1 He was well formed, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and to gallantry.
2 As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not reach it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 3 He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 4 He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 5 It is remarkable that the stature of this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the Revolution.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 6 The man was of lofty stature, clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD... 7 Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 8 Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it could be seen that she was of very lofty stature.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 9 Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJ... 10 Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 11 On entering he found a man of short stature and intelligent eyes, but covered with rags.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF 12 The door at length was opened, and a man appeared, of high stature, pale complexion, and black hair and beard.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK 13 But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.
14 His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia.
15 Relieved against the ghostly light, the gigantic jet negro, Daggoo, loomed up to thrice his real stature, and seemed the black cloud from which the thunder had come.