Mannikins

Now, it's an abandoned, eerie building used to store mannikins, colonial furniture and piles of discarded violins. ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)

Controllable mannikins aside (where is Mini-me when you need him?), there is something about tiny reproductions of our inner and outer life which continues to fascinate us. ❋ Heather McDougal (2008)

I think the Chinese must use different mannikins. on June 18, 2008 at 12: 12 am | Reply Top Posts « WordPress. com ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

The point is to let the characters live their lives in a natural way, not turn them into them mannikins to hang a theory on. ❋ Frank Wilson (2006)

Lots of such men, or mannikins, affected the season, then as now, and congregated around the rails of Rotten Row. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nevertheless the appearance of the two mannikins in ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

And should Carcinus come to beg thee for admission with his sons to thy chorus, refuse all traffic with them; remember they are but gelded birds, stork-necked dancers, mannikins about as tall as a goat's turd, in fact machine-made poets. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Maybe they're dress­ing her like one of the mannikins in Mr. Feldman's store window. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1990)

She thought Gram would go back to the bus stop then, but instead her grandmother went along the fancy department store, past purses and hats, past sweaters, past racks of dresses and mannikins leaning over in impossible poses. ❋ Cynthia Voigt (1982)

They were in the same poses as the mannikins for ladies, which Dicey thought was pretty stupid. ❋ Cynthia Voigt (1982)

Like the pagan deities who have shrunk in peasant mythology to be elves and pooks and suchlike mannikins, these creatures, banished from the polite reading of the Victorians, reappeared instantly in that grotesque microcosm of life which the Victorians invented as an outlet for one of their tightest repressions, the School Story. ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)

Sure enough, there on the crest, there dotted on the sides, were the moving black mannikins that we have already come to know afar as Boers. ❋ G. W. Steevens (N/A)