Hugo Ames was, I think, the tallest man who ever adventured in Fleet Street.
He is a younger brother of Captain “Ossy” Ames, who has the distinction of being the tallest man in the British Army.
There were about these springs, which are at the base of the Ute mountain, the tallest summit of the Sierra u Late, formerly many large buildings, the relics of which are very impressive.
They are said to have been remarkably tall and stout, and there is a tradition that there were giants among them, people of a much larger size than the tallest of the Lenape.
On this our second visit, after an absence of near a fortnight in the Highlands, we are at a hotel nearly facing the new monument to Scott, and the tallest buildings of the Old Town.
The European Stag, or Red Deer, is a fine looking animal, the tallest of the deer kind.
The apes can climb to the top of the verytallest trees, and cling to the branches in safety.
A golden fly hovered about the tallest reed, then darted into another world, invisibly.
Basil was the tallest and the handsomest of the twain.
St. John's College, Oxford, the "first mess was carried by the tallestand lustiest of all the guard.
Divided for long centuries, as we have said, these towering cliffs have been once more united by a light and beautiful bridge suspended over the abyss at such a height that the tallest ship can pass beneath it.
In losing him your majesty has lost the tallest of your subjects, and the strongest.
Description:--This is decidedly the largest plant among all our North American species of Cheilanthes, some of the tallest specimens measuring nearly two feet in total length.
Then one of the two, whom Partington thought to be the tallest and stoutest fellow he had ever beheld, spoke up and said, "What seekest thou of Robin Hood, Sir Page?
Nobody on earth could have been disappointed in him for he is one of the tallest gentlemen I ever saw with trousers so smoothly creased that they look like somebody had ironed them after he put them on.
He was killed at the battle of Shiloh and was the tallest and handsomest man in the army.
The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest oak, and much monotony will tire the readiest reader.
All that can be seen at a distance is the tops of the tallest trees, which look like bushes.
The tops of the tallest trees that grow along it, tower just enough above the table-land to be seen from the cars; and as we did not expect to stop on our return, we made haste to see all we could.
The door is the full height of the wall, and the tallest of the men have to strictly observe etiquette, and bow as they enter and leave the house.
Numbers of True Believers were drinking and washing themselves at the picturesque fountain, and just as we rose to depart, the voice of a boy-muezzin, on one of the tallest minarets, sent down a musical call to prayer.
It was an unexpected delight to find the American colors in this little Syrian town, flying from one of the tallest poles.
Others persuaded themselves of the same fact, being naturally ambitious of carrying away remembrances of the tallest mountain in all America.
Then it is he does his tallest riding, and, circling around his cows, brings them back to where they started.
The Baltimore oriole loves to attach its nest to the swaying branches of the tallest elms, making no attempt at concealment, but satisfied if the position be high and the branch pendent.
Occasionally in the earlier part of May I find the woods literally swarming with warblers, exploring every branch and leaf, from the tallest tulip to the lowest spice-bush, so urgent is the demand for food during their long Northern journeys.
He replied that the shot would pass over the tallest stag, or aught but a man on horseback; and fortified by this, I mounted without saying more, and we retraced our steps.
In return the tallest of the strangers, he who had entered first and seemed to command the others, looked round him keenly.
The wood and undergrowth that surrounded the camp of the Sauk were very close and dense, so that the view in every direction was shut off, unless one should climb the tallest tree and take his survey from that perch.
It was the tallest of the three who had tripped him, and all laughed like a lot of clowns, as the angered Jack glared at them.
The tallest Indian, who was the leader of the little company, suddenly whipped out his hunting knife and looked at the others, who imitated him with military promptness.
The helmets, however, were speedily taken off and slung behind them, the heads of the Iceni being vastly larger than those of the Romans, the tallest of whom they overtopped by fully six inches.
As yet he lacked some inches of the height of his companions, but he bade fair in another two or three years to rival the tallest among them in strength and vigour.
Last of all to be seen was the top of the tallest tree, then--all was a world of water.
He was just in time: the tallest and strongest giant had laid hold of the sultan, bound and helpless as he was, and was carrying him off to a huge coal-black horse that was picketed to a tree close by.
Now the children of Njal were all tall, but Helgi was tallest of all, except his brother Skarphedinn.
The tallest tower was erected to contain a clock, and afterward the church was built around it, thus rendering the style of architecture any thing but imposing.
It gives a friendly erecting to the gray moss, which lives and swings from its tallest limbs to the lowest twigs, furnishing a complete mantle of grace to the naked-appearing trees.
Whirling about in the drifting snow to catch the seeds on the tallest stalks that the wind in the open meadows uncovers, the snowflakes suggest a lot of dead leaves being blown through the all-pervading whiteness.
You might just as well have asked the tallest coffee-pot in his shop.
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