| 单词 | breast-high |
| 例句 | In places the snow was breast-high, and often Boromir seemed to be swimming or burrowing with his great arms rather than walking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Mist and the smoke of guns lie breast-high over the fields. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen walls were lined breast-high with blue and white tiles; and under the window that looked towards the sea was a neat range of stoves, for the consumption of both coal and charcoal. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z On the other side of the breast-high wall, not six paces from him, a man was crouching low, trying to hide behind a bush. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z They passed through a scattered group of seals, which, breast-high out of water, mocked them with their curious, complacent gaze. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Hounds were running with a breast-high scent, the pace very fast, when the leading division had their extended front diminished to single file by a big bullfincher, practicable only in one place. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z "As to my labyrinth, it is neat, it has green plots, and the palisades are breast-high; it is a lovable spot." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The barred window of its cell opened breast-high on the street, but spiders had, undisturbed, woven webs across its bars, and the key stood in the door. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Meriton High Street will be breast-high in gossip about the midnight expulsion in a few hours. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z Parapet, par′a-pet, n. a rampart breast-high, to protect soldiers on a wall from the fire of an enemy: a breast-high wall on a bridge, house-roof, a platform, &c., to prevent persons from falling over.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Miranda, however, took a turn along the flagged pathway, and leaned over the breast-high wall and pointed out a vulture above the valley, and talked in inattentive, undecided tones upon any impersonal topic. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z It was wide of girth, and lay supported on the stumps of several splintered branches breast-high above the soil, with the rest of its spreading limbs piled about it in tremendous ruin. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z That on the east is just breast-high for a man, and just the height convenient for infantry defence and fire. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z The small trees and undergrowth cut down were dragged to form a belt, ten yards deep, of entanglement breast-high around the camp. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z This bastion was surrounded for safety with a breast-high parapet, consisting of a frieze of sculpture in relief, facing outwards, surmounted by a bronze screen. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z The base of the triangle was an old brick wall, breast-high, which began at the end of the house wall and curved outwards until it reached the wing. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z On the fourth was a rail, breast-high, and above and around was open night. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z It is wild, with heath and arbutus scrub and a sort of myrtle, breast-high. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z When he reached the drift, he said, Rooiland was standing breast-high in the river, and then in a moment, whether by step or slip, he was into the flood and swept away. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z It was a human skull, standing on a ledge of rock about breast-high, and the eyeless sockets and white teeth looked ghastly enough, grinning at them dimly through the darkness. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Then he saw a rope drawn breast-high across the narrow street, and gesticulating natives, variously armed, leaning over the parapets on either hand. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Uncle, you may be sure, ran with them, throwing his tongue, speaking to a breast-high scent. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The two children waded in breast-high and chased each other, laughing meanwhile, as they tried to effect difficult conjunctions in the water. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z In the morning banks of snow breast-high through the side streets. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z The water yawns far below your feet, on both sides draped with evergreens; and foot-passengers along the Park Road are protected from straying over by a parapet scarce breast-high. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Then they went on again, by paths that led through tobacco fields and amidst breast-high cane dripping with the dew that brushed them as they passed. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z A Cardinal's daughter—niece I mean—with four thousand a year, had deigned to ally herself with us, and we were all running breast-high in the blaze of our great success. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Our space near the guardhouse is defended by a wooden stockade, breast-high, and two other passages are banked up about three feet high. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z The preacher brushed between the breast-high corn, and walked over two or three narrow planks laid across two or three narrow ditches. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z As Barney tugged at his mitten the shape whirled, forelegs clear of the snow, and Whish! a few shaking firs, a falling of light snow from their breast-high tops, and the moose was gone. