SearchRequestBuilder request = client
            .prepareSearch("stuff")
            .setSearchType(SearchType.QUERY_THEN_FETCH)
            .setQuery(matchQuery)
            .setFrom(from)
            .addHighlightedField("description", 10, 5)
            .addHighlightedField(new HighlightBuilder.Field("title").preTags("<b>").postTags("</b>"))
            .addHighlightedField(new HighlightBuilder.Field("description").preTags("<b>").postTags("</b>"))
            .setHighlighterPreTags("<br>")
            .setHighlighterPostTags("</br>")
            .setSize(pageSize);

final Map<String, HighlightField> stringHighlightFieldMap = hit.highlightFields();
HighlightField something = hit.getHighlightFields().get("description");