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You want to eat lunch on a sunny day on a plaza that I want to fill with tiny, dwarf-like replicas of Marshal Tito.
Not Able to Leap Tall Buildings, but Out There Rob Long 2010
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The village was being raped and plundered, not by men, but by a swarm of hideous dwarf-like creatures.
Archive 2009-09-01 Megan Arkenberg 2009
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The village was being raped and plundered, not by men, but by a swarm of hideous dwarf-like creatures.
A Matter of Honor Megan Arkenberg 2009
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One day, I parked my car at the company and noticed a dwarf-like gentleman who said, “Hi Boss.”
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The second part, “The Gatherers,” presents aggressive, dwarf-like creatures who live in the forest and struggle to survive; in the third part, “Orbit,” the dancers, wearing bright orange clothing, stand in place and move slowly and almost imperceptibly.
Ruth Ziv-Ayal. 2009
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Most gripping, here is a figure foreshortened and distorted by a perspective that squashes Christ's entire body, rendering it grotesque and dwarf-like.
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Experts from two NSW universities told how finding the dwarf-like skeleton in a remote cave on the Indonesian island of Flores was just the tip of the iceberg.
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Experts from two NSW universities told how finding the dwarf-like skeleton in a remote cave on the Indonesian island of Flores was just the tip of the iceberg.
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(Bk.II. sc. i., p. 15.) “Suddenly the skeleton shriveled up into an indescribably hideous and dwarf-like form, just as when you bring a large spider into the focus of a burning glass, and watch the purulent blood hiss and bubble in the heat.”
Religion 2004
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Experts from two NSW universities told how finding the dwarf-like skeleton in a remote cave on the Indonesian island of Flores was just the tip of the iceberg.
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