单词 | little-statured |
释义 | > as lemmaslittle-statured little-statured adj. ΚΠ 1691 R. Baxter Certainty Worlds of Spirits vi. 133 We have in this County,..some Subterranean Spirits,..little Statured, about half a yard long. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3774/4 Went away from his Mother.., James Bristow, aged about 17 years, little Statured. 1722 J. Jones tr. Oppian Halieuticks v. 190 That little-statur'd Men of vig'rous Soul Should all the World by Wisdom's Force control. 1870 Huddersfield Chron. 4 June 6/6 As she approached a ‘little statured man’..jumped up. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. ii. 61 Light sleds,..which draw forth little-statured steeds. 2009 Union Leader (Manchester, New Hampsh.) (Nexis) 8 May Little-known, little-statured Jonathan Diaz, a 5-foot-8 infielder. < as lemmas |
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