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Meanings of diminutive figure in English

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Usage of diminutive figure in English
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One described him as a diminutive figure with long, dark curly hair.
The Guardian
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You were remarking to yourself that his diminutive figure unfitted him for tragedy.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
3
Waverley remained where he was, a diminutive figure in the vastness of his den.
Death Trance
4
Buonaparte loved to describe the astonishment with which the Mamelukes looked at his diminutive figure.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
5
His face was not perhaps much more impressive in its contour than his diminutive figure.
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore / Collected by Himself wi...
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At that Lopez drew his diminutive figure up, and tried to assume a bold look.
The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain
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A diminutive figure with wings that leaped to its feet, then sped towards the flying men.
Artemis Fowl: the time paradox
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The door opened, a trim, diminutive figure entered.
Flowing Gold
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The countess looked disdainfully at the diminutive figure of her son, and raised her shoulders with contempt.
Prince Eugene and His Times
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I spun around and saw four really big goons enter, then the diminutive figure of Viktor Yurichenko.
The Kingmaker
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He was bold, clever, unprincipled, and unscrupulous, with a slender diminutive figure and a delicate woman's face.
Caesar: A Sketch
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Juliet squinted through her wraparound sunglasses, concentrating on following the diminutive figure bobbing through the crowd before her.
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
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IN the middle of the crowd of dark-suited, burly firefighters, the diminutive figure is a flash of colour.
The Irish Times
14
Yet her diminutive figure in the drawing-room-such is the power of personality-madea social place of it at once.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
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He looked down at her diminutive figure with its well-shaped, patrician head, its sensitive mouth, its wide-set, shining eyes.
Bambi
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A diminutive figure of Tobit follows at his feet, and he bears in his hand a scroll with this inscription:
Stones of Venice [introductions]
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