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    1. It was the face of a miner, it could have been someone half Elf, half Dwarf


    2. While they were on the way back to the boat she picked up a news magazine because of the headline 'Killer Asteroid on the Way?' and found that "One of Cynd's larger asteroids was knocked out of orbit by an unobserved collision forty years ago and dropped into the gravitational well of the brown dwarf


    3. When they finally tramped down there, they found one of Taktor's men named Ilumvi, Estwig, and a large man who was probably half Elf, half Dwarf and a laboratory muscle pill


    4. The angle of the drive sent them into the system on a spiral, a spiral that ended with them approaching a hundred degrees of angle away from the direction of Sol and forty degrees out of the galactic plane and behind the brown dwarf


    5. The asteroid is a giant snowball that had been growing in space for billions of years in orbit around the brown dwarf


    6. The C star was a class of object called a brown dwarf, still not well understood in spite of the observatory at Proxima since 2138


    7. This was a much smaller brown dwarf than Proxima


    8. The governor failed to see the significance of that data, even when native astronomers noticed a large member of Cynd's asteroid belt had been knocked from its orbit on a course to plunge deep into the gravity well of the brown dwarf


    9. He was probably nearly a full blooded Dwarf with maybe a bit of Nordic in his ancestry


    10. There were thick stands of dwarf thesh on their roof, genetic coding for it had been spliced into the hangleaf leaves the roof was grown from

    11. He was partly Elvish and maybe partly Dwarf, not the Gnome Jorma had expected


    12. “It’s less than two centuries old actually, but it’s a dwarf style from the 34th Century, when Yoonbarla was young


    13. “Most people around here have a lot of Dwarf in them, the population of Wescarp is now a pretty homogenized Troll/Dwarf mix


    14. The Boulder Dwarf looked angrier than ever at his words, while the blind, old man simply looked defeated


    15. ” the dwarf said, studying the foul head stuck to his weapon


    16. And indeed, the dwarf left the head as it was – a foot of silver coated spike sticking out from between its eyes


    17. "Sorry," Brice said, straightening his cape and massaging his shoulder from where the dwarf had collided with him


    18. The dwarf hesitated a moment before replying, 'No Master


    19. The dwarf bowed, exposing the gray matter of his brain through a gaping hole in the back of his head, then he stepped out of LeCynic's way


    20. The dwarf beamed with the possibilities

    21. 'How much today, Master?' the dwarf asked, replacing the blade with the vial


    22. "Yes, Stone Master," the exceptionally hairy dwarf replied, turning to the still gaping fissure in the Red Wall and ambling away


    23. Brice was amazed to see that operating the hoist was a gray bearded Boulder Dwarf -- whom he quickly recognized as the very same being who had nearly plowed him over when he had first come upon the Wayward Inn


    24. With a simple tap, the dwarf could crush a human's skull


    25. Coordinating their movements with jabs of his massive war pick, the wicked boulder dwarf Gunt kept the crowd moving at a constant and ordered pace


    26. The corpse of a dwarf was pulling himself up the wall with fleshless fingers


    27. Some, they said, could squash a boulder dwarf in their fist, and with one punch, entire stones were split


    28. Alec's patience was as precarious as a boulder dwarf dangling from a frayed thread


    29. On the other side, beneath the arched entry way into the keep, the boulder dwarf looked around, scratching his head of gray hair when suddenly he must have caught sight of Nathalia and her armored pursuers for without pondering the situation a moment longer, he wrapped one of his meaty hands around a lever and thrust it to the ground


    30. She left the boulder dwarf and his paltry group of soldiers to join Emily and Tetloan

    31. Crushing metal, bones, and even the stones beneath its feet, the Boulder Dwarf repeatedly heaved his war pick into the air and hammered away at the being's body, only satisfied with his work once he was looking down at a crumpled pile of steel and pulp


    32. Even more miraculous than the appearance of the boulder dwarf, all around her the Reapers were suddenly disintegrating


    33. The Dwarf king and his army standing solid as stone at the foot of the Rift


    34. dwarf oak and crossed by a small, stone bridge


    35. Pleased to aid them, the Boulder Dwarf Gunt hastened their brutal task with the pounding of his war pick


    36. ‘There, I knew they’d see sense,’ said the dwarf happily to


    37. These two brawlers reminded her of a giant and a dwarf back home, who’d competed with the


    38. "This is Fyuanuran," a big-boned dwarf with the longest, thickest white hair and beard of all of them, more than waist length fore and aft


    39. “It"s a damn good thing you"re only just bigger than a dwarf


    40. Then the result is to benumb the spirit and dwarf the

    41. Or, had this been an ongoing project, to render into written literature the oral history recitations, whose beginnings had been lost in the mists of a time so immemorial as to dwarf all of the time ascribed to written history? How far back might a time traveler have to journey to discover the beginnings of a culture’s Genesis story?


