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Definition of Gnomelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnomelike
Literary usage of Gnomelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Harp had so settled down on his old joints that he was very short as well as
gnarled, and looked a gnomelike thing beside Carmen in the full summer of her ..."
2. The History of American Sculpture by Lorado Taft (1903)
"The short, gnomelike figure with stumpy legs; the big, powerful hands; the stern
face, rough-hewn, with its frown and tight lips — all these conspire to ..."
3. The Romantic Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1906)
"... looking doubtless very solemn and gnomelike in the spectacles he already wore,
would from time to time, without stopping to look at the score, ..."
4. Moral tales for young people by Maria Edgeworth (1806)
"Things went on much better after the gnomelike influence of Mrs. Grace had ceased;
but we must now hasten to introduce our readers to Mrs. Fanshaw. ..."
5. English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs (1875)
"The mistimed laughter of children has often some such source as this, though the
sprite that possesses them has rarely the gnomelike essence. ..."
6. Legends of Old Honolulu by William Drake Westervell (1915)
"Down the Kalihi stream below Papa's home were two stones to which the Hawaiians
gave eepa, or gnomelike, power. If any traveller passes these stones on his ..."
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