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"I got really good at falling, " he said of his efforts. And Sergeant Strang, a tall, athletic man, had to give up running.

I used to live in a small town with trees all around. There was no tall building and the only street was narrow.

He has an abundance of brown hair, tall and straight nose, and a pair of big eyes and tall, and very thin.

A long dike will collapse ause of an ant-hole in it; a tall building will be burned down by a spark from a chimney's chink.

But she did look at Gilbert when they arrived at school. He was a tall boy, with curly brown hair and a friendly smile.

The tall young man put my box on his cart and drove off at such a speed, that I had to run to keep up with him.

It consists of a pair of meter-tall chambers connected at the top by a tube containing an air turbine the diameter of a dinner plate.

Since it summarized the tall request literary activity characteristic, is continued to use by the various countries until now.

It was an old woman, tall and shapely still, though withered by time, on whom his eyes fell when he stopped and turned.

He was nearly two meters tall, with dark eyes and hair. 'Yes, come on, ' he said.

For as a child must grow and a twig must be trained to be straight and tall as the perfect tree--so shall you learn.

Finally we got to the York street. He asked me to stop near a tall building.

Inside there was the photograph of a woman, tall and slight, with large vague eyes and loose hair.

That man standing atop a tall column in London's Trafalgar Square is Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of England's greatest naval heroes.

Admittedly, this was the bikini round, where everyone wore blue and looked tall, skinny and dazzlingly similar.

It was a deep, rather unusual voice. I turned, to see a tall, dark man in the shadow near the kitchen door.

But I tell you a little secret. Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people. . . they just as alone as us. . .

The design of tall building is often controlled by its deformation .

Kaz was anxiously waiting for the return of another member of her family when a tall chap appeared where the gate had been.

Don't you know Sandra? Tall girl. Blonde hair. She always hangs out in Bakers with the media crowd.

She was thin, as thin as a shaft of midwinter sunlight in the forests of the east, and tall, nearly as tall as he was.

Camera pans across the desert. At the edge of a cliff we hear and see GIBSON PRAISE being led by a tall man in a gray T-shirt.

A chihuahua is a dog, but a tall chihuahua is not a tall dog; "tall" changes meaning by virtue of the word next to it.

Then I raised my eyes, and I saw a handsome tall boy, just like Beckham, with a high nose|and wearing a blushing smile|looking at my face.

That's a tall order for a tower, but the collection of non-profits that comprise the Center, along with a strong community, feel up to it.

He can't fly around tall buildings , or outrun a speeding train , the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain .

Stretching to one side of him was a vast sweep of tall building flecked with tiny squares of yellow light.

My guide led me to a tall, ruinous house with shuttered windows, and knocked several times at the door.

In the quiet room, the tall and thin president held the boy's hands in his hands and encouraged him with concern till he passed away.

The tall man finished his coffee, folded the map, put it in his pocket, and stood up. "We'll take your map with us, " he said.

A tall thin man came out of the shadows at the bottom of the stone steps.

A few minutes later, he was winding his way on the street. And then his car ran into a tall tree.

The child was not tall enough to look over the wall.

Bully; it has given me everything I asked it for. You've changed lots, Jimmy. I never thought you were so tall by two or three inches.

"Where is the residence part? " asked Carrie, who did not take the tall five-story walls on either hand to be the abodes of families.

The tall man had to stoop his head to get through the door.

Since my husband and I are both tall, should we try on baby carriers to see what fits or just be lazy and order something online?

Now headrest is a challenge because you want it to adjust enough so that it will fit, you know, a tall guy and a short girl.

Click on the word "map" to see a ten-degree tall map displaying the earthquake.

She sat in the cab next to her father and looked out of the window at the tall houses and the dark sky.

A tall man stood up in the stands, walked out on the field, and came up to me.

"No-not a morsel of it! " they replied, looking into the very midst of Laban Tall as if to meet his words halfway down his throat.

He turned to a tall woman, who was standing in the corner. She smiled at me with friendly brown eyes.

Antonia's figure, with its throat settled in the collar of her cape, slender, tall, severe, looked impatient and remote amongst the bustle.

For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U. S. , might be one more casualty of war.

Some of the tunnels are just a few feet tall, while othershave been retrofitted to accommodate larger tourists.

He was young, tall, thin, rugged, cool but not cold spiritually, and with a will and a determination of the tensile strength of steel.

"The structures that seem to cause the most deaths are very tall and constantly lit, " he said.

An aged woman, but tall and strong as if she were a man in disguise , sat by the fire, throwing upon it one piece of wood after another.

