What is "knee-high"

Usage examples of "knee-high".

And almost fell over the knee-high, eight-legged, steel-shelled Arachnid, its lantern eyes glowing orange.

He wore a turban of yellow, and the heavily embroidered dolman of an Islamic grandee over baggy white breeches and soft knee-high boots, but his pale face stood out like a mirror among the dark-bearded men around him.

His trousers were also of white moleskin, and were tucked into knee-high sealskin boots with moccasined feet.

Then the rain lightened and it became warm and muggy and they walked through a woodlot into a field of green knee-high winter wheat.

The clothing details, all in black and white and silver, were perfect-embroidery-edged neck and sleeve ruffs, tight-sleeved doublet laced up the front, paned trunk hose, patterned canions, and the netherstocks covered by knee-high cuffed boots.

He gave her a moment to settle her heavy skirts, though at best they bared her legs well above her soft, knee-high boots, then heeled the dapple to a canter.

The Standi plainsman, dressed in knee-high black boots and a deep brown riding jacket, drew abreast of her.

This morning Adena was wearing knee-high cavalry boots, tight-fitting red pants and a huge, boxy, loosely woven cropped top.

Eugenio has submitted all the requisite papers for a new passport and local visa, has bought him two new silk suits and a handsome woolen Tyrolean duffle coat with a felt borsalino to match, as well as a pair of green knee-high rubber boots to splash about in, has provided him with liniments, medicines, toiletries, and even a wonderful old-fashioned cotton sleeping cap, and has replaced the cracked waterlogged shoes he came here in with three new pairs, custom made from the softest hand-tooled Venetian leather, remarking as he threw out the old ones that they reminded him of those strange stiff shoes made out of tree bark that he used to wear to school.

In the fen, knee-high sedge-like graminoids and clumps of dwarf shrubs had prevented the snow from settling normally.

A golden bird, heavy and plumpish, burst out of the knee-high grasses below the road and soared eastward toward the even higher grasses.

Submerged knee-high in a lake of Lavandula, they stand idle with their hoes and slug-buckets, to stare at the beautiful young woman walking past them on the path dividing the acres.

With a sigh she pushed her way through knee-high wild grasses, threaded with meadowsweet and campion and buttercups, and sat down on one of the ancient lichen-covered tombs, beneath a yew tree, dropping her bag on the grass.

There are two types of very small deer: the spikehorn, which is little more than knee-high to a man, and the forkhorn, which grows to waist height.

The Standi plainsman, dressed in knee-high black boots and a deep brown riding jacket, drew abreast of her.