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The buck had a firm footing, and was standing shoulder-deep; rearing to his full height, and springing at the dogs as they swam towards him, he struck them beneath the water with his fore feet.
Many of the drifts were shoulder-deep, so it took them nearly an hour to force their way from the ridge to the cabin. Ham, to his surprise, had great difficulty in opening the lock; it was evident that it had been tampered with. As they entered, he noticed that his little pile of shavings were gone from the hearth. Some one had been inside!
Far over the dusk violet Night spread her vaporous shadows: The blinding mist came up and hid the land, And round and round the land, And o'er and o'er the land, As far as eye could see. At last they turned their steps homeward, crossing the little sandy key, between which and the beach lay a channel shoulder-deep, its translucent waves now glimmering with phosphorescence.
Presently he slipped from a boulder, and sank almost shoulder-deep in a whirling pool, but somebody grabbed his arm, and after a breathless flounder he felt the shingle under him and the froth lapped only to his knee.
We waited while our chaperon brought the battalion commander a mild-faced little man, more like a school-teacher than a soldier and it was decided that, as the trenches were not under fire at the moment, we might go into them. He led the way into the communication trench a straight-sided winding ditch, shoulder-deep, and just wide enough to walk in comfortably.
Skag saw Nels lose his tread in the deepening centre, swing down with the current an instant and then strike his balance, swimming. Here was coolness and silence. To-night he would know. To-night, if he did not have Carlin . . . Gunpat Rao stood shoulder-deep in the stream.
Avoid him as you best can, ye hunters, man and hounds! Down the river the buck now swims, sometimes galloping over the shallows, sometimes wading shoulder-deep, sometimes swimming through the deep pools. Now he dashes down the fierce rapids and leaps the opposing rocks, between which, the torrent rushes at a frightful pace.
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