You are standing there, leaning against a tall tree and smiling to me. Your strong body seems to be taller and stronger than before.

Riverside to Keep the tall willows, was decked out with shaggy, turning the ingots, as if his wore a winter-loaded, it then vibrant.

Its neo-classical colonial architecture with tall Doric columns, gives it a majestic look.

That's a tall order for a short bit of copy, but it's a skill anyone writing or editing for the Web should try to master.

Walk tall and proud. walk as if you've got somewhere to go and you need to be there now, never run just walk tall and quickly.

Her mother told her to stand up straight and be proud that she was so tall and slim.

He was very tall, with a dark, Spanish complexion, fine , expressive black eyes, and close-curling hair , also of a glossy blackness.

He said the creature had three shriveled fingers and a body covered in dark fur, and that it was more than 6 feet (1. 8 meters) tall.

Her dark eyes watched the dance hungrily from her position behind a tall fern, and he felt his heart beat faster.

We will also ask you a few questions about your general health and measure how tall you are and how much you weigh.

The fish pushes water aside by the forward motion of its head and with a curve of its body and its flexible tall.

Arms and Legs fairly straight. I drew my alien as though it were alive, upright, standing, tall, slender, arms long to the side.

As he was running past a pub in the main street, he accidentally bumped into a tall man in black coming out.

This tall, well-groomed man sank even deeper into his chair and stared blankly at a spot on the wall ahead of him.

She did not seem tall walking toward me but she looked very lovely.

I once saw a tall, dark shadow walk around the corner and into the kitchen, but there was no one there.

Plants that grow tall and spindly trying to reach the sunlight are usually "suffering" from Shade Avoidance Syndrome, or SAS.

Since the building to the west is only about 10 stories tall, however, the noise may not be as noticeable on the upper floors.

What does he look like? He's tall and strong. He's got short and brown hair and with blue eyes and a nice short beard.

Under the old system, the basic Police requirement was at least 6 feet tall and with a very good eyesight.

What that means is if you met somebody, and you were told, oh his father is six feet tall, how much would you know about his height?

The tall Victorian houses looked strange and silent, as if they might all be empty inside, like the houses on an abandoned movie set.

A tall boy came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say: "all right, damn you, teach me something. "

While traveling to my Spanish friend'shouse in a taxi. I noticed the tall gates of what seemed like an enormous park.

This does not seem to be much of an explanation of an apparently undimensional term like "tall. "

Strong, classic lines, combined with her tall rigging give her a sense of real character.

For instance, if you like tall, athletic, blond women who are a bit of a geek with a quirky sense of humor, then go find one!

Brett, at six feet, two inches tall, was dressed in jeans and asweatshirt bearing the name of the college to which he was just accepted.

He may not be very tall Messi, but he makes up for that in speed and agility, which allow him to evade the tackles of his opponents.

Four twenty-meter tall statues of Ramses guard the front of the temple, which is carved into the side of a mountain.

That would be a tall order even for a freshly elected leader with a thumping majority and two terms in office.

Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Its never necessary to tell me that you think Im right . Well just . Assume it.

The hut, one-story tall and made of adobe, had small windows and was as worn as a sand castle.

If you can entertain i tall ment payment on deferred terms, we would be in a position to place orders with you for these goods.

Her eyes lingered on his tall, broad-shouldered form warmly, loving the strength and size and authority of him.

Some tribes along the western Great Lakes collected a tall grass with an edible grain, referred to as a wild rice.

Ben watched the bird, praying it had not been hurt. It flew near the ground and went into some tall grass.

Achieving all that would be a tall order for a much more robustly integrated organisation, so it probably won't happen.

Suppose this population migrates to a region, like the Upper Nile, where it is an advantage to be very tall.

An out of breath Sara shows up to the warehouse and tells the gang that she was being followed by a tall black man.

The year she turned fourteen her mother met a man. The man was tall. He and her petite mother was a good match standing together.

Ben watched the bird, praying it had not been hurt. It flew near the ground and went into some tall grass.

Achieving all that would be a tall order for a much more robustly integrated organisation, so it probably won't happen.

Suppose this population migrates to a region, like the Upper Nile, where it is an advantage to be very tall.

An out of breath Sara shows up to the warehouse and tells the gang that she was being followed by a tall black man.

The year she turned fourteen her mother met a man. The man was tall. He and her petite mother was a good match standing together.

As I said there words, a tall figure appeared from out of the darkness.

He was not tall, and handsome, it's hard to attract the attention of thieves, but he was very brave, so the culprits are afraid of him.

As it turned out, the best of these foolish acts, and the best told, was the one recounted by the tall, large man.

