Do you remember coming into my place one evening when I had a girl sitting for me-tallish girl, with a perfectly exquisite figure-Louie Causton her name was?
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
I am a tallish sort of person, moderately homely, and not quite thirty-five.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
At eight o'clock next morning Hartnoll and I were eating our breakfast when the waiter brought a visitor to our box-a tallish midshipman about three years our senior, with a face of the colour of brickdust and a frame that had outgrown his uniform.
"Merry-Garden and Other Stories"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch