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Updated: May 13, 2025
"What's all this noise about?" he began, and stopped short. Behind him stood another figure, broad, powerful, not overtall. At sight of it, Tessa uttered a hard sob and scrambled to her feet. She still clasped poor Scooter's dead body to her breast, and his blood was on her face and on the white frock she wore. "Uncle St. Bernard! Look! Look!" she said. "She's killed my Scooter!"
"I love her madly for she is perfect fair, * Complete in gravity and gracious way; Nor overtall nor overshort, the while * Too full for trousers are those hips that sway: Her shape is midmost 'twixt o'er small and tall; * Nor long to blame nor little to gainsay: O'erfall her anklets tresses black as night * Yet in her face resplends eternal day."
A lad well set up but not overtall for his sixteen years, perhaps for "eye-witnesses" differ in their estimates of Daniel Boone's height or possibly taller than he looks, because his figure has the forest hunter's natural slant forward and the droop of the neck of one who must watch his path sometimes in order to tread silently.
When I was a very young boy I saw a fist-fight which impressed me as powerfully as any lesson I ever learned at school. An overtall and powerful man, about forty years old, had become angry at a medium-sized but very compact man of about the same age. As his passion increased his violence grew, until finally he was shouting his denunciations. The little man stood quietly alert.
But in the midst of this his eyes, like David's, retained their singularly tranquil color of sweetness and innocence. David was the youngest, the freshest thing imaginable; he was overtall and gawky, his cheeks were as delicately rosy as apple blossoms, and his smile was an epitome of ingenuous interest and frank wonder.
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