Her bowsprit dove under, burying Jim almost breast-deep, spoiling his aim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

The snow fell breast-deep, and was followed by a pelting rain which killed his mules by scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

The man who preceded me was only thigh-deep, but the disturbance caused by his feet made it breast-deep for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

A stately sweep of dark deep water, with a high-wooded bank of rock on the farther side, and ample wading ground on your own, with pleasantly shingled bottom perhaps, and a current where you may work breast-deep in safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

Samuel Budd, coming with his chin on his breast-deep in thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the Cumberland] Reference

And England breast-deep in her corn laugh back the laugh of rills!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves Poems of James Barron Hope] Reference

Although usually almost dry, the water was now coming down it breast-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader] Reference

He struggled forward breast-deep, waist-deep, knee-deep, in the black water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Northern Iron] Reference

He could see her wading breast-deep along the rag-weed and the meadow-sweet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patsy] Reference

After that ceremony it would rank as an adult, and the grave must be dug breast-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Albania] Reference

The Seine was in flood and the water breast-deep on the bridge over which they had to ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of St. Vincent de Paul] Reference

At the moment, Vanamee stood breast-deep in the wheat in a solitary corner of the Quien Sabe rancho.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference

They have floating desks and tables, and they read or lunch or play chess in water that is breast-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05] Reference

My well-trained steed followed without hesitation, and in another instant we were both breast-deep in the flood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

Between them and the barren slopes to the northward rolled the swollen Platte, its shallowest fords breast-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire] Reference

Geordie saw they were plunging breast-deep through the brown and heaving torrent, the waters foaming at their knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days] Reference

Small attacking bodies capture such an outpost, wading breast-deep -- drowning when wounded -- in the stagnant water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference

With something like a score of the strongest men just behind him, Clark plunged into the ice-cold water, breast-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Later American History] Reference

The Japanese infantry forded the Ai breast-deep, and, swarming up the heights, drove the Russians from these strong positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

I love the shot of the two Cobra troopers with their legs framing either side of the screen and Duke breast-deep in quicksand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Branded in the 80s!] Reference

Beaching it, the crew spring out on the pebbly strand -- some not waiting till it is drawn up, but dashing breast-deep into the surf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference

Life was sweet, and I could have cursed my bitter fate as I stood there, breast-deep in the water, trying to shelter Flora with my body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada] Reference

The mounted officers took up one and sometimes two men beside them, and the horses struggled bravely through the cold, rapid, breast-deep current.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

He waded out, breast-deep, almost, and the next moment the sun-burned bricks melted down like sugar and the big building crumbled to a ruin and was washed away in a twinkling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

Layefa Malemi, from Shell Oil's most profitable region of Nigeria, wades in breast-deep oil-laden water for fish to sell in hopes of earning enough money to attend medical school.    From Wordnik.com.  [http://www.religionandspirituality.com] Reference

Then the indomitable Sherman disembarked, a lighted candle in his hand, and led a stiff march through thicket and swamp and breast-deep backwater, where the little drummer boys carried their drums on their heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crisis — Volume 07] Reference

Then he rolled one of the water-casks, that had already been filled, down the sand into the sea, and, entering the water breast-deep, pushed it before him until he came to the rope from the stern of the craft to the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Cochrane the Dauntless] Reference

The shore between the banks is, I believe, never above breast-deep with the inundation; and from the circumstances of the place, and the soft, half-liquid nature of the soil, this inundation generally takes the shape of mud instead of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [North America] Reference

A thought of drowning, plunged breast-deep into the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

And breast-deep in thy dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Nations] Reference

Wave breast-deep with the poet's grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference

Becker, breast-deep in the surf, awaited him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Titus Andronicus] Reference

A pool breast-deep, beneath as clear as glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

I shouted, having come into water breast-deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flower of the Chapdelaines] Reference

And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess] Reference

But haulin 'hay in breast-deep snow is some job.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference