She was dressed like Liza, in a shortish black skirt and an old-fashioned bodice, green and grey and yellow with age; her sleeves were tucked up to the elbow, and she wore a singularly dirty apron, that had once been white.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
For having packed off her husband, who was a feeble creature, to take the children out for a walk, Mrs. Mugford stationed herself at a window from which she could see any one that came down from the woods at the back of the house; and after a time she saw a shortish man, fair-haired and blue-eyed, walk stealthily down to her.
"The Drummer's Coat"
J. W. Fortescue
The men are for the most part shortish, very thick-set, and burned by the sun to the color of a much-used saddle.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell