We were standing breast-high in the water.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The water was big, and most of the men breast-high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

He remained sitting till the mists were breast-high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

Around its edge had been built a barrier of logs breast-high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference

THE TEMPEST, which was balanced breast-high on the narrow wooden top of the fence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference

They had come to a bank breast-high, and over it the valley was no longer to be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

The broken nose in Ptolemy's craggy face pointed like a hound's at a breast-high scent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

The apartments were paved with marble, and the walls lined breast-high with the same material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

We had to look sharp so as not to get dragged off by a breast-high bough in the thick country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbery Under Arms] Reference

The rising water had forced the ice up till it stood breast-high above the island like a wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER 24] Reference

One evening I was sauntering along a soft, grey, dusty track between two breast-high walls of grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

The poor horses, however, were breast-high in water now, and could only advance with extreme difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

Ptolemy writes that the water was breast-high on the men, and the horses could just keep their heads above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

In such a Dismal Swamp does the new house stand, and through it does the Secretary daily struggle breast-high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

And nobody has yet been able to explain her breast-high waist that only seems to exist on one side of her body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glamour: Even The Instruments Are Fake] Reference

The huts of the Tounghi tribe were raised breast-high on stout posts, as protection against wild beasts and snakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

They rode down with rising hopes to the open gate in the stockade, which here to the west was still only breast-high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin In The Ice]

Holding his improvised torch breast-high, Ross stared across it, searching the land for the faintest sign of his enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

But, leaning on the breast-high window, and staring in out of the darkness, they find the visitor extremely embarrassing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

Into its icy waters the Romans waded breast-high, and when they came up on the opposite bank they were benumbed with cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introductory American History] Reference

For a moment perhaps I stood there, breast-high in the almost boiling water, dumbfounded at my position, hopeless of escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War of the Worlds] Reference

In places the snow was breast-high, and often Boromir seemed to be swimming or burrowing with his great arms rather than walking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

I saw a liana stretch across the bed of the brook about breast-high, swung up my knife to sever it, and — behold, it was a wire!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

As we were making our way, cautiously and toilsomely, over the pulverised embers, one of my people sank into the earth breast-high.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Message from the Sea] Reference

The parapet is breast-high; -- a woman can climb over it, and drop or leap into the dark stream lying in deep shadow under the arches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference

Sodden and barely breathing, he lay huddled in the lee of the breast-high wall where only the watch himself had stood a moment earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormblade]

The colt swam creeks breast-high for the horses, and travelled on with sublime indifference to every thing but the gratification of its keen little appetite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference

In the second phrase it is, indeed, necessary to suppose the wall to be breast-high; the messenger places one elbow on the wall, pulls himself up, and vaults across.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference

Another struggle sent her breast-high above the sea of sweating faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference

Willis watched as the skipper came wading through the lacy, breast-high gas-frost.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Matter of Importance] Reference

Then the rest of us crossed the river to reconnoiter the enemy's position; the water was breast-high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Following the sound, Mr. Bumble raised his head and descried a man looking out of a door, breast-high, on the second story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

Young maples and hickories grew breast-high on either side, and the way wound in and out under the lowering shade of forest monarchs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Trail] Reference

A large rectangular space was retained for the choir in front of the bema, and enclosed by a breast-high parapet of marble, richly inlaid.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference