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Sentences ending with shoulder

By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
Exit the Scotchman's wife, head drooped on stewardess's shoulder. [5]
Late that night, when all had separated, Denisov with his short hand patted his favorite, Rostov, on the shoulder. [2]
Duvarney and I were thus alone for a moment, and he straightway dropped a hand upon my shoulder. [11]
The iron bolt was still in the wound--some say it projected out behind the shoulder. [5]
Again the curtain was raised; Atossa stole in once more and laid her hand on his shoulder. [10]
His straw hat was pushed back on his head, his scythe was over his shoulder. [11]
After this it was perfectly quiet, and brought a measure of corn to the man-tamer, without showing the least disposition to strike with the feet or hit from the shoulder. [6]
But when I was close to him he merely laid his hand on my shoulder. [9]
Again, as she was about to pass him, he put his hand upon her shoulder. [11]

Short sentences using shoulder

He twisted a shoulder. [11]
He touched her shoulder. [11]
Gaspard touched his shoulder. [11]
Armand touched his shoulder. [11]
Duvarney shrugged a shoulder, smiling. [11]
Pierre lifted a shoulder slightly. [11]
She leaned over his shoulder. [9]
Ditmar's shoulder touched hers. [9]
His was at her shoulder. [9]
Lord Faramond shrugged a shoulder. [11]

Sentences containing shoulder two or more times

Year after year they came down from their mountains and fought shoulder to shoulder, and year after year they carried back the lion's share of the spoils between them. [9]
The b'ys of the rigimint shtandin' shoulder to shoulder, an' the faces av 'm blue wid powder, an' red wid blood, an' the bits o' b'ys droppin' round me loike twigs of an' ould tree in a shtorm. [11]
Presently they were shoulder to shoulder. [5]
Somehow he has got his right arm on his left shoulder, and his left arm on his right shoulder, and this shows us the back of his hands in both instances. [5]
On one a forest of lances bristled in the murky air, and upon its southward side a row of archers, each man holding his bow in his hand, stood shoulder to shoulder. [10]
There was a collision, but it was the agreeable collision of preparation for a fight, for it was ordained that the Berkshires and the Sikhs should go shoulder to shoulder to establish a post in the desert between Suakim and Tamai. [11]
But still Mr. Bixby stood by his wheel, silent, intent as a cat, and all the pilots stood shoulder to shoulder at his back. [5]
And is there any doubt that we must all lay aside our prejudices and march, shoulder to shoulder, in the great army of Freedom? [7]

