"Midget" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and cigars accompanied the coffee. You could actually see midgets laughing outright in the mist of smoke; the chatter narrowly escaped being a din; and at intervals a diminutive boy entered and bawled the name of a midget at the top of his voice, Priam was suddenly electrified, and Mr. Oxford, ...
— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett
... The midget was mad. The animal had more presence of mind: she lay down quietly and died, which was the best she could do, considering the state ...
— Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas • Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
... the universe and of the eternal verities he is cognisant. For him there is no "other side of good and evil." No writers of fiction, save the very greatest, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, or Turgenieff, have so exposed the soul of man under the stress of sorrow, passion, anger, or as swimming, a midget, in the immensities of sky, or burrowing, a fugitive, in suffocating virgin forests. The soul and the sea—they are the beloved provinces of this sailor and psychologue. But he also recognises the relativity of things. The ineluctable vastness ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... opened and shut, and he clutched tighter on the rail of the bridge. For some moments—they seemed long moments—the two fleets remained without any further change flying obliquely towards each other, and making what came to Bert's ears as a midget uproar. Then suddenly from either side airships began dropping out of alignment, smitten by missiles he could neither see nor trace. The string of Asiatic ships swung round and either charged into ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... gun and hatchet and knife should have no fear of a midget white man who had been ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin
... was a printing press; and when Orville was fifteen years of age, they were publishing a four-page paper called the Midget. They did all the work from ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford
... the afternoon a truck came up from behind. Here he trudged between steep cliffs which made him seem almost a midget. The highway went through a crevice between adjoining mountainsides. There was no place for him to conceal himself. When he heard the engine, he stopped and faced it. The truck had picked up many men from wrecked cars along its route. There were scorched and scratched and wounded men, hurt ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... come along, miss;" and in a moment Kitty was swung up to the brave rescuer's shoulder, while King and Midget were already "swimming" across the grass to ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells
... him, I guess?" he suggested. "Say, that feller's a devil, believe me. When the sheriff tried to put the cuffs on him he gave him a black eye and pretty near broke his jaw. Some scrapper fer a midget!" ...
— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley
... want to thit in Polly'th lap," lisped the midget, edging away from the others, and doing her best to climb to ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... her rich, throaty, strong voice as she looked pleadingly at the militant midget facing her. Suddenly I was that lonesome, homesick freshman by the waters of Lake Waban, with Jane's awkward young arm around me, and I stood aside to let Henrietta come into her heritage of Jane. "Don't you want to come with us?" was the soft question ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess
... with this impression had I not chanced to notice that this stem, so beset with conspicuous thorns, was not consistent in its foliage. My suspicions aroused, I suddenly realized that my thorny stem was in truth merely a bittersweet branch in masquerade, and that I had been "fooled" by a sly midget who had been an old-time acquaintance of my boyhood, but whom I had ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson
... peach and orange orchards. Up and up, Along the thin white trail that wound and climbed And zig-zagged through the grey-green mountain sage, The car went crawling, till the shining plain Below it, like an airman's map, unrolled. Houses and orchards dwindled to white specks In midget cubes and squares of tufted green. Once, as we rounded one steep curve, that made The head swim at the canyoned gulf below, We saw through thirty miles of lucid air Elvishly small, sharp as a crumpled petal ...
— Watchers of the Sky • Alfred Noyes
... beau-sabreur, whose blade A dozen desert spearmen faced and stayed, Stoops his high-shoulder'd stature To hear the twittering tones of Tiny TIM, A midget, but the soul of whit and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 • Various
... first world war, the better than two hundred mile edge of American radar was more often than not the margin of victory. The American crews were a little sharper, a little better trained, but with their stripped down ships, and midget crewmen, with no personal safety equipment, the Reds could accelerate longer and faster, and go farther out. You had to get the jump on them, or ...
— Slingshot • Irving W. Lande |
