"Tallness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... certain tallness and robustness, with an erect posture of the body; a skull narrowing from the eyebrows upward; prominence of the cheek-bones; the eyes black, deep-set, and having, it is thought, a slight tendency, in many cases, to strabismus; the hair coarse, very black, ...
— From Slave to College President - Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington • Godfrey Holden Pike
... to impart to her some of the adoration he had for Katharine Howard—her learning, her faith, her tallness, her wit, and the deserved empiry that she had over King Henry VIII; but ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... afford the most remarkable instance known to me of the direct and prompt action of climate on a plant. It might have been expected that the tallness of the stem, the period of vegetation, and the ripening of the seed, would have been thus affected; but it is a much more surprising fact that the seeds should have undergone so rapid and great a change. As, however, flowers, with their product the seed, are formed by the metamorphosis of the ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin |
