While he was loading his piece, he fixed his eyes upon an old man, whose respectable look announced a good disposition; his beard and hair were white, and his stature colossal; he called himself Sambadurand.

Tasso says of the Arabs, "Their accents were female and their stature diminutive" (xvii.).Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (1575).

70 He that in sight diminishes mankind, Does no addition to his stature find;

Now as along the sultry waste they move, The keenest pang of raging thirst they prove: No cooling fruit its grateful juice distils, 125 Nor flows one balmy drop from crystal rills; For nature sickens in th' oppressive beam, That shrinks the vernal bud, and dries the stream; While horror, as his giant stature grows, O'er the drear void his spreading shadow throws.

Thee praised, I haste me humble to my own Then love not shame shall bow me at their feet, Then first and only to my stature grown, Fulfilled of love, a servant all-complete.

E'en as they spoke, twain others, lovelier fair, Of stature loftier, of more royal air, Came proudly on: of gold their purfled vest, Well shap'd, each symmetry of limb confess'd:

C. She had a tall man's height or more; A garment for her stature meet,

Dr. Ferris says the Labrador Eskimo and the Quichua constitute the two "best-known short-stature races on the American continent.

This aggrandisement of our common stature rests on questionable ground.