  • Rejected for his diminutive stature, he sequestered himself in the Canadian wilderness, "a-huntin' and a-fishin'."†   (source)
  • She had been trainedby the visiting Russian teachers in the 1950s, and despite her diminutive size, she was the teacher we would learn to fear most.†   (source)
  • With their diminutive size, toughness, and supreme ability to thrive at altitudes where few humans choose even to visit, they have physically reminded many mountaineers climbing in Baltistan of their distant cousins to the east, the Sherpa of Nepal.†   (source)
  • His diminutive size made him easy to push around.†   (source)
  • "It's a diminutive," Bert began.†   (source)
  • I even conceived a savage jealousy of the dollmaker to whom she'd confided her request for that tinkling diminutive lady, because that dollmaker had for a moment given her something which she held close to herself in my presence as if I were not there at all.†   (source)
  • Luciana vanished aboard one of the diminutive green vehicles, and Yossarian hurried as fast as he could all the way back to the cabaret and the bleary-eyed bleached blonde in the open orange satin blouse.†   (source)
  • Matron had never set eyes on the diminutive Emperor.†   (source)
  • They found out roughly ten minutes after the destruction of a large part of the diminutive "Great Britain."†   (source)
  • Whether Benjamin Franklin quipped "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall hang separately" is impossible to know, just as there is no way to confirm the much-repeated story that the diminutive John Hancock wrote his name large so the King might read it without his spectacles.†   (source)
  • They have identical birthmarks, diminutive caramel crescents over their left eyelids, and their braids hang in duplicate ropes down their backs.†   (source)
  • Diminutive but dynamic.†   (source)
  • The shadow on the floor uncurled, revealing a diminutive figure clad in black, the smudge of a pale face, and a tousle of long blonde hair, coming free from a careless braid.†   (source)
  • The voice came from a slightly wizened, diminutive woman who scowled at me from behind a cigarette ash.†   (source)
  • The imp's diminutive size and festive outfit seemed garishly out of place against the hellish backdrop of gnarled dvergar and vyes hammering steel and plunging their works into quenching tubs that sent up squealing plumes of steam into the air.†   (source)
  • The car that had been sent for Alessandro was so large in comparison with the diminutive platform upon which sat the driver and a tiny freight box, that Alessandro asked about it.†   (source)
  • It was as though the pet names, the diminutives, were no longer suitable for a teen-aged girl who bore on her forehead a great scar, irradicable evidence of the kind of courage rarely displayed by a grownup.†   (source)
  • Having met Luke's father, I had built up a picture in my head of the kind of woman he would marry—diminutive, dark, and soft-spoken, to go with his dreamy absentmindedness.†   (source)
  • But he is just one man against many, and the diminutive Grant is swallowed by the mob.†   (source)
  • Regis was short, even by the standards of his diminutive race, with the fluff of his curly brown locks barely cresting the three-foot mark, but his belly was amply thickened by his love of a good meal, or several, as the opportunities presented themselves.†   (source)
  • This made him want to call her all the more, but somewhere in the listening to her very sober and very small voice — she was diminutive and her voice was high, though always firm and always clear — he realized that he would not sound good tonight.†   (source)
  • Lavon was a diminutive figure, with a head of wispy unkempt hair and a face that was entirely forgettable.†   (source)
  • Don't—say a word(She lays it against her shoulder, and begins rocking with it, patting its diminutive behind; she talks the lullaby to it, humorously at first.†   (source)
  • And almost at once the yabbies - diminutive crayfish of the bush - came bobbing up to the surface.†   (source)
  • Her aunt, who listened to this with no diminution of her habitual scorn, was yet unable to deny that from generation to generation, things, as she grudgingly put it, were bound to change? and neither could she quite take the position of seeming to stand in Elizabeth's way.†   (source)
  • Diminutive paintings give that spotty look to a room, which is the blemish of so many a fine work of Art overtouched.   (source)
  • Do you refer to Lorenzo il Magnifico, or to Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, or to Lorenzo surnamed Lorenzino on account of his diminutive stature?   (source)
  • Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
  • diminutive in stature
  • a diminutive female hand   (source)
