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A tall phantom in livery appeared, as if by magic, and signed to me to ascend the grand staircase.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYHe is rather tall and narrow, and wears a long abb's coat reaching nearly down to his feet.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYHe 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) OGDENShe threw out her arms as if swimming when she walked, beating the tall grass as one strikes out in the water.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINBut he was ignorant of that part of the horrid tale; and the Duke, in a milder voice, bade him rise.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe way was under a double row of tall trees, which met at the top and formed a green arch over our heads.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYHe was a very tall man, and he had a very tall and hospitable daughter, nearly as big as himself, who received us very cordially.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYNever had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGThe tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONHer tall figure—she was taller than he by at least three inches—was beautiful in its commanding, yet not vulgar, self-possession.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSWORDS RELATED TO TALL TALE
- canard
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- distortion
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- fable
- fabrication
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- feigning
- fib
- fibbery
- fiction
- figment
- fraud
- half-truth
- hogwash
- line
- mendacity
- misstatement
- perjury
- pretense
- prevarication
- sham
- story
- tale
- tall tale
- untruism
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- whopper
- yarn
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