Word: knee-deep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...statesmanlike colleague but what he sees within a few feet of his nose, he sees clearly, and names boldly. Thus, coming upon evidences of radicalism in the Pennsylvania morass, he roared: "We must choke the I. W. W. to death or see the gutters of our streets run knee-deep in blood." And in his series for the Pittsburgh Press-for which he accepted no pay-he wrote: "There would be little left if that force were allowed to Russianize America-it threatens Womanhood, Motherhood, Christianity and our free institutions. The I. W. W. is making desperate attempts...
...work of his attended, upon its first public hearing, by the first lady and gentleman of the land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn,* the first verse of which came to Dr. van Dyke one fine morning last spring while he was knee-deep in his favorite troutstream. Forgetting line, flies, fish and footing, Dr. van Dyke fetched out a scrap of paper and wrote...
...than the persistence of that prehistoric savagery that makes it seem necessary, in this modern day, still to clothe ourselves in the skins of the animals and to eat their flesh. Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that...
...tide ran very low indeed, and those of the crews were obliged to wade knee-deep into the water to launch their shells...
...mean could be found some way by which we could all study that portion of a writer's life and works which would exactly meet the wishes of all, the complaint would be well based. But such a mean has not been discovered. We are still forced to wade, knee-deep at times, through a mass of personal reminiscences some trivial and unmeaning, others nauseous and repulsive, to arrive at a just conception of a writer, not only as an author, but also...