| 单词 | tallness |
| 例句 | It was dark with the tallness of the buildings and the narrow streets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew the way I knew that he wasn’t Scott the first time I saw him, when he was nothing but a shadow moving towards her—just an impression of tallness, of loose, languid movement. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z What you noticed first about Constantine, besides her tallness, were her eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the first-generation hybrids, the individual heritable traits—tallness and shortness, or green and yellow seeds—did not blend at all. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is chopping down—with machetes—a tree of huge tallness. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z His legs was so bowed that most of his tallness was going sideways ’stead of up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Since tallness was dominant, all the parental plants in this experiment were tall to start; the recessive trait had disappeared. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At well over 6ft, his tallness is not that of a 63-year-old man, but that of a teenager who comes back from a school holiday unexpectedly elongated. TC Boyle: 'It's a godless world, without hope' 2012-10-13T23:06:05Z In all her sculpted blond tallness, looming over most of the grinning menfolk on the red carpet, she is going to be a Cannes fixture. Nicole Kidman in Cannes: her tortuous journey to Queen of the Croisette 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Mendel called tallness dominant because it was expressed in offspring when it was present in a purebred parent. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Mattfeld’s reduction of blindness to tallness mirrors the way the show decenters her disability, the way her character “just happens” to be blind. Is There a Right Way to Act Blind? 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Using other databases, researchers had found that the number of genes that contribute to tallness in Europeans increased on a cline from south to north. Genetic data on half a million Brits reveal ongoing evolution and Neanderthal legacy 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The team reported earlier this year how natural selection favored the spread of genes for white skin, tallness, and to digest sugars in milk. How farming changed the European genome 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Imagine a future where Nike peddles designer synthetic genes for, say, “superior cardiovascular performance” alongside its running and cycling gear, or Adidas sells designer genes for “tallness” alongside its new line of basketball shoes. Name-brand genes: Is our genetic makeup what’s next in personal branding? 2013-04-16T11:53:05Z Note that tallness and dwarfism are variations on the characteristic of height. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z In contrast, tallness as better is a societal construct. Unnatural selection: is prenatal testing a triumph for reproductive freedom or brazen discrimination? 2012-09-17T23:45:00.213Z Berg and others suggested natural selection had favored tallness in the Yamnaya or their ancestors, and ancient DNA reveals that the Yamnaya were tall. Genetic data on half a million Brits reveal ongoing evolution and Neanderthal legacy 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Eneas was tall and thin; but neither his tallness nor his thinness ever reached the impressive ungainliness of angularity that was Sir Hector's outstanding characteristic. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Haller states that his own family were distinguished by their tallness, without excepting one single grandchild, although they were very numerous. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Tall mothers may produce tall sons, by transmitting to them the single trait of tallness of the maternal grandfather. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The characteristic features of the physical type of the Germans were light hair, blue eyes, light complexion, and tallness of stature as compared with the Romans. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z Both had the same flash of the eyes, the same earthy coloured face, the same tallness, leanness, and everything. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z It's possible, according to Grimberg, that girls in this study were less likely to be tested for growth hormone deficiency because "social pressures for tallness" are greater for boys. Girls less likely to have short height checked out 2011-03-22T16:33:23Z Must we refer to them as “children with tallness?” Readers Respond to "Mind Over Magic?"-- And More... 2011-03-18T13:45:06.257Z Nevertheless, degrees of Dwarfness or of Weakness must proportionally reduce and modify the tallness of Tallness or the power of Strength. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The yellow pine predominated, a tree remarkable for the straightness and tallness of its stems, and for the height at which its branches begins. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z She had ordered this man down in her royal way, being rather taken with his tallness, youngness and smoothness, and demanded scintillation. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z His tallness of stature, and hardly I, had overthrown him and left me victor. Idonia: A Romance of Old London You noticed her tallness and fearless vitality, and did not try to question her eyes for the secret being in her. Woman But since tallness in woman is development along masculine lines, and detracts from her maternal power, the tall son in such case is likely to be defective in other manly traits. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Michael admired her slimness and tallness, but he wished that men would not turn round and stare at her as she passed them. Sinister Street, vol. 1 His tallness, modesty, cheerfulness, and the fact that he is a banker we usually regard as his qualities; the fact that he is our neighbor is a relation which he seems to bear to us. