1839, Leopold J. Bernays (translator), Goethe's Faust, : Translated from the German, Partly in the Metres of the Original and Partly in Prose, with Other Poems, Original and Translated, 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.
1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Nowâ€, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection, 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, Randall Wallace, Love and Honor, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-7432-6519-X, 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; …
