1 She had possession of the rocker, and she was busily engaged in sewing upon a diminutive pair of night-drawers.
2 A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.
3 Mademoiselle Reisz, being exceedingly diminutive, was elevated upon cushions, as small children are sometimes hoisted at table upon bulky volumes.
4 It might have pleased fortune, to have let the Lilliputians find some nation, where the people were as diminutive with respect to them, as they were to me.
5 The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal.
6 She looked at Mrs. Swithin as if she had been a dinosaur or a very diminutive mammoth.
7 Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
8 Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made him pay his fare.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE... 9 They shed their blood lyrically for the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 10 She was rather diminutive altogether.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 11 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 12 He knew, from the diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the earth road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS 13 This diminution saddened devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their race.
14 The diminution of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 15 Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a diminution of misery and an augmentation of health.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS