1. She appeared but a pigmy compared with the lofty frigate which she guarded.

2. There are pigmy giraffes, large giraffes with moose-like antlers and elephant-like creatures with downward-curving tusks in the lower jaw.

3. That pigmy kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. Will that become an Ionian or a Boeotian?

4. But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

5. If I were to add the word pigmy, ring a bell?

6. And a zoo in Brazil is celebrating the birth of a rare pigmy hippopotamus by inviting visitors to vote on its name.