    42. There is a dimly lit red dwarf star in the sky above


    43. “Hmmm… It is a red dwarf star twenty-five trillion miles from here, which is five light-years


    44. With the dwarf


    45. That mighty dwarf strode proudly to the stage and nodded to Osbald and Somonik before addressing the assembly


    46. ” Osbald said, when it was obvious the dwarf was finished


    47. “You sent for Healers?” asked the dwarf as she bustled hurriedly over


    48. ” the dwarf woman said with a smile and a bow


    49. His broad shoulders expanded a good width to either side, all she could think was that it would take some work for him to fit through the somewhat dwarf door compared to him


    50. ” stated a silver-haired dwarf whose long and flowing beard was brushed smoothly down over the chest of his iron chain-link shirt, as he stepped into the picture







































    1. This far up the canal, only small trees were growing above them, still dwarfed by their initial crystal support pillars


    2. The figures on the bridge were dwarfed by the immensity


    3. the town and dwarfed the buildings surrounding it


    4. In comparison, the feather dwarfed her hand


    5. James Strong encountered while compiling his "Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible" (where each and every word of consequence in the entire Bible was carefully noted, recorded, numbered, collated and corresponding Hebrew and Greek definitions were provided) was dwarfed by the tasks that Panin had to perform in his studies


    6. In Roleston's company she had seemed dwarfed, but out on the dance floor among 'normal' sized people Jack discovered that she was almost as tall as he


    7. The size of the prints dwarfed her hand, but it was the shape that drew her interest


    8. Cash bricks, dwarfed a counting


    9. It dwarfed, for instance, Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn River in Montana, nearly a century later


    10. We rowed fairly near one of them and I could see that it dwarfed the merchant dugout

    11. Cook pulled herself up on her own feet, her height dwarfed by the laird


    12. The legislative significance of such contradictory procedures is dwarfed by their electoral importance, as legislators can compile a voting record suitable for nearly any audience


    13. Their army, which was vast, must have taken years to amass and he wondered how the Tanarians had been so unobservant as to miss such an enormous threat? He had been a boy soldier during the last war with Aristria and this army dwarfed the ones from his memory


    14. Being the size of a large wagon the oddly smooth surface of the crystal glistened with the light of the late afternoon sun and dwarfed the men that bustled about it


    15. They would be dwarfed


    16. I took his huge paw that dwarfed my hand and proudly guided him to where Torrian lay sleeping


    17. Next to him was Barkow, who stood at just over six feet but was dwarfed by his fellow soldier


    18. Ra was a powerful demon and had great strength, but the powerful warring angel dwarfed him


    19. The profile dwarfed anything that was leaving it, and their exhaust flamed


    20. His shoulders went on forever, and she knew that had she been standing next to him he’d have dwarfed her

    21. He was a tall elegant man who dwarfed Margaret and was older than her in years


    22. The hostage crisis became such a huge issue that everything else was dwarfed in comparison


    23. I slipped into the center of the harness which dwarfed me, warned everyone to stay out of the way or they’d be in for a big surprise


    24. It was a snake that dwarfed all Conan's previous ideas of snakes


    25. which dwarfed the full time homes of most of Theo's workforce


    26. While hardly a small ship by the standards of twenty-first century space flight, the warship was dwarfed by the cargo ship


    27. Cindy's worry was dwarfed in comparison to the reality


    28. Now, he was dwarfed by each of Elizabeth’s massive passenger cargo sections


    29. S’us took up a small dagger from the stump covered in scrolls that she was seated around and followed closely, her childish frame dwarfed by the huge men, and all the way she wondered what terrible things could have befallen Joey and Lezura


    30. dwarfed in this massive room that was accustomed to ten times as many people, but the intimacy of the proceedings was maintained despite the size that was augmented by the tall mirrors reflecting mostly artificial light from the crystal chandeliers and sconces

    31. There's a lighthouse, but it is dwarfed by the cliff


    32. ‘’Damn, another night shot to hell!’’ Muttered FBI Special Agent Jeff Blumenthal, as he watched with other FBI agents the giant yacht approach slowly the quay, escorted by a Coast Guard cutter that was actually dwarfed by its charge


    33. In fact, the workers in the yellow protective suits were probably more or less the same size as he and Stick, but they were dwarfed by the size of the Ships


    34. Both ships dwarfed any ships the Vikings had and appeared to be made of metal rather than wood


    35. While the assault barge he was in was massive by Carolingian standards, it was dwarfed by the elegant building of glass and steel it landed near to, with the building and its top dome rising higher than any building the monk had seen before in his life


    36. Recognition returned and she looked around at the immense living room that dwarfed her entire house on the hill


    37. After a turn into a secondary dirt road they were approaching an old two story house dwarfed by pine trees in the front and back


    38. The area dwarfed him


    39. the tallest, but Bonnie glowed with a brilliance that dwarfed himself and Jason


    40. Unfortunately, this sensible part was dwarfed by a hope that Sophie would get out her claws as soon as James made his move, regardless of a happy working environment

    41. The thought of catching or spreading diseases alarmed him greatly, but the pleasure he was having recently, hopping from bed to bed, dwarfed any fears or guilt he might feel


    42. The wall was made of giant blocks of stone that reached up so high even Laeron was dwarfed by it


    43. Though the chamber had an echoing grandeur and should have dwarfed the old man, he radiated power and authority


    44. As big as the elaborate bed was, the lavish room dwarfed it


    45. love of power is only dwarfed by your hate of keeping the secret


    46. His nose was nothing special and was dwarfed, not in size but in presence, by his red eyes


    47. And the biggest of those was the fact that it was dwarfed by what came later


    48. She even dwarfed her ghostly husband


    49. “Hi, sit down Derrick” he said pointing to a small upholstered chair on the far side of the room, which was dwarfed by his leather recliner “Just had the Chief on the line – Do you know where we stand again this month Derrick?”


    50. The whole cottage was dwarfed further by Ben’s mighty frame
































    1. " Saffa leaned forward, her enormous head dwarfing the diminutive Fairy


    2. Ma sat at the wheel, her podgy frame dwarfing the rusting machine that she steered to a halt in front of the barn


    3. It continued to spread as a horizontal oval, dwarfing the dimensions of the original breach formed by Ankharet in her magical experimentation


    4. The wedding is short but sweet, with Dana in a soft white gown that I borrowed from a woman in Doa, and D’ven dwarfing everyone in the best clothes in his pack- no one had anything that would fit him


    5. Then he glanced again at the roaring pillar looming against the sky, dwarfing the towers, and he too fled that castle of nameless horrors


    6. Paul could feel his brother-in-law’s large frame dwarfing him in the stale air of the quietude


    7. Powerful tractors manned by Warriors — their dark stalk-bodies and umbrella heads dwarfing the vehicle — pulled huge crates on flat bed freight trucks into the space ship


    8. The Warrior stood tall and large, its bulbous umbrella head nearly touching the ceiling, its bulk dwarfing the cell


    9. He looks at me and I remember calling him that the night he showed up at the Clarin House, dwarfing my tiny room with its tiny bed, communal, impossible-to-get-your-turn-in bathroom down the hall, and four crooked hangers in the closet


    10. ” He hovers, dwarfing them

    11. Not once did his eyes meet hers and Ashley sat on Ellen’s little writing chair, his long body dwarfing the frail bit of furniture he spoke no word of interruption


    12. Emerson Electric has an enormous total market value, dwarfing the other three companies combined


    13. He was sitting at his desk, dwarfing it with his bulk, his head bowed over an open file, phone clapped to his ear


    14. She was indeed the proud daughter of a thousand jeddaks, every inch of her dear, precious little body; so small, so frail beside the towering warriors around her, but in her majesty dwarfing them into insignificance; she was the mightiest figure among them and I verily believe that they felt it


    1. While in motion, all the dark matter, from snowflakes to brown dwarfs, are the most interesting thing to be seen, the stars remain fixed thru the whole voyage, except the extra one directly ahead or behind, Sol


