Little Man
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Little Man” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 11
- Public sources
- 2
- States / territories
- 0
- Dated span
- 1893–1898
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- little man in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2446of it in their own outlandish way, indulging freely in the seductive opium, and holding high carouse over an extemporized fantan table, proceedings which made it evident that they thought they were getting to windward o…
- little man in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2445t at the group, and bristling fiercely, "which av ye dhirty haythen furriners cum up to me house lasht noight and shtole me pig Nancy? Which av ye is it, so't I kin bate him! ye thavin' hathins?" The placid Orientals su…
- little man in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2444remark, "and thin yez must get up av noights for more. Whin ye'r not atin' ye'r munchin' a schnack, bad cess t'ye." In order to provide the provender for his unreasonably hungry family, Mickey had been compelled to supp…
- little man in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2441the little man into the light of day, handcuffed him, and led him off. The charge was sheep-stealing. There was no doubt of Bannon's guilt: one skin with the brand on it was found doing service as a rug on his bunk anot…
- little man in Australian fairy tales#1500most wonderful animal in the world is a pig; for it is first killed and then cured.” “Good!” cried Slubber. “The next,” continued Hop-o’-my-thumb, “is—What shoemaker makes shoes without leather? Why, a horseshoer, for h…
- little man in Australian fairy tales#1499enigmas?” Poor Hop-o’-my-thumb seemed dismayed for a moment. He wanted to conciliate the giant, but how was he to frame a reply to these three difficult questions? In the midst of his cogitations he bethought him of his…
- little man in Australian fairy tales#1498d fire, and where each of his customers wears two pairs at a time? Third: What is seen in the sky, also in the water, and sometimes on men’s breasts which, being reversed, is the name for the very worst kind of vermin?…
- little man in Australian fairy tales#1497here no white man had ever been and which was supposed by everybody to be a dreary wilderness without river, or lake, or anything to sustain life in the way of game. Tiny Thumbcake, or as we shall call him, Hop-o’-my-th…
- little man in The Moving Finger#2297y, "bail up; throw up your hands, or--," and he added such a string of vile oaths that Bessie, shuddering, covered her face with her hands. Hollis did not at once obey, and in a second a shot rang out and his right hand…
- little man in Nuggets in the Devil's Punch Bowl#1524granite boulders on which they lay; the crows sat motionless on the fences; and the clouds were too lazy to move. "Ee takes es gruel without choking, an' doesn't find no bones in't," said Jack Jewell, with a jerk of his…
- little man in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1544standing over the cuddy companion with a handspike joined his fellows. Fortunately—for themselves—no one had shown up. The boat pushed off, Bill sculling. The _Sardanapalus_ was crewless. Half-an-hour afterwards, the gr…