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Breast-deep   /brɛst-dip/   Listen
Breast-deep

adverb
1.
Up to the breast.  Synonym: breast-high.






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"Breast-deep" Quotes from Famous Books



... Supples for him that knows to wait. The Muse is womanish, nor deigns Her love to him who pules and plains; With proud, averted face she stands To him who wooes with empty hands. Make thyself free of manhood's guild; Pull down thy barns and greater build; The wood, the mountain, and the plain Wave breast-deep with the poet's grain; Pluck thou the sunset's fruit of gold; Glean from the heavens and ocean old; From fireside lone and trampling street Let thy life garner daily wheat; The epic of a man rehearse, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... surprise, Breast-deep 'mid flower and spine: Her skin was like a grape, whose veins Run snow ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various



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