It was a two-foot-high owl that looked hand painted. From Wordnik.com. [A Darkness More Than Night]
A two-foot-high mechanical cowboy whipped off his Stetson. From Wordnik.com. [Tek Kill]
A four-foot-long neck rose from a two-foot-high body mounted on six legs. From Wordnik.com. [Glory Lane]
And on the outer banks of North Carolina, a place not used to snow, folks are digging out of two-foot-high snowdrifts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2003] Reference
She stopped in the cozy room's farthest corner, facing a two-foot-high handmade wooden box with a forward-slanting lid. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
A half dozen of the cadets and Brasher had formed a circle and were looking down at something in the two-foot-high brush. From Wordnik.com. [City of Bones]
"Cheezit!" cried a two-foot-high Fairy Princess who was occupying a little gilt throne atop a slowly rotating plaz pedestal. From Wordnik.com. [Tek Net]
By comparison to the two-foot-high nyphids, ogres were huge, perhaps ten feet tall, with sloping foreheads that made them look witless. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wing]
The army suggested the two-foot-high swastikas were not racially motivated but merely the work of a disgruntled soldier, whom it didn't name. From Wordnik.com. [The Fort Bragg Swastika] Reference
When Mr. Atwood tried to figure out the costs on his own, he received a two-foot-high stack of trading documents he didn't know how to interpret. From Wordnik.com. [Illinois Tracks Its Currency Costs] Reference
Despite his advanced years and creaky joints, he was fast enough to catch the class track and field star in mid-leap as she tried to hurdle the two-foot-high sculpted lions that graced the entrance to the gallery. From Wordnik.com. [Generous Death] Reference
Others were famous artists, including one who commissioned her to make a number of surrealistic, two-foot-high ceramic Christmas trees, which he personally finished off with a special glaze before they went into the kiln. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Schulman: 'Mama Mono' Finds an Art Niche in Puerto Vallarta] Reference
In 1978, when the 24-year-old Pearlman heard that Wüllenkemper would be visiting the U.S. around the time of his 50th birthday, he mailed him a two-foot-high birthday card covered with glitter, along with an invitation to dinner in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Mad About the Boys] Reference
The water flows languidly between lush trees until it reaches a narrow, sloping race of concrete under the bridge, and then it rears up — because of a sudden change in the shape of the concrete, and more jammed-in wooden boards — into a roughly two-foot-high curl. From Wordnik.com. [Munich’s Malibu] Reference
But Jeff Calhoun, who directed and choreographed under Tune's "supervision," buries a simple show about '50s adolescent angst under a campy parade of fluorescent sets, cutesy choreography and more wigs than a John Waters movie (the Teen Angel wears a two-foot-high orange bouffant). From Wordnik.com. [UH-OH! TOMMY TUNES OUT] Reference
And all the while, as Bootsey and Pru tried to call forth details about a brother they'd always worshiped but had not seen in nearly thirty years, they sat facing a row of two-foot-high, grainy photographs (obviously blow-ups) pinned to the phlegm-green wall behind the desk where one would have thought a window ought to be. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Incognito]
With that I whirled around and stepped off the two-foot-high set right into a bucket of whitewash. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
The person said lawyers spent the night signing a two-foot-high pile of documents clearing the way for the asset sale to the new company. From Wordnik.com. [Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds] Reference
Notice how close this car comes to wrecking when launched off of a little teeny two-foot-high ramp and moving at a relatively slow velocity. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science] Reference
For the next 3 1/2 hours, Michele Suszek stands on a two-foot-high speaker and shakes and swerves, grooves and whirls, unrelenting motion that is a high-octane aerobic activity by anyone's standards. From Wordnik.com. [NY Daily News] Reference
A platoon of imps, two-foot-high red demons armed with small pitchforks, had attacked a florist’s shop, only to discover that they were all allergic to pollen. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates] Reference
He left the store with a two-foot-high stack of books on Death and Dying, figuring, as a Beta Male typically does, that before he tried to take the battle to the enemy again, he’d better find out something about what he was dealing with. From Wordnik.com. [A Dirty Job HTML]
"If I'm putting a two-foot-high pony in an eight-foot-high stall to appease animal rights activists, then I'm not wanted here. From Wordnik.com. [NY Post: News] Reference
He overturned the dais -- found a two-foot-high bronze image underneath it, almost solid -- brought that. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim]
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