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Definition of Breast-deep
1. Adverb. Up to the breast. "We were standing breast-high in the water"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breast-deep
Literary usage of Breast-deep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa by David Livingstone (1875)
"... and took two hours to cross it, breast-deep. They crossed about forty smaller
rivers over the River ..."
2. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His by David Livingstone, Horace Waller (1874)
"... and took two hours to cross it, breast deep. They crossed about forty smaller
rivers over the River ..."
3. The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English Dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1845)
"I was breast deep in the water, j'étais enfoncé dans l'eau jusqu'à la poitrine.
... breast-deep, adj. jusqu'à la poitrine. ..."
4. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1873)
"We were, I am sorry to say, somewhat languidly content with these articles of
information; we never thought of wading "breast-deep through snow" in search ..."
5. The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration by Richard Francis Burton (1860)
"... miry swamps are spanned, rivers breast-deep, with muddy bottoms and steep
slippery banks, are forded, while deep holes, the work of rodents and insects, ..."
6. Plain-towns of Italy: The Cities of Old Venetia by Egerton Ryerson Williams, Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (1911)
"And breast-deep in the dead. Praise him1 from all the glories of thy graves.
That yellow Mella laves With gentle and golden water, whose fair flood Ran ..."
7. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1864)
"... lower neck and breast deep black; abdomen und sides pure white, with brown
zig-zag markings on the lower portion; under tail-coverts black. ..."
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