five-foot-nine

Updated: August 14, 2026

Mary Wall was twenty-five. She was an Australian bush girl, every inch of her five-foot-nine; she had a pink-and-white complexion, dark blue eyes, blue-black hair, and "the finest figure in the district," on horseback or afoot. She said she was going to be an old maid. There came a jackaroo on a visit to the station. He was related to the bank with which Wall had relations.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush