above-level

Updated: May 4, 2025

He had been walking next ahead of the Morduine, and, as a man habitually silent and absorbed, proceeding on his way more quietly than the rest. Suddenly something had seemed to catch at his legs, and he had disappeared until only his head and his hands, as the latter clutched at his plank, had been left above-level. "Run and help him, somebody!" was Ossip's instant cry.

Maksim Gorky - Through Russia