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The little terrace upon which she had seated herself was enclosed by a breast-high wall. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Then, bending down the boughs, until they dipped Their broad green fronds, into the wave he slipped, And, floating breast-high, from the branches hung, His body with the current idly swung. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z "This way," said Peckover, starting off breast-high in the water, towards the nearest shore, and still holding tightly to his companion. A Poached Peerage On the moor in front of the cottage stood nineteen stones, breast-high, set in a huge circle. Beggars on Horseback As he came to a little cove where the wind had banked the snow breast-high round its edges, he climbed to a slanting log and began to cross it. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z It would take time to repair it for the passage of the artillery, so Cornwallis in his impatience urged his troops breast-high through the turbulent and icy stream, and again pushed forward. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Till I'm good and ready for him," replied Killis; "I got a dead tree up the hollow I practice on all the time,—there's a band breast-high around it black with bullet-holes. Mothering on Perilous This fire is lighted at dusk on an iron tripod breast-high, and kept up till bed-time. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series It is a fine sporting country for those who are on pleasure bent and are mounted on elephants, on which alone is it possible to penetrate the thick breast-high undergrowth. To Lhassa at Last He lived in a little cottage across the river, and was returning one evening with a supply of fresh meat, which he carried with his clothes over his head: the water was about breast-high. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa When I see a large stand of grain that is breast-high I say, "Well done, Good Fellows!" and "Haste to the in-gathering!" Seeds of Pine Sacks of meal, flour, and bacon, bales of blankets, tepee cloth, etc., had been piled breast-high and around all four walls of the storehouse within. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade In traveling through the great forests of the Rocky Mountains or of the Western States, the broken branches and fallen trunks, strewing the ground breast-high with all sorts of decaying litter, frequently make locomotion impossible. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Filling the centre of the chapel was a circular marble wall breast-high. An American Girl Abroad The hill was crowned by a stately wooden structure, surrounded by a fence built breast-high for purposes of defence; a pair of superb antlers adorned the ridge-pole. A Captive of the Roman Eagles Previous to my occupation, an energetic brother officer had already raised a breast-high stone wall, and three guns had been planted in battery. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia I landed with the water breast-high and took with me a tin case of dispatches and letters. The Last Cruise of the Saginaw As we touched their second line we seemed to ride in upon a breast-high wave of flame, which might have been Earlshall's flashing muskets or God's own level lightnings. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway "And there's no inconvenience in it, none whatever," continued Dalton, who now was breast-high in his plot. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life The men who had not attempted this passage were ordered to return, and wade the river at the foot of the bluff, where they found the water breast-high. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 In a moment he regained his feet, to find himself standing breast-high in the water with Tina clinging to him. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 What a stately creature! as he comes issuing from the shallows, and bearing the old mallard breast-high, walks all dripping along the greensward, and then shakes from his curled ebony the flashing spray-mist. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) On each projection of the coast, the bank of coral clinkers immediately above the beach has been levelled, and a pillar built, perhaps breast-high. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) 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! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Single file, as before, we pushed into the breast-high grass, and the walking was easy. Wings of the Wind It was breast-high to him now, and inch by inch it crept up toward his chin. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 Within the Holy Sepulchre, breast-high, There is a cross uncounted lips have kissed, Millions the world to dust has long dismissed, Millions that now hope of it but to die. Many Gods He seemed to hold it about breast-high and to pause. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court The guns having been discharged through loopholes breast-high, had taken effect upon the head and body. Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers To pack it breast-high with fragments of wood and stone was no great matter, and the breastwork was finished in time for a late supper. Two Arrows A Story of Red and White When he came to the surface, his father was breast-high in the water, looking for him. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys Into the stream plunged the beasts, wading clumsily along until the water was breast-high, when they began to swim. Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The floor of the cañon up which they were traveling lifted sharply in one huge step, breast-high to a man. Tharon of Lost Valley I tell you it is a terrible sight when the grass has just dried, and is breast-high; but, as I say, there ain't no cause to be afraid if you do but keep your head. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California It was a square, truncated tower with a breast-high wooden balustrade around it. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards “Thence, from the bursting waves a horned bull “Rush'd forth, breast-high uprearing in the air; “Spouting the waves through his capacious mouth “And nostrils. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Of this I have not the measurements, but it stands about breast-high. Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Around three sides extended a breast-high shelf, carved and cut by many a jack-knife, and beneath it a narrower one where books and slates were stowed. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast The apartments were paved with marble, and the walls lined breast-high with the same material. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life “All right,” cried Roberts from below; and, peering down through a tangle of overhanging bushes, Bracy saw his leader standing breast-high in foaming water, holding on by a branch and looking up at him. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills The choir, as at S. Clemente's, occupied the eastern part of the nave, and like it was probably enclosed by breast-high partitions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" It was bottomed with marble squares, and bordered with a splendid wall, breast-high on one side, and by the final terrace running to the basement wall on the other. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Then the rest of us crossed the river to reconnoiter the enemy’s position; the water was breast-high. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century They were suddenly diverted by a tremendous yell which came booming out of the tall grass where it waved breast-high on the shore of the stream. Blackbeard: Buccaneer The colt swam creeks breast-high for the horses, and travelled on with sublime indifference to every thing but the gratification of its keen little appetite. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California This sill was breast-high from the kitchen floor, Johnnie not being tall for his age. The Rich Little Poor Boy The trees were cut about breast-high, and the tops bent over outward, forming a rude abattis extremely difficult to pass through. From Fort Henry to Corinth He drew Hoddan over the breast-high top of the wall and let him down to the walkway inside it. The Pirates of Ersatz The savages were posted on a thickly jungled island in the lake, through the waters of which, breast-high, the troops advanced several hundred yards to the attack. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Patrolman Willis watched as the skipper came wading through the lacy, breast-high gas-frost. A Matter of Importance “Forward, then,” said my uncle, and with the water once more but little above our knees we waded steadily on after the light which Cross bore breast-high. Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal Barret, forcing himself breast-high out of the water, glanced quickly round and caught sight of the floating spar to which his companion had referred. The Eagle Cliff This front wall is but one storey high, but its top is continued so as to form a parapet, breast-high above the roof, and this gives it a loftier appearance. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico The stone dwellings, and those of mud likewise, are flat-roofed, tiled or cemented—sometimes tastefully japanned—with a parapet breast-high running round the edge. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse As the embryo war-steamer rounded up to the long, low, rickety dock, lumbered breast-high with cotton, turpentine, and rosin, not a white face was to be seen. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time Splashes of newly thrown-up earth behind tree-clumps, against banks and alongside hedges, showed the short breast-high trenches, some six yards long, in which the infantry had fought a few days before. Pushed and the Return Push The horsemen turned and looked eastward, the breast-high scrub, the few tender-foliaged young trees sheltering them from view. The Long Roll The breast-high grasses full of gold and red and purple from the countless flowers growing with it. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida They encamp in a square, and their grain-bags piled over each other breast-high, with interstices left for their matchlocks, make no contemptible fortification. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Around its edge had been built a barrier of logs breast-high. Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Now his sword ran safely under my left arm where I guided it, and the point of mine caught the breast-high edge of his kilt, where the cloth is closely plaited and therefore very resisting. The Black Colonel Youssef’s house, like nearly all the other houses of the city, had a flat roof, with a surrounding parapet nearly breast-high. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Bravely he struggled, and lifted the child breast-high out of the water in his powerful efforts to stem the current. The Dog Crusoe and his Master For one instant the surprised animal raised itself breast-high out of the water, and directed a stare of intense astonishment at the man. Ungava Its first gleam fell upon a wall of black waters rolling rapidly towards him, up the gangway, breast-high, and cutting off all chance of escape. Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines I leant over the wall, which was breast-high, and poked fun at him. Six Months at the Cape Morgan and Hannibal were already down, wading breast-high towards the house; and as my father set free my hands, we prepared to follow. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah Thousands followed, holding their cartridge-boxes breast-high; and blades were glancing, and bayonets gleaming, and banners waving; and under glancing blades, and gleaming bayonets, and waving banners, the dark mass rushed high upon the beach. The Rifle Rangers Near the center of the room, facing the judge and jury were two triangular spaces about twenty feet across, enclosed with a breast-high wall of stone. The Girl in the Golden Atom The garden was protected all round by a breast-high parapet, and commanded a magnificent view, not only of the entire island, but also of the lake and the encircling hills. The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa For one instant the surprised animal raised 25 itself breast-high out of the water and directed a stare of intense astonishment at the man. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year I was steeped breast-high in disloyalty and lawlessness; I had staked my peace of mind on a rebel, and now it seemed even he had done with me. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess The water was big, and most of the men breast-high. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. The roof, which was guarded with a breast-high parapet around both its inner and outer edges, was beautifully laid out with a variety of flowers and with trellised flower-bearing vines. The Girl in the Golden Atom 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. St. Ronan's Well Pile the trees higher, my braves—more than breast-high— mountain-high if time serves! Fort Amity In the second phrase it is, indeed, necessary to suppose the wall to be breast-high; the messenger places one elbow on the wall, pulls himself up, and vaults across. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The huts of the Tounghi tribe were raised breast-high on stout posts, as protection against wild beasts and snakes. Chatterbox, 1905. In less than that moment too, it seemed, Percy Davies had leaped his horse over the breast-high barrier and spurred to the heads of Cranston's team, seizing the reins of the near horse. Under Fire Standing within easy reach of the plate, the batter should hold his bat ready to hit a breast-high ball. Base-Ball How to Become a Player In mid-air he saw it, and flung his arms forward as he pitched against it little more than breast-high. Fort Amity The pony shouldered through the breast-high greasewood and picked his steps along the edge of the hill. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail In the beginning the buffet was a tiny apartment, or recess, little larger than a cupboard, separated from the room which it served either by a breast-high balustrade or by pillars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" My office was a small room or space partitioned off from the commissary, the partition being of matched boards, breast-high, and above that a rough slat grille like those in country railroad stations. Branded Full many a field of dewy grass breast-high His long sharp scythe ere breakfast time did lay; Full many a hurrying shower came by, But to the mow still faster went the hay. Confessions of Boyhood The street fence, oftenest of iron, is rarely more than breast-high and is always an open fence. The Amateur Garden Holding his improvised torch breast-high, Ross stared across it, searching the land for the faintest sign of his enemies. The Time Traders I pointed her out to him, breast-high in the growing wheat. The Prairie Wife One rifleman covered a crack breast-high, another the one next below, drilling it at six-inch intervals. The Settling of the Sage London Bill got to work, breast-high and where the lamplight fell, on the wall of the drain nearest the Treasury, and with the point of the pinch-bar began taking out the bricks. The President A novel Here the weeds are breast-high, and in early autumn they burst into purple asters, and white immortelles, and goldenrod, and flaming sumac. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists The hounds came tearing full cry to where he was; there was a breast-high scent, and every one seemed to have it. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Four telephone operators worked for their lives in pits breast-high, two on each side of the road. Adventures of a Despatch Rider Even at the ford the water was breast-high, and it was with much difficulty and not without a good deal of delay that our troops crossed under a heavy fire from the serai. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Hardy mounted breast-high to the fence's top, wreathed two fingers in the willing brute's collar, lifted her, and dropped her on the other side. The Flower of the Chapdelaines He found a few breast-high bushes and crawled into their thin shade and lay down; before him he spread out the Quigley storekeeper's map. The Desert Valley Yet the emptiness of what should have been the thoroughfares astonished them scarcely less than did the piles of masonry, breast-high in places, over which they picked their way in the uncanny twilight. Lady Good-for-Nothing The summer-house was a small, latticed place, overgrown with the Seven Sisters rose, and set in a breast-high ring of box opening here and there to the garden paths. Lewis Rand The rising water had forced the ice up till it stood breast-high above the island like a wall. A Daughter of the Snows Three turned at once but the youngster launched himself at Luke's throat where he stood breast-high in the glassing current. The Flower of the Chapdelaines Occasionally a breast-high enclosure wall surrounded the monument, and defined the boundaries of the ground belonging to the tomb. