Here and there were twinkling blades, stick-figure shapes, improbably tall, moved about the trunk undis-urbed, observing the fighting like hundreds of wandering referees.

A few improbably tall trees sprouted, but much of the basin was covered by grass that was littered with color, the yellow and white of marigolds and lilies.

A giant blue circle, hovering above the ground, was sweeping over the Farm's cultivated ground, upright and improbably tall.

Gemini Jones was JumpShift's senior research physicist, an improbably tall and slender black woman made even taller by a head of hair like a great white dandelion.

He was improbably tall and lean.

Miller made an improbably tall Frenchman, loping along in a black beret and a blue canvas workman's suit whose trousers flapped round his calves.

Some were improbably tall and narrow and looked like they would tip over at any moment, while others were wider and lower to the ground.

Outlined in sharp black silhouette against the red giant's bloody disk were three slender, improbably tall spires, unnaturally straight and regular, each with a vivid patch of yellow vegetation surrounding its base.

So Lazarus had left Earth at the end of the Corliss accelerator, an improbably tall tower standing up from a flat asteroid a mile across.

He looked around at the neat rows of improbably tall vegetables.