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

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

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.

It stands tall with its legs ; the legs can be removed if the player wishes to play lap-style on the knees, although this makes playing much more difficult and can only be done by the tallest players.

Throughout the ages this " tall, leavened fruitcake " makes cameo appearances in the arts: It is shown in a sixteenth-century painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder and is possibly mentioned in a contemporary recipe book written by Bartolomeo Scappi, personal chef to popes and emperors during the time of Charles V. The first recorded association of Panettone with Christmas can be found in the writings of 18th century illuminist Pietro Verri.

Quikscript, however, makes better use of these possibilities by using 11 tall, 11 deep, and 18 short letters.

The name Grammaticus (" the learned ") was first given to him in the Jutland Chronicle and the Sjælland Chronicle makes reference to Saxo cognomine Longus (" the tall ").

Old Mr Nightingale's brother then makes an appearance and also helps to persuade his brother against a union with Miss Harris, for, as he is her neighbour, he knows her to be " very tall, very thin, very ugly, very affected, very silly, and very ill-natured.

In one story he shows knowledge of how to construct a Growth Ray that makes someone 100 feet tall.

Planted in a row it makes an attractive, tall, leafy hedge and it grows especially dense and bushy when planted in the sun.

It makes a shrub about 1 – 3m tall, rarely to 4 m. It is also the hardiest broom, tolerating temperatures down to about-25 ° C.

It makes a small, shrubby tree 5 – 10m tall.

Standing around 6 ' 2 " tall, with large ears and a loud voice, Ukridge makes a striking figure, generally found wearing worn grey flannel trousers and a golf coat with a bright yellow Mackintosh over it ; his collar is rarely properly attached to his shirt, and his pince-nez glasses are held in place with wire from a ginger beer bottle.

When George retorts that his family are not inbred, Blackadder replies, " Come on, somewhere outside Saffron Walden there's an uncle who's seven feet tall with no chin and an Adam's apple that makes him look as though he's constantly trying to swallow a ballcock ", to which George replies, " I have not got any uncles like that!

In favourable conditions, it makes a tree to, rarely tall.

In favourable conditions, it makes a tree to 30 m, rarely 40 m tall.

: With an official height of 12 meters in and the toy standing 20cm tall, that makes the scale of Landfill 1: 60.

What makes the place unique is the unusual riddle of tall pine trees flourishing round its vicinity.

Sir Roger, in order to intimidate the aliens, makes up tall tales about his estate, " which only took up three planets " and his other accomplishments, including a very successful conquest of Constantinople.

This makes very tall towers possible ( up to 100 metres — in special cases even higher, as in the Elbe crossing 1 and Elbe crossing 2 ).

*' Crippsii ' makes a broad conic golden-green crown with a vigorous leading shoot, growing to 15 – 20 m or more tall.

This move is commonly performed by tall wrestlers to enhance its view as a strong attack even though the wrestler themselves are not moving and the opponent is running into their foot, and due to that their height makes it easy for their leg to reach the head of normal sized wrestlers.

Korga, a tall, misfit youth, undergoes the " RAT " ( Radical Anxiety Termination ) procedure, a form of psychosurgery which makes him a passive slave, after which he is known as Rat Korga.

Series creator / writer Max Allan Collins makes no secret of the fact that Ms. Tree was inspired by Velda, Mike Hammer's secretary, a stacked, gun carrying, six-foot tall brunette and Mike's lover, who was almost as tough as he was.

A traditional plan makes use of old glass windows: a wooden frame is built, about one to two feet tall, and the window placed on top.

The writers also came up with several unusual ways for Diana to execute her spinning transformation, the most notable instances occurring in the episode " Stolen Faces " in which Diana makes the change while falling off a tall building, and the season two episode " The Pied Piper " in which she changes while strapped into a spinning chair.

For example, in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, a shrinking machine makes a toddler 100 feet tall.