As I passed from mirror to mirror slanted against the house, I could see different parts of me: my shoes and pant cuffs, my belt and the bottom of my shirt, my sudden whole shape in the tall mirror, my swinging hand.
My passion for the vertical world took me from tall trees in my backyard to climbing steep cliffs and crags.
About my looks: I was tall and skinny as a kid, but with a big head.
With his paws on my 6-foot-tall date's shoulders, he still loomed a full head higher.
She said it wasn't easy either since she and my dad were both real tall and crammed into a sleeping berth.
Knowing the Chinese fondness for legends, I summon up some Celtic tall tales from my childhood that involve ferocious warriors, vicious kings, an improbably large potato, a brave young prince and the inevitable triumph of good.
Big and tall guys like my six-ft. plus driving partner will still struggle with legroom and a low-slung roofline, but the average woman or man will be able to maneuver without cramped legs or bruised knees.
After making that first toy, it was eight inches tall, but in my head, it was like I'd just made a building or a boat.
"I'd probably say 'arrrrgghhh, ' because he'd be twisting my head off my body like he was opening a tall boy, " he said.
But then one day I discovered that, yes, indeed, I was definitely way, way, way too tall, even taller than my mother, who wasn't the tallest in our family.
After Corwin dropped me off, I sat outside with my grandfather Mooshum, drinking cool water from tall galvanized water cans.
"My father, to me, was 10 feet tall, " says Frazier, whose mother died when he was very young.
My guess is that even if Apple went with a tall shape instead of the squares that most other speculative designers have been imagining, it might not go as extreme as the 16:9 proportion Simeonov has created.
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After filing my lawsuit 17 months ago, I feel we are standing tall on second base.
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"As long as I got you in my corner to the end, we're gonna stand tall, " he said.
For my money, for my 15-cent admissions that doubled when I got too tall, movie actors lived on screen, and I lived to see them.
Tall, gangly, and, like everyone else in my family, severely myopic.
The screen, when open, is tall enough that I have to push the keyboard into my stomach to fit it under the seat in front of me.
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These amazing acrobatics also maneuver around the petunias I plant in containers on my deck, the honeysuckle that spills over a fence and the tall pink and white garden phlox I grow in the gardens.
In my case, I like to the think that my contributions to DNS were the basement and first two floors of a tall building.
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Also, in my mini scientific experiment with a group of small boys, the long, tall boards are not seen by people on the ground.
As I make the case for tall people I would end up having to stretch for something ridiculous like my father not having the opportunity to be a ball turret gunner.
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As we drew closer to the border, my expectations had come to include homes for each of us, new families, tall buildings, glass, waterfalls, bowls of bright oranges set upon clean tables.
This tall, taffy-faced figure barely out of his youth reminded me of my son.
She also had a revelation while seated in front of one of the dioramas (my recollection is that it was the one of salmon-hunting Alaska brown bears standing seven feet tall): that the only reason we exercise dominion over the Earth, and creatures bigger and stronger than us, is because of our larger brains.
That would be the Nose: the 3, 000-foot-tall prow where El Capitan's two massive walls meet the sum of all my hopes and fears on this evening.
As a child growing up in Langham I knew of this odd 25-foot tall, 40-foot wide Christmas pudding of a building on the edge of the airfield where my father, somewhat unsuccessfully, first tried to teach me to drive.
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