But in the world there are other men, no taller than I, no older than Imen born within a stone's throw of where I was bornwhose hand is on the fate of nations, and whose decrees are universal law!

Ay, and he was as tall as the Monument.

In the Calaveras Grove there are four trees over 300 feet in height, the tallest of which by careful measurement is 325 feet.

The one we entered flows in a tortuous course through a natural meadow, stretching away on either hand forty or fifty rods, to a dense forest of spruce, maple, and beech, above which gigantic pines stand stately and tall in their pride.

" "Please, ma'am, I wasn't eleven till April, and I ain't tall for my age, but Tubby Parsons says" The woman gave an odd, unhuman sound.

It was only three or four rods wide, but the firs and spruce through which it trickled seemed yet taller by contrast.

The trees grew thick and tall on its banks, and their wide branches met and intermingled above its waters that flowed on without a ripple, black to the eye as a river of ink.

The sappy cedars, tall like stately towers, High flying birds do harbour in their bowers; The holy storks that are the travellers, Choose for to dwell and build within the firs; The climbing goats hang on steep mountains' side; The digging conies in the rocks do bide.

" "Have you another gun?" asked the last-maker of the taller of the two workmen.

Vast, simple, awful in dimensions and height, just beginning to grow tall at the point where our proudest steeples taper out, it fills the whole soul, pervades the vast landscape over which it reigns, and, like Niagara and the Alps, abolishes that five- or six-foot personality in the beholder which is fostered by keeping company with the little life of the day in its little dwellings.

The taller among us could overlook the screen.

The girl raised her head, and drew herself up until she stood straight and tall before him.

For Arthur on the Whitsuntide before Held court at old Caerleon upon Usk. There on a day, he sitting high in hall, Before him came a forester of Dean, Wet from the woods, with notice of a hart Taller than all his fellows, milky-white, First seen that day: these things he told the King.

Colin at the bottom, slender and tall above the big revolving wheel, drove the rake.

He went thoughtfully down to the corner of the Cromwell Road and turned along that to the right so that he could see the red pile of the Science Schools rising fair, and tall across the gardens of the Natural History Museum.

Now he fronted the wondering voyageurs, one foot raised against the bow of the brigade canoe; now he stood straight and tall against the light of the sitting-room door; now he emptied the vials of his wrath and contempt on Archibald Crane's reverend head; now he passed in the darkness, singing gayly the chanson de canot.

I noticed also a row of cypresses standing at intervals of about fifty yards along a hillside, dark and tall amid a mass of grass and rocks and brown fallen leaves.

Her little figure, instead of bending, seemed to have grown taller beneath the injustice of destiny, as if borne up by furious rebellion.

The lime-trees looked older than before, having grown a little taller during the last eight years, and casting a denser shade.

"They were both tall menabout the same height, I should sayand it would have been impossible for them to have even stood upright.

Ahead, the moss that grew upon the sleepers gave the line the appearance of a green glade, and the grasses, starred with golden-rod and mallow, grew tall to the very edge of the rails.

She straightened her small figure, she seemed to grow tall with the one passion that had formed the joy and pride of her life.

He was tall without seeming to be tall and broad without appearing broad, and he was old enough for a grandfather and spry enough for his own grandchild.

And, furthermore, he don't say anything a-tall about this Chin Whisker gent, who's old Dale or I'm Dutch.