He found a head-high window that opened onto the alley. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
He kept going and came to a head-high wall of brambles. From Wordnik.com. [Blaze]
I was free of the pines, and dodging through head-high scrub. From Wordnik.com. [Madam Will You Talk]
In digs with pipes running head-high across a cupboard of a room. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
Dennis; gazing at the head-high wall that was the edge of the plate. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
Sarah set the sail again and steered for a gap in the head-high surf. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Sea] Reference
Even in the half-light I could see that the sets were easily head-high. From Wordnik.com. [Kook] Reference
Djuvula slid back into the cover of soaked hay bales, stacked head-high. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
Bascombe had followed a suspiciously wide path through head-high shrubbery. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
At the far side of the court, a simple, head-high platform had been set up. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
"Didn't have to go, then," he said, walking to a head-high patch of bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
We watched for about ten minutes until both trolleys were stacked head-high. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Light hissed across a building, leaving a head-high groove of incandescence. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
We followed, and the grass changed to taller reeds, which soon were head-high. From Wordnik.com. [The Wire: David Petzal Tracks a Wounded Cape Buffalo] Reference
Not far off, a man was jogging lightly along a path through the head-high grass. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
I saw a man tossed head-high, and heard his bones crackle like kindling in the fire. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
The hole had been enlarged into a chamber nearly head-high, three meters long and two deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
We trekked through head-high weeds and grass -- thistles and bristles, sticks, thorns, brush. From Wordnik.com. [a recent letter. What do you think?] Reference
They may shun the flailing head-high hooks, which saw the demise of Imrul Kayes and Mahmudullah. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Finn and Ajmal Shahzad stake England claims to face Pakistan] Reference
Lan had stopped by a section of head-high wooden fence that looked no different from any other they had passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
Later we picked up our big packs at Sliezsky Dom, then set off into a path carving through thick head-high firs. From Wordnik.com. [Hiking the High Tatras:] Reference
Chane walked to the mound, head-high to him, and stood a moment, listening to something that only he could hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Thorbardin]
We'd been driving through head-high cornstalks for what seemed like close to 100 years of complete and utter solitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 2] Reference
Neither slugger has been forced to take a dive to the dirt to avoid the head-high pitches we like to call "chin music.". From Wordnik.com. [covering baseball for USATODAY.com.Fregosi getting it from all sides] Reference
(UNITA), and some 250 local sympathisers, mostly women, poured out of the head-high elephant grass before the sun came up. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The air was spiced with bundles of clove and cinnamon and dried herbs hanging from head-high shelves bolted to the stone walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
There was a three-sided corral made of head-high brick walls shielding a shoulder-high plastic garbage receptacle from public view. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
"There's something satisfying about doing things yourself," he said, plucking a fist-sized tomato from a jungle of head-high vines. From Wordnik.com. [An Economist Goes Country] Reference
The land here was green and hilly, with head-high candy-stripe ferns sprouting so thickly that it was impossible to see very far ahead. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
The bulk of the shrubbery was head-high, and so dense that Powell could see for only a couple of yards into the thicket in any direction. From Wordnik.com. [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference
"It was a head-high tackle wasn't it," said Gatland at the press conference. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
Rescue teams dug cars out of head-high mounds of sludge to see if there was anyone inside. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
Raiders to ignore a storm of niggle FIGHTS, head-high shots and wild "cheat" taunts from the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
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