He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.

But it was not a tall structure and other buildings concealed it.

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.

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

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

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

As different physically as the tall, angular Jefferson was from the chubby, rotund Adams, the seven were striking individualists.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

It was a grotesque hen, five or six feet tall.

Now when Henri was just 12 he was only 4' 10'' '' tall and weighed an astounding 72 pounds, and his greatest desire was to pack on some weight.

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.

His three-round total of 210 was three strokes better than the next best score, a 213 by Bill Collins, the tall and deliberate Baltimorean who had been playing very well all winter long.

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

At, he was tall and " strong enough to intimidate any rival ".

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.

More than six feet tall ( about 1. 9 m ), he was also noted for his immense physical strength.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.

At the inn, which was situated close to a broad weir, Byron was greeted by the landlord with obsequious deference and addressed as `` milord ''.

The magnetic resonance absorption was detected by employing a Varian model Af broad line spectrometer and the associated 12-inch electromagnet system.

Her mother also was a person of superior mind and broad interests.

Now the dirt highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep drainage ditch, too broad to leap over unless you were an Olympic star.

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Walitzee was among them, and Sarpsis, and they wore red blankets which flew like broad wings in the air of their passing.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

Ampicillin was the first of a number of so-called broad spectrum penicillins subsequently introduced by Beecham.

The product line was broad and came to include ammunition, grenades, mines, armored personnel vehicles, patrol boats, navy patrol planes, turboprop trainers, tanks, and subsonic jet fighters.

There was also a silver pendant, which represents a woman with a broad necklace around her neck.

Her study of languages, literature, science and history was broad and she was an eager student.

The term bean originally referred to the seed of the broad or fava bean, but was later expanded to include members of the New World genus Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.

It was also suggested that individual genes are likely to have only a small effect and to be involved in some aspect related to the disorder ( and a broad range of " normal " human behavior ) rather than the disorder per se.

Teach was tall, with broad shoulders.