petiteness

Along with being treated like Shirley Temple your entire adult life, another byproduct of petiteness is the difficulty in finding clothes that not only fit you properly, but also don't make you look like you've got one foot in the grave.

Tara Dublin: The Short and the Short of It Tara Dublin 2010

But her petiteness was incongruous with her combatant stride, and when she got close enough for him to read her expression, his hopes for this meeting turning out to be good for him were instantly dashed.

Tough Customer Sandra Brown 2010

Of course, I'd prefer to be taller, but my petiteness provides a perfect perch to express my femininity.

Tess Ghilaga: Sole to Soul 2009

Of course, I'd prefer to be taller, but my petiteness provides a perfect perch to express my femininity.

Tess Ghilaga: Sole to Soul 2009

Of course, I'd prefer to be taller, but my petiteness provides a perfect perch to express my femininity.

Tess Ghilaga: Sole to Soul 2009

I realize now that I should have sacrificed detail for petiteness, but instead I went along with the artist's advice.

Calamity, ink Calamity Jen 2008

I realize now that I should have sacrificed detail for petiteness, but instead I went along with the artist's advice.

Archive 2008-10-01 Calamity Jen 2008

Tool-burdened coverall or no, she remained in her Eurasian petiteness the most desired woman aboard the Olgfl; and still the rest of the girls liked her.

The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

Sue, Mrs. Milo's petiteness became weakness, her dainty trimness accentuated her helplessness, her delicate coloring looked ill-health; while Sue, by contrast, seemed over-high as to color, almost boisterous of voice, and careless in dress.

Apron-Strings Eleanor Gates 1913

Shouting, as usual, Hammond, who makes up for his petiteness by shouting louder than anyone else declared, "This can't be right, these stranded tourists have got better story lines than us"

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