mid-shoulder-deep

Updated: May 11, 2025

And I arrived not a second too soon, for when I reached the spot the buffalo, notwithstanding his immense strength and the desperate resistance which he had offered, had been dragged slowly forward through the yielding mud until he was submerged mid-shoulder-deep, while, his head being held under water, he was already half-drowned and his resistance decreased every moment.

Harry Collingwood - Through Veld and Forest: An African Story