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Breast-high

Breast-high \Breast"-high`\, a. High as the breast.

WordNet
breast-high

adv. up to the breast; "we were standing breast-high in the water" [syn: breast-deep]

Usage examples of "breast-high".

And presently he came out of breast-high weeds with Saya close behind him and the others trailing.

I knew that what seemed smooth sward was really matted blaeberries and hidden boulders, and that the darker patches were breast-high bracken and heather.

Within ten minutes, and before Miss Caroline had finished telling how altogether beautiful she found Arcady of the Little Country, Clem returned, bearing breast-high a napkin-covered tray, from which towered twin pillars of glass, topped with fragrant leafage and pierced each by a yellow straw.

I came to behind a cluster of breast-high rocks, and before moving took a look round.

He stands breast-high in the common stream of sympathy, and the fine oil of his poetic feeling goes from him upon an element it is its nature to float upon, and which carries it safe to other bosoms, with little need of deep diving or high flying.

He and Van Voss, with Hoik behind them, had come out of the turbine, their submachine-guns held breast-high.

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.

He noted that there were crosses imbedded in the breast-high parapet, too.

See the foxhound with hanging ears and drooping tail as it lolls about the kennels, and compare it with the same hound as, with gleaming eyes and straining muscles, it runs upon a breast-high scent -- such was the change in Holmes since the morning.

Scaurus watched in horrified admiration as a Yezda sabered down three Videssian footsoldiers in quick succession, then leaped his horse over the breast-high palisade and into dusk's safety.