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"Six-footer" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't," cried Little John. "You go on growing till you're a six-footer, and then you stop. All that grows after that's waste o' good stuff, and gets in your way. Big uns like me are always knocking their heads ...

— Young Robin Hood • G. Manville Fenn

... habit of striding in two or three evenings in a week,—a big, fair, broad-shouldered six-footer, with sun-narrowed eyes of arctic blue, a short blond moustache, and skin permanently burned by the unshadowed glare ...

— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... long moment Nelson was entirely too taken back to make a reply. Desperately his already perplexed brain tried to comprehend. Here was a handsome six-footer, dressed in the arms of an ancient race, speaking English of the ...

— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various

... arms. But Judge Van Dorn quieted them. He knew that to attack Grant Adams physically at that meeting would inflame the man's followers in the Valley. So he pounded the gavel for quiet. To Adams he thundered, "Sit down, you villain!" Still the crowd hissed and jeered. A great six-footer in new blue overalls, whom Grant knew as one of the recent spies, one of the sluggers sent to the Valley, came crowding to the front of the room. But Judge Van Dorn nodded him back. When the Judge had stilled the tumult, he said in his sternest judicial manner, ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White