A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
A parade to honor a person, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group.
Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods.
His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men.
Tall specifically describes that which has a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a tall man, a tall steeple, a tall mast, etc.
Thus the tall handsome man, the blue eyed, fair-haired stranger with the noble bearing, appeared before the high company.
A burning red cloak hung round his tall figure, a gold chain glittered on his breast, and a cock's feather nodded from a quaint velvet cap.
A scarlet cloak enveloped his tall figure, and a cock's feather sat boldly on his black cap.
He was called Ronald, this tall handsome man, with blue eyes and fair hair; he had a noble bearing and was a master of song.
Both tall and graceful, they made a striking couple.
From the interstices of the tall cliffs as they approached flew out hundreds of wild sea-gulls uttering shrill cries of alarm.
Does ye see that tall gal dancin' wid the guy wid the Dutch whiskers?
Count Herbert von Hatzfeld was the typical Teuton, tall and blond, with soldierly bearing.
Tall and slender, with aristocratic features and queenly carriage, she was the typical Gibson girl.
Below, under the shelter of the tall cliffs, she saw their two cabins nestling under the trees.
You seem pleased with that fellow, Espartero," said the tall man, turning for a moment from the lady with whom he had been conversing.
Then they saw Timbuctoo spread before them, the mosques clearly to be distinguished, the tall palm trees and clay-built houses seemingly but a few miles away.
Some of us stand as high as a tall man, and measure four feet from bill to tail.
They turned into a broader street, one of the busy avenues, and passing under an archway between two tall buildings, entered a court of back buildings.
One was a tall and formidably handsome woman in the early forties whose appearance seemed somehow oddly familiar.
At last, through the tall trees we beheld the flying waters, and there we saw Niagara Falls before us in all their grand and terrible array!
We walked along the hill-tops, and sat down besides the purling streams in the forests, and read under the shade of the tall trees.
The condition of the South after the rebel armies surrendered reminds me of the havoc wrought when a forest of great tall trees is swept down by a strong and mighty wind, and all the forest monarchs are flat on the ground.
Now we were on the bank of the Niagara River, which flows on almost a perfect level with the fields, and on the opposite, or Canadian side, the tallpines were beautiful to behold.
A tall figure draped in white, with cadaverous face, looking all the more deathly for the conventual linen bound tightly round the brow, and the dark blood-stain on her breast.
Da Salluzzo lay dead upon the floor, and over him there towered a tall figure.
Half wild with remorseful vexation, Tomaso watched Francisco go the way the Count had gone, till his tall figure was lost to view.
Mastino della Scala stood alone on a group of rocks scattered upon the plain, that sent his tall figure up against the deep sky, erect and motionless.
Ligozzi saw a tall figure looming toward them through the dusk, a slighter one beside him.
Giannotto stepped forward with a smooth obeisance, but stopped, a little surprised at the one occupant of the tent--the tall man with the proud dark face.
You're tootall for Lollo, I think," said Jackanapes, measuring his grandfather with his eye.
Beside this old coachman was seated a tall footman in livery, of the most severe and correct demeanor.
They ascended the six steps at the entrance, and were received in the hall by two tall footmen with the most dignified and imposing air.
Must I marry him, that handsome, tall fellow over there, who is watching me, for it is I that he is looking at?
Like a tall emblem of energy, General Sherman stood watching the attack and repulse, his eyes ever alert.
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.
Night fell to the music of the paddles, to the scent of the officers' cigars, to the blood-red vomit of the tall stacks and the smoky flame of the torches.
But he wore a tall hat now, like a Northern gentleman, and Adeline intimated that she found him really attractive.
Phips, a tall and powerful man, instantly fell upon them with his fists, knocked down the ringleaders, and awed them all into submission.
Then came a young Algonquin war-chief, dressed like a Canadian, but adorned with a drooping red feather and a tall ridge of hair like the crest of a cock.
Beautiful dwellings have sprung up, it seems to me as if by magic, where but yesterday I plucked fruit from overladen branches, or flung myself to rest among the tall grass or ripening grain.
It was not tall Dan, nor fat March; for he felt that he could toss them both over the meeting house if such conduct would have been advantageous to the Stewart family; though either of the boys was as large as two such chaps as Will.
The Indians had fenced it with tall greasewood brush stuck in the ground as thick as they could put it, except at an opening about eight inches wide which would permit rabbits to enter, where they were trapped.
He resolved to be an antelope no longer, and with magical power threw off his antelope skin, and in the twinkling of an eye, stood up a tall Indian with bow and arrows in hand.
Gracefully swung from a high branch of some tall tree, the nest is woven with exquisite skill into a long, flexible pouch that rain cannot penetrate, nor wind shake from its horsehair moorings.
But if you see him at all, it is usually while swaying to and fro as he clings to some tall stalk of grass, keeping his balance by the nervous, jerky tail motions characteristic of all the wrens, and singing with all his might.
Look for him in the depths of the tall shrubbery or low trees, near running water, if there is any in the neighborhood, and if you are more fortunate than most people, you will presently become acquainted with the yellow-billed cuckoo.
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.
The home is made of sedge grasses, softly lined with the softer meadow grass or plant-down, and placed in a tussock of tall grass, or even upon the ground.
This dusky haunter of tall shady trees has not yet learned to be sociable like the phoebe; but while it may not be so much in evidence close to our homes, it is doubtless just as common.
The "star-spangled banner" suspended above Fort Inge, as it flouts forth from its tall staff, flings its fitful shadow over a scene of strange and original interest.
There was a house in sight surrounded by tall trees.
There is but one of the pursuing party who continues to keep him in view--a tall man, mounted upon what might be taken for the sorriest of steeds--an old mustang mare.
He was still a long way off; and it was not likely he had seen the tall form of the hunter, standing shored up among the bushes--much less the mare, lying beneath them.
Ye see that tree stannin' up agin the sky-line--the tallpoplar yonner?
Her game was not there to be found; but under the shadow of tall trees that, keeping the curve of the river, formed a semicircular grove between it and the garden.
Illustration] The newcomer was a very large Coyote, half as tall again as Tito, and the dark patch on his shoulders was so large and black that the cow-boys when they came to know him, called him Saddleback.
One way of finding the dens is to watch from some tall butte for a Coyote carrying food to its brood.
The tall young man colours and laughs--keeping his position at the door-post all the while.
Stooping, for the cave door was too small to be entered by so tall a girl were she standing erect, Rilla disappeared from the ledge and Shags followed her.
