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  • And our routine at home only enhanced her stature.†   (source)
  • I was saying that Saturn was surely in a position of power in the heavens at the moment of your birth…… Your dark hair…. your mean stature…tragic losses so young in life….†   (source)
  • Williams was gaining stature in Savannah, to the irritation of certain blue bloods.†   (source)
  • With three men twice my age and stature, I went up to receive my punishment.†   (source)
  • As we roared out the hymn, the Rev. Lewis Merrill appeared to gain in confidence— and even in stature.†   (source)
  • His Holiness told me he had no regrets except one-that his advancing stature in the church prohibited him from being with the woman he loved and seeing his infant grow up.†   (source)
  • The Colonel did not own a suit, and by virtue of his stature could not borrow one from anyone at the Creek, so he wore black slacks and a gray button-down.†   (source)
  • In spite of his diminutive stature he has a commanding, captivating presence in the room.†   (source)
  • All the signs pointed, he said, to a group with the potential for "heroic stature."†   (source)
  • They were a people dark and beautiful, small of stature, no taller than children even when grown to manhood.†   (source)
  • Only a select few in the city had that kind of stature, and his earnings reflected that.†   (source)
  • Delicate in stature, she was as meticulous about her attire as she was about her studies.†   (source)
  • We would be honored to have one of your stature as a member.†   (source)
  • We all jumped out of our seats, but Father, because of his imposing stature, had to kind of crouch over inside the plane instead of standing up straight.†   (source)
  • To compensate for his stature, Spurlock had the habit of just taking off toward the sideline the minute he received the ball.†   (source)
  • America's pride in its growing power and international stature had fanned patriotism to a new intensity.†   (source)
  • The resulting play, for all its tears and anguish, is structurally comic the tragic downfall threatened but avoided—and Walter Lee grows to heroic stature inwrestling with his own demons as well as the external one, Lindner, and coining through without falling.†   (source)
  • As soon as he spread it on the table, a flickering hologram appeared above the surface: Leo Valdez, looking impish as usual with his dark wispy hair, his mischievous grin, and his diminutive stature.†   (source)
  • Public figures of this stature don't appear in Denver every week.†   (source)
  • I think Norman started to tell Dale that's stature, but thought better and adjusted his glasses.†   (source)
  • Let me say that Lord Darlington was a gentleman of great moral stature - a stature to dwarf most of these persons you will find talking this sort of nonsense about him - and I will readily vouch that he remained that to the last.†   (source)
  • "Our timetable, will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon," his father said.†   (source)
  • Campus accommodations befitted students of my stature.†   (source)
  • Yet Carl did little to assuage the natural distrust an ordinary man feels for a man of physical stature.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this made him grow in stature in her own eyes.†   (source)
  • A well-dressed, middle-aged man of small stature comes in and sits at the end of the bar.†   (source)
  • In short, what Andrews' defenders, a team composed of Menninger Clinic psychiatrists and two first-class attorneys, hoped to achieve was a victory of legal-landmark stature.†   (source)
  • Alex tried to imagine what it would be like to be this girl, completely overwhelmed by the massive stature of this legal system, unable to speak its language.†   (source)
  • He was small in stature, as are most Iranian men; nevertheless-or perhaps because of that-he carried himself with an insolent swagger.†   (source)
  • The head of my new block was a German Jew, small of stature, with piercing eyes.†   (source)
  • He made a vague motion with his hands, which I think was supposed to indicate Martin's plump stature.†   (source)
  • You've got the favour of him—if you wasn't a gal. He evidently shared Schopenhauer's distaste for "the low-statured, wide-hipped, narrow-shouldered sex.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was that crossing of stature, names, and character that made Ursula suspect that they had been shuffled like a deck of cards since childhood.†   (source)
  • But they had similar hair, similar stature, the identical button nose, and the same mellow-with-a-touch-of-hyper way of looking at the world.†   (source)
  • If, on the other hand, you decide to leave public life, it would not be too surprising if he were not able to get a job of equivalent stature with another senator.†   (source)
