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Sentences starting with tall

Tall Maude Catherwood was most imposing as Rebecca; and her brother George made a towering Friar Tuck, Even little fifteen-year-old Spencer Catherwood, the contradiction of the family, was there. [9]
Tall Medallion longed to say something, but he waited for the Cure to speak. [11]
Tall and stern, they were stout enemies, but they had no firearms, and, as could be seen, they were astonished at the look of the little band, which, at the command of De Troyes, who with Iberville was in the first boat, came steadily on. [11]
Tall seigneur of the dawn: A two-edged sword at his thigh, A shield of gold at his wrist: Who is it hurrieth by? [11]
Tall jets of rushing and crackling sparks were thrown skywards to mingle with the paler stars. [10]
Tall men-at-arms in morion, breastplate, and steel gauntlets stood as stiff as their own halberds on each side of this dais, but no other creature was near by it. [5]
Tall gateways, flag-decked masts, I raised to Thee, And obelisks from Abu I have brought, And built Thee temples of eternal stone. [10]
Tall shafts of Indian corn with their yellow tassels were still standing, and the stubble of the field where the sickle had been showed in the distance like a carpet of gold. [11]
Tall and stout, holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if rolling them up. [2]
Tall and stately, his armor blazing in the sunshine, he came straight towards her--a man, a hero--exactly as her fancy had painted him in many a dark and sleepless hour. [10]

Sentences ending with tall

Mrs. Grainger was very tall. [9]
She seems, in this pose and light, supernaturally tall. [4]
In order that they may appear to be tall. [4]
Then her eyes sparkled with gladness, and she asked quickly: You said the man who brought the flowers was very tall. [10]
Tell me, is she handsome, tall? [10]
But he was not, or he would not have murmured "Let Alice do it, she is not too tall. [5]
When her grandmother, my wife, my Julie, when she was young--ah, she was fair, fairer than Guida, but not so tall--not quite so tall. [11]
My herald, fine and tall! [11]

Short sentences using tall

The Tall Master won. [11]
How tall it was! [10]
He was tall, trim-built, muscular. [5]
A tall man stepped forward. [9]
Groups of tall bamboo. [5]
And tall trees. [12]
The Tall Master! [11]
That tall woman . [10]

Sentences containing tall two or more times

He was not so tall as the priest in the next room, but still he was very tall, and every movement had a lithe, supple strength. [11]
Women are tall and becoming tall simply because it is the fashion, and that statement never needs nor is capable of any explanation. [4]
It still stands, a large mansion of brick with a stone front, very tall and very wide, with an elaborate cornice and plate-glass windows, both tall and broad, and a high basement. [9]

