breast-high

The rising water had forced the ice up till it stood breast-high above the island like a wall.

CHAPTER 24 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! '

Watershed 2010

Blue sky, green trees, and sunlit turf appeared through the opening, which was breast-high.

"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

Blue sky, green trees, and sunlit turf appeared through the opening, which was breast-high.

Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

For a moment perhaps I stood there, breast-high in the almost boiling water, dumbfounded at my position, hopeless of escape.

The War of The Worlds 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.

Glamour: Even The Instruments Are Fake 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.

Saint Ronan's Well 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.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

As we were making our way, cautiously and toilsomely, over the pulverised embers, one of my people sank into the earth breast-high.

A Message from the Sea 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.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007