That was the only thing that touched his vanity: he would gladly have put up with any insult if only he could have been a few inches taller and of a better figure.
The little white figure in a nightgown is taller than the Lizarann whom we saw, also in her nightgown, rushing out into the snow last winter to summon the police to Uncle Bob.
He appears tallerthan he really is by reason of his erectness, and he has a light, elastic step and performs every movement with ease and grace.
The King was no larger than the taller of the two before us, and they are a warlike people, who fight very earnestly to prevent anybody visiting them.
He is rarely taller than five feet and seven or eight inches, and is not inclined to corpulence.
The elder man was the taller of the two; as he lay on the bank beneath the hedge, he might even in that posture have been seen to own a figure of great strength and beauty.
From under the shade of the hedge there arose two men, of whom the taller now stood erect and came toward the carriage.
Beyond that there were great mountains, taller than any to be found in all this region hereabout.
He wore a grey riding-coat, and was a head tallerthan any of his companions.
He lounged forward, a heavy fellow, taller than myself and six inches wider at the shoulders.
He stood in the middle under the lamp, a head taller than the tallest of us; our master.
The warrior, a Huron, was the heavier though not the taller of the two, and recognizing an enemy, a hated Iroquois, he stared fiercely into the eyes that were so close to his.
She was young, much taller than the average Indian woman, and, in her barbaric fashion, quite handsome.
The girl was no taller than Dorothy, although more slender; nor did she seem any older than our little heroine.
They had long whiskers and pointed caps and curling toes, yet were no taller than Button-Bright's shoulder.
He was a little taller than the average, but he was so fat that he looked stumpy.
Indeed the hills seemed no less sheer and when I reached the top of one, thinking to see the valley below, it was only to see before me one steeper and taller yet.
He always appeared to me tallerthan I had seen him, and taller even than he was at the time of his death, although he had grown during the eighteen months in which we had not met.
At that time there came to the town an unknown person, of taller stature than ordinary, dressed in a robe of divers colours, who engaged to deliver them from that scourge, for a certain recompense which was agreed upon.
In the first place, instead of looking down at her they had to look up, for she had grown until she was a half head taller than either Polly or Lois.
Of course, she was taller and her skirts were longer, but no one realized it.
In both cases these taller fairies were reported from flat, plain-like locations; while the little old-man type varies completely from the dancing little feminine elf so beloved by Shakespeare.
He saw a well-proportioned, athletic figure, no taller than his own.
It was taller than the stature of a man and shaped like a rough sphere.
A woman of mature years rose from the group and threw herself at the feet of Hephaestion, mistaking him for the king, because he was taller than Alexander and still wore his armor.
The wild beast during all this noise, clamour and beating about the bush was actually behind my back holding his tongue,--and a splendid big beast he was, two heads taller than I and with tusks like a wild boar.
The other was half a head tallerthan he, and the muscles of his arms stood out like the rugged bark of an oak's trunk.
The girl was several inches taller than her mother.
The English aretaller and fairer, the men better dressed than the women, and with less energy and less grace than Americans.
He was seen there with another man taller than himself.
He says also that the other was a taller man, and in his opinion he believes that man was Coughlin; further, there was a little man who spoke with a German accent, and that man he says he is sure was Kunze.
Daddy Tyl met her last night, says that he could hardly believe his eyes, that she's taller than you and beautiful .
But you have grown taller and stronger, my lad, and quite handsome!
She was, however, taller than her mother, and very much more graceful in her movement.
If you wanted me to grow a couple of inches taller I couldn't do it, even though I should be ever so anxious to oblige you.
I never said he was four inches taller than you, sir.
He isn't four inches taller than you, Mr. Crawford.
Freddie was the taller and lustier of the two, with plenty of animal spirits and enterprise in him, full of indulgent good-humour and patronising protection for his companion.
Why, don't you consider a man four inches taller than I a tall man?
Below us we did make out a few of the taller buildings, but it required an effort and a prior knowledge of their location.
In him was naught unsightly; he was taller by half a foot than any knight who stood beside him, and as yet was he scarce more than a child!
Had they not heard him call upon God no man had dared face him, deeming that he was the devil or one of his fellows out of hell, for that his steed was so great, and he was taller even than Sir Lancelot, and black withal, as I said afore.
That is to say, his wife was something like nine or ten inches the taller of the two.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
