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Definition
a person's height
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a high level of respect gained by impressive achievement
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a high level of respect gained by impressive achievement
- Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.Chapter 2 — Treats of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, and Board (18% in)
- He replied to their salutations in the same way; but bestowed no closer recognition until he reached the further end of the alley; when he stopped, to address a salesman of small stature, who had squeezed as much of his person into a child's chair as the chair would hold, and was smoking a pipe at his warehouse door.Chapter 26 — In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene.... (9% in)
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