You remember the day we had that running fight at Sailor's Creek when we were chasing Lee and waded the stream waist deep?
A ring was formed, and the men stripped to the waist and turned their pants pockets inside out to show that they carried no concealed weapons.
The two principals stripped to the waist and I confess I was fearful of the result when I saw how much larger Pete's antagonist was than he.
We skirmished through swamps and waded in streams nearly waist deep.
She draped a sheet about her waist like a skirt, hung window-curtains over her shoulders, wound old lace about her neck, and wove spangles taken from shoes into her hair.
She had chosen a pleated dress of black Liberty silk with a waist of Chantilly lace, which despite its costliness lay in simple lines of grace about her breast and arms.
In a moment they were wallowing waist deep, trampled on, and disappearing under their struggling comrades, who disappeared in their turn.
He took her round the waist with both hands, lifted her up and put her carefully down upon the kitchen table.
I guess I've got feelings, if I do happen to measure a little more around the waist than anybody else present.
Four peasants come down to the creek, and one of them kindly wades in and shows that it is only waist deep.
Among the rabble collected about the doorway is a half-witted youngster of about ten or twelve summers with a suit of clothes consisting of a waist string and a piece of rag about the size of an ordinary pen- wiper.
Then he burst out eagerly, as he slid his arm round her waist and leaned his head back against her arm: "It was truly lovely, Katherine, and you would have laughed until you choked if you had been there.
I wore a white net waist and a big bunch of English violets," she said, watching him.
And the letters on the table say I may do more, as the managers of shirt-waist factories might say to poor sewing-women when business is good.
The twisted hands held to the fire, would have fitted exactly about the waist of a little child--which was not there.
Her arms were bare to the elbows; her gray silk waistopen at the throat.
He unwound about two yards of cloth from around his waist and fastened it to two bamboo poles that were about three feet apart.
He had about twenty feet of manila rope tied about his waist with the end held in his hand.
From the waist up he is apparelled faultlessly enough to parade Piccadilly or Broadway; from the waist down carelessly enough to suit the laziest Kanaka that ever lolled away a noonday under a coconut tree.
Like him they were naked save for a cloth at the waist and the metal straps encircling their bodies.
The long cloths wrapped about their hips, and brought up and about the waist where the ends hung free, were brilliant with countless variations of crimson and blue and gold.
And, like a shimmering, silken barrier, whose touch could mean only instant death, it reached across the wide tunnel at the height of a man's waist and moved slowly up and down.
A girl whose creamy body was strangely unsoiled by smoke or grime, whose jeweled breast-plates flashed in the light of her torch while the loose wrappings about her waistwhipped against her as she ran.
Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?
When we speak in Europe of a native of Guiana, we figure to ourselves a man whose head and waist are decorated with the fine feathers of the macaw, the toucan, and the humming-bird.
About his waistwas tied a ragged sealskin thong, which supported a magnificent silver-hilted sword and embossed scabbard.
The two combatants stripped to the waist and faced each other.
Evidently a sociable and expansive person, easily thawed by a chope of cheap wine withal; neither standoffish nor haughty, for he thrust one friendly arm through that of Jean Boule, and another round the waist of Reginald Rupert.
However, their impossible tastes being happily for us unattainable, three hours after our arrival in Munich found Jimmie proudly marching three sailor-hat and shirt-waist women into the Lowenbraukeller.
If I could wear fern seed in my shoes to make me invisible, and sit on the piazza railing in a shirt-waist and a short skirt, I would love it.
Sir John was awakened by the noise, and turning heavily spilled the whole of a pint of port on the duke's satin waist coat and breeches.
It was caught in at the waist by a broad girdle studded with what seemed to be amazonites.
Then he reached down into a belt about his waist and drew from it a small, flat flask of what seemed to be lead.
It was necessary, in the darkness, to obtain the use of a light for a moment and they decided to wait till the midshipman on duty in the waist went into the steerage to make the half-hourly inspection.
You and McKeon will meet Pelham and me in the waist at eight bells," replied Shuffles, as he went below.
In the waist he met Paul Kendall, who was the officer of his watch, and, like him, was off duty.
In the waist were Shuffles, Monroe, and Wilton, all feuds among them having been healed.
Paul Kendall, who was the officer of the deck; and the order was repeated by his subordinates in the waist and on the forecastle.
The girl children had usually some floating robe of a dressing-gown nature, open to show the whole body, or caught at the waist and turned down to leave the upper part free.
In the mines I have often come across women, naked to the waist and up to the knee, working underground with the men.
The channels between the houses are deep, and I saw several people waist high, with a pole, feeling their way.
Then he pulled over him a loose kimono and removed every stitch but that, finally winding a soft silk sash round his waist and sitting down, all without removing his gold-rimmed glasses or turning a hair!
As often as the young man and his companion were behind the young beech hedge, his arm stole round the waist of the summer dress; but so soon as they emerged upon the gravel path, lo!
Her back ached acutely from the waist downwards as though it would break in two.
The youth's arm was about her waist at the moment.
The shawl went over her left shoulder and was caught about her waist at the right side, in a way which all nurses and mothers know, but which no man can ever hope to describe.
He knew that in a moment more the General would appear in the doorway; and he feared that his father would kill him with the revolver which, when on business errands, he always carried attached to his waist by a leather strap.
And such is the fatal force of example that he put his own arm about Vara's waist each time the young man in the orchard below showed him how.
Elsie, now we know where you got your slender waist and those feet that trip over the sward, scarcely bending the blades of grass," said her uncle.
He suddenly passed his arm around her waist and forced her to stand still, while his glowing face, with eyes sparkling with unholy fire, approached her own.
