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Pigmy: see Pygmy Pygmy or Pigmy (both: pĭg`mē) ..... Click the link for more information. . Pygmy, Pigmy a member of one of the dwarf peoples of Equatorial Africa, noted for their hunting and forest culture How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village. These artists will take particles of stone or glass no larger than a mustard seed, and piece them together on a sleeve button or a shirt stud, so smoothly and with such nice adjustment of the delicate shades of color the pieces bear, as to form a pigmy rose with stem, thorn, leaves, petals complete, and all as softly and as truthfully tinted as though Nature had builded it herself. " exclaimed Michel; "I should be nothing more than a pigmy, a shrimp |
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