  • They're diminutive andneatly turned out; each has his or her camera, his or her smile.†   (source)
  • The wooden portico was diminutive, but it stood in the dark like a dour sentinel.†   (source)
  • It was not Murtagh standing by him but a diminutive man no taller than his elbow.†   (source)
  • " "THEY CALLED ME 'LITTLE,' THEY CALLED ME 'DIMINUTIVE,' THEY CALLED ME 'MINIATURE'!"†   (source)
  • I believe it's time to let our diminutive friends know exactly who they're dealing with.'†   (source)
  • She's smiling, a bright diminutive smile.†   (source)
  • She compensated for her diminutive stature with the fashion sense of a K-Pop idol.†   (source)
  • A wide smile spread across her diminutive face, and with great enthusiasm, she said, "Gahh!"†   (source)
  • With his white hair spilling over the top of his sweater, he looked diminutive in the rocker.†   (source)
  • At times it looked like the coinage of a shy, diminutive species of angel.†   (source)
  • From a distance, their appearance reminded me of nothing so much as a gaggle of diminutive Jesuits at a New Vatican enclave.†   (source)
  • Rhonda had packed changes of clothes for each of them, including outfits she had sewn overnight to fit Constance's diminutive size.†   (source)
  • A rosy-cheeked and diminutive instructor of technical sciences named Dr. Hauptmann peels off his brass-buttoned coat and hangs it over the back of a chair.†   (source)
  • Another diminutive—and from me.†   (source)
  • But in point of fact, the word small would not have been sufficiently diminutive to suggest comrade Frinovsky's size.†   (source)
  • The term was one the Farmer family had borrowed from Olympic gymnastics, which they'd watched together on tv on the boat, his buxom sister Peggy throwing out her chest in imitation of the stance the diminutive female athletes would take when they finished their routines.†   (source)
  • The diminutive figure before them unhooked a contraption from around its shoulders and lifted a full-face helmet from a definitely non-human head.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the armadillo was packed in a box designed for transporting chisels—for something Owen called WEDGES AND FEATHERS—and Owen solemnly promised that no harm would come to the diminutive beast.†   (source)
  • It was less than a tenth of the height of the crater that loomed over and around it, but its diminutive appearance was deceiving, for it was slightly higher than a mile.†   (source)
  • "THEY'RE UNNATURAL," he said; but what, I thought, could be more UNNATURAL than the squeaky falsetto of The Granite Mouse or his commanding presence, which was so out of proportion to his diminutive size?†   (source)
  • Owen himself was taken as a "sign" by poor Germaine; his diminutive size suggested to her that Owen was small enough to actually enter the body and soul of another person—and cause that person to perform unnatural acts.†   (source)
  • The critic added, "The shopworn ghost-story part of the tale has been energized by the brilliant performance of little Owen Meany, who—despite his diminutive size—is a huge presence onstage; the miniature Meany simply dwarfs the other performers.†   (source)
  • This time the small shrine made me think of a diminutive Greek temple, on its way to becoming a ruin.†   (source)
  • They were broader than the men, and their faces were heavyset, yet their eyes sparkled and their hair was lustrous and their hands were gentle on their diminutive children.†   (source)
  • Even Glaedr, when he was still clothed in flesh, would have appeared diminutive next to the slain dragon.†   (source)
  • He had been so filled with anxiety on their way to the crossing into "Spain" that he barely recalled the diminutive replicas of the "American" cities and towns, much less the fastest routes that led to the tunnel.†   (source)
  • There are three women standing in the foyer—not including Shari, Dominique, and Agnès—and none of them is dark or diminutive.†   (source)
  • She lived in a diminutive jewel-box Victorian, Queen Anne style, exuberantly decorated with elaborate millwork.†   (source)
  • Alessandro immediately and alarmingly wanted to draw her to him and kiss her beautiful diminutive face.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not allowed to say anything,' Doc Daneeka said sorrowfully from his seat on his stool in the shadows of a corner, his smooth, tapered, diminutive face turtle-green in the flickering candlelight.†   (source)
  • Despite his diminutive size, he had also proved improbably tough and hardheaded as a defender, willing to take on much bigger boys without flinching.†   (source)
  • She seemed excited by the diminutive beauty, the awful woman's-passion knotted in the small dimpled hands.†   (source)
  • Not only were these colts strange-looking, shaggy, and awkward, but aside from the slight difference in their mutually diminutive heights—Grog was a hair shorter—they were identical.†   (source)
