Grass sprung knee-high.

Las' time I see that kid, he wa' n't knee-high tew a grasshopper.

As we had all day Sunday to rest, pa suggested that it would be a good idea to take all our animals that eat grass out on the grazing ground on the edge of the town and let them fill up on the nice blue grass that was knee-high all over the country.

Beyond, their tiny juniors, girls and boys knee-high, and fat tumbling babies in rainbow finery, all hand-locked and singing, turned their circle inside out and back again, in the dizzy graces of the "Water Wheel."

I've knew him ever since he was knee-high to a grasshopper.

"Why do you want to saw off an old maid on that two-fisted man you've knew ever since he was knee-high to a grasshopper?

We are used to being made love to from the time we are knee-high.

"It is knee-high already, and my umbrella-trees cast enough shade for anybody, if he will wrap himself around the trunk.

The road dipped strongly once, then again; and then abruptly the forest ceased, and they found themselves cantering over broad rolling meadows knee-high with grasses, from which meadow larks rose in all directions like grasshoppers.

Quick from its cradle jumped the baby, now grown as tall as the bariri-plant; that is, almost knee-high.

Joel hurdled the knee-high wire barrier and strode to meet him.

We put on our worst old duds, tuck up our skirts June 27, knee-high, and have a regular good time of it.

In an hour the cows were landed, and were grazing in the crater, where the grass was knee-high, and everything possessing life was out of the ship, the rats and cock-roaches perhaps excepted.

Blue and yellow lupins stood knee-high, and strawberries grew wild among them.

I wa'n't mo' d'n knee-high ter a hopper-grass.

Imagine the pleasure of plunging at will into June's leafy copses of hazel and lime, Of scudding through acres of grasses knee-high, and of snuffing the fragrance of clover and thyme.

Knowed Bill when he was a little cack, knee-high to a grasshopper.

More streets emanating out from Mott like a handful of crooked, rheumatic fingers, then suddenly the Bowery again, cowering beneath elevated trains, where men, burned down to the butt end of soiled lives, pass in and out and out and in of the knee-high swinging doorsa veiny-nosed, acid-eaten race in themselves.

Purty soon it's dizzle-dazzle an' flippity-floppity an' splendiferous and sewperb, an' the first thing ye know ye ain't knee-high to a grasshopper.

She saw them tooand with another scream she plunged on through the knee-high grass, fell splashing into the icy water of the creek, and I lost sight of her.

And along a stream ran the trail, knee-high in grass on either side.

He took off his cap, heated through by the sun; and then he put it on again; but one way was as unbearable as another, and working his way through the knee-high underbrush was very laborious.

The old earth walls mounted only six guns, with breastworks scarce knee-high.