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt She moved slightly back from him, behind the protection of one of the tables piled breast-high with its white load. The Inner Shrine Then, as he stood nearly breast-high among dry brush and withered fern, he heard a faint noise. Carmen's Messenger She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp’d by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Here and there they swung wide round a fallen tree, but they rode straight through raspberry-canes and breast-high fern, and Alice Deringham wondered when she saw that one of them was a girl. Alton of Somasco Robert Redmayne stood separated from him by a distance of thirty yards behind the boughs of a breast-high shrub. The Red Redmaynes She laid the hoe end of the instrument against a chain that ran breast-high along one side of the boat and at the stern plunged diagonally into the water. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Now and then they ran through water, and presently the glare of the headlamps bored through breast-high mist. Carmen's Messenger As I said, when the river first came into its bed, it came like the tide in Morecambe Bay, breast-high, with a roar and a rush. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) The ball flew back from Stowell and Foster caught it breast-high. Behind the line A story of college life and football The walls, hung with green Genoese velvet, met a carved and coffered ceiling, and touched the upper shelf of the breast-high bookcases that lined the walls. Out of the Ashes Here Bob found himself at once in a small entry railed off from the main room by a breast-high line of pickets strong enough to resist a battering-ram. The Rules of the Game The trees were marked by blazing them at the butt and breast-high and striking the blazes with a heavy hammer that left the imprint of the state's marker on the wood. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol Nettles almost breast-high carpeted the kitchen floor to the hearthstone. True Tilda This piece was taken at a brisk pace, the scent being breast-high. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 7, 1914 Then he turned and ran to the corner, dodged round it, and crept along the breast-high adobe wall. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life Had the coach capsized we would have been in a nice fix, as the only means of exit was by crawling up through the back of the box-seat, which rose breast-high—an awkward feat. My Brilliant Career These had to be greater than ten inches in diameter, breast-high, and had to be marked. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol The sill was just breast-high when he stood upon the stool. Master Skylark Some fifty acres had been tilled, more or less thoroughly, and timothy was already growing that was breast-high. The Crater And then for thirty minutes the "old customer" cantered away over those broad pastures, hounds and horses tearing after him on a breast-high scent, but never gaining an inch of ground. A Cotswold Village The parapet is breast-high;—a woman can climb over it, and drop or leap into the dark stream lying in deep shadow under the arches. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 The first man meant that the white pine tree he was measuring was forty-three inches in diameter breast-high and would make five standard logs, each sixteen feet long. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol In such a Dismal Swamp does the new house stand, and through it does the Secretary daily struggle breast-high. Our Mutual Friend Following the sound, Mr. Bumble raised his head and descried a man looking out of a door, breast-high, on the second story. Oliver Twist 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. Prester John I came to behind a cluster of breast-high rocks, and before moving took a look round. Gulliver of Mars The man stepped to the nearest tree, slipped his calipers on it breast-high, then glanced aloft. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol But, leaning on the breast-high window, and staring in out of the darkness, they find the visitor extremely embarrassing. Our Mutual Friend They led the string of whites down to the barn, freed them of wet and dusty saddles and packs, and turned them loose in the alfalfa, now breast-high. Desert Gold 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! Vailima Letters 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 They had come to a bank breast-high, and over it the valley was no longer to be seen. A Pair of Blue Eyes Young maples and hickories grew breast-high on either side, and the way wound in and out under the lowering shade of forest monarchs. The Last Trail Into its icy waters the Romans waded breast-high, and when they came up on the opposite bank they were benumbed with cold. Introductory American History It was now comparatively easy work, for there were enclosures and walls, the patches of garden-ground were breast-high with weeds, and, stooping and crawling, Sam soon reached a house close to the waggon. The Young Buglers Troy was a space inclosed within paper barriers, about breast-high, painted "to present a wall," and within these were the Trojans, clad in red, and all wearing gigantic paper helmets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 At one end of the platform a pole had been placed breast-high between two pillars, and against this the journalists were invited to lean. The Foolish Lovers The interior garden is now waste and forlorn, the rank grass growing breast-high in the corners where the slaughter was heaviest. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Its barred windows were narrow with sills breast-high. The Call of the Cumberlands At this moment the sisters were standing breast-high in the water, near the overgrown bank. The Created Legend Thirty miles before he earthed, the dogs running breast-high every yard of it, and the very devil of a dig-out! The Yeoman Adventurer It represents the Madonna with the Child, elevated breast-high to the worshipers. Venetian Life Dias, on examination, found that the water, even in the deepest part, was not more than breast-high. The Treasure of the Incas And what are these tall lilies, which fill every glade breast-high with their sword-like leaves, and spires of white flowers, lilac-pencilled? Prose Idylls, New and Old Here he could survey the wreck, and he saw that the water was nearly breast-high on the quarter-deck of the vessel. The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story A halloo was heard in the distance; then a response just ahead of where the two crouched in the breast-high ferns, through which the path made by their recent footsteps led. The Iron Game A Tale of the War But before the cabin was breast-high the Boy had begun to long for a window. The Magnetic North The guns, having been discharged through loopholes breast-high, had taken effect upon the head and body. On the Pampas It stands upon a corner overlooking one of the several public squares, guarded from the street by a breast-high stone wall crowned with a stout iron fence. The Ne'er-Do-Well Another struggle sent her breast-high above the sea of sweating faces. The Eye of Zeitoon Thereupon at half-past eight the column wheeled into line to meet them, and standing in the long grass, which even on the summit of the hill was nearly breast-high, opened a heavy and destructive fire. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan On the right hand three or four clerks, shut off from the public by a railing breast-high, were writing down the names of the depositors, and counting out money. The Clique of Gold Once she rose up suddenly, passed through the middle room, and out on to the staircase; there a gap in the wall, guarded by iron railings breast-high, looked down upon the courtyard. The Nether World A presence faced me, standing breast-high in the bracken. The Garden of Survival Now and then you will put a groat by for me; and when my necessity grows breast-high, you will help me with as much as you may happen to have for a poor friend. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 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———? In the Days of the Comet "A regular moon-calf!" said Cupid, looking up from THE TEMPEST, which was balanced breast-high on the narrow wooden top of the fence. The Getting of Wisdom He remained sitting till the mists were breast-high. Maurice Guest There was no audible or visible expression; I saw no figure breast-high in the bracken. The Garden of Survival In the middle is the hearth, but, on the right and left, are two breast-high recesses, half wood and half stone. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography One of them, a tall and powerful man named Miller, instantly dismounted and prepared to force his way in among the dwarfed willows, which were but breast-high. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches She picked a little piece of pellitory out of the breast-high wall in front of us. The Good Soldier It was with him when, stiff and tired, he emerged from his seclusion, and walked home through the trails of mist that hung, breast-high, on the meadow-land. Maurice Guest After this burned maquis came a number of cultivated fields, inclosed, according to the fashion of that country, with breast-high walls, built of dry stones. Colomba The way in which my Father worked, in his most desperate escapades, was to wade breast-high into one of the huge pools, and examine the worm-eaten surface of the rock above and below the brim. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments One evening I was sauntering along a soft, grey, dusty track between two breast-high walls of grain. Through Russia The poor horses, however, were breast-high in water now, and could only advance with extreme difficulty. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant The horse is separated from the people present by breast-high wooden partitions. The Unknown Guest No employe was to be seen behind the brass lattice which topped an unpainted white wooden enclosure, breast-high, within which were tables and desks in stained black wood. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau It was beginning, it was planned out; the stone church, the stone house of the Viceroy were already breast-high. 1492 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 Ruth SHE stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Then he leaned against a stone breast-high to him and gently released the girl from his hold. Riders of the Purple Sage The men who had not attempted this passage were ordered to return and wade the river at the foot of the bluff, where they found the water breast-high. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 We had to look sharp so as not to get dragged off by a breast-high bough in the thick country. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields It looks dismal, but not at all dangerous, for there is now a wall breast-high along the precipice. From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" The engineer slowly hoisted his long figure through the breast-high doorway, dragged his legs under him, then with extraordinary agility swung to the pier, his teeth shining like ivory in his black face. The Riverman |
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