We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Center panel, hand-screened wood, actually is a back of one of the tall bookcases.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.

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.

" Counting tray "), is typically tall and comes in various widths depending on the operator.

An aardwolf is about 55 to 80 centimeters long, excluding its bushy tail about 20 to 30 cm long, and one stands about 40 to 50 cm tall at the shoulders.

She is tall and weighs, matching the average figure of a Korean women in her twenties.

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.

The urn is made of terracotta and is about six inches ( 150 mm ) tall and may originally have been a perfume jar.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

Haie is described as being tall and strong, and a peat-digger by profession.

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.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

The founding of the United States is often surrounded by legends and tall tales.

The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature.

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

The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age ; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

The Funkturm Berlin is a tall lattice radio tower at the fair area, built between 1924 and 1926.

Bigfoot is described in reports as a large hairy ape-like creature, in a range of tall, weighing in excess of, and covered in dark brown or dark reddish hair.

Beside each " living creature " is a " wheel within a wheel ," with " tall and awesome " rims full of eyes all around.

He is 18 years of age throughout the run of the series, and is described as lanky, blond, crew-cut, possessed of deep-set blue eyes, and closely resembling his famous father.

A lanky, bucktoothed donkey with red hair and a green fedora, Hoof is possibly the least intelligent of the three.

This narrative reveals that Crane has a fear of bats, and is obsessed with fear and revenge as a result of having been bullied throughout his childhood and adolescence for his lanky frame and bookishness, especially because of his resemblance to Ichabod Crane from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

It is nicknamed " der lange Lulatsch " (" the lanky lad ") and is one of the best-known points of interest in the city of Berlin.

He is extremely tall and lanky, with red hair and a beard.

Because of his rather gluttonous nature, however, he is often played as being short and slightly fat ( in comparison to the often tall and lanky Vladimir ).

It tends to be the convention in most productions, however, that he is tall and lanky, while Estragon is short and squat.

Shaggy's distinct personality is evident in his speech pattern commonly due to his frequent use of punctuating his sentences with the word " like " and his appearance — he is lanky, has sandy hair worn in a shaggy style ( hence his nickname ) and a rough goatee with no mustache, and typically sports a green v-neck and brown bell bottoms.

Tall and lanky, he is in many ways a contrast to his friend Bullfinch.

Umber is tall and lanky as opposed to Jupiter's character, who is stocky.

He is " a lanky, bony-cheeked young man.

In Aloha, Lupin, a lanky and strong robot is robbing jewellery stores in the Tokyo area, all in the name of Lupin III.

Catroux is famed for her long white-blond hair, lanky body, gaunt features, and androgynous appearance.

Stretch is the lanky leader of the Trio with the " Joisey " ( New Jersey ) accent.

Kai Shiden is tall and lanky in stature with a mop of gray hair, and his snarky and sarcastic personality often gets him scolded or slapped around.

He is tall and lanky, but not athletic.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.

`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

And Bill Wisman, forty-three, a farmer's son from Beallsville, Ohio, is a quiet but impressive man.

Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

Writers openly admit that the Negro is easier to write than the white man ; ;

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

It is difficult to reconstruct the primeval fears of man.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

It is not a substitute for sex but a dynamic expression of the creative impulse in unfettered man.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

He is `` a man raving mad on the way to the churchyard ''.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.