Tallest
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Examples
- 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.
Edited by Carmella