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  • He was determined to publish poetry and publish it elegantly, to which end he established (first in Germany) an imprint called Manikin, under which he issued three booklets of verse.

    The Return of Janet Lewis McMurtry, Larry 1998

  • Downstairs, at the Analoguehaven booth they had this Manikin Memotron unit $1995.

    Memotron digital Mellotron... but why? 2005

  • "Manikin!" he roared, and sprang with vicious lunges upon the duke's jester, who falling back before the suddenness of the assault, whipped out his weapon in turn, and, laughing, threw himself into an attitude of defense.

    Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

  • So the aspiring Manikin clung to the perilous Tree-Tops day after day, dropping the ruby Cherries into the suspended Bucket, while all of the

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • So the aspiring Manikin clung to the perilous Tree-Tops day after day, dropping the ruby Cherries into the suspended Bucket, while all of the

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • Manikin; and it makes Him so glad when He finds us. '

    A Peep Behind the Scenes O. F. Walton 1894

  • Manikin called her greenhouse, for in it, arranged on boxes near the window, were all manner of flowerpots, containing all manner of flowers, ferns, and mosses.

    A Peep Behind the Scenes O. F. Walton 1894

  • Manikin's name that day; it was not only then that she knelt down to ask the Good Shepherd to seek and to save little Mother Manikin.

    A Peep Behind the Scenes O. F. Walton 1894

  • Manikin, shaking her little fist at Rosalie, 'if you don't find all quite straight at Melton, if you think it puts them out at all to take you in, you come to me.

    A Peep Behind the Scenes O. F. Walton 1894

  • Mother Manikin insisted on wrapping up a little parcel, containing lunch, for the child to eat on her way.

    A Peep Behind the Scenes O. F. Walton 1894

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