You are like a very tall cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches providing forest shade, with its top among the clouds.

He found his shovel at the top of a tall tree whose first branches began nearly twenty feet above his head.

You are like a very tall cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches providing forest shade, with its top among the clouds.

He found his shovel at the top of a tall tree whose first branches began nearly twenty feet above his head.

I've loved my mother's desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters.

The face of the tall straight woman turned slowly as if drugged to this new speaker.

This scared the utter hell out of me because what I felt was a tall man, with long greasy hair but I couldn't make out his face.

If you scaled a five-year-old up to be six-and-a-half feet tall, the giant child would lope along just like a similarly sized adult.

She pictured him tall, slim, cynical; with eye-glasses, and his hands in his pockets; and she did not like him.

Mother Cotton-Tail took a wonderful lamp from her basket. It had a pink shade and a tall chimney.

To give you a little bit of a sense of scale, that calving face in this picture is about 325 ft tall. That's 32 stories.

When he had gone she let her eyes wander slyly to the figure of a tall young man stretched lazily in a chair not far distant.

When he had gone she let her eyes wander slyly to the figure of a tall young man stretched lazily in a chair not far distant.

Clara: I think I know my way around the store, but I'm not tall enough to reach some of the things on high shelves.

He was a tall, heavy looking young man of five and twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal.

The cornfield across the road does not seem nearly so tall or so green as it ought to be, given the time of year, but I am not discouraged.

After a heavy lunch , a little monkey took a nap between the branches on the top of a tall tree.

As soon as he was out of the bathroom, two figures, one tall and one short, met his eyes. They were Creepy and Weirdo.

He was moderately tall and lean, and was silent. He did not look at Connie at all, only at the chair.

Height seems to run in his generation of his family, as Zhao Liang is the oldest in a family of tall children.

As far as I could judge, the figure was that of a tall, thin man.

On the other end of the dining room was a tall marble fireplace, always lit by the orange glow of a fire in the wintertime.

It is a tall order to expect me to finish the job in two days. It will take a week at least.

She went and found a tall tree and climbed to its top, where she sat and span, without speaking and without laughing.

He is too tall, and has never been able to avoid striking his head on the low doorway.

Away over there, as if on the other shore of that vast yellow sea, the roofs of a hamlet rose from the tall dark poplars.

At the side of the road, a tall and corpulent monk, with large eyes and awesome look, was plowing a field.

As he said it, a vivid picture formed in Harry's mind of Ginny in a white dress, marrying a tall, faceless, and unpleasant stranger.

The tall man was not in cardio ballet the next week, and Mandy did not think of him.

After the tall dark girl came to know Doctor Reefy it seemed to her that she never wanted to leave him again.

She wore clown patches of tan and brown on her coat of short, white hair, and was tall enough to meet me nose to wet nose.

Yeah, you still remember this mirror, through which you tried to see yourself when you were not tall enough to reach it.

Police have refused to reveal how much money was taken by the suspect, who is described as white, with brown hair and about six feet tall.

The young woman, tall and thin with braided hair coiled on her head, is doing well at school and wants to be a doctor.

Pan cut some tall water grasses and made a set of pipes on which he played music.

His master now had time to follow and to see that Bunchie's new friend was a tall girl in a black dress.

Standing just under five feet tall, Joey was everyone's friend. His race was the long one-quarter-mile run, the full lap around the track.

Hardly had we sat down when a slim tall man came into the room to let us change a room.

Old city gate Tall and firm old city gate seems to be grand as it used to be.

Hugh Miller was a tall (nearly 6ft) man with a great mass of flaming red hair and "sapphire" blue eyes (according to his wife, Lydia).

Views were more constricted as 1A is often bordered tightly by tall trees, but it was a much more pleasant riding experience than the TCH .

The ruler of Bezim was a tall humanoid with a domed head and a grave manner. "Do you think Count Dooku is behind the murder of Kash? "

Marsh tall, gentle, gentle, love Michelle, persistent pursuit of her for years, until she did get her divorce.

He was a tall, soldierly -looking man, and I could not rid myself of the impression that somewhere or other I had seen him before.

A tall man stood up and shook hands with her. It was the general manager.

If the tall innkeeper had seemed boisterous before, he now seemed at times ready to burst.

It was that of a tall young man, smoking.

She pointed at the last and youngest of her sons. He was tall, thin, and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet, and a long nose.

Louie was then a tall, creative 16-year-old whose wild, curly hair made him easy to find in a crowd.

" Or, " Can you get up for a minute, we'd just like to see how tall you are?

