| 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. |
| A somewhat similar experiment was concerned with a magazine editor and a life-size mannikin made up to resemble a muckraker. |
| I'm not quite the tailor's mannikin that I was in the old days at the 'Varsity. |
| At which one can only stare, as at a mannikin attacking a colossus. |
| I look into my mind and discover I am too much of a mannikin to have any. |
| Quill fuses could be ignited directly, that is, without any delaying element such as the sulfur mannikin. |