  • Despite its diminutive size, the bot still had to contend with a problem endemic to ROVs: its tether.†   (source)
  • I could barely see myself reflected in her pupils, a diminutive boy smiling foolishly back at myself in that tiny black cell that sang my name on those rocks.†   (source)
  • Here now, at last and alone, at the far end of the long room, was Dr. Rose Marie Tucker, in one of four folding chairs at a scarred worktable, leaning forward, forearms on the table, hands clasped, waiting and silent, her eyes solemn and full of tenderness, this diminutive survivor, keeper of secrets that Joe had been desperate to learn but from which he suddenly shied.†   (source)
  • The chaplain's wife was a reserved, diminutive, agreeable woman in her early thirties, very dark and very attractive, with a narrow waist, calm intelligent eyes, and small, bright, pointy teeth in a childlike face that was vivacious and petite; he kept forgetting what his children looked like, and each time he returned to their snapshots it was like seeing their faces for the first time.†   (source)
  • His fingers were so delicate and diminutive that the fingernails were like the smallest, whitest kernels of corn, the pale sweet ones near the end.†   (source)
  • Hanck had gone to middle school with Cristian and knew that the diminutive Mexican kid loved machines.†   (source)
  • …up what he had brought, so he could ration his inventories as time passed: thirty packets apiece of bread, pasta, jam, sugar, tea, powdered soup, dried fruit, chocolate, and cured beef; a small sack of potatoes and onions; two cans of salmon; a diminutive panettone; two one-liter bottles of red wine; a crock of butter; a bunch of carrots; a kilo and a half of cheese; two bars of soap; a box of tooth salts; iodine swabs; bandages; aspirin; tincture of opium; six newly washed woolen…†   (source)
  • Behind Poteete's eyes, the hive of terror was looseon him and each cell in his brain had become wasp-winged and deadly, each cell was hourglass-shaped, and each cell, tremulous with the diminutive thunder of hornets, felt the power of flight and the invulnerability of the swarm.†   (source)
  • The cadre was a diminutive regiment of the elite, chosen for their leadership, their military sharpness, their devotion to duty, their ambition, and their unquestioning, uncomplicated belief in the system.†   (source)
  • Since there was an obvious dearth of volunteers, I called on a diminutive boy named Saul, a seventh grader who looked no older than six.†   (source)
  • And the world of diminutives closed in again on us.†   (source)
  • I have no doubt, mein Herr, that your remark regarding Russia's contributions to the West was a form of inverted hyperbole—an exaggerated diminution of the facts for poetic effect.†   (source)
  • Not content to rely on given and family names, we Russians like to make use of honorifics, patronymics, and an array of diminutives— such that a single character in one of our novels may be referred to in four different ways in as many pages.†   (source)
  • After her defiance of the overseer, they called her Harriet, because the pet names, the diminutives, were no longer fitting for a girl who had displayed such courage.†   (source)
  • But it was not her diminutiveness that left the strongest impression on me; rather, it was a quality of beleaguered delicacy, as though her spirit had endured the same heedless inattention as her garden.†   (source)
  • Her diminutive stature was her secret sorrow, but she had learned to find compensations.†   (source)
  • There, small, faultless, and gleaming, lay a diminutive effigy of a woman's leg on the dark velvet, an enchanting leg, with the knee a little bent and the foot pointing downwards to end in the daintiest of toes.†   (source)
  • The name, made more odious by its diminutive, obtruded itself on Lily's thoughts like a leer.†   (source)
  • Both were diminutive in size, bow-legged, lame in one foot, and altogether unprepossessing.†   (source)
  • I'm very fond of little girls," said Pansy with an effect of diminutive grandeur.†   (source)
  • Don't mention it to our diminutive friend when she comes in.†   (source)
  • You were remarking to yourself that his diminutive figure unfitted him for tragedy.†   (source)
  • She changed her blouse too and, as she stood before the mirror, she thought of how she used to dress for mass on Sunday morning when she was a young girl; and she looked with quaint affection at the diminutive body which she had so often adorned, In spite of its years she found it a nice tidy little body.†   (source)
  • Do you refer to Lorenzo il Magnifico, or to Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, or to Lorenzo surnamed Lorenzino on account of his diminutive stature?†   (source)
