He was archdeacon to the bishop of Alexandria, a lean, attenuated man, small in stature, with fiery eye, haughty air, and impetuous eloquence.

[Footnote 5: 'Yeomen of the guard of the king's body were anciently two hundred and fifty men, of the best rank under gentry, and of larger stature than ordinary; every one being required to be six feet high.'E.

Three years passed, during which I increased considerably in stature and strength, and, let us hope, improved in mind.

In this noteworthy incident we see the human agencies through which Africa will attain the full stature allotted to her.

"Now you who are a poet, a slave to rhyme and meter, a son of the Muses," continued Sandoval, with an elegant wave of his hand, as though he were saluting, on the horizon, the Nine Sisters, "do you comprehend, can you conceive, how a language so harsh and unmusical as French can give birth to poets of such gigantic stature as our Garcilasos, our Herreras, our Esproncedas, our Calderons?"

A verse or some such work he may sometimes get up to, but seldom above the stature of an epigram, and that with some relief out of Martial, which is the ordinary companion of his pocket, and he reads him as he were inspired.

The celebrity of the clan in the games seems to have been eclipsed for some time, but Melissos revived it by a chariot-victory at Nemea and this pankration-victory at the Isthmus, won in spite of his small stature which might have seemed to place him at a disadvantage.

For not of the stature of Orion was this man, but his presence is contemptible, yet terrible is he to grapple with in his strength.

There did Herakles take the city of Pergamos, and with help of Telamon slew the nations of the Meropes, and the herdsman whose stature was as a mountain, Alkyoneus whom he found at Phlegrai, and spared not of his hands the terrible twanging bowstring.

Wondrous in strength is he, and to look upon of goodly shape, and his valour is such as shameth not his stature.

Galba the emperor was crook-backed, Epictetus lame: that great Alexander a little man of stature, Augustus Caesar of the same pitch: Agesilaus despicabili forma; Boccharis a most deformed prince as ever Egypt had, yet as Diodorus Siculus records of him, in wisdom and knowledge far beyond his predecessors.

Nullam virtus respuit staturam, virtue refuseth no stature, and commonly your great vast bodies, and fine features, are sottish, dull, and leaden spirits.

And for bodily stature which some so much admire, and goodly presence, 'tis true, to say the best of them, great men are proper, and tall, I grant,caput inter nubila condunt, (hide their heads in the clouds); but belli pusilli little men are pretty:

as to Saul stature and a goodly presence, 1 Sam. ix.

In stature, colour, appearance, and dress, these people are very like the Cingani.

Louisa run hastily to the window and saw a person alight, whom, by the bulk and stature, she knew could not be the count she so much dreaded, this having much the advantage of the other in both.

[Footnote 93: Arnould is a man of about forty-seven years of age, small in stature, lively and intelligent.

Scarcely had they finished these words; when a voice was heard to issue from the midst of the dense multitude; it proceeded from a venerable-looking old man, of imposing stature, who exclaimed, 'You are right in not entering the Praetorium, for it has been sanctified by the blood of Innocents; there is but one Person who has a right to enter, and who alone can enter, because he alone is pure as the Innocents who were massacred there.'

The suede slippers contributed their three inches to her stature, the long lines of the flowing robe added their dignity, and the strands of her hair, each woven carefully into its appointed place, completed the transformation from the touseled, hoydenish boy-girl of half an hour before into the luxurious and somewhat bored young lady of fashion.

Before she was well aware of it, he had placed the tray on her lap, and stood before her, his six feet of stature dominating.

She wore a small hat with a tall plume and seemed to have gained in stature.

Hamilton was of about the same stature, but his figure had wiry strength.

Some Masters raise it to one fixed Height, which would be very well if all Men were of the same Stature; but if we consider the difference in Height of Persons, we shall find it evidently bad.

The Wrist ought to be of a Height sufficient to cover the Body without contracting the Arm, which cannot be fixed to a particular Height; for a short Man against a tall one, should raise it as high as the Head, which People of equal; Stature, or a tall Man against a short one, ought not to do.

Her eye is large and dark; her nose is aquiline; her complexion is of an olive brown; her stature is majestic, her dress is gorgeous, her gait is measuredand her demeanor is grave and composed.