The seeds of grasses and the taller summer flowers, and of the birches, alders, and maples, furnish supplies that are not interfered with by cold or snow; also the buds of various trees and shrubs,for the buds do not first come into existence in the spring, as our city friends suppose, but are to be found all winter.

He's about two inches taller than I am, with no extra flesh, but with a hell of a grip in his hands.

a blind man would knowhe is the only one of that blood on board, taller, and heavier of build, with blond hair.

I could distinguish no faces, scarcely indeed the outlines of their separate forms in the gloom, but one was an unusually big fellow, far taller and heavier than his companions.

He had closed the door behind him, and now, with his battered hat pushed high on his head, he seemed taller than the entrancetaller and as wide, a mountain of a man.

He was a huge fellow, as tall as Bull, or taller, and nearly as bulky.

He was of the same age as Santerre, but was taller and slimmer, with fair hair, an aquiline nose, gray eyes, and thin lips shaded by a slight moustache.

He places it slowly and solemnly on his head, growing taller in the act of crowning himself.

Perhaps an inch or two taller than her mother, she was of a marked slenderness; a completed slenderness, I might saya slenderness so palpably finished as to details that I can only describe it as felicitous in the extreme.

The personator of this youth was a man an inch and a half or two inches taller, and weighing five-and-twenty stone.

A few great men had died in the past two years, the machines worked with more clatter, and some of the trees in the Office garden were a few feet taller.

He was half-a-head taller than Piers, and he seemed to tower above him in that moment of conflict.

Dorothea cantered on to the top of the hill, and then walked Mercury to and fro, while she watched the taller rise beyond.

There they were met by a taller young lady, who was introduced as "My daughter Rosabella."

Only the desks and benches had been worn smooth; the walnut-trees in the garden were taller, and the hop-vine, that he had planted himself twined about the windows to the roof.

"I 'fo' Gawd kain't see no use goin' off lak dat an' den comin' back an' lettin' a white man cheat you out'n yo' hide an' taller, an' lettin' a black man beat you up tull you has to 'kick him in the spivit.

He stands taller on his own bottom, than others on the advantage ground of fortune, as having solidly that honour of which title is but the pomp.

She seemed taller.

But in another moment he saw that it was even taller than the tall chief, and that its eyes had searched him out.

He had been away now for some years, and had grown taller than his father, with long white hands and a little dark growth on his upper lip.

"No," said Madeline, pointing to one of the children, who was much taller than herself; "it's 'at 'ittle durl's.

I remember particularly when he joined the mob because he was so much taller than the rest of us and came strolling in as if he was going to an afternoon tea instead of getting into an international mess with nearly all the contracting parties drunk and disorderly.

For suddenly the curtains were swept aside again, this time with a breezier and less stately sweep and Ted Holiday in uniform and sergeant's regalia plunged into the room, a thinner, browner, taller Ted, with a new kind of dignity about him but withal the same blue-eyed lad with the old heart warming smile, still always Teddy the beloved.

The pebbly fragments of the entire slope, which during spring-time were sparingly covered with dwarfish herbs, such as the Androsace occidentalis, Draba Caroliniana, Plantago Virginica, Scutellaria parvula, are now crowded with plants of taller growth and variegated blossoms.

His face had grown thin and pale, and he was much taller than when he came to Philadelphia: a shade of melancholy had overspread his face; there was now in his eyes that expression of intense sadness that characterized his mother's.