  • Athelny, with his powerful voice in the diminutive body, with his bombast, with his foreign look, with his emphasis, was an astonishing creature.†   (source)
  • It grew until sight of a little ragged Mexican boy astride the most diminutive burro she had ever seen awakened her to the truth.†   (source)
  • She had possession of the rocker, and she was busily engaged in sewing upon a diminutive pair of night-drawers.†   (source)
  • …and more founded upon experience—borne along by the flight of a pair of fiery horses, slender and shapely as one sees them in the drawings of Constantin Guys, carrying on its box an enormous coachman, furred like a cossack, and by his side a diminutive groom, like Toby, "the late Beaudenord's tiger," I saw—or rather I felt its outlines engraved upon my heart by a clean and killing stab—a matchless victoria, built rather high, and hinting, through the extreme modernity of its…†   (source)
  • His attire, cut to what appeared to be an exaggerated English style, attracted attention to his diminutive size.†   (source)
  • A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.†   (source)
  • Edna had prevailed upon Madame Ratignolle to leave the children behind, though she could not induce her to relinquish a diminutive roll of needlework, which Adele begged to be allowed to slip into the depths of her pocket.†   (source)
  • Now that he had an opportunity of observing her, Arthur found that her diminutive figure, small features, and slight spare dress, gave her the appearance of being much younger than she was.†   (source)
  • "Rugayushka!" he added, involuntarily by this diminutive expressing his affection and the hopes he placed on this red borzoi.†   (source)
  • But at the end of a quarter of an hour, dropping his eyes, he perceived a small pug-dog squatted upon the path near his feet—a diminutive but very perfect specimen of its interesting species.†   (source)
  • A diminutive candle-flame was mirrored in each pupil, and it would have been possible to distinguish therein between the moods of hope and the moods of abandonment, even as regards the reddleman, though his facial muscles betrayed nothing at all.†   (source)
  • …the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class--the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants--all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by the new methods of production.†   (source)
  • I see nothing to admire so much in those diminutive women; they look silly by the side o' the men,—out o' proportion.†   (source)
  • The hotel refreshment-rooms were comfortable, and Mr. Fogg and Aouda, installing themselves at a table, were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue.†   (source)
  • "No, my boy, and this whiteness that amazes you is merely due to the presence of myriads of tiny creatures called infusoria, a sort of diminutive glowworm that's colorless and gelatinous in appearance, as thick as a strand of hair, and no longer than one–fifth of a millimeter.†   (source)
  • The historians of antiquity taught how to command: those of our time teach only how to obey; in their writings the author often appears great, but humanity is always diminutive.†   (source)
  • She was obliged to confess it to herself—she would have taken a passionate pleasure in talking of Gilbert Osmond to this innocent, diminutive creature who was so near him.†   (source)
  • She had been named, as a matter of course, after her poor mother, and even in her most diminutive babyhood the Doctor never called her anything but Catherine.†   (source)
  • In one corner stood the diminutive pair of top-boots in which Miss Snevellicci was accustomed to enact the little jockey, and, folded on a chair hard by, was a small parcel, which bore a very suspicious resemblance to the companion smalls.†   (source)
  • Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.†   (source)
  • Even the little girl from the convent, who, in her prim white dress, with her small submissive face and her hands locked before her, stood there as if she were about to partake of her first communion, even Mr. Osmond's diminutive daughter had a kind of finish that was not entirely artless.†   (source)
  • She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose.†   (source)
  • This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner…†   (source)
  • She was rather diminutive altogether.†   (source)
  • …some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth's surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fields forest-high, the mighty mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like men and women, of the other.†   (source)
  • "pretty"; gat is another fragment, of the word wichgat, which means "paw"; and, lastly, schis is a diminutive giving the idea of smallness.†   (source)
