The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

In the basement the sheriff took him to a small, dingy office occupied by a tall, thin man informal in rolled-up shirt sleeves.

He is tall and thin and always wears clothes a size too large for him.

He is tall and thin and, as Tarrou observes in his journal, " his small, beady eyes, narrow nose, and hard, straight mouth make him look like a well-brought-up owl.

In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.

The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy-struck, and idealistic Quixote and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed ever since the book ’ s publication, and Don Quixote's imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel.

The same species, when growing in a half-shady damp location can develop into a flowering bush half as tall as a person, but when growing in a very dry location will only grow into a thin little plant just higher than the ankles, with tiny flowers and a few miniature leaves.

He was rather tall, thin and demure, making the impression of an ascetic with the face of an icon .... Tormented or not, this is an issue history will clarify ; in any case this person did not know how to lie.

In most cases, the individual flowers are tall, thin saccate ( sack-shaped ) in shape.

People with Marfan tend to be unusually tall, with long limbs and long, thin fingers.

Champagne is usually served in a Champagne flute, whose characteristics include a long stem with a tall, narrow bowl, thin sides and an etched bottom.

* Romeo ( in Italian, rō ′· mē · ō in English )/" Lampwick " or " Candlewick " ( Lucignolo ): a tall, thin boy ( like a wick ) who is Pinocchio's best friend and a trouble-maker.

Morpheus usually appears as a tall, thin man with bone-white skin, black hair, and two distant stars looking out from the shadows where his eyes should be.

Howard's manager Alfred Chenhalls physically resembled Churchill, while Howard was tall and thin, like Churchill's bodyguard, Detective Inspector Walter H. Thompson.

Eliot talks of Macavity's virtues in stealth, his tall and thin stature with sunken eyes and a domed forehead.

It was reported that he was thin, but tall and strongly built, and " a crack marksman who had destroyed many Soviet tanks during the Afghan War.

St Michael and All Angels Church, designed by local architect George Smith and completed in 1830, was dubbed the Needle of Kent in honour of its tall, thin spire ( it is also nicknamed the Devil's Pick or the Devil's Toothpick ).

He also calls Waluigi " disgustingly tall and thin " as opposed to Wario, who he calls a " fatass ".

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1963 ) Bond learns that Blofeld has radically altered his appearance — he is now tall and thin ; has reduced his weight to ; sports long silver hair, an infection on his nose, and no earlobes ; and wears dark green tinted contact lenses.

Here, Blofeld is tall, thin, and bearded, with a European accent more in keeping with the character as presented in From Russia With Love and Thunderball.

After drawing Dee Dee's tall, thin shape, he decided to pair her with a short and blocky opposite, Dexter ( inspired by Tartakovsky's older brother Alex ).

His successor as maestro di cappella at the Collegio Germanico in 1686, describes him as: very frugal in his domestic affairs, very noble manners towards friends and acquaintances, tall, thin, and prone to melancholy.

Gustaf V was tall and thin.

* Spar buoy – a tall, thin buoy that floats upright in the water, e. g. R / P FLIP.

* Garganta de Lata (" Tin Throat "): A tall, jolly, thin redhead with a typical alcoholic's nose.

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

It was nearly sundown and he went to the back of the wagon, half-swimming his way, for he was not a tall man.

At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.

Abel Poupin, a tall man with sunken cheeks and deep-set eyes, got to his feet.

And so, after a flight southeast to Savannakhet, we found ourselves bouncing along in a Jeep right behind the Land-Rover of Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, a tall man of Churchillian mien in a bush jacket and a ten-gallon hat from Texas.

Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear??

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

Bostock's deposition describes Teach as a " tall spare man with a very black beard which he wore very long ".

During his reign as king of Aquilonia, Conan was "... a tall man, mightily shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily muscled limbs.

Onboard eyewitnesses recalled a man in his mid-forties, between and tall.

In contrast to his own diminutive stature, his personal assistant and secretary Eduard Hedvicek, who later played a significant role in the unsuccessful attempt to save his life was a very large and tall man ( 200 cm

The Knights are led by a man who is approximately 12 feet tall with disproportionately short arms and reindeer antlers inserted into his helmet ( played by Michael Palin standing on a ladder ; the original screenplay suggested that he be played by " Mike standing on John's shoulders ").

The trees are so big and tall that a single tree is enough to make a mast of a first rate man of war.

It is impossible to imagine a man, the argument goes, unless one has in mind a very specific picture of one who is either tall or short, European or Asian, blue-eyed or brown-eyed, et cetera.

It has been estimated that Bruce may have stood at around 6 feet 1 inch ( 186 cm ) tall as a young man, which by medieval standards was impressive.

The game did not start out as a Mario series game and the first prototype featured a generic man in overalls in the kart ; the team decided that characters three heads tall would best suit the design of the karts.

He is a tall, lanky man of dopey intelligence who wears green chainmail and carries a spear.

This is in accordance with Bower who states that Wallace was " a tall man with the body of a giant ... with lengthy flanks ... broad in the hips, with strong arms and legs ... with all his limbs very strong and firm ".

* 11 January-Workers in a sandpit in the Dauphiné discover the skeleton of what is to be alleged to be a 30-foot tall man, the remains, it is thought, of the giant Teutobochus, a legendary Gallic king who fought the Romans.

Later on, wind tunnel study came into its own: the effects of wind on man made structures or objects needed to be studied when buildings became tall enough to present large surfaces to the wind, and the resulting forces had to be resisted by the building's internal structure.