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Tallness

noun
1.
The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top.  Synonym: height.
2.
The property of being taller than average stature.





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"Tallness" Quotes from Famous Books



... certain tallness and robustness, with an erect posture of the body; a skull narrowing from the eyebrows upward; prominence of the cheek-bones; the eyes black, deep-set, and having, it is thought, a slight tendency, in many cases, to strabismus; the hair coarse, very black, ...
— From Slave to College President - Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington • Godfrey Holden Pike
 
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... to impart to her some of the adoration he had for Katharine Howard—her learning, her faith, her tallness, her wit, and the deserved empiry that she had over King Henry VIII; but ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
 
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... afford the most remarkable instance known to me of the direct and prompt action of climate on a plant. It might have been expected that the tallness of the stem, the period of vegetation, and the ripening of the seed, would have been thus affected; but it is a much more surprising fact that the seeds should have undergone so rapid and great a change. As, however, flowers, with their product the seed, are formed by the metamorphosis of the ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
 
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Words linked to "Tallness" :   loftiness, highness, low, tall, high, lowness, shortness, height, stature, dimension



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