  • That envoy found her on a little square of carpet, so extremely diminutive in reference to the size of her stone and marble floor that she looked as if she might have had it spread for the trying on of a ready-made pair of shoes; or as if she had come into possession of the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into a palatial saloon with which it had no connection.†   (source)
  • In a corner of the seat, was a very small deal trunk, tied round with a scanty piece of cord; and on the trunk was perched—his lace-up half-boots and corduroy trousers dangling in the air—a diminutive boy, with his shoulders drawn up to his ears, and his hands planted on his knees, who glanced timidly at the schoolmaster, from time to time, with evident dread and apprehension.†   (source)
  • There were green shutters upon the windows, without slats, but pierced with little holes, arranged in groups; and before the house was a diminutive yard, ornamented with a bush of mysterious character, and surrounded by a low wooden paling, painted in the same green as the shutters.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to repeat anything," said Liddy, with womanly dignity of a diminutive order; "but I don't wish to stay with you.†   (source)
  • That afternoon Phoebe found a diminutive egg,—not in the regular nest, it was far too precious to be trusted there,—but cunningly hidden under the currant-bushes, on some dry stalks of last year's grass.†   (source)
  • For some thirty years Bogucharovo had been managed by the village Elder, Dron, whom the old prince called by the diminutive "Dronushka."†   (source)
  • They shed their blood lyrically for the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • Here, the address, to the Minister, diminutive and feminine; there the superscription, to a certain royal personage, was markedly bold and decided; the size alone formed a point of correspondence.†   (source)
  • "Diminutive," whispered Miss Flite, making a variety of motions about her own forehead to express intellect in Charley.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made him pay his fare.†   (source)
  • So diminutive she looked, so fragile and defenceless against the bleak damp weather, flitting along in the shuffling shadow of her charge, that he felt, in his compassion, and in his habit of considering her a child apart from the rest of the rough world, as if he would have been glad to take her up in his arms and carry her to her journey's end.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXVI SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD "Ah, Miss Everdene!" said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.†   (source)
  • They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds—religious, moral, serious, futile, extensive, or restricted, enormous or diminutive.†   (source)
  • Pondering upon the advisability of this step, and the sensation it was likely to create in the neighbourhood, Mr Kenwigs betook himself to the sitting-room, where various extremely diminutive articles of clothing were airing on a horse before the fire, and Mr Lumbey, the doctor, was dandling the baby—that is, the old baby—not the new one.†   (source)
  • Its diminutive mistress, in the midst of it, appeared but a speck of humanity, and as she got up, with quick deference, to welcome Isabel, the latter was more than ever struck with her shy sincerity.†   (source)
  • Often at posting-houses and other halting places, these miserable creatures would appear to her the only realities of the day; and many a time, when the money she had brought to give them was all given away, she would sit with her folded hands, thoughtfully looking after some diminutive girl leading her grey father, as if the sight reminded her of something in the days that were gone.†   (source)
  • On its being opened he enquired for Madame Merle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face and a lady's maid's manner, ushered him into a diminutive drawing-room and requested the favour of his name.†   (source)
  • She seemed tall, but the pail was a small one, and the hedge diminutive; hence, making allowance for error by comparison with these, she could have been not above the height to be chosen by women as best.†   (source)
  • She was a pretty, very diminutive, plump woman of from forty to fifty, with handsome eyes, though they had a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off.†   (source)
  • He had the air of a man who knows he has been the talk of Paris for a week and is full half a head taller in consequence, but who also has a painful suspicion that in spite of this increase of stature one or two persons still have the perversity to think him diminutive.†   (source)
  • "Why, who can she be?" said I. "My love," Miss Flite suggested, advancing her lips to my ear with her most mysterious look, "in MY opinion—don't mention this to our diminutive friend—she's the Lord Chancellor's wife.†   (source)
