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He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPS
It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
Tressan fell suddenly to groaning and wringing his hands a pathetic figure had it been less absurd.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
Her tall figure—she was taller than he by at least three inches—was beautiful in its commanding, yet not vulgar, self-possession.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
But suppose we say, since one figure is as good as another, that it has been increased a hundred times.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
She is always attired in black, and is utterly careless in dress, yet nothing can conceal her innate elegance of figure.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of rain, and of doing good to them that shewed right ways.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

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