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  • Bedaubed and betrinketed, slouchy and slovenly, these low-statured chiefs belied in appearance their scorn-bright eyes and lofty mien.

    The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905

  • Curtis -- a low-statured, massively built man -- on the right of their line, and about ten or fifteen steps from my company.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • Curtis -- a low-statured, massively built man -- on the right of their line, and about ten or fifteen steps from my company.

    Andersonville — Volume 2 John McElroy 1887

  • To Europeans the smooth-featured, slender, low-statured Japanese seemed like boys; and 'boy' is the term by which the native attendant of

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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