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Tallness   Listen
noun
Tallness  n.  The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tallness" Quotes from Famous Books



... appointment?' inquired his friend, a town young man, with a Tussaud complexion and well-pencilled brows half way up his forehead, so that his upper eyelids appeared to possess the uncommon quality of tallness. ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

... admiring astonishment of the young lady before him. The girlish simplicity and trustfulness of her revelation seemed as inconsistent with his previous impression of her reserve and independence as her girlish reasoning and manner was now delightfully at variance with her tallness, her aquiline nose, and her erect figure. Mr. Boyle, like most short men, was apt to ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... ninety-nine men first; then you come to my client, who is innocent and acquitted according to law. If these great principles shall be duly depreciated in this court, then the great North pole of liberty, that has stood so many years in pneumatic tallness, shading there publican regions of commerce and agriculture, will stand the wreck of the Spanish Inquisition, the pirates of the hyperborean seas, and the marauders of the Aurora Blivar! But, gentlemen of the jury, ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick



Words linked to "Tallness" :   height, stature, highness, low, loftiness, dimension, tall



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