Sometimes it would come floating up to the shore; but when you went toward it, it would go back into
deep water and disappear.
In his fright he throws a somerset into the
deep water. The trap, being fastened to the pole, resists all his efforts to drag it to the shore; the chain by which it is fastened defies his teeth; he struggles for a time, and at length sinks to the bottom and is drowned.
Their heads were the most foolish-looking things you ever saw, and they balanced on the ends of their tails in
deep water when they weren't grazing, bowing solemnly to each other and waving their front flippers as a fat man waves his arm.
And at last the ship plunged right down to the bottom of the sea, making a dreadful gurgling sound; and the six bad men were left bobbing about in the
deep water of the bay.
But scarcely had her tender feet touched the cool ripples when she felt a great shove on her shoulders, and the wicked witch had pushed her into the
deep water, exclaiming:
A platform of wood was built out from the bank, to be used for bathing by good swimmers who were not afraid of a plunge into
deep water. I stood on the platform and looked round me.
Commander Farragut thought, and with reason, that it was better to remain in
deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun
He drove so directly to the core of the matter, divesting a question always of all superfluous details, and with such an air of finality, that I seemed to find myself struggling in
deep water, with no footing under me.
In about an hour they returned and reported
deep water through the passage as well as far into the little basin.
Therein he slew Thersilochus, Mydon, Astypylus, Mnesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, and Ophelestes, and he would have slain yet others, had not the river in anger taken human form, and spoken to him from out the
deep waters saying, "Achilles, if you excel all in strength, so do you also in wickedness, for the gods are ever with you to protect you: if, then, the son of Saturn has vouchsafed it to you to destroy all the Trojans, at any rate drive them out of my stream, and do your grim work on land.
"`Thank the Lord, we have left the
deep waters (honduras)' that being the Spanish word for unfathomable depths.
He was getting into
deep waters. He was taking chances, privately, which might get him into trouble some day--in fact, did.