His sweetheart is five feet nine, for that is the height of a tall girl. I know she is tall, for she wears a long skirt. Short girls wear short skirts, which make them look shorter still, and tall girls wear very long skirts, which make them look taller." "Why d? they do that?" I inquired, greatly interested. "I don't know. You'll have to ask that of some one wiser than I. But I know it's a fact. A girl wouldn't be considered really tall if less than five feet nine.英文原著 · 《The Gold Bag》
(6) Don't say that the idea of human equality is absurd, because some men are tall and some short, some clever and some stupid. At the height of the French Revolution it was noticed that Danton was tall and Murat short. In the wildest popular excitement of America it is known that Rockefeller is stupid and that Bryan is clever. The doctrine of human equality reposes upon this: That there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. That there is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
It was lit only by an opening looking to the sea. As he came into it he saw a tall thing--like a tall shadow--pass close to him and disappear. He saw that, and he heard the faint sound of material in movement. There was then still another chamber on this side, and Hermione had passed into it. He followed her in silence, came to the doorway of it, looked, saw black darkness. There was no other opening either to sea or land. In it Hermione had found what she sought--absolute blackness. But he had found her.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
As his grandmother and himself were poor he had to take to fishing in his early youth, and his childhood had been spent out on the open water. Every night he said his prayers, and his eyes still wore their religious purity. He was captivating though, and next to Yann the finest-built lad of the crew. His voice was very soft, and its boyish tones contrasted markedly with his tall height and black beard; as he had shot up very rapidly he was almost puzzled to find himself grown suddenly so tall and big. He expected to marry Yann's sister soon, but never yet had answered any girl's love advances.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Daniel, the porter of Cromwell, was 7 feet 6 inches high; he became a lunatic. Frazier speaks of Chilian giants 9 feet tall. There is a chronicle which says one of the Kings of Norway was 8 feet high. Merula says that in 1538 he saw in France a Flemish man over 9 feet. Keysler mentions seeing Hans Brau in Tyrol in 1550, and says that he was nearly 12 feet high. Jonston mentions a lad in Holland who was 8 feet tall. Pasumot mentions a giant of 8 feet. Edmund Mallone was said to have measured 7 feet 7 inches.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
However abundant about our homes during the migrations, this warbler, true to the family instinct, retreats to the woods to nest -- not always so far away as Canada, the nesting ground of most warblers, for in many Northern States the bird is commonly found throughout the summer. Doubtless it prefers tall evergreen trees for its mossy, grassy nest; but it is not always particular, so that the tree be a tall one with a convenient fork in an upper branch.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
You are dancing with the tall guy. Tall Guy, raise your hand!美剧 · 《Friends》
He wore all black, and -- and he was tall -- like "Ichabod Crane" tall.美剧 · 《White Collar》