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Short
My name is Short. I'm in a hurry and cannot wait.
“Well, but let us hear the wishes (said the old man); my name is
short, and I cannot stay much longer.” —W. Yeats: Fairy Tales of
the Irish Peasantry. p. 240.
Short Stature (Noted Men of). Aetius, commander of the Roman army in
the days of Valentinian; Agesilaus (5 syl.) “Statura fuit humili, et
corpore exiguo, et claudius altero pede” (Nepos); Alexander the
Great, scarcely middle height; Attla, “the scourge of God,” broad-shouldered, thick-set, sinewy, and short; Byron, Cervantes,
Claverhouse, Condé the Great, Cowper, Cromwell, Sir Francis Drake,
Admiral Kepple (called
“Little Kepple”), Louis XIV., barely 5 feet 5 inches; Marshal
Luxembourg; nicknamed “the Little”; Mehemet Ali, Angelo; Napoleon I.,
le petit caporal, was, according to his school certificate, 5 feet:
Lord Nelson, St. Paul, Pepin le Bref, Philip of Macedon (scarcely
middle height), Richard Savage, Shakespeare; Socrates was stumpy;
Theodore II., King of the Goths, stout, short of stature, very strong
(so says Cassiodorus); Timon the Tartar, self-described as
lame, decrepit, and of little weight; Dr. Isaac Watts, etc.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Short from Infoplease:
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