  • Against his brother, against the stature of danger and rage he could only pose the fact of his secondness, his meek freedom from guilt.†   (source)
  • Rath is short and small-boned, pretty, vibrant, and bubbly, a wisp of a girl whose negligible stature contrasts with an outsized and outgoing personality.†   (source)
  • Rejected for his diminutive stature, he sequestered himself in the Canadian wilderness, "a-huntin' and a-fishin'."†   (source)
  • Most, even in my stature, feel the same way.†   (source)
  • I hadn't any idea what I'd ordered, but I was confident that in a restaurant of this stature we wouldn't be left starving.†   (source)
  • As contrasted with earlier, wartime morale-boosting "quickies," this film would have the scope and stature of an epic.†   (source)
  • The ring had given him power according to his stature.†   (source)
  • Aven explained that while their short stature made them rather disagreeable, their inborn ability—from the goat half of their heritage, John had no doubt—to scale mountainous terrain also came in handy on a tempest-tossed deck.†   (source)
  • He made a pleading case for release on recognizance based on Jenks's stature in the community.†   (source)
  • When her last breath seeped out, 1 knew I couldn't do everything that should be done for a woman of her stature.†   (source)
  • Now, if you've managed to stay awake during history class, you probably realize that only prisoners of stature were held in the Bastille.†   (source)
  • Days ago she'd been nothing more to us than the obscure ymbryne of a little-known loop, but since then she'd achieved mythic stature: she was, as far as we knew, the last free and whole-bodied ymbryne, a living symbol of hope, something we'd all been starving for.†   (source)
  • She stood tall, with a nobleness to her stature that I had seen often when we walked on the llano.†   (source)
  • Now that she heard that voice by itself (divorced from the engineer's tall stature), it amazed her: it was high-pitched and thin.†   (source)
  • With every passing day, General Mebratu's stature grew until he was unofficially canonized.†   (source)
  • He seemed so huge behind the microphones, his voice giving his body the stature of a giant.†   (source)
  • The height of the mound only accentuated his stature as the Regiomontanos stared up at his incoming pitches.†   (source)
  • And, although I had neither the stature nor the temperament for either role, I was expected either to sing "Old Man River" and just keep rolling along, or to do fancy tricks with my muscles.†   (source)
  • Heath, a much younger man, was a fifth-generation Roxbury farmer, age thirty-eight, who would affably describe himself in a memoir as "of middling stature, light complexion, very corpulent, and bald-headed."†   (source)
  • I'm sure many men of stature come to your beautiful island.†   (source)
  • I took his leathers and, with a pair of well-honed wool-shears, cut about a third of the length off the legs to fit my stature.†   (source)
  • As in the cemetery the previous day, this woman radiated such extraordinary charismatic power that her petite stature was a source of continual surprise.†   (source)
  • Charlie was big in both stature and wit.†   (source)
  • In these days, smiths were vital to a kingdom, and Culann's stature rivaled even that of the king.†   (source)
  • Bobby's stature will quickly rise, with his brother soon referring to him as the "second most powerful man in the world."†   (source)
  • "Yes, Jim," she said, wishing to believe that he was, perhaps, a man of stature in the mysterious realm of Washington.†   (source)
  • (To MARTHA, now) It's very simple, Martha, this young man is working on a system whereby chromosomes can be altered …. well, not all by himself—he probably has one or two coconspirators—the genetic makeup of a sperm cell changed, reordered …. to order, actually …. for hair and eye color, stature, potency ….†   (source)
  • In the Court you would be looked down on for having such short stature.†   (source)
  • Yet the malnourished hill fighter, chalking slogans on the rocks and carrying on his isolated, unseen war, grew in stature during that first week.†   (source)
  • But Montes's guidance of the ship raised his stature among the survivors.†   (source)
  • Small statured, small framed, as Iona was.†   (source)
  • I only considered the fact of his position and stature in the community as what had persuaded the storekeeper to deal fairly with Henry.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of men who had been born ordinary men, some of small stature, some surprised waiters and tailors and other unathletic weaklings, had become as strong as galley slaves.†   (source)
  • Though it took a special act of legislation to allow Justinian to marry one of such lowly stature, Theodora proved herself a worthy empress, commissioning two royal spies to sneak into China and steal silkworms so that she could drape herself in the manner in which she felt she could become accustomed.†   (source)
  • A military alliance would only enhance your stature and influence.†   (source)
  • Still, Feeney, with his electronic expertise, had ferreted out some of Roarke's closer business associates, and none had wanted to risk offending someone of Roarke's stature with a refusal.†   (source)
  • He had no stature and a small voice and there were no big parts for him until the war came, and now he was the only one who knew how good he was.†   (source)
  • She was small in stature, with coal-black hair that fell about a soft, childlike face.†   (source)
  • Despite the extraordinary fineness of his features, and his age, and his general stature—clothed, he could easily have passed for a young, underweight danseur—the cigar was not markedly unbecoming to him.†   (source)
  • And her stature, since she was pushing six feet.†   (source)
  • When I was eighteen I spent a summer doing field work in the company of another mammalogist, seventy years of age, who was replete with degrees and whose towering stature in the world of science had been earned largely by an exhaustive study of uterine scars in shrews.†   (source)
  • What would his stature be in Europe, if I hadn't helped old Wooden-head to a case of dysentery so I could win the war in Spain, instead of losing it, as would surely have happened without me?†   (source)
  • As she dug, her stature increased in Randy's eyes.†   (source)
  • He had reached the position where neither personal possessions nor official ceremony could add anything to his stature.†   (source)
  • Despite the now rather threatful forward-thrusting nature of his stance and the fact that he outmanned me in bulk and stature, I had the powerful urge to punch him in the jaw.†   (source)
  • It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.†   (source)
  • Though perhaps as small as my stature.†   (source)
  • In time of crisis her presence was expected, for she was a citizen of stature.†   (source)
  • Men of no stature are merely a quiet annoyance.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, he was overshadowed by the grandeur of the events; seen beside them, he lost in stature.†   (source)
  • But even more important was the Senate's gradually increasing power in the field of foreign affairs—a power which multiplied as our nation's stature in the community of nations grew, a power which made the Senate in the twentieth century a far more significant body, in terms of the actual consequences of its decisions, than the glittering Senate of Webster, Clay and Calhoun, which had toiled endlessly but fruitlessly over the slavery question.†   (source)
  • Both are small in stature with ashen skin and black hair.†   (source)
  • Her body seems larger in stature, more imposing than mine.†   (source)
  • Without heels, you can see my true stature.†   (source)
  • Potter and Bertha still dominate things, as if stature mattered even in death.†   (source)
  • Of course, for just an instant, he reminded me of my 101st guard—same stature, same uniform.†   (source)
  • He was very small in stature and prepubescent.†   (source)
  • She compensated for her diminutive stature with the fashion sense of a K-Pop idol.†   (source)
  • A palanquin fit for a man of my stature, he thought as they hammered shut the lid.†   (source)
  • The kid acted as serious as a coroner, which seemed comical given his age and stature.†   (source)
  • At any rate, when this wedding is concluded, the House of Thrym shall regain its former stature!†   (source)
  • He must be bathed and dressed as befits his stature, in ermine and cloth-of-gold and crimson silk.†   (source)
  • He stands erect, as if stepping into a stature.†   (source)
  • The rest of those who remained were all of human stature.†   (source)
  • Neither state of affairs is, I deem, fitting for a race of our stature.†   (source)
  • Though he walked among giants and trolls, the proud barbarian king's stature was not diminished.†   (source)
  • He's still an entrenched militarist, still fumes over France's reduced military stature.†   (source)
  • I've had far more experience; I was once a man of stature.†   (source)
  • And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature.†   (source)
  • Maybe a light helm might be found to fit him; but we have no mail or sword for one of his stature.†   (source)
  • To the surveyors who shot it, all but the summit nub of Peak XV several was obscured by various high escarpments in the foreground, of which gave the illusion of being much greater in stature.†   (source)
