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Updated: June 23, 2025
Through the crowd, the Normans beheld with admiring awe, here, in the front of their horse, a single warrior, before whose axe spear shivered, helm drooped; there, close by the standard, standing breast-high among the slain, one still more formidable, and even amidst ruin unvanquished. The first fell at length under the mace of Roger de Montgommeri.
The sage about him was breast-high to his horse, oversweet with its warm, fragrant breath, gray where it waved to the light, darker where the wind left it still, and beyond the wonderful haze-purple lent by distance. Far across that wide waste began the slow lift of uplands through which Deception Pass cut its tortuous many-canyoned way.
Nettles almost breast-high carpeted the kitchen floor to the hearthstone. Nettles, in fact whole regiments of nettles had taken possession and defended it. But Tilda, with the book in her pocket, decided that here was the very spot for her a real house in which to practise the manners and deportment of a real lady, and she resolved to borrow or steal a hook after dinner and clear the nettles away.
Slowly unfolding, it laid itself down on the carpet, as flat as if it had been ironed; the split joined with a little sharp crick-crack, and the rim turned up all round till it was breast-high; for meantime the cloak had grown and grown, and become quite large enough for one person to sit in it as comfortable as if in a boat.
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. It was with him under the street-lamps, and, to its accompanying presence, the strong conviction grew in him that evasion on his part was no longer possible.
We hurried to meet and help him. Jezebel was the first that dashed breast-high into the water; and seizing a pinion in her strong jaws, she soon drew both the swan and Fig, who would have died rather than let go, through the yielding sedges to the land.
Bumble raised his head and descried a man looking out of a door, breast-high, on the second story. 'Stand still, a minute, cried the voice; 'I'll be with you directly. With which the head disappeared, and the door closed. 'Is that the man? asked Mr. Bumble's good lady. Mr. Bumble nodded in the affirmative.
One could tell the tax-gatherer's house a mile away by its prosperous appearance, and the kind of courtyard round it, closed in with a solid breast-high log fence; for in these days the hated official may at any moment find his house besieged by a mob of vodka-maddened moujiks and implacable women.
He made certain that he had found the place where the water-hole should be. Then he sat down. His eyes were very grave. 'If I don't play this hand right, he told himself solemnly, 'I'll never get out of this. 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. This he studied with thoughtful eyes.
It rained on the following morning; after which we left for the exit of the Teesta, proceeding northwards, sometimes through a dense forest of Sal timber, sometimes dipping into marshy depressions, or riding through grassy savannahs, breast-high. The coolness of the atmosphere was delicious, and the beauty of the jungle seemed to increase the further we penetrated these primaeval forests.
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