"Head and shoulders above" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the relief of my fears Rayel seemed quite at ease. He acknowledged the compliments paid him with gravity and self-possession, but with few words. All eyes were raised to his face, as he stood head and shoulders above a group of ladies and gentlemen who had gathered about him. Never had his presence seemed so magnetic and impressive since the first time I saw him in his father's house. Now, as then, a new inspiration was stirring ...
— The Master of Silence • Irving Bacheller
... the band, a fair youth, towered, like Saul, head and shoulders above his fellows. Another, of dark complexion, handsome features, and elegant, active frame, hurried forward to ...
— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Maarten Maartens stands head and shoulders above the average novelist of the day in intellectual subtlety and imaginative ...
— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens
... began to send himself upward in rapidly rising spirals, so that he might throw himself down upon the stranger with the greater force, but as he mounted, the other ascended also, faster and faster, higher and higher, always head and shoulders above Curling Smoke. ...
— The Shadow Witch • Gertrude Crownfield
... while the tide is coming in, one wave reaches up the beach far higher than any previous one, then recedes, and for some time none that follows comes up to its mark, but after a while the whole sea is there and beyond it, so now and then there comes a man head and shoulders above his fellow-men, showing that Nature has not lost her ideal, and after a while even the average man will overtop the highest wave of manhood ...
— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden
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