Low in stature and dumpy, he had a gloomy look, and his appearance was strange in a foreign uniform, not befitting his Oriental features.
Tall, straight as a reed, with yellow mustaches brushed upward and a Swedish beard, he recalled completely by his uniform and stature the colonels of the Thirty Years' War.
First of all, it was the figure of a man of such stature that his head was as high as a wall, and his extreme leanness made him appear taller still.
There dissimulation will be necessary, and complete disguise in Cossack dress, to appear as peasants; but you are so remarkable with your stature that every one would ask, 'Who is that tall booby?
The blow was well directed and double, for in the first place it turned the sarcasm to the low stature of the knight, and in the second to his passion for Princess Barbara Zbaraska.
Old people are not wanting who pretend to have seen these Alux-ob, whom they describe as reaching the extraordinary stature of 2 feet.
If we judge of the stature of the builders by the size of the building, we may really imagine this to have been the kingdom of Liliput, visited by Gulliver.
His son Ajax, a man of hugestature and giant strength, was, next to Achilles, the bravest of all the Greeks who went to the Trojan War.
Ajax Oileus, king of Loʹcris, was less in stature than his namesake, but few excelled him in the use of the spear or in swiftness of foot.
The Greeks crowded around the dead hero, admiring his stature and beautiful figure, and remarking one to another that Hector was far less dangerous to touch now than when he was setting fire to their fleet.
Tronson found him one Shanley, a needy Irishman, short of statureand of fair complexion, altogether a person who might well be disguised as a woman.
Two hundred years later, while making some changes in the White tower, workmen found underneath the stone staircase near the chapel the bones of two boys, apparently corresponding in age and stature to the princes.
Minor inexpensive military operations for the suppression of colonial revolt which are quickly and successfully ended may add to the stature of empire-building leaders.
During this period Roman life was transformed from its small, local seat of authority in Central Italy into its new stature as the outstanding power in the Mediterranean area.
The uncommon stature and sumptuous physical beauty of the girl were obvious.
Both were men of fine stature and great strength; and, indeed, Upaparu one day jestingly remarked that he and Captain Shelley's two officers were a match for three times their number.
His broad, brawny shoulders overhung a form that was as low in stature as it was athletic in build; you looked on him and saw the sinews of a giant strung in the body of a dwarf.
His gait is limping, hisstature crooked, his proportions distorted.
In stature he was barely of the middle size; but every part of his body was so perfectly proportioned that he appeared, in any position, taller than he really was.
We have not the justice that was amongst the men of the Golden Race, nor the simpleness that was amongst the men of the Silver Race, nor the stature nor the great strength that the men of the Bronze Race possessed.
The seeming old age that was upon her had fallen from Demeter; beauty andstature were hers, and from her robe there came a heavenly fragrance.
A pang came to Admetus as he looked at the woman who stood beside Heracles and saw that she was the same stature as his lost wife.
Its descendants gradually increased in stature and became better and better adapted to swift running to escape their foes.
In the Miocene the stature of the ancestors of the horse increased to that of a pony.
Thomas Price in his Tour in Brittany, published in the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, of the varieties of complexion and stature observable in Upper and Lower Brittany.
He says that nothing is more striking than the contrast between the small and meagre Arabs and the large and finestature of the Qoubtes.
Whether alone or in company, there is not a more beautiful sylvan blonde than the acacia; but it is too apparent that such loveliness will not last, that her stature is fully beyond her strength.
When the artist made a bronze statue, eight feet high, of Mr Canning, it was evidently not his stature nor his complexion that he had designed to represent.
Our little captain was in stature the smallest man in our battery, but he compensated for that by riding the tallest horse in the battery.
In stature he was one of the shortest men I had ever seen in our uniform.
Professor Hardage was a man somewhat past fifty, of ordinary stature and heavy figure, topped with an immense head.
His head and neck and bearing, stature and figure, family and family history, house and lands--she inventoried them all once more and discovered no lack.
The Cavaliere Davila, a Neapolitan gentleman of gigantic stature and almost femininely gentle manners, a noted collector and connoisseur of majolica, gave his opinion on each article of importance.
For this he enjoyed the advantage of shorter stature and a frame which, being wiry, thin and flexible, offered but little mark to the other's weapon.
Fifteen, if it please you, sir," said I, elevating my stature as much as I was able.
It may be protecting an industry that is not quite an infant and yet has not grown to its full stature nor attained to its full competing power.
Thomas is a man of small stature and very short legged, but he split the air to beat the band.
General Abe Beaufort was of colossalstature and an able officer, so I reported to him for duty until I could join my proper command.
La Champmesle was not beautiful or clever, but her stature was noble, her carriage glorious, her voice bewitching, her charm irresistible.
Unusually tall, she had the gliding grace of movement which so many women of uncommon stature lack.
