Charlet was an uncommonly tall man, with an expressive face, bantering and good natured ; his character corresponded, full of boyish fun and high spirits, with manly independence, and a vein of religious feeling, and he was a hearty favourite among his intimates, one of whom was the painter Géricault.

Though a tall and quiet teenager, his prankish sense of humor found outlet in his art, sometimes in depictions of immigrants or of women dominating men in comic situations.

They were opposites: she was short, open, gregarious, sociable, and liberal, while he was tall, secretive, shy, quiet, introspective, and conservative.

Times of hardship or even disaster are ridiculed, and this extends to the Australian delight in dubbing a tall man " Shorty ," a quiet one " Rowdy ," a bald man " Curly " and a redhead " Bluey ".

: Example: Suzie is as quiet as a mouse and as tall as a giraffe.

Gregory Edmond because he was " tall and cool and quiet and unassuming ".

One of Nadya ’ s friends from gymnasium, Ariadne Tyrkova, described Krupskaya as “ a tall, quiet girl, who did not flirt with the boys, moved and thought with deliberation, and had already formed strong convictions … She was one of those who are forever committed, once they have been possessed by their thoughts and feelings ….” Nadya briefly attended two different secondary schools before finding the perfect fit with Prince A. A. Obolensky's Female Gymnasium, “ a distinguished private girls ’ secondary school in Petersburg .” This education was probably more liberal than most other gymnasiums since it was noted that some of the staff were former revolutionaries.

Muldoon, an Irish American, was very tall, quiet, and more intelligent.

In the first verse, the music becomes quiet to focus on Clarkson's vocal as she wails " Seems like just yesterday / You were a part of me / I used to stand so tall / I used to be so strong / Your arms around me tight / Everything it felt so right / Unbreakable like nothing could go wrong.

A tall, but quiet and unassuming right half, he was signed by Herbert Chapman's Arsenal in December 1926 for £ 200 and turned professional.

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

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

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

At dinner the courses were carried in by tall cuirassiers in red capes and black fur caps topped with tufts of feathers, marching in pairs like guards from a stage tragedy.

A tall lady, with a ruffled collar very low on her bosom, turned insolent green eyes upon him.

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

Carrying it to the living room, she imagined the picture she made: tall and roundly slim, a bit sophisticated in her yellow sheath, with a graceful swingy walk that she had learned as a twirler with the school band.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

Houses often stood four or five stories tall, with single-story rooms facing the plaza ; room blocks were terraced to allow the tallest sections to compose the pueblo's rear edifice.

They are fast-growing deciduous trees growing to 25 – 45 m tall, with spreading branches and large ( 40 – 100 cm ) pinnate leaves with 15-41 long pointed leaflets, the terminal leaflet normally present, and the basal pairs of leaflets often lobed at their bases.

:: Landing on tall ships with a sudden, great bound,

The scheme also extended into the Kamppi district with a series of tall office blocks.

In Asimov's Empire and Foundation series, the capital planet Trantor of the galactic empire is a completely built-up planet, covered in its entirety with tall buildings and subterranean structures.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

Beacons can also be combined with semaphoric or other indicators to provide important information, such as the status of an airport, by the colour and rotational pattern of its airport beacon, or of pending weather as indicated on a weather beacon mounted at the top of a tall building or similar site.

However, around the Mediterranean they include also a dozen woody shrubs 1m-3m tall, e. g. in northern Africa ( Zilla spinosa and Ptilotrichum spinosum ), in the Dalmatian islands ( Dendralyssum and Cramboxylon ), and chiefly in Canarias with some woody cruciferous genera: Dendrosinapis, Descurainia, Parolinia, Stanleya, etc ..

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.

He was tall and fairly handsome ; " he had sparkling eyes of medium size ; his nose, like that of his brother, was becomingly aquiline ; his hair was blond and grew back somewhat from his forehead.

It is a gray-leaved herbaceous perennial plant, somewhat resembling mint in appearance, which grows to 25 – 45 cm tall.

The Encyclopædia Britannica notes “ his tall dignified person, unfailing courtesy, and polished, if somewhat deliberate, eloquence made him a man of mark in all the best circles.

The Lesser Rhea is somewhat smaller as their back is only tall.

It is a large shrub or tree, up to 8 m tall, somewhat similar to a sumac tree.

Elwood P. Dowd ( Stewart ) is a middle-aged, amiable ( and somewhat eccentric ) individual whose best friend is an invisible 6 ' 3. 5 " tall rabbit named Harvey.

Ethel Muggs ( originally Ethel Dinklehof ) was portrayed in the early era as a tall, ugly, somewhat boy-crazy individual that had a huge infatuation with Jughead Jones.

Nation was a large woman, almost tall and weighing and of a somewhat stern countenance.

William Michael Rossetti, her brother-in-law, described her as " a most beautiful creature with an air between dignity and sweetness with something that exceeded modest self-respect and partook of disdainful reserve ; tall, finely-formed with a lofty neck and regular yet somewhat uncommon features, greenish-blue unsparkling eyes, large perfect eyelids, brilliant complexion and a lavish heavy wealth of coppery golden hair.

The English Shepherd is a medium sized dog, usually somewhat longer than it is tall.

The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge, usually somewhat narrower than it is tall.

They are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 1 – 4 m tall, with stout, hollow, somewhat succulent stems.

He is shown to be somewhat self-centered and can be immensely shallow and superficial: he once rejected a girl simply because she was too tall.

Whereas Henchard is tall, strong, and somewhat clumsy Farfrae is short, lithe, and well coordinated.

It is a deciduous tree reaching 15 – 25 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter, with finely fissured, often somewhat corky bark.

It is a large evergreen coniferous tree, maturing up to 200 feet tall or more, with trunks 4 – 6 feet in diameter, with feathery foliage in flat sprays, usually somewhat glaucous blue-green in color.

Granny Weatherwax, if she can help it, wears a plain black dress, a somewhat battered black cloak and a tall, pointed witch's hat, skewered to her ' iron-hard grey bun ' hairstyle with multiple hatpins.

It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50 – 150 cm tall, and branching near the top.

Brown tall boots ( field or dress ) were somewhat more common before World War II, when the English riding habit lost popularity outside of formal and / or horse show events.

The N1 was a very large rocket, standing tall — among the world's largest launch vehicles, somewhat smaller than the Saturn V in height and mass, but greater in lift-off thrust and with significantly less payload capability.

Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall.

Quercus douglasii, the Blue Oaks, are medium-sized trees growing up to 15 – 25 m tall, usually with a somewhat irregularly-shaped crown, and a trunk 0. 5 – 1 m in diameter.

He is a tall, somewhat rotund king with a snow white beard and a gold crown.

Lurch is a tall, shambling, gloomy butler who somewhat resembles Frankenstein's monster ( as played by Boris Karloff ).