The rising water had forced the ice up till it stood breast-high above the island like a wall. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Blue sky, green trees, and sunlit turf appeared through the opening, which was breast-high. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)
Lady Flashman, scenting mischief breast-high, had also fixed her bonny blue gimlets on the suspect, seen him drop red counters on his paper after coups had been called, and heard Levett mutter, ` By jove, it is too hot! ' ❋ Unknown (2010)
For a moment perhaps I stood there, breast-high in the almost boiling water, dumbfounded at my position, hopeless of escape. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)
And nobody has yet been able to explain her breast-high waist that only seems to exist on one side of her body. ❋ Cosmo7 (2009)
I will, therefore, submit to circumstances, and tell you the whole story, though somewhat tedious, in hopes that I can conclude with such a trail as you will open upon breast-high. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the second place, the road to this dungeon is fenced off with ropes breast-high, and outside those ropes all the English in the place who have lately been sea-sick and are now well, assemble in their best clothes to enjoy the degradation of their dilapidated fellow-creatures. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As we were making our way, cautiously and toilsomely, over the pulverised embers, one of my people sank into the earth breast-high. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Air and light reach the damp den within, either through the upper half of the door, or through an open space between the ceiling and a low front wall, breast-high, which is closed by solid shutters that are taken down every morning, put up every evening, and held in place by heavy iron bars. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Terrace (I waded breast-high across a torrent of water that was rushing down from the waterworks towards the Albert Road), and emerged upon the grass before the rising of the sun. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
They had come to a bank breast-high, and over it the valley was no longer to be seen. ❋ Unknown (2006)
To wade out into the sea, into this warm lapping that mingled the natures of water and light, to stand there breast-high, to thrust my revolver barrel into my mouth — — —? ❋ Herbert George (2006)
To be swishing through the long bracken or plunging among the breast-high flowers of the meadowlands in a world of essential lights and fragrances, seemed scarcely part of mortal experience. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I saw a liana stretch across the bed of the brook about breast-high, swung up my knife to sever it, and — behold, it was a wire! ❋ Unknown (2005)
In such a Dismal Swamp does the new house stand, and through it does the Secretary daily struggle breast-high. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But, leaning on the breast-high window, and staring in out of the darkness, they find the visitor extremely embarrassing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He may be viewed to-night as a plump, smooth, pink, baldish, podgy goodman, robbed of the importance of spectacles, squatting in breast-high water, scraping his lather-smeared cheeks with a safety-razor like a tiny lawn-mower, and with melancholy dignity clawing through the water to recover a slippery and active piece of soap. ❋ Unknown (2004)