    2. Standing just over five-stones (roughly ten human feet), his father wasn’t the largest of the Boulder Dwarfs


    3. and the Seven Dwarfs


    4. The dwarfs are very


    5. Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size


    6. Let’s say we toss out the low-energy brown dwarfs, the young stars, and the plentiful binaries because they have


    7. recall the 50 States of America or the names of the seven dwarfs but rather one or


    8. Most of the six hundred or so customers were human, about a tenth were elves, and four dwarfs were among those taking part in a game being held along the right wall


    9. would have gone through the seven dwarfs then, so great was their


    10. But some stars, called white dwarfs and

    11. On a foreland, some dwarfs and fairies noticed our presence and shouted phrases that I could not understand


    12. dwarfs living in a forest!


    13. This was where tiny dwarfs made ice cream for the park attendees; and the two boys ordered ten scoops of blackberry ice cream, a yummy ice cream that was coated with black chocolate and red strawberries


    14. If it is true that as dwarfs, our desire would be that to climb up onto the shoulders of the giants and not of other dwarfs, maybe even more dangerous, and find dwarfs that think they are giants, only because they have stilts


    15. It is no use trusting these giants, therefore; one cannot lean on these fictitious giants to see better, to dream, to realize/be realized since they are nothing but dwarfs with stilts, dwarfs dressed up as giants


    16. The image dwarfs accompanying photos of


    17. she realised that they were dwarfs


    18. peace now with the dwarfs located in there own enclaves, but


    19. They claim it’s because he’s very good with the dwarfs, but personally I think it’s because some of the trolls have a soft spot for him


    20. A handful of sex-slaves came rushing out, followed by a gaggle of cursing dwarfs

    21. She didn’t have much luck with dwarfs


    22. The wolves and the dwarfs held no fear for them


    23. Thousands of men, dwarfs, Amazons etc had died here at Crow Hill a thousand years ago, and all those that fell were still trapped in the earth, ready to set upon anyone foolish enough to walk over their unmarked graves


    24. At the bottom were the dwarfs, grumbling furiously that they were on the lowest ground, and protesting that surely – as everyone who has ever composed a picture knows – the smallest should be on the top to balance things out


    25. the wood dwarfs (a miracle in itself), and met the Warlock’s forces at the battle of Crow Hill


    26. Only the King of the Wood Dwarfs and King Spartan were told what had happened


    27. Shamen knows where the dwarfs can be found


    28. was then, and the power of the wood dwarfs has been on the decline for centuries


    29. somehow, we have to get through the Forest without getting ripped to pieces by the dwarfs, the


    30. Only the dwarfs could tell

    31. Two dwarfs sat atop a mound where the track split in two


    32. They needed to find the dwarfs again, and find out


    33. were men, Amazons, even wood dwarfs, all joining in the common cause, one last stand against


    34. against the Amazons and dwarfs, but it was not to be


    35. Once they had located the dwarfs, he released the bony witch


    36. his side, and approached the dwarfs


    37. The last troll fell, and the remaining men and dwarfs rallied together


    38. were scattered around the chamber floor, leading to the wood dwarfs living quarters


    39. There was a collective clearing of throats as the dwarfs prepared to recite the well-known lines


    40. Two dwarfs shall guard the Forest gates,

    41. Since the dwarfs had no other spies, being spy-chief was


    42. He’s been told by some dwarfs that


    43. Four dwarfs appeared from nowhere casting a net over the air-borne creature, and bringing it


    44. The size of the footprints suggested dwarfs, maybe twenty or thirty of them, and the


    45. the whole place would be in uproar, with dwarfs running around all over the place


    46. Leofric leapt out from the shadows, ready to take as many of the dwarfs with him as he could


    47. half way through the stroke, he realised that they were not warlike dwarfs at all


    48. “She’s been captured by the dwarfs


    49. surly dwarfs hauling her from the tree, and seeing Hubert (or was it Horace? She could never


    50. dwarfs, the Amazons, Spartan Castle, and anything beyond








































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    Synonyms for "dwarf"

    dwarf gnome midget nanus overshadow shadow homunculus lilliputian manikin pygmy diminutive dwarfed little stunted tiny undersized retard hinder

    "dwarf" definitions

    a person who is markedly small


    a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure


    a plant or animal that is atypically small


    make appear small by comparison


    check the growth of