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude If all tall men wear long coats, or if all men—tall and short—wear long coats, it follows in neither case that tallness and long-coatedness are the same thing. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History If selection for tallness again takes place, still taller men will on the average arise. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution She wore the American style of deep mourning, which swathed her in dense, impenetrable black from head to feet, and seemed to add to her somewhat unusual tallness. A Manifest Destiny "I love the shading of your hair and eyes, the smooth angularity of your tallness, the red ecstasy of your mind." Life Sentence Granger recognised him by his tallness and uprightness. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Such hybrid F1 plants, therefore, must produce a series of ovules consisting of those bearing tallness and those bearing dwarfness, and must produce them in equal numbers. Mendelism Third Edition There was an occasional tallness, the effect, I think, of straining to be higher than the thought or the feeling warranted. Imaginary Interviews Shortness is the trait: tallness is a negative character. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Yet it carried itself with an effect of tallness and slenderness and grace. The Combined Maze Above all, they must be of the statutory tallness and breadth, and in the livery by bibliographical injunction and usage prescribed. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time For coloured flowers are dominant to white, and tallness is dominant to dwarfness. Mendelism Third Edition They were about of a “tallness”—why shouldn’t it be Blossom? Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea In fact, for tallness, they are rather like grown up people. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories I observed that her slim tallness showed to advantage as she walked and that she looked well as she passed, with her head thrown back, into the darkness of the other part of the house. A London Life and Other Tales “This is my sister, Miss Crawford—Aunt Kate, to you always; who has been like a mother to my children—” Aunt Kate bent over from her tallness and gave her a perfunctory kiss. The Girls at Mount Morris A given gamete could carry tallness or dwarfness, but not both. Mendelism Third Edition And she was as graceful in her slender tallness as the girl she had admired—this woman of forty or more. The Heart of Arethusa Ferguson's notion of the essential quality of a Lord Advocate was tallness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Thus tallness in a man, because it is in the first place striking, becomes readily incorporated into our standard of the beautiful. Human Traits and their Social Significance The centrality, ease and harmony of the poise are of more importance than the tallness. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions Tallness in the pea is a unit-character, and the gametes in which it is represented are said to contain the factor for tallness. Mendelism Third Edition Her tallness, he thought, could be said to have come straight from him. The Heart of Arethusa Hence, as two thirds are added in Corinthian capitals, their tallness gives a more slender appearance to the columns themselves. The Ten Books on Architecture In the figure a sense of proportion has been gained, the tendency, perhaps, being rather to excessive tallness, as compared with the thick-set proportions of the Carolingian work. Illuminated Manuscripts In stature he was slightly over the middle height, though the poise of his head, both in youth and age, gave the impression of greater tallness. The Youth of Goethe The tall pea is tall owing to the presence in it of the factor for tallness, but in the absence of this factor the pea remains a dwarf. Mendelism Third Edition It will be seen that the usefulness of this plant consists in its distinct form and tallness, and that it is effective is without doubt. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. She had not grown much, and was rather under than over the ordinary height; but her shape produced the impression of tallness, and suggested no probability of further growth. Alec Forbes of Howglen He really doesn't look anything like as fat as his caricatures make him, however, and he has a head big enough to go with his massive tallness. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Sometimes Rose-Ellen considered him nothing but a nuisance, and sometimes she was proud of his tallness, his curly fair hair and bright blue eyes. Across the Fruited Plain My eyes, lifted to the height of fair tallness they expected to encounter, looked for an instant upon vacancy. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 It continues to grow with remarkable vigour until, at the height of 5ft. or more, the flower panicles begin to develop; these usually add 2ft. or more to its tallness. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. There was nothing especially graceful about my senior Aide; and, besides being past the prime of life, he was of a rather bulky tallness, stolid and phlegmatic. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars But Jason was the noblest of all; for Hera who loved him gave him beauty, and tallness, and terrible manhood. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People So he swayed up on his toes and glanced in the glass and was glad of his thinness and tallness. The Gay Cockade She was of the average tallness; slender at neck, waist, wrist, and ankle, but filling out well in the figure, which had such curves as I swear I never saw elsewhere upon earth. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. The Great grandsire, advancing forward, addressed that splendour which had assumed a form of the tallness of a span, saying, 'Welcome!' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 However, the Dani, who trace their origin to the same stock, drove from their homes the Heruli, who lay claim to preëminence among all the nations of Scandza for their tallness. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths She was not tall, but her lithe slenderness gave her the appearance of tallness. The Goose Girl His were good looks of the best fashion of men's good looks; not a tall man, he yet gave the effect of tallness, so perfect was his carriage, so handsome his address. Queed The spirit-grey shape that had been a pyramid seemed to dissolve into four upright members, slightly graduated in tallness, that nearest the Mary's stern the tallest and that to the left the lowest. Widdershins I delighted in showing them, and talking over the rarity of this edition, the tallness of that copy, the binding, and such-like follies. Paul Faber, Surgeon Rowcliffe looked at her, taking in her tallness, her slenderness, the lithe and beautiful line of her body, curved slightly backward as she leaned against the window wall. The Three Sisters At first glance I saw that she was a high-class vessel, a harmonious creature in the lines of her fine body, in the proportioned tallness of her spars. The Shadow Line; a confession Jerusha caught only a fleeting impression of the man—and the impression consisted entirely of tallness. Daddy-Long-Legs By the engine stood a dark, motionless being, a sooty and grimy embodiment of tallness, in a sort of trance, with a heap of coals by his side: it was the engine-man. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Oh, the relief of the tallness and straightness and whiteness! The Incomplete Amorist The Germans pride themselves in their tallness of stature and skill in magic. The Praise of Folly When he entered the door, his tallness and lean ease of posture silhouetted in the light, she could look in on the group of idling male gossips. Over the Pass A poet wrote an ode in her honour, and included among her beauties that of tallness; her slender height was illustrated from the poplar. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 A very little strength and a very little tallness, and a few delicate long lines meeting in a point…. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Miss Powers great lady; of a tallness and much commanding, with snow hair and bright eyes - at times of a hardness like steel - of them we have much fear. Seven Maids of Far Cathay Extremes of size? whether of tallness or shortness? offend him equally. Without Prejudice At length Ruby gave over rhapsodizing on the tallness, the broadness and the elegance of their visitor, and rushed to the hall door. The Rose in the Ring She looked so much like Bert, with his dark hair and eyes, with his slimness and his tallness, that you could tell at once she was his sister. The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat But—on the stage the prejudice is in favour of a degree of tallness that we might not admire off it. A Siren Josephus informs us that Moses was of "divine form and great tallness"; the Arabs specify his stature,-300 cubits. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 The self-fertilised plants thus exceeded the crossed in height by a little; but this was entirely due to the tallness of one of the self-fertilised. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom ‘What’s an appointment?’ inquired his friend, a town young man, with a Tussaud complexion and well-pencilled brows half way up his forehead, so that his upper eyelids appeared to possess the uncommon quality of tallness. The Hand of Ethelberta He was dressed somewhat differently now, but the face was quite that of his late guest in its tragical pensiveness, as was also the tallness of his figure. A Changed Man; and other tales You would miss the small people even more than the great; every one is middle-sized, and you can never have that momentary sense of tallness which is so agreeable in Europe. The Point of View But between tallness and shortness he could differentiate, and he knew that he had the wrong man beside him on the seat. When God Laughs: and other stories But in the sixth generation a plant appeared, named by me the Hero, remarkable for its tallness and increased self-fertility, and which transmitted its characters to the next three generations. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom I saw how her slim tallness showed to advantage as she walked, and that she looked well as she passed, with her head thrown back, into the darkness of the other part of the house. The Patagonia Whereas, beyond his tallness, and wide-open, jocular eyes, eyes that seemed those of a not highly conscientious wild animal, there was nothing remarkable about young Lin except stage effect. Lin McLean Ket replied that they were almost of the same size as themselves in body, alike in years, and much resembling them in tallness. The Danish History, Books I-IX By the local standard his blow was probably a trivial one, but the moral effect of his indignant pallor and a sort of rearing tallness about him on these occasions was always very considerable. The Research Magnificent Hero transmitted the peculiar colour of its flowers, as well as its increased tallness and a high degree of self-fertility, to its children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom The taller the ship, the further she can be seen; and her white tallness breathed upon by the wind first proclaims her size. The Mirror of the Sea When they yield to a squall in a gaunt and naked submission, their tallness is brought best home even to the mind of a seaman. The Mirror of the Sea The man who has looked upon his ship going over too far is made aware of the preposterous tallness of a ship’s spars. The Mirror of the Sea Benham's tallness, his very Gentile face, his good clothes, and an air of tense authority about him had its effect, and the kickers shuffled off with remarks that were partly apologies. The Research Magnificent |
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