In their hands were swords and spears, and they were leaping,
waist-deep, into the sea-wash and wading ashore.
So he stood
waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet untrod by the foot of a white man.
Now the stones at the bottom of the stream were round and slippery, and the current swept along strongly,
waist-deep, in the middle.
The stones under my feet were muddy and slippery, and the river was so low that I ran perhaps twenty feet scarcely
waist-deep. Then, as the Martian towered overhead scarcely a couple of hundred yards away, I flung myself forward under the sur- face.
The inadequate boat finally arrived at a precarious landing, the natives,
waist-deep in the surf, assisting.
One o'clock came, and two o'clock, and the pirates were clustering on the highest shoal,
waist-deep in water.
This man I have told you of is one of the pontooners of the Beresina; he helped to construct the bridge by which the army made the passage, and stood
waist-deep in water to drive in the first piles.
They waded
waist-deep in the grass, in a compact body, bearing an improvised stretcher in their midst.
Through the heavy Caspakian air, beneath the swollen sun, the five men marched northwest from Fort Dinosaur, now
waist-deep in lush, jungle grasses starred with myriad gorgeous blooms, now across open meadow-land and parklike expanses and again plunging into dense forests of eucalyptus and acacia and giant arboreous ferns with feathered fronds waving gently a hundred feet above their heads.
Jaynes said those aboard managed to wade through
waist-deep water to the emergency exits on the sinking plane.
RESCUERS raced to help a family feared to be struggling in
waist-deep mud at a notorious beach as they tried to reach the sea at low tide.
