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Significats de lilliputian en anglès

(Informal) small and of little importance.

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Very small in size.

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Imaginary place.

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Ús de lilliputian en anglès
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He felt himself bound and pricked by a thousand delicate lilliputian bonds.
Eleanor
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This is a pity, as their lilliputian self-assertion is most amusing.
Dogs and All about Them
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In the middle of the lilliputian ranks the giant smoke-clouds leap like hellish gods.
Light
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This kite system is like fitting a gigantic sail to a lilliputian boat, d'ye see?
The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole
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The lilliputian vehicles are ubiquitous in Japan - and they would be here, if Detroit had any sense.
Wired
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Anyone who's tried to find something on one of these lilliputian Windows desktops knows why this is funny.
Wired
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It is a lilliputian kangaroo, the size of our native wood squirrel and larger, only grey or reddish-grey.
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
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But Christ did not bring His faith on earth to be destroyed by the lilliputian efforts of man.
Explanation of Catholic Morals / A Concise, Reasoned, and Popula...
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After incredible though lilliputian upheavals, at length appeared a tiny black insect, struggling against the rolling, overwhelming sands.
The Riverman
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I rose from my chair and crossed the room (it didn't take long; my office is lilliputian).
Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
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This size business is not just a quirk of green spoon worms: lilliputian lovers appear in widely separate groups.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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Houses as lilliputian and as pretty as toys; and the whole a mere mouldy speck upon the earth's face!
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3
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Players make their way through the fenced compound to the changing rooms and lilliputian children swarm about the lilywhite Gullivers.
The Irish Times
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Her humble origin certainly did not betray itself in her hands and feet, which were exquisite in shape and lilliputian in size.
The Elusive Pimpernel
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It had become lilliputian, the horses small as white mice, the men like tin soldiers, as though we had undergone an enchantment.
The Mountains
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He had an exceeding love of imparting to others, and these pecuniary impediments tied down his large soul with a thousand lilliputian cords.
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
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