If the surface of Earth was as smooth as the Chandra mirrors, the highest mountain would be less than six feet tall!

A woman was robbed of her money by a tall robber with long brown hair after she took money out of the bank.

He was a big tall man, with a red face, and was sitting beside a fire with Dr Livesey. ' Come in, Mr Dance, ' he said.

"You're smart, amusing, good- looking, tall and blond, " a former colleague says, knowing the last three labels, at least, to be false.

Standing in the middle of her room looking startled as though he were just caught in the act of something was a tall man in a dark suit.

"Never mind what he went under. It was a mistake , that'tall. A big mistake . Poor fellow. " He had cocktail now and shook his head at it.

When you were 20 your list was "he must be tall, dark and handsome. " Try going against type. It just might be a perfect fit.

sarah is a tall girl with a round face , straight nose , fine eyes and a full mouth that appear to be characteristics of her family.

I think your writers are pretty fantastic, but obviously reattaching someone's head is a bit of a tall order.

He seems to be very much taken up with that tall Swedish girl.

But she had no idea that they were laughing at her, so she stood tall, proudly holding her "W" .

Despite the fact that she was balancing on tall, chunky heels, she still had to gaze up at an acute angle to look Diane in the eyes.

For a while at least, many people andbusinesses will have to pay more to borrow, or will not be able to borrow a tall.

Denise Hyland was a tall, freckle-faced Irish girl with kind, beautiful eyes and an infectious smile.

He is only 1. 2 meter's tall with a childish face, wearing the children's shoes, looks like a pupil from his appearance.

Flora: (Stepping out on the balcony. ) Oh, what a fine view one gets from here! That tall building on the right is a hotel, I believe.

There were two very short crew clones and one very tall, hooded Templar with him in the windowless ovoid of a room.

MR COEBEN: Yeah, yeah, you know him, he works with you. Tall guy-- brown hair.

McCarthy was a fascinating man, tall, gray-haired, and handsome, an Irish Catholic intellectual with a fine mind and a biting wit.

It was a tall order to ask him to be a partner in launching a new initiative of undefined duration when he was contemplating his own demise.

She is tall with a pair of glasses on her nose, having big eyes and a round face , long and black hair. She always wears light blue clothes.

"What I wanted to speak to you about, Abner, " said the tall, stern man in as kindly a manner as he could command.

The tall boy liked to go up the steps two or three at a time.

The second one was that a tall structure had been put up in downtown.

Any owner will tall you how much joy a pet brings.

the general was stout and tall , the president offered him the side of the railing to assist him in getting down.

Yet tall buildings have not always been the best allies of financial market confidence.

The Christmas tree was an underwhelming two feet tall, there was no backdrop and guests dressed down for this party.

The tall sleek red-furred Beauty, was wise enough to understand the danger to his moving herd.

Although Tibet is called one of the worst place in the world for its element, it does not affect people's attraction a tall.

Her mother noticed this and told her to stand up straight and be proud that she was so tall and slim.

The tall man held out a hand. I gazed at it, not sure what I was supposed to do.

Buck was a tall, weathered man in a red hunting shirt and khaki pants, and I nodded as I passed him on my way to the hardware aisle.

Keep your head in a neutral position as you stand tall. Land on the middle of each foot and then roll onto the balls of your feet.

Kiah stood up. He was nearly two metres tall, with dark eyes and hair. 'Yes, come in, 'he said.

I am cheerful personality, humor, with a pair of big eyes and tall nose is too thin by some.

Another thing that helped her was that she was tall.

Another eighteen thousand years passed, and there was an extremely high sky, an extremely thick earth, and an extremely tall Pangu.

In her dream they had been man and wife, simple folk who lived a simple life in a tall stone house with a red door.

We lose a bit of attention and a few centimetres, we're not really tall.

He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt.

Procrustes was accustomed to invite strangers to spend a night in his cave, and if the guest were tall he would lead him to the shorter bed.

Yang tall tree in the morning breeze in the jitter to the first leaf, first glance, as if flying in the air, numerous pieces of silver.

Going back to her American debut in Days of Thunder. She was afraid that she was too tall to get the part opposite the star, Tom Cruise.

Having an outstanding sense of smell but poor eyesight, Kodiak Bears can stand up to three meters tall and weigh approximately 780kilograms.

There he was, a tall, lean man with a black hat, walking out onto the platform of the train----Abraham Lincoln.

He went slowly along the road for a while, then there came over the crest of the hill a man tall and thin.

Then he woke as if from a dream, wheeled his mount about, and raced off through the tall grass at a gallop.

