Arms hooked him by the oxters and under his knees. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)
In a rush of happiness, she picked up her little girl under the oxters, swinging her around and around. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)
They are in Calman, up to their oxters even higher. ❋ Jeff (2009)
I had spotted them in the distance five minutes back, their top hats and big buttons, and ever since I had been looking for a way off the road, one that didn't involve me running across a field and getting mucked up to the oxters. ❋ Unknown (2006)
They are up to their oxters in with the labour party. ❋ Unknown (2008)
His lips were dry, but the rest of him was heavily bedewed; he could feel sweat pooling in the creases of his neck, soaking the cambric of his shirt beneath his oxters. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
For he's up to his oxters in the Green Fields of France ❋ Unknown (1997)
He had heard stories of snowfalls that lay six feet deep, valleys where a man might sink to his oxters, and ice that froze so thick on the creeks that a bear could walk across. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
"Belike we'll be up to oor oxters in snaw, the morn, Wattie," chirrupped one damsel, in the bicker of rustic wit and empty laughter that flew around. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
"What is her complaint?" said I. "It iss the growing-pains, in her old legs, and in the top of her oxters -- wild, bad, ay, terrible bad." ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
They must've heard we are disorganised, desperate and up to our oxters in the brown stuff. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Do you all have to be up to your oxters in sea water before you will realise that this is a very real problem? ❋ Douglas Alexander, Mohamed Nasheed (2009)
It seems pretty clear to me, swimming up to my oxters in real live socialists, that not only are all of O!'s mentors / tutors / influences avowedly socialist, but that ❋ Unknown (2008)
Cormac considered the title, remembering some of the freethinkers he’d met briefly at university, the ones who loved to rail against the plight of the downtrodden worker all night in pubs, oblivious to wives and girlfriends they themselves had left at home and up to their oxters in soiled nappies. ❋ ERIN HART (2010)
“But this fella here”—Father Kelly placed his finger below a skinny larva-white boy in boxing shorts pulled right up to his oxters—“if it’s the same person, he volunteers at the club, I’ll introduce you.” ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)
I thought they would never have come, for my shoeless feet were all bruised, and bleeding from the crunched lime and the splinters of broken stones; but, at long and last, a ladder was hoisted up, and having fastened a kinch of ropes beneath her oxters, I let her slide down over the upper step, by way of a pillyshee, having the satisfaction of seeing her safely landed in the arms of seven old wives, that were waiting with ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
I thought they would never have come, for my shoeless feet were all bruised, and bleeding from the crunched lime and the splinters of broken stones; but at long and last, a ladder was hoisted up, and having fastened a kinch of ropes beneath her oxters, I let her slide down over the upper step, by way of a pillyshee, having the satisfaction of seeing her safely landed in the arms of seven old wives, that were waiting with ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
