Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigmaean
Literary usage of Pigmaean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. King Arthur by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1851)
"Armed with the axe the Tritons had ejected, I rush'd to succour the pigmaean
nation, In strife our valour, I have oft suspected, Proportions safety to ..."
2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... for enchanted wind; That breath of thine can only raise N'ew storms, and
discompose the seas. It may (assisted by the clatter) A pigmaean army scatter ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"Another show'd where the pigmaean dame, Profaning Juno's venerable name, Turn'd
to an airy crane, descends from far, And with her Pigmy subjects wages war. ..."
4. The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts, by Edward Duke (1846)
"The temple of Saturn or Stonehenge is a pigmaean structure in comparison of the
pyramids of Egypt, and if it be argued that the one was built by giants, ..."
5. Mythological Fables (1837)
"... fill'd the foremost place, Who claim'd the titles of the gods above, And vainly
used the epithets of Jove. Another show'd where the pigmaean dame,J ..."
6. The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets (1813)
"... Who claim'd the titles of the gods above, And vainly us'd the epithets of Jove.
Another show'd where the pigmaean dame, Profaning Juno's venerable name, ..."
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