Sentence Examples

1. It might have pleased fortune to let the Lilliputians find some nation where the people were as diminutive with respect to them, as they were to me.
2. When Iszak turned back to his grandmother, the diminutive, bird-like woman he was used to stood before them in place of the more intimidating figure that had greeted them.
3. At first, I thought the person who stepped out was a child, but when I got a good look at his face I realized it was simply the shortest man I had ever seen, even compared to the diminutive Medicine Man.
4. The tables being removed, suddenly through the door of the hall there will enter a hideous and diminutive dwarf followed by a fair dame, between two giants, who comes with a certain adventure, the work of an ancient sage and he who shall achieve it shall be deemed the best knight in the world.
5. Fogg and Aouda, installing themselves at a table, were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue.
6. I was then sure that you reflected upon the diminutive figure of Chantilly.
7. A short distance to his right, a diminutive young woman stood conversing with a handsome, tall man.
8. Your Excellencies may, however, readily imagine that the confined regions hitherto unexplored within the limits of the Arctic circle, although situated directly beneath me, and therefore seen without any appearance of being foreshortened, were still, in themselves, comparatively too diminutive, and at too great a distance from the point of sight, to admit of any very accurate examination.
9. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them.
10. After my temper had cooled off, I said that the capon looked a diminutive Thanksgiving turkey.