He was over six feet tall, with the lean muscular body of a man who kept himself in good physical condition.

He was tall enough to see over the heads of the other people.

Out of the ward, there were several trees, very tall trees. Those desperate days were sharp and clear on her memory.

Tall, brutally handsome and modest, he had a British accent plucked from a Graham Greene novel and the body fat of a Diet Coke.

All of a sudden, he stretched out his four limbs and turned instantly into a big tall man.

To become a cyber model, you don't necessarily have to be tall and thin with long legs like the professionals.

The crowd explodes in cheers of joy when a tall, slender figure slowly makes his way to the podium.

( Laughter ) So I think that part of his attraction for me was that I loved listening to his tall tales .

The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle in her hand.

In my imagination, a mountain was probably a thick and round column, so tall that it pierced the sky and looked awesome.

In either case, the safest choice is choosing boots that are tall enough to be covered by the hemline of the skirt.

The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.

Eliza was now very tall and thin, with a rather sour face, dressed in very plain clothes, and with a cross hanging round her neck.

Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall trees were visible.

a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.

Our English teacher it is tall or short, curly brown she has, she did not wear glasses.

The other mute was tall. His eyes had a quick, intelligent expression. He was always immaculate and very soberly dressed.

Yesterday afternoon, on the way home from school, I saw a with the sun all tall young man, hit an old lady and stole her purse.

Our kindergarten teacher's name was Park Ho Soon, She was as beautiful and tall, just like Miss Korea.

Interviewer: Hard--Yeah. There's not one guy in your whole school who was as tall as you.

There were four or five trees that we visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.

The road led to an old house with an avenue of tall beeches with their young, fresh leaves, and you looked up through them at the blue sky.

And who ever heard of a sludgy teabag bringing the news you were going to meet a tall dark stranger.

She was a tall , earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face, a buxom , delightful, flirtatious girl .

front entrance. Outside a taxi was driving up to the hotel. It stopped and a tall.

Tall pine trees began to appear at the side of the road and occasional rock cliffs.

There were four or five trees that we visited regularly----tall beech es, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.

The father, in his tall Pilgrim hat, was like his own father - stern, someone to be respected.

He was a very tall, big man with blue eyes and a lot of white hair.

My friend looked into a tall mirror just as he was lifting his foot to a stool to dry it, and he was reminded of the statue.

Suddenly, much quicker than I had expected, a tall teenager was standing by my side; she had grown taller than me.

My beautiful elder sister is a tall, slim lady with long black hair and a pair of gorgeous sparkling large eyes.

Since that was also the name of Stalin's daughter, the poem brought the tall, tinny-voiced, stuttering young man to the dictator's notice.

At first his doctor said it was just growing pains, told him he was going to be real tall. But they were wrong.

Then this house does not belong to that tall lady who wears a watch, and who said we were to have some bread and cheese?

There is not a tall nose, big eyes and a little mouth in my face, with black skin.

At times tall strikers should be able to out jump a stretching goal keeper to win the ball.

Dream big dreams and think tall. Very few people set goals too high. A man becomes what he thinks about all day long.

Calculation sample showed that this method is simple and applicable in estimating creep and shrinkage in tall building structural design.

When growing up I was a little conscious of my height, but you become used to it and you actually feel happy to be tall.

Now I have two tall screen monitors, side by side, and I feel like the operator of a nuclear power station.

But finding buyers for that grab bag of assets is likely to be a very tall order.

A type of tree , which is tall and big and yield good soft wood , is often used as building materials .

Two came, tall women looming in their black, one of them thin and rigid, the other heavy, swaying with the planting of her feet.

He had first appeared in Spring as a small sprout on a rather large branch near the top of a tall tree.

If water is not pumped to the top of a tall tree, and if it is not pushed to the top of a tall tree, then we may ask: how does it get there?

He lives in Beijing. He has got a round face, short black hair and a pair of big eyes. He's tall and strong.

Friar Tuck was a fat, jolly priest. Little John stood more than 7 feet tall and was known for his great skill with a bow and arrow.

Not far away, she espied a tall man of middle age standing beside a tree with a dour look on his face.

The face of the tall straight woman turned slowly and as if drugged to this new speaker.

Burj Dubai is set to be completed next year. But the developers did not say how tall the finished building will be.

Before long, through the door came a tall, unimpressive-looking man of about 40.

Mix Vodka And Cointreau with Ice in a shaker and pour into a tall glass. Add the 7-Up to taste.

Tall the classmate of the class removes individual person slight abrade is bungled outside, did not hinder greatly.