Ziploc divided box plus a round tallish Lock&Lock. From Wordnik.com. [Laptop Bento | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference
“This was a medium-tallish chap. Good at cricket.”. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The tallish handsome fellow and the bushy-browed immigrant. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
She was a tallish woman with round shoulders and a bit of a stoop. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
They wore brimmed tallish hats and pale stuff showing at their necks. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
My wife and I climbed a tallish building before Atlantis landed Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The vegetation of the western hills is not peculiar, Echinops, a tallish. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Another friend, this one a tallish guy, dropped over to greet Mr. Burns. From Wordnik.com. [Easy Riders Feud as Dennis Hopper Cheers Peter Fonda's Non-Oscar] Reference
Along the way, I saw a tallish, heavyset guy in a kimono with a top knot. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The tallish, loose-skinned man hurtled backwards and landed on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned] Reference
With her she had a tallish man, and it was he who was carrying the torch. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
Along the way we met a tallish, strongly built boy who looked about my age. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Sealed Room] Reference
Of course, Memphis was a tallish horse, but normally the saddle was reachable. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Yes, the tallish purple flowers are verbena bonariensis, it self sows all over. From Wordnik.com. [August Clues « Fairegarden] Reference
A tallish, good-looking young man of one or two and twenty, with a light whisker. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
She was tallish with dark hair which fell in waves around a pale and serious face. From Wordnik.com. [So long, and thanks for all the fish]
Here was the “tallish old boy, nagged to a rag, overworked, overconscientious.”. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Maybe the next few years will only amount to a series of rather tallish speed bumps. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Japan’s 20 Years in the Dolrums Highlights Need for Effective Recovery Policies] Reference
It was impossible to tell who it was, but it was someone tallish, wearing a dark cloak. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
He was a tallish man, aged about thirty-five, with fair hair going grizzled and watery blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
The old guy who opened the front door was tallish and thinnish, but nowhere near as thin as Lance. From Wordnik.com. [Portobello] Reference
The door opened and admitted a tallish man in a heavy green overcoat with a big fur-trimmed parka. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
I am tallish and thinnish, with straight brown hair that I usually pull back and clip with one of those hair thingees. From Wordnik.com. [Bliss « A Fly in Amber] Reference
A tallish man with the severe face or a Serbian apparatchik and a thatch of steel-gray hair shoved a piece of pie in the oven. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
I have a husband, Tom, who loves me and is faithful to me and is very decent looking as well, tallish, thin, and losing his hair nicely. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Unless by Carol Shields] Reference
She was tallish, and prettier than any picture in colors -- and game!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Next Door] Reference
She grew up tallish, like her pa, and slim and round, same as her ma. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Next Door] Reference
They could tell that she was tall for a girl, or tallish -- not a maypole. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
"Wife's a tallish girl, fair, rather good-looking; looks standoffish though.". From Wordnik.com. [Comedies of Courtship] Reference
On this night, we'd sat at the edge of a tallish cliff known as The Amphitheater. From Wordnik.com. [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference
To call it "willing" is like describing Irene van Dyk and Susan Fuhrmann as tallish. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference
"He was standing at the door of the Mitre, talking to another gentleman -- a tallish man.". From Wordnik.com. [The Paradise Mystery] Reference
He was a tallish, athletic youth, dark, and pleasing enough of feature to be called handsome. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Presently the door of the room opened with a jerk, and a tallish man wearing a silk hat looked in. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
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