  • His mother had been delicate, both in stature and nature, a wispy, slim-waisted woman with a puff of hair always spilling from under her scarf.†   (source)
  • Now here he was, big, like his father, with his father's stature and his mother's face, dressed like a fisherman in rubber boots—he was a fisherman, Ole recalled, had named his boat after his wife: the Susan Marie.†   (source)
  • I learned that he had kept his family on welfare and had never held a job in the U.S., preferring to cash government-issued checks than degrading himself with work unsuitable for a man of his stature—he saw the flea market only as a hobby, a way to socialize with his fellow Afghans.†   (source)
  • He had the same dark skin and small stature as Hortensia, and Esperanza thought his round eyes, long eyelids, and droopy mustache made him look like a forlorn puppy.†   (source)
  • He has stature, she thought.†   (source)
  • Certainly, it is observable that figures like Mr Marshall and Mr Lane have served only gentlemen of indisputable moral stature - Lord Wakeling, Lord Camberley, Sir Leonard Gray - and one cannot help get the impression that they simply would not have offered their talents to gentlemen of lesser calibre.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time, Anna related, there was a rich merchant with a fleet of ships and three sons, the youngest of whom was rather small in stature.†   (source)
  • He was born prematurely and is still small for a boy of eleven, but what he lacks in stature he more than makes up for with desire and gumption.†   (source)
  • Hester's damage to the rose garden was surely of the stature of a tradition; her absence, and Owen's, seemed ominous to me.†   (source)
  • At fifty, Sonny Seiler enjoyed a position of considerable stature within the Georgia legal community.†   (source)
  • Anthony was not a lady manager and therefore despite her national stature could not participate in the board's meeting.†   (source)
  • Can you not imagine how easily impressed a young man like that would be, living in a house, being friends with a man of Jim Williams's stature?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Rickets, a woman of medium stature with blond hair pulled to the nape of her neck, began asking questions.†   (source)
  • At the mention of the round-faced Minister of Culture, the director stood up so straight he added an inch to his stature.†   (source)
  • Though he was small-boned and slight in stature, his flashy and extraordinary athletic gifts manner, appetite for hard work, earned him renown as the Deion Sanders of the Khumbu.†   (source)
  • Thus Ned was particularly susceptible to an offer from Holmes that seemed likely to increase his own stature in Julia's eyes.†   (source)
  • When I asked Beidleman, a powerful climber from Colorado) how it felt to be guiding a client of Schoening's stature, he quickly corrected me with a selfdeprecating laugh: "Somebody like me doesn't guide' Pete Schoening anywhere.†   (source)
  • Initially Root planned to employ a technique that Chicago architects had used since 1873 to support buildings of ordinary stature.†   (source)
  • When he was not working, he wrote postcards, scores of them, perhaps hundreds, to the most powerful men in the city, in a voice that presumed he was their equal in social stature.†   (source)
  • That he should be there now, a man of such exalted professional stature in an office so high above the city, would have come as a great and satisfying surprise to his late father.†   (source)
  • Evening visits by strangers were a regular occurrence at the Ashland house, for Harrison prided himself on being available to any citizen of Chicago, regardless of social stature.†   (source)
  • His day, really—two days before the official close, but the day when he would get to stand before several thousand mayors from around the country and revel in his stature as mayor of Chicago, the city that built the greatest fair of all time.†   (source)
  • The many architects who dined at Kinsley's Restaurant, which had a stature in Chicago equal to that of Delmonico's in New York, agreed this would be the single most important architectural assignment in the city's history and that most likely it would go to Burnham & Root.†   (source)
  • As the notion of an exposition gained shape, however, other cities began to see it as a prize to be coveted, mainly for the stature it would confer, stature being a powerful lure in this age when pride of place ranked second only to pride of blood.†   (source)
  • "No one knew," said Meera, "but the mystery knight was short of stature, and clad in ill-fitting armor made up of bits and pieces.†   (source)
  • There were four goblin-soldiers of greater stature, swart, slant-eyed, with thick legs and large hands.†   (source)
