breast-high

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breast-high - up to the breast; "we were standing breast-high in the water"

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In such a Dismal Swamp does the new house stand, and through it does the Secretary daily struggle breast-high. Not to mention all the people alive who have made inventions that won't act, and all the jobbers who job in all the jobberies jobbed; though these may be regarded as the Alligators of the Dismal Swamp, and are always lying by to drag the Golden Dustman under.

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Bumble raised his head and descried a man looking out of a door, breast-high, on the second story.

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For a moment perhaps I stood there, breast-high in the almost boiling water, dumbfounded at my position, hopeless of escape.