Both Uses of
stature
in
Oliver Twist
- Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.†
Chpt 2 *
- 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.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
-
(stature) a person's height
or:
a high level of respect gained by impressive achievement