  • Of the lands beyond the mountains, they knew relatively little and could only say that Blys was divided into ten duchies that were ruled by demons of great stature or lineage.†   (source)
  • She made it clear that the party she represented-whose stature was, indeed, confirmed by the fiche itself-would remember my cooperation.†   (source)
  • A woman with a quiet grace and stature.†   (source)
  • Most of us, in ways that we are not entirely aware of, automatically associate leadership ability with imposing physical stature.†   (source)
  • Close behind the body stood Nasuada-grave, sable-cloaked, and strong in stature, though tears adorned her countenance.†   (source)
  • With that expression, she bore a striking resemblance to Arya, although her stature and bearing were even more impressive than her daughter's.†   (source)
  • Day by day, he saw her stature grow among the emissaries, functionaries, nobles, and commoners with whom she dealt.†   (source)
  • It was as if his deeds had inflated his stature and intimidated the people he had known since childhood, distancing him from them.†   (source)
  • He studied the floor steward; he was a young man in his twenties, blond, short of stature, and with the posture of an obsequious servant; cautiously he knocked on the door.†   (source)
  • Yes they were god-statured, transformed in those swanny streaks into the only sort of gods he cared to acknowledge, poetic and fleeting.†   (source)
  • She was pleasantly surprised to see that Joe was not troll-statured, that he had a head of wavy brown hair that did not seem to be attached by double-sided tape, and that he had teeth.†   (source)
  • For a man of moral stature, whose desires are born of rational values, sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong, of the good to the evil.†   (source)
  • And her diminutive stature, at four and a half feet tall, is accentuated by a congenital cleft foot that causes her to limp.†   (source)
  • At once Frodo thought of Boromir, for these Men were like him in stature and bearing, and in their manner of speech.†   (source)
  • At first, the war stimulated enrollment and conferred a sense of mission on the school, a stature and an eminence it did not enjoy during those rare times when the United States was not trading the blood of its sons for the blood of other, darker, sons.†   (source)
  • A museum guard who resembled, at best, a type of French railway guard of very slight stature, slicked-down black hair, poor health, and too much to drink, followed Alessandro across the highly polished floor with a gait so apprehensive and full of fear that he sounded like a prancing dog with untrimmed nails.†   (source)
  • Smaller in stature than wolves, true Huskies are of a much heavier build, with broad chests, shorter necks, and bushy tails which curl over their rumps like plumes.†   (source)
  • The dwarves' short stature meant that the huge trolls had to stoop to strike a blow, exposing the backs of their heads and shoulders to the arrows, while the dwarves whaled away at their legs and midriffs with the massive battle-axes.†   (source)
  • Gandalf was shorter in stature than the other two; but his long white hair, his sweeping silver beard, and his broad shoulders, made him look like some wise king of ancient legend.†   (source)
  • The parents who were Kull themselves, it seemed, bore Urgals of ordinary stature just as often as giants like themselves.†   (source)
  • But perfection is not to be gauged by mystic commandments to practice the impossible, and your moral stature is not to be gauged by matters not open to your choice.†   (source)
  • A dozen years ago, it would have been absurd to think that a young female social worker, small in stature and with a club foot, could have any impact on the mobs that run the brothels in Hyderabad.†   (source)
  • Exit to and entry from the ravine involved a stiff climb, which was too much for the youngsters, so that they could be left in their new home with little danger of their straying; and since they were now big enough to hold their own with the only other local carnivores of any stature — the foxes and hawks — they had nothing to fear.†   (source)
  • It was a place for prime ministers and presidents, foreign secretaries and secretaries of state, men and women of international stature seeking the peace of pampered isolation.†   (source)
  • When he saw Katrina again, the butcher seemed to crumple inward, losing height and stature until Roran felt as if he were looking at a specter of the original man.†   (source)
  • Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their grey coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.†   (source)
  • From Saphira, Eragon received the image of a cow of medium stature with a splattering of white splotches on her left flank.†   (source)
