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"I'd like to go over the matter of organizing " "Not now." I was naturally reluctant to be seen on the street with so conspicuous a figure, but I could hardly escape. I tried to match her swinging stride, but as she was at least six inches taller I had to give a sort of skip between steps, which was less than dignified.
Rogers led the way back to the entrance, and called up an order to have the gun lowered by a shore-line; which was done, the coast guardsmen on the cliffs fending the line clear of the bushes, and so passing it from one to another until it dangled over the ledge within grasp. The Commandant, as the taller, reached up for the gun, took it, and examined it by the light of the lantern which Mr.
The allusion to the nave means the omission of the transepts. This is the taller of the two. If they had spires these towers would be prodigious; as it is, given the rest of the church, they are wanting in elevation. There are five deeply recessed portals, all in a row, each surmounted with a gable, the gable over the central door being exceptionally high.
I looked at him, and perceived my old acquaintance Mr Tommy Dott, grown a great deal taller; I perceived that he did not recognise me. "But, sir," said I to the officer of the party, who was so disguised that I could not tell his rank, "suppose I belong to a man-of-war already?" "That you do not; or if you do, you must be a deserter, my good fellow; that is evident by your stick and bundle.
When the Princess had counted eighteen summers, her father went to drive out a war party that harried his borders on the north and troubled his prosperity. The King destroyed the invaders and brought home many prisoners. Among the prisoners was a young chief, taller than any of his captors, of such strength and ferocity that the King's people came a day's journey to look at him.
I told him that in my country, the eastern part of Lloegr, I had seen a man quite as tall as the statue. "Indeed, sir," said he; "who is it?" "Hales the Norfolk giant," I replied, "who has a sister seven inches shorter than himself, who is yet seven inches taller than any man in the county when her brother is out of it."
It was the figure that had appeared to the Postmaster; the slight, erect, graceful form of a young woman modishly attired. It was Flip, but Flip made taller by the lengthened skirt and clinging habiliments of fashion.
"As a girl she must have had still more hair, and perhaps she may have been as fair as I was I am brown now." "Another thing you inherit from her is that your hair, without being curly, lies upon your head in such soft waves." "It is easy to keep in order." "Are not you taller than she was?" "I fancy so, but as she was stouter she looked shorter. Will you soon have done?"
"My! but you do look fine in your uniform," said Jane, "and so strong, and so big; you have actually grown taller, I believe." Her eyes were fairly standing out with pride and joy. "Not much difference north and south," said Larry, "but east and west, considerable. And you, Jane, you are looking better than ever. Whatever has happened to you?" "Hard work," said Jane.
"But oh, my dear!" she exclaimed "What a little school-guy they have made of you! You must have grown taller, surely, since November when I saw you last? Your frock is ever so much too short!" "I don't think I've grown a bit," said Cicely, glancing down at her own legs disparagingly "But my frock wore shabby at the bottom, and the nuns had a fresh hem turned up all round.
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