Sentence examples for a tiny race of from inspiring English sources

Now the hunt is on for living relatives of Flores's little folk (local legends speak of a tiny race of jungle dwellers called the Ebu Gogo), not just on the island but around the rest of the Malay Archipelago, a string of mysterious tropical islands - home to orang-utans, giant turtles and rare birds and bats - that spread like jewels between Asia and Australia.

The stories follow the adventures of a tiny race of creatures known as Minimoys who live in peaceful harmony with nature in a secretive underground world.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, concerned, in part, his adventures after being shipwrecked and awakening as a prisoner of a tiny race of people who inhabit the country of Lilliput.

42) The Free State of Jones The title comes from a small outpost in Jones county, Mississippi, where – according to legend – a confederate soldier called Newton Knight set up a tiny mixed-race community in the middle of the civil war.

There are now two categories of House races: the overwhelming majority, where the incumbent is a shoo-in and which national parties ignore, and a tiny number of competitive races into which the parties pour all their money and energy.

Along with director Chris Wedge, they turn up the production values in the lush visual feast of "Epic". A hidden race of tiny people live in a beautiful enchanted forest.

The Minish, also referred to as the Picori by the Hyruleans, are a race of tiny creatures that bestowed a young boy with a green garment, a sword, and a shining golden light to drive back the darkness many years before the game is set.

The show's basic plot line comes from Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who," in which the gentle pachyderm endeavors to save a race of tiny people.

The bones of a race of tiny primitive people, who used stone tools to hunt pony-sized elephants and battle huge Komodo dragons, were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004.

8. "Augustus Gloop" from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl The Ooompa-Loompas are a race of tiny men who work in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, with a sideline in mischievous songs.

An eerie result is children who seem willed into existence by Ms. Lux (her puppet master's strings are evident in the slightly distended heads and limbs and in the pastel tints) but who also have the air of self-created beings, a race of tiny Nordic monsters, spawned inside her computer but now genetically mutated and struggling with her for domination.