tall

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.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

The tall sunburnt rustler-hunter stared in amazement.

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.

Dan affirmed, feeling ten feet tall.

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.

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.

Chairs scraped back and customers hastily vacated their tables as the tall young buffalo hunter pushed open the swing doors and walked towards the bar.

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

The tall coachman walked off briskly in search of Alexander Prieur.

They went as rigid as black statuary six figures, lean and tall and angular, went still.

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.

Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.

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.

We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.

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.

He often donned their tribal costumes, such as the one featuring a tall, black sheepskin hat from the top of which dangled a little red bag ornamented by a chain of worsted lace and tassels ; ;