  • And even if they did, demons of Errtu's stature could not be truly destroyed away from their native planes.†   (source)
  • He seemed to have grown in stature while Eomer had shrunk; and in his living face they caught a brief vision of the power and majesty of the kings of stone.†   (source)
  • His face had so firm, so confident, so mature a look of calm, in the faint half-smile, in the clarity of the eyes, that she felt as if he had aged decades within one month, but aged in the proper sense of human growth, aged in vision, in stature, in power.†   (source)
  • This disfigurement only added to the giant's stature, instilling the respect of fear in its normally unruly troops.†   (source)
  • He constantly erodes Carlos' stature.†   (source)
  • Is Angela a woman of short stature, with thick, curly brown hair, flashing eyes, and a wit that is as sharp as it is odd?†   (source)
  • Yet whenever he did, he followed an abortive kill with a spectacular, unsolicited one, to uphold his stature.†   (source)
  • There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, nonproperty, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.†   (source)
  • Gandalf took no armour; and Gimli needed no coat of rings, even if one had been found to match his stature, for there was no hauberk in the hoards of Edoras of better make than his short corslet forged beneath the Mountain in the North.†   (source)
  • However, not to put too fine a point on it, you are short by our standards, and I would rather not risk your warriors in a fray such as this, where your stature might be your undoing.†   (source)
  • To challenge Carlos-'eroding his stature at every turn' was the way Bergeron phrased it-to undercut his prices, spread the word of his deficiencies, your own superiority.†   (source)
  • Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice.†   (source)
  • Of an author of the stature of John O'Hara (although I had far more illustrious literary idols, O'Hara represented for me the kind of writer a young editor might go out and get drunk with) there was no trace.†   (source)
  • Yet three days such as this shall pass And they shall thrust me into such a void That during this brief interval of time I shall, even before the Resurrection, attain my full stature.†   (source)
  • But even with the gun adding inches to his stature, he was not out-and-out vicious, merely impatient.†   (source)
  • And in such a battle as we think to make on the fields of Gondor what would you do, Master Meriadoc, sword-thain though you be, and greater of heart than of stature?†   (source)
  • Men of some stature in the community, who might conceivably make good their threats to 'break you for this,' as the saying goes, are tin cans on the social watchdog's tail.†   (source)
  • For the other Companions steeds were furnished according to their stature; and Frodo and Samwise rode at Aragorn's side, and Gandalf rode upon Shadowfax, and Pippin rode with the knights of Gondor; and Legolas and Gimli as ever rode together upon Arod.†   (source)
  • He was not brave, especially, yet not cowardly either: his awareness that the gun was there on his hip made up for the shortness of stature which, before he'd joined the Police Force, had inclined him to leave trouble alone whenever possible.†   (source)
  • Her diminutive stature was her secret sorrow, but she had learned to find compensations.†   (source)
  • He was handicapped by his short stature.†   (source)
  • We use our friends to measure our own stature.†   (source)
  • You want there should be Man, with capital M, with great stature.†   (source)
  • He was short of stature and he had a thin voice and much fear of bulls.†   (source)
  • The life span and stature of man slowly diminish.†   (source)
  • It was difficult for him to get out from over the horn because of his short stature.†   (source)
  • A day or two later a second introduction took place, and Conway enjoyed his first talk with the man whom the High Lama had particularly mentioned--Alphonse Briac, a wiry, small-statured Frenchman who did not look especially old, though he announced himself as a pupil of Chopin.†   (source)
  • His stiff jeans, with the bottoms turned up eight inches to show his heeled boots, his three-inch belt with copper figures on it, even the red arm bands on his blue shirt and the rakish angle of his Stetson hat could not build him up to his brother's stature; for his brother had killed a man, and no one would ever forget it.†   (source)
  • I reply that, on the contrary, it is probably the only means by which that organization will achieve its full stature and strength.†   (source)
  • I reply that, on the contrary, it is probably the only means by which that organization will achieve its full stature and strength.†   (source)
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