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.

), the UV light of these regions was too weak to penetrate the highly pigmented skin of the initially ( relatively ) dark-skinned migrants so as to provide enough vitamin D for healthy bone development.

The first time race played a major part in Tracy's life was at the age of 7, when he became aware of the racism leveled by his white friends toward dark-skinned children, and that he escaped similar treatment because they thought that Marrow was white because of his lighter skin.

According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".

Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote that Mogadishu was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the modern Somalis.

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

When a dark-skinned French student was attacked in Tartu, the head of an association of foreign students claimed that the attack was characteristic of a wave of neo-Nazi violence.

Noriega, like Torrijos, was dark-skinned and claimed to represent the majority population who were poor and of Zambo heritage ( mixed African and Amerindian ancestry ).

He was described by Odysseus to Penelope as " round-shouldered, dark-skinned, and curly-haired.

Robinson later told reporters when he was a child, his uncle christened him " Smokey Joe ", which Robinson assumed was a " cowboy name for me " until he was later told that smokey was a pejorative term for dark-skinned Blacks.

However, when he saw Oberon's dark-skinned mother one night at her flat and realised Oberon was mixed-race, he decided to end the relationship.

Plutarch was among the unimpressed, deciding that it had failed accurately to reproduce Alexander's colouring: " He made Alexander's complexion appear too dark-skinned and swarthy, whereas we are told that he was fair-skinned, with a ruddy tinge that showed itself especially upon his face and chest.

In Mormon folklore — a second-hand account relates that an early Mormon leader, David W. Patten, encountered a very tall, hairy, dark-skinned man in Tennessee who said that he was Cain.

The assailant was fleeing the scene as they arrived, yet the girls were able to distinguish that he was a dark-skinned, heavy-set man, who wore a dark suit and slouched hat.

The idea was that if the light skinned people were allowed to mate freely with the dark skinned people, the population would remain dark-skinned due to the genetic dominance of the original dark-skinned people.

The social classes in the Viceroyalty of Peru: Pink and fuchsia colors represented the lowest demographic class-the slaves were at the lowest level, above which were poor Spaniards, native people, mestizos, free dark-skinned people and the castas ; yellow color were the middle social class-traders, noble natives, corregidors ; and green color of the pyramid was the upper class-the oidors and Tribunal del Consulado's traders.

At Zapruder film frame Z-202 this dark-skinned man was photographed facing the on-coming president with both arms down.

Badger Township was traversed by trappers and traders, including Indians, Métis and other half-breed people as well as white men incidental to the fur trade between 1790 and 1870.

" It took years for her to overcome this stereotype, and as late as 1932 she was cast as a villainous Eurasian half-breed in Thirteen Women.

Among other tribes, such as the Omaha, which was patrilineal, the full-bloods considered a half-breed a " white man " if he had a white father, which was their application of hypodescent.

It was set in the American West, and featured a " half-breed Apache " as the show's antagonist.

* Cher appeared on an episode of " As the Stomach Turns " as Pocahontas Pirelli, " the town half-breed, half-Indian, and half-dressed ," which was play on her hit song of the time-" Half-Breed.

Since game was disappearing and the incoming of the railways was rendering useless the occupation of freighting on the prairie he recommended that the Métis earn a living through farming, " The mass of the half-breed population must therefore turn their attention to other methods of making a living.

The Zentraedi holocaust of 2011 resulted in a deep hatred by humans that is still evident years later and as the only child of a Human-Zentraedi union, Dana was often teased and ridiculed by other children who called her " half-breed " ( due to her mixed heritage ), to which she would often respond verbally or with physical violence.

Lemuel Brown was a half-breed Erie Indian who had married the daughter of the chief of the Erie Indians who claimed all the islands.

The Eskimo meets a " half-breed " girl ( father was French, mother was Indian ) and they fall in love.

Sousa was born a half-breed noble and participated in military expeditions in Africa, fought the Moors and commanded the Nau Conceição to India, part of the armada of Fernão de Andrade.

Its purpose was to provide Thoroughbred stallions as sires that would produce a variety of top quality half-breed general purpose horses.

Two areas were held back as special awards ; one was assigned to the chief Keokuk and his Sauk people in thanks for their neutrality ( later known as Keokuk's Reserve ); the other was given to " half-breed " translator Antoine LeClaire.