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Definition of Pygmies
1. pygmy [n] - See also: pygmy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pygmies
Literary usage of Pygmies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Negro Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd (1907)
"Homer, in the third chant of the Iliad, speaks of storks that fly over the ocean
and bear carnage and death to the men called pygmies. ..."
2. The Negro Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd (1907)
"Aristotle, in his History of Animals, refers to pygmies as dwelling somewhere
near the sources of the Nile.1 Pliny mentions them as not only inhabiting ..."
3. The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History by Banier (Antoine) (1740)
"... "where ive examine what is meant by the pygmies, whereof the Prophet ...
of the pygmies in the fame manner. No;n:us has ufcd the fame Simile, ..."
4. Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys: Being a Second Wonder-book by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1898)
"This Giant and these pygmies being children of the same mother (that is to say
... Among the pygmies, I suppose, if one of them grew to the height of six or ..."
5. Tanglewood Tales for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1883)
"THE pygmies. A GREAT while ago, when the world was full oi wonders, there lived
an earth-born Giant named An- teus^and a million or more of curious little ..."
6. Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys: Being a Second Wonder-book by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1898)
"This Giant and these pygmies being children of the same mother (that is to say,
... The pygmies were so small, and there were so many sandy deserts and such ..."
7. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"It is, however, less singular an anomaly than the contrast between the brutish
lives led by the pygmies in their wild state —lives, perhaps, in absence of ..."
8. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1904)
"... both endowments to a great extent wasted, undeveloped, not called forth by
their natural surroundings. The Semliki pygmies have a good idea of ..."
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