mannikin

1 But surely you are paid for your art, not as a mannikin.

2 Now be quiet, mannikin, and let me say my say.

3 But the mannikin, starting up, pushed the child away and said harshly: “This head is mine, thy prayers avail nothing; be off, little ragamuffin, go back whence thou came.”

4 At which one can only stare, as at a mannikin attacking a colossus.

5 "That shall you be, my mannikin!" said the pleased monarch.

6 Jourde answered the mannikin that this transaction, in order to be accepted by the people of Paris, must be publicly consented to, and, despairing of making anything out of this meeting, withdrew.

7 "Then you have made the acquaintance of that incarnate, shrivelled up darkness—that miserable mannikin, who is fond of being styled an ancient Greek?"

8 Homunculus, hō-mung′kū-lus, n. a tiny man capable of being produced artificially, according to Paracelsus, endowed with magical insight and power: a dwarf, mannikin.

9 the store has manikins so lifelike that they have startled me on more than one occasion

10 The Man in White “Take the sickle,” quoth the little mannikin, thumping his head with his fists.

11 Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”

12 Compared with the words lamb, man, and hill, the words lambkin, mannikin, and hillock convey the idea of comparative smallness or diminution.

13 A French soldier had crept in and raised the stiff arm of the mannikin to the salute, pushed back the hat to a rakish angle.

14 Thereupon the mannikin reappeared, leapt upon his shoulder, and, giving him a stout rap on the nose, read on one side of the blade of the sickle this inscription which follows: Song calls, Sickle reaps.

15 And the stony cheek of the little mannikin was alongside his own, and his two eyes lit up the hole better than lanterns would have done.

16 Behave yourself nicely, and you shall go with me to call on her next week, and see her mannikins.

17 The mannikin should be prepared in time so that the skin will not have to lay wet for more than a day before mounting.

18 As soon as I finish making the mannikins for the knitting bags at the kermis.

19 Ráby could fairly have embraced the mannikin, repulsive as he was.

20 "How much may it come to?" said the mannikin.

1 人体模型

dummy mannequin manikin form

2 文鸟属

silverbill

3 侏儒雀

manakin

4 矮子

short-ass dwarf shrimp pygmy shorty manikin homunculus Lilliputian half-pint peewee dandiprat tickey blastie

5 梅花雀科

grenadier waxbill firefinch twinspot avadavat bluebill silverbill cordon bleu Java sparrow zebra finch cut throat weaver