Sentence examples for mannikin from inspiring English sources

In the lexicon of Marxian insults, phrases like "impudent windbag" and "rowdy, loudmouthed and extremely confused little mannikin" counted as mild.But Mr Wheen is bent on showing that the brutish and acerbic polemicist, while he undoubtedly existed, was not the only Karl Marx.

For chestnut mannikin, see munia.

The 9-centimetre (3.5-inch) bronze mannikin (L. cucullata) has large communal roosts in Africa; it has been introduced into Puerto Rico, where it is called hooded weaver.

Abundant in southern Asia are the nutmeg mannikin (L. punctulata), also called spice finch or spotted munia, and the striated mannikin (L. striata), also called white-backed munia.

The black-headed munia, or chestnut mannikin (Lonchura malacca, including atricapilla and ferruginosa), is a pest in rice fields from India to Java and the Philippines; as a cage bird it is often called tricolour nun.

Quill fuses could be ignited directly, that is, without any delaying element such as the sulfur mannikin.

All of these fuses were ignited either by a piece of wool yarn impregnated with sulfur, called a sulfur mannikin, or some equivalent slow-burning device.

Munia, any of several small finchlike Asian birds of the mannikin and waxbill groups (family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes).

The family's members include mannikins and munias (Lonchura), cordon bleus and grenadiers (Uraeginthus), fire finches (Lagonosticta), waxbills (Estrilda), parrot finches (Erythrura), and negro finches (Nigrita).

Mannikins are somewhat similar Old World birds that are more distantly related to manakins.

Mannikins are finchlike birds, mostly brownish and often with black throats and fine barring.