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Definition of Dwarflike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwarflike
Literary usage of Dwarflike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"... or at all events a mere dwarflike or sporadic and accidental development of
the same.1 Those small and extremely ancient Indian communities, ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... on the eastern and the western, and the dwarflike Pygmies on the southern;
but nowhere in Greek literature is it even hinted that people believed in the ..."
3. Industrial Evolution by Karl Bücher (1901)
"Alongside these dwarflike cities there were 37 rural municipalities with more
than 10000 inhabitants.—How far some of the old cities have declined is shown ..."
4. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"... on the eastern and the western, and the dwarflike Pygmies on the southern;
but nowhere in Greek literature is it even hinted that people believed in the ..."
5. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1919)
"This dwarflike picture is most frequently noticed in the cases showing the lesions
in the epiphyses. Within the joints the destruction is most frequently ..."
6. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"Measured by such an enormous standard as the greatness of Eome, the greatest
personality must have appeared dwarflike and even have attracted mockery. ..."
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