Lexicographical Neighbors of Pygmaean
Literary usage of Pygmaean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1884)
"sentative spirits to apes (the "pygmaean race beyond the Indian mount ")* is ...
The "pygmaean race" is, I believe, universally regarded as the same as the ..."
2. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"Little, usually pygmaean, trees or rather simple-stemmed shrubs with lucid
coriaceous leaves. ... An evergreen pygmaean tree or rather simple-stemmed shrub, ..."
3. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"Milton uses the Pygmies for a simile, PL Book I.: —- - like that pygmaean race
Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves Whose midnight revels by a forest ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"He first draws attention to the pygmaean and other so-called prehistoric races
of North and South America, of Africa, and of the islands of the Pacific ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"Undoubtedly, were he to combine delicacy with energy of execution, Titanic power
with pygmaean polish, he were a far more perfect and popular writer. ..."
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