  • Diminutive.†   (source)
  • His little dancing-shoes were particularly diminutive, and he had a little innocent, feminine manner which not only appealed to me in an amiable way, but made this singular effect upon me, that I received the impression that he was like his mother and that his mother had not been much considered or well used.†   (source)
  • And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty.†   (source)
  • He seemed to see her then, grown heroic at the instant of vanishment beyond the clashedto gates, fading without diminution of size into something nameless and splendid, like a sunset.†   (source)
  • There was a straw-covered bottle usually containing Italian red wine, which he procured from a little shop in the neighborhood; often, too, a bottle of Burgundy as well as Malaga; and a squat bottle of Cherry brandy was, as I saw, nearly emptied in a very brief space—after which it disappeared in a corner of the room, there to collect the dust without further diminution of its contents.†   (source)
  • "There again!" said Mr. Gridley with no diminution of his rage.†   (source)
  • It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.†   (source)
  • Their first subject was the diminution of the Rosings party.†   (source)
  • Only, her joy had undergone a certain diminution.†   (source)
  • The diminution of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise.†   (source)
  • Disposed as she then was to calculate upon that vague basis which allows the subtraction of one sum from another without any perceptible diminution, she was happy.†   (source)
  • Her kindred dwelling there would probably continue their daily lives as heretofore, with no great diminution of pleasure in their consciousness, although she would be far off, and they deprived of her smile.†   (source)
  • …but this ultimate seclusion seemed to be accepted by her with all the more readiness for the very reason which, to our minds, ought to have made it more unbearable; namely, that such a seclusion was forced upon her by the gradual and steady diminution in her strength which she was able to measure daily, which, by making every action, every movement 'tiring' to her if not actually painful, gave to inaction, isolation and silence the blessed, strengthening and refreshing charm of repose.†   (source)
  • But that was for the daytime—toward evening with the inevitable diminution of nervous energy, her spirits flagged, and the arrows flew a little in the twilight.†   (source)
  • I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.†   (source)
  • He pointed out—writing in a foolish, facetious tone—that the perfection of mechanical appliances must ultimately supersede limbs; the perfection of chemical devices, digestion; that such organs as hair, external nose, teeth, ears, and chin were no longer essential parts of the human being, and that the tendency of natural selection would lie in the direction of their steady diminution through the coming ages.†   (source)
  • It was only at an entertainment ostensibly offered to a "foreign visitor" that Mrs. van der Luyden could suffer the diminution of being placed on her host's left.†   (source)
  • They called for more and got it: a human voice came from the cabinet, a male voice, both gentle and forceful, accompanied by an orchestra, a celebrated Italian baritone—and now there could be no talk of any diminution or distancing.†   (source)
  • He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm.†   (source)
  • The body of sound, though not in any way distorted, had suffered a diminution in perspective; it was, if one may use a visual comparison for an audible phenomenon, as if one were gazing at a painting through the wrong end of opera glasses, so that it looked distant and small, but without forfeiting any definition of line or brilliance of color.†   (source)
  • He was quite ashamed, after the foregoing reflections, to propose any diminution of so moderate a recompense for the immense service to be rendered.†   (source)
  • Reflecting and doubting, and feeling that the possession of what she had so much wished for did not bring much satisfaction, she now walked home again, with a change rather than a diminution of cares since her treading that path before.†   (source)
  • It follows, then, that in countries where equality of inheritance is established by law, property, and especially landed property, must have a tendency to perpetual diminution.†   (source)
  • suffered considerable diminution, and grown so decrepit and feeble with old age as to threaten demise altogether.†   (source)
  • Is it not known that the number of volcanoes has diminished since the first days of creation? and if there is central heat may we not thence conclude that it is in process of diminution?†   (source)
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