It was only when I saw Liosha, by the side of Jaffery, unconsciously challenging him, as it were, physical woman against physical man, with three children--two in her generous arms and one on her back--to his mere pair--that I realised, with the shock that always attends one's discovery of the obvious, the superb Olympian greatness of the creature.

She stood nearly six feet to his six feet two.

He stooped ever so little, as is the way of burly men.

She held herself as erect as a redwood pine.

The depth of her bosom, in its calm munificence, defied the vast, thick heave of his shoulders.