Sentence examples for Miniature dictionary from inspiring English sources
Cavalcanti's Pett and Pott, an unabashedly silly comedy-drama made to promote sales of telephones, is like a miniature dictionary of cinematic tricks: slow motion, split screen, shock sound edits.
On the desk there is a red glass paperweight given to me for my 10th birthday by my great-uncle, the Irish poet Lord Dunsany, and a set of miniature dictionaries given to me by Tom Stoppard 60 years later.
I woke early to record my dreams and sensations, then I dressed, putting a pen and a small notebook in my pocket, plus a miniature French dictionary I'd sent away for.
The sincere carry dog-eared copies of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline" and miniature French dictionaries in their back pockets.
570 p. Miniature empires : a historical dictionary of the newly independent states / James Minahan.
"It can be very, very tricky," said Mr. Meng, one of 28 linguists employed by the New York City Department of Education, as he stood in an office strewn with dictionaries, Korean newspapers and a mouse pad resembling a miniature Persian rug.
"Though executed on a small scale, they were never conceived as miniatures and avoid any suggestion of daintiness," John Fleming and Hugh Honour write in The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (Viking, 1989).
The website also features an 1809 dictionary of criminal slang, including words found in the works of Charles Dickens, and the largest collection of Brontë childhood writings, such as their miniature notebooks detailing their fantasy worlds of Gondol and Angria.
Miniature Hemingway followed.
