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Updated: June 23, 2025
On he went, through water now breast-high, with slimy walls above him and around, seeing naught by reason of the pitchy blackness, and hearing only the smothered splash of those behind, and gasping breaths that boomed hollow in the dark.
The idols of this superstition are the foolish and hideous dolls which people bow to in most of the Venetian temples, and of which the most abominable is in the church of the Carmelites. It represents the Madonna with the Child, elevated breast-high to the worshipers.
They had by this time come so near Vincennes that they dared not fire a gun for fear of being discovered; besides, the floods had driven the game all away; so that they soon began to feel hunger, while their progress was very slow, and they suffered much from the fatigue of travelling all day long through deep mud or breast-high water.
Dozing, with his chin tilted forward on his chest, he looked hopelessly commonplace. The skipper of the Aldeb came over to the squad ship, because Sergeant Madden loathed spacesuits and there was no air on Sirene VIII. Patrolman Willis watched as the skipper came wading through the lacy, breast-high gas-frost.
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. Remember that I was little more than a lad, and that I had faced death so often of late that my mind was all adrift.
And away we went again, spinning down a little descent, to a flat space between the hill-foot and the river, having a thick tangled swamp on the right, and a small boggy meadow full of grass, breast-high, with a thin open alder grove beyond it on the left. Just as we reached the bridge Harry pulled up. "Jump out, boys, jump out! Here's the spot." "I tell you there aint none; darn you!
I can swear, moreover, that it was neither dream, nor hope, nor any hungry fantasy in me that then recognized a further marvel I was no longer now alone. A presence faced me, standing breast-high in the bracken. The garden had been empty; somebody now walked there with me. It was, as I mentioned, the still hour between the twilight and the long, cool dark of early summer.
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. "Tell ye what, jedge," remarked one of the men, "if I was a redskin I wouldn't be in a hurry to ride up to that there bar, with a half a dozen rifles peepin' over it. Reckon it'd take the cleanest kind of grit.
He hurried his vessel forward, leapt into the water breast-high, dashed upward on the shore, ordered his immediate followers to raise a bulwark of casks and beams to protect the landing of the rest, and, rushing up a flight of steps, entered the city alone. "St. George! St. George!"
'In for a stinger, my lurd, observed Jack, returning his horn to the case. 'Hope so, replied his lordship, pocketing his. They then flew the first fence together. 'F-o-r-r-ard! screamed Jack in the air, as he saw the hounds packing well together, and racing with a breast-high scent.
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