Through the door they passed, down a narrow lane walled with a dense bank of humanity, up a wooden ladder to a platform, over a rope which was slung waist-high from four corner-stakes, and then Montgomery realised that he was in that ring in which his immediate destiny was to be worked out.

Sometimes the sea-gull With clanging pinions darted through the arch, And flapped them round her face; sometimes a wave, If tides were high and winds from off the sea, Rushed through the door, and in its watery mesh Clasped her waist-high, then out again to sea!

Two broad swamps also had to be crossed, the soldiers wading waist-high in the water, and carrying their ammunition-pouches on their heads.

In each outer curve facing the enemy a firing platform, about waist-high, had been cut in the earth, with similar armored port-holes.

"I want them waist-high," said Andy.

" Godfrey now resolved to put in a ball waist-high, but so swiftly that Andy could not hit it; but he had never seen Andy play.

The next day there shall be fought on foot a charge with the lance, at a barrier waist-high, and after the lance is broken, with blows of the axe, until it is ended at the discretion of the judges and those who keep the camp.

Neither dew nor rain fell upon them; and their shoes and their clothes were not worn away, although by their dancing they buried themselves waist-high.

These were turned beseechingly upon the French Red Cross doctors, kneeling waist-high in the straw and unreeling long white bandages.

He had lifted the Doctor waist-high from the water before the other helpers sprang on board and completed the rescue.

"Well," replied the snowy figure standing waist-high in the drift.

We could see their men, waist-high above bulwarks, firing as they came.