Tall

Examples

• The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre, and add an air of severity to the scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This tall man, Tom, is a rascally adventurer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A tall man--a confoundedly tall man--with black whiskers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was a heavy man about five feet ten inches tall and his hands and feet were large. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The sun was low, and tall trees sent their shadows across the grassy walks where Mary was moving without bonnet or parasol. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He is slender, not tall, wiry, and looks as if he could endure any amount of physical exercise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The tall English driver came around and looked in, I'll take it very easily, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She had put on a dress of stiff old greenish brocade, that fitted tight and made her look tall and rather terrible, ghastly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I judged him to be about my own age, but he was much taller, and he had a way of spinning himself about that was full of appearance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This it is, her not caring about you, which gives her such a soft skin, and makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height, or rather taller. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• You are not striving to look taller than any body else. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I always had an idea that you were at least seven feet high, and was quite astonished at your return from India to find you no taller than myself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was taller than I and his face was very thin under the shadow of his cap-visor and the scar was new and shiny. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Thus, Bentley Drummle had come to Mr. Pocket when he was a head taller than that gentleman, and half a dozen heads thicker than most gentlemen. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He is taller than the Indian, not so tall as Gilchrist. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She is grown up; she will be no taller. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, {301} and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Why, he sees those chimneys--the tallest ones! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Make jist the tallest kind o' broth and knicknacks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The preventative did not work well in the cases of our tallest pilgrims, however. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In a volume like this, room exists for mention only of those inventions which burn as beacon lights on the tallest hills--and so we must now pass on to others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The tallest of the two--a stout muscular man in the dress of a gamekeeper--was a stranger to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes; they had all given their nosegays, from the eldest to the youngest, from the tallest to the most diminutive. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The parties stood thus: The two mothers, though each really convinced that her own son was the tallest, politely decided in favour of the other. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

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