1839, Leopold J. Bernays (translator), Geothe’s Faust, Part II: Translated from the German, Partly in the Metres of the Original and Partly in Prose, with Other Poems, Original and Translated,[1] Sampson Low, page 76,
Pigmies.[…] If a rocky cleft shows itself, the dwarf is once at hand. Dwarf and dwarfess, quick in industry, each pair exemplary.
1847, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, Volume XIII, page 247:
Gibson and his wife were among the best English-born artists of their era. He was just three feet six inches in height; she was a dwarfess of the same proportion. This little couple had nine good-sized children, and having weathered the storms of civil war, lived happily together to old age.
1871, H. C. Romanoff, Historical Narratives, page 17:
After him came several dwarfs in pairs, all in black mantles, the smallest walking first. Further followed two parties of dwarfesses, each with its marshal, and lastly a weeper, also a dwarfess.
1905, J. W. Ballantyne, Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene: The Embryo, page 248:
[…] Dubois' dwarfess was the daughter of a dwarf father and a normal-sized mother, she had two dwarf sisters, and she herself gave birth to a premature foetus weighing 3 lb.
1958, "Ithaca and 'Lolita'", Newsweek, 24 November 1958, page 155:
“I have no idea what they will do with it,” he [Vladimir Nabokov] said. “Of course they will have to change the plot. Perhaps they will make Lolita a dwarfess. Or they will make her 16 and Humbert 26. I just don’t know. It’s difficult to translate a book into a movie.”
"You have the steel to be Queen of England. Settle for less, and you know you will regret it every time you curtsy to some chinny Spanish bitch or some French dwarfess. Every time a Hapsburg or a Bourbon spawns an English prince that a Howard should have bred. Every degree your family slips from the favour you could have advanced. God! What is today's mad moment set against your whole future?"
Owing to his popularity, the dwarf’s financial standing was far superior to that of the giant. In addition to the admission fee, it was usual to throw a few copper coins to the exhibits in their cages, a tip so to speak. And of course the more a member of the show was looked at, the more lucrative the harvest. The dwarf knew how to make the audience generous by telling them touching stories that worked on the tear ducts. So he told again and again about the death of his grandmother, a very large dwarfess, the largest he had seen in his life. He could not have her buried, he assured them, because he lacked the necessary funds.
The environmental rap, on top of feminism. If he makes Rosa a porphyric dwarfess in a breath-driven Stephen Hawking wheelchair, he'll have the hat trick. The man is a twisted genius.
2004, Randall Wallace, Love and Honor,[2] Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 367,
She recognized Zepsha’s extraordinary talent for this role; the dwarfess, far from resenting her position in life, […]. For not lamenting her physical shortcomings, Beatrice admired Zepsha; […]
2008, Emily Perkins, Novel About My Wife, page 67:
The old dwarfess who ran the place seemed instantly to glean that we were lovers in trouble.
1987, Peter McBride, "The Sign of the Orc" (short story), in Knight Orc: Novella & Playguide (English Version), page 24:
The last the orcs heard, before Young Jack led her off to an inner room and shut the door, he was explaining how you could get a really good sheen on pewter by polishing it with a beard, although the barmaid, not being a dwarfess and therefore not having a beard, might like to try it with her hair Instead.
1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Now”, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection,[3] St. Martin's Press, 0-312-04450-X, page 328,
Heracty has been told that the flaxen dwarfess once had an adventure in the mock forest below the Palace.
2004, James Haberlin & Brian Haberlin, But, But...Barbarians?, paeg 207:
She was a silver-haired, rather portly dwarfess...and the most powerful enchantress in Ilsdale, if not in the known world.
A crowd had gathered. […] Men and women and dwarfs he recognized from the neighborhood around the Rugmaker's Cupola. Ducôte even, the old dwarf dressed in formal muslin wrappings and leaning on a cane as he whispered to a young dwarfess close by his side.
It crumbled under her probe and the old dwarfess now saw her as a Light Elf.
2014, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Volume 1, page 51:
Opening the door, I immediately see a stout dwarfess, probably the owner, behind a counter and a group of young cat-people girls in aprons serving food and alcohol to customers.
2014, Robert P. Wills, Here's Looking For You, Grim, page 290:
Nulu grabbed Grimbledung by the arm and pulled him off the Dwarfess.