More example sentences with the word tall in them

If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
Suddenly a tall young man in a white dress with a beautiful sky-blue border appeared through the great gate. [10]
He was a young Irishman, slender, tall, lithe, honest, truthful, and he never changed in all his life. [5]
She is fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, has dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers. [6]
He caught her wrists with his great hands, big enough for tall Medallion, and held her. [11]
A merry soldier's-cook wore a captain's plume on the side of his tall hat. [10]
A tall, quiet woman, who had learned the lesson of mothers,--how to wait and how to pray, how to be silent with a clamouring heart. [9]
There he is, with the whiskers and the tall hat and the comfortable face, which wears already a look of gubernatorial dignity and power. [9]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
Like lightning, and with cold fury in his eyes, Foyle caught the tall cattleman by the forearm, and, with a swift, dexterous twist, had the fellow in his power. [11]
A young man with an unusually tall and powerful figure was standing in this yard, gazing up at a window in the second story. [10]
Miss Crane, tall, with all the severity of side curls and bombazine, stood like a stone lioness at the gate. [9]
He was watching, with a teasing sense of familiarity, a tall, shabbily dressed, elderly man, who had just come in. [8]
The tall youth, with a stony look on his face, and rigid and uplifted arm, stood beside Vereshchagin. [2]
So in I wint, the Injin not comin', and there in the middle of the tint stood the Tall Master, alone. [11]
The tall lady, whose noble face and majestic figure were shrouded in a thick veil, was Juliane's mother--and she had offered the sick ropedancer a home in her wealthy household. [10]
A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
That other one whom he thinks he loves better than he does me is tall and beautiful and majestic--like you; and I have always told myself that his future wife ought to look like you. [10]
The high-priest alone, who, as Caesar's host, had gone up to the side of the throne, and two or three others, among them the governor of the town, a tall, elderly man of Macedonian descent, paid no heed to the brute. [10]
The tall Thessalian who marched after the Archidikastes to the Hall of justice, carrying his papers, was hardly grander than his "body-servant. [10]
The tall backwoodsman who had shot him waded across the stream, and in the twinkling of an eye seized the scalp-lock and ran it round with his knife, holding up the bleeding trophy with a shout. [9]
In summer its white wooden front was nearly hidden by the quivering leaves of two tall pear trees. [9]
A red and white awning, stretching up the length of the walk which once had run beside the tall pear trees, gave it an unrecognizable, gala air. [9]
The Honourable Dave whispered to the judge, a tall, lank, cadaverous gentleman with iron-grey hair, who nodded. [9]
Once in a while a tall princely-looking man, with a beautiful young woman and a train of courtiers and servants, came to inspect the building. [10]
The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. [10]
In the garden, which is a room of the house, the tall callas, rooted in the ground, stand about the fountain; the sun, streaming through the glass, illumines the many-hued flowers. [4]
The wide opening, which extended downwards to within a few spans of the floor, was finished at either side by a tall pillar of fine reddish-brown porphyry, flecked with white, and crowned with gilt Corinthian capitals. [10]
Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
In others there were tall obelisks of ebony, which bore saucers for incense, which all the Egyptians loved, and which was prescribed by their physicians to purify and perfume their dwellings. [10]
For those who were looking at her were the chief citizens of Alexandria; they stood on the stage, and among them stood kind tall Pollux, waving his hand to her. [10]
The Colonel's headquarters were dark, but in the kitchen a dozen tall men were waiting. [9]
At last she went up to the doorway, which was too low for her tall figure. [10]
And presently, as we strayed down the shore we came upon a strange sight, the same being a huge fort rising from the waterside, all overgrown with brush and saplings and tall weeds. [9]
Two hours later we reached the foot of a tall isolated mountain, which is crowned by the crumbling castle of Banias, the stateliest ruin of that kind on earth, no doubt. [5]
Instead of using wax he had recourse to clay, and formed a tall figure which represented Antinous as the youthful Bacchus, as the god might have appeared to the pirates. [10]
The tall lad waved his arm. [2]
All about the water lay marsh-ground overgrown with leafless bushes, rushes, tall grasses, and reeds. [10]
For example, he was very tall and very slim, with red hair blown every which way over a high and towering forehead that seemed as long as the face under it. [9]
Sergeant Bowers's horse was very large and tall, with slim, long legs, and looked like a railroad bridge. [5]
To the right was the magnificent residence--a palace indeed--belonging to Susannah; to the left was an extensive grove, where tall palms, sycamores with spreading foliage, and dense thickets of blue-green tamarisk trees cast their shade. [10]
Awhile ago it was the fashion to be petite and arch; it is now the fashion to be tall and gracious, and nothing more can be said about it. [4]
The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look. [2]
Mr. George Percy was ravished at the sight of the fair meadows and goodly tall trees. [4]
When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
His tall figure was now resplendent with rich ornaments, and a priest, who walked before him, held the vessel high above his head. [10]
The Tall Master was now playing a wonderful thing, half dance, half carnival; but with that Call still beating through it. [11]
The old lady was no longer alone, for in the background, on a long and narrow couch which stood in front of the statue of Apollo, lay a tall, lean man, wearing a red chiton. [10]
This tall hat was called a "capatain. [4]
Clark's next move was an enigma, for he set the men to cutting and trimming tall sapling poles. [9]
Our young captain was a very handsome man, tall and perfectly formed, the very figure to show up a smart uniform's best effects. [5]
In his suite was a tall pyramid of scarlet cray-fish--large ones; as large as one's thumb--delicate, palatable, appetizing. [5]
Between its windows was a table covered with a long, white cloth reaching to the floor, on which, amidst the silverware and glass, was set a tall vase filled with dusky roses. [9]
They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
Suddenly, while we waited for murder, a tall figure shot out of the door past the widow, the pistol flew out of Tipton's hand, and Tipton swung about with something like a bellow, to face Mr. Nicholas Temple. [9]
That commonest of village sights was lacking here--the public pump, with its great stone tank or trough of limpid water, and its group of gossiping pitcher-bearers; for there is no well or fountain or spring on this tall hill; cisterns of rain-water are used. [5]
I shall never view again the citadel on those tall heights where I was detained so barbarously, nor the gracious Manor House at Beauport, sacred to me because of her who dwelt therein--how long ago, how long! [11]
They want a victim," he thought as he looked at the tall lad flourishing his arm. [2]
On reaching the vestibule Natasha saw a tall figure in a fur coat unwinding his scarf. [2]
She was really very tall for a woman. [9]
It was a very quiet place, as such a place should be, save for the cawing of the rooks who had built their nests among the branches of some tall old trees, and were calling to one another, high up in the air. [12]
And verily the Venetian lady was pleased with the placing of her house, and yet more with the old man's loving care for her; although the house was over tall, and so narrow that there were but two windows on each floor. [10]
The prisoner, mounted upon a tall steed, had pressed him very closely; nay, the Eletto's victory was not decided, until a musket-shot had stretched the other's horse on the ground. [10]
I was taken up to the top of tall houses, through a smell of cabbage that was appalling, to find empty and dreary rooms, from which I fled in fright. [4]
When he stood up to open a door--he opened all the doors with old-fashioned latches--he was portentously tall, and when stretched on the rug before the fire he seemed too long for this world--as indeed he was. [4]
It was fitted up as a library, with tall shelves reaching almost to the ceiling. [9]
These men, who under the leadership of the tall lad were drinking in the dramshop that morning, had brought the publican some skins from the factory and for this had had drink served them. [2]
The tall hillsman turned to the lad. [11]
Himself, as he travelled here and there through the North, had heard of the Tall Master. [11]
Some beat and tore at Vereshchagin, others at the tall youth. [2]
I have noticed, too, that she scarcely recognizes men who are rather tall, though she may have seen them three or four times. [10]
But it was too tall for him, and he wouldn't have been so quiet about it. [11]
You'd better listen to what people are saying," said some of the mob pointing to the tall youth. [2]
He led him to the desk, raised the lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his bold, tall, close handwriting. [2]
It was wonderful to see with what fierce speed the tall sheet of flame traveled! [5]
Here he intended to rest and, as he gazed around him, he perceived in the shadow of an overhanging cliff a man's tall figure. [10]
Hilary even had to raise his eyes a little; he had forgotten how tall Austen was. [9]
He who wants to look tall on it wears the cothurnus, and is not a mountain the highest vantage ground that a man can find for the sole of his foot? [10]
The ground seemed to heave beneath her feet; sick and giddy she put out her hand to find some support, that she might not sink on her knees; in so doing, she caught the tall tripod which held the dish of coals. [10]
He stood face to face with the mighty monarch of colors, listened to gracious words from his lips, and saw the nonogenarian, whose tall figure was scarcely bowed, receive the king's gifts. [10]
Smith they conducted to a long house, where thirtie or fortie tall fellowes did guard him, and ere long more bread and venison were brought him then would have served twentie men. [4]
At first she thought she would go to the House with the Tall Porch, but she changed her mind, and went to the Bois Noir instead. [11]
The garden where thou dwellest is so fair, Thou art so goodly and so queenly tall, Thy sweetness scatters sweetness everywhere, O flower of all! [11]
I have seen those of to-day: fine and tall, with breasts like apples, and a cheek to tempt a man like you, m'sieu'; no grease in the hair--no, M'sieu' Tybalt. [11]
It was at this club that Dyck again met that tall, ascetic messenger from the Attorney-General, who had brought the message to Miles Calhoun. [11]
Esaul Lovayski the Third was a tall man as straight as an arrow, pale-faced, fair-haired, with narrow light eyes and with calm self-satisfaction in his face and bearing. [2]
While he was thinking of the sadness of it all, a little scene was acted: the side door of the house opened, a weeping woman came out, and with her was a tall Confederate Colonel of cavalry. [9]
A tall and thin gentleman, who had come out of the inn without a hat, was surveying the dispute with a keen delight. [9]
He still looked thin and somewhat awkward, but the tall youth promised to become a stately man. [10]
With military precision they repaired to the Brewster House, and ahead of then a banner was flung: "Winnebago County for the Tall Sucker. [9]
Instead of swords they carried axes, and they were followed by sappers bearing tall ladders which, by Constantine's orders, they leaned up against the niche. [10]
She turned, but there was no time to flee, for the tall figure of a man came through the opposite hedge, followed by a lady. [9]
Six horsemen, among them the leader of the party, were now seen to dismount; they tied their horses up, and then proceeded to fell three tall palms with their battle-axes; the other five went off southwards. [10]
The memory of them is that of a figure tall and lithe, a little more rounded than of yore, and a chiselled face softened by a power that is one of the world's mysteries. [9]
The tall man, the very model of a stately burgher, who paid careful heed to his outward appearance, now looked careless of his person. [10]
In one of the upper chambers of the old mansion there stood a tall, upright desk of the ancient pattern, with folding doors above and large drawers below. [6]
Rushing in against the tide outpouring, tall, stern, vigorous, is a young man whom many recognize, whose name is on many lips as they make way for him, who might have saved them if he would. [9]
Of a sudden the tall, ungainly form of Percy Singleton filled the doorway, wrapped in a greatcoat. [9]
The latter measured the tall, brave fellow with a hasty glance, and turning, half to him, half to Alexander Farnese, said: "An enviable trick, and admirable performance, by my love! [10]
The shadows of the tall trunks lay in transparent bars on the underbrush, luxuriant moss, and ferns, and the dew clung to the weeds and grass. [10]

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