More example sentences with the word shoulder in them

I'll walk behind you and rest this gun-barrel on your shoulder, p'inting forward--so. [5]
The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
Jim was sitting with Nancy on his knee, her head against his shoulder, Sally at his side, her face alight with some inner joy. [11]
One walked ahead with a smile, or else fell back to lend a helping shoulder to a fainting man. [9]
Then, see: Loce will go down the middle hatch, get a gun, come up with it on his shoulder, and move on to the fo'castle. [11]
Sometime the glove will be too hard and cold on a man's shoulder, and then!--Well, I should like to be there," said Pierre, showing his white teeth. [11]
Receiving from the wife of this immaculate man, a direction to Mr Garland's, he took the box upon his shoulder and repaired thither directly. [12]
He appeared taller, wider of shoulder, deeper-chested, more powerfully built. [13]
Then my conductor, whom I rightly judged to be the mate of this devil's crew, took me roughly by the shoulder and bade me accompany him to the cabin. [9]
Woe betide him, who received a blow from the two-handed sword the Eletto still held over his shoulder, now with his left hand. [10]
When he perceived what had occurred, and saw his faithful follower, with a face distorted by pain, rubbing his shoulder, his cheeks flushed angrily, and with just indignation he rebuked Siebenburg for his unseemly intrusion into his quarters and his brutal conduct. [10]
At length I went and laid my hands upon his shoulder, and at my touch he started. [9]
He caught at Wendling's shoulder, but felt him lifted and carried away, while he himself stood still in a screeching wind and heard impalpable water rushing over him. [11]
The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition pouch was slung. [2]
His leather case was swung over his shoulder, and with his glasses he swept the lake in search of the Scimitar and other vessels of a like unamiable character. [9]
But then, it was objected, that he was an objectless bear--a bear that meant nothing in particular, signified nothing,--simply stood there snarling over his shoulder at nothing--and was painfully and manifestly a boorish and ill-natured intruder upon the fair page. [5]
His own heart was heavy enough, but he knew his companion's warm devotion to the Queen; so, passing his arm around his shoulder, he entreated him to maintain that peace of soul and mind which he had so often admired. [10]
At last he was about to lay his hand on the lad's shoulder, but paused as by the moonlight he saw Ephraim raise one arm though, before he lay down, both hands were tied more firmly than before. [10]
Next instant there was a sharp sting in his right shoulder. [11]
At his shoulder was a face, wistful, worn, yet with a kind of happiness too; and the eyes had depths which any man might be glad to drown his heart in. [11]
But when little Walpurga, half asleep, raised her tiny hand and lovingly stroked the wounded shoulder of her adopted mother, the matron, as usual when anything pleasant moved her heart, longed to have her husband at her side. [10]
And as I walked slowly down the deserted street, my head in a whirl, a hand was laid on my shoulder. [9]
When she had walked a little way she looked back over her shoulder to see him leaning idly against the post, gazing after her, and waving his hammer in friendly fashion. [9]
He mounted the wagon, touched the dead man's shoulder, and then, with one hand, loosened the waistcoat and felt the heart. [11]
The Colonel took Virginia in his arms, and she sobbed against his shoulder, as of old. [9]
And when the Vicomtesse had gone a little way down the path she looked at him over her shoulder. [9]
The older Herr Van der Does clapped Peter on the shoulder and then struck the palm of his hand with his fist, as if to say: "I won't question that! [10]
Instead of their usual splendid attire, both wore dark robes, and the royal consort and mother, who mourned her first-born son, leaned motionless, with drooping head, against her kingly husband's shoulder. [10]
The man sprang upon it, striking with his shoulder. [11]
Her head sank upon his shoulder, her eyes closed; she slept. [11]
Soon we came upon a row of open graves, cut in the solid rock--(for a while one of them served Socrates for a prison)--we passed around the shoulder of the hill, and the citadel, in all its ruined magnificence, burst upon us! [5]
Presently he stood up, and throwing back his shoulder, with a little ostentation of health, he went over to the chintz-covered chair, and sat down in it. [11]
And Weld ran up to me, and though I was a good piece of a lad, swung me lightly onto his shoulder. [9]
First she heaved up a glaring white shoulder, the right one, so that the Reverend Doctor should be stunned by it, if such a thing might be. [6]
The burgomaster quietly unfolded it, and, while reading its contents aloud, the notary and city clerk looked over his shoulder. [10]
The young gentleman twisted up his right stilt and patted him on the shoulder, and the young lady rattled her tambourine. [12]
He was wounded twice-in the shoulder and the head. [11]
The horse suddenly turned straight towards her, came over slowly, and, with arched neck, dropped his head on her shoulder. [11]
But, as Annette turned away again, she glanced at the mill; and there, high up in the dormer window, sat Parpon, his yellow cat on his shoulder, grinning down at her. [11]
You will not turn a cold shoulder on me, will you? [11]
And when I tried to thank them for their kindness he laid his hand upon my shoulder. [9]
Her lithe body trembled convulsively, her cheeks were wet as she clung to him and hid her face in his shoulder. [9]
She came and touched his shoulder. [11]
Clark, with that touch which made men love him and die for him, laid his hand on the Captain's shoulder. [9]
Then the duelists took position again; a small stream of blood was flowing down the side of the injured man's head, and over his shoulder and down his body to the floor, but he did not seem to mind this. [5]
Tarboe kept his tongue from blasphemy, and his hand from the captain's shoulder, for he knew only too well that Gobal held the game in his hands. [11]
We sat down together on the window-seat, and all at once she relaxed and her head fell on my shoulder, and she began weeping again. [9]
When I started to write this note my wife came up and stood looking over my shoulder. [5]
Then he went to the window, and as he looked through the parted curtains out upon the water--the room hung over the edge of the cliff-he bound his own shoulder. [11]
Now, then,--he said to the two-year-old,--show the gentleman how you hit from the shoulder. [6]
He had found to the smallest detail Billy's iniquity, and he was now ready to shoulder the responsibility, to save the man, who, he knew, was scarce worth the saving. [11]
He went straight to the Foreign Office for news, hoping against hope, was received by Count Mensdorff, who merely came forward and laid his arm about his shoulder with an intense sympathy beyond words. [6]
He started roughly to shoulder his way out, and whether from accident or design Captain Harrod slipped in front of him, I never knew. [9]
The point was to secure Hosea's services in the army at any cost, so he laid his hand on his friend's shoulder, saying: "You know that it was my wife who won you and others over to our cause. [10]
Lindau was about to roar back at him with some furious protest, but March put his hand on his shoulder imploringly, and Lindau turned to him to say in German: "But it is infamous--infamous! [8]
He helped me to rise, and I rested an arm on his shoulder. [11]
Austen walked up to his father and laid a hand on his shoulder. [9]
Bess shrank closer to him and closer, found his hands, and pressed them tightly over her ears, and dropped her face upon his shoulder, and hid her eyes. [13]
For a person to have two arms on one shoulder wouldn't do him any good, would it? [5]
He walked over to Hannah's chair and put his hand on her shoulder. [9]
This he swore to do, and I cordially grasped the good wretch's shoulder, and thanked him with all my heart. [11]
There is more to be said about the chances for a successful marriage in these days, but I'm not going to dwell on that now, or attempt to shoulder off my shortcomings on my bringing up, on the civilization in which we have lived. [9]
They were offered to any poor person who would shoulder them and carry them away. [5]
She lifted him to a sitting position, but his head fell on her shoulder. [11]
Before he had time to speak or to sit up, she had dropped a hand on his shoulder. [11]
From time to time he glanced over his shoulder. [13]
These dreams grew, till they were broken by a hand placed on my shoulder, and I saw that one of the passengers, Clovelly, an English novelist, had dropped out from the promenade to talk with me. [11]
He moved not till I spoke to him; then he dried his wet eyes with his fur hood, and when I laid my hand on his shoulder he drew a deep breath, and said: "It has been a moving morning, Mistress Margery. [10]
He watched her till he saw her drop her face in her hands; then, opening the door and stealing out, he came and laid a hand upon her shoulder, and she heard him say: "Rosalie! [11]
The path led through a dense thicket which became a casino hedge, and suddenly I found myself peering over his shoulder into a little garden bewildering in color. [9]
When the day-laborer threw his hoe over his shoulder, the poor rascal was rid of toil and anxiety; but they pursued him everywhere, night and day. [10]
Mr. Lincoln took three strides in Stephen's direction and seized him by the shoulder. [9]
He felt as though his hand could grasp the shoulder of that son, too early snatched away, whose gifts had far transcended those of the surviving Orpheus--as though he too could gaze with him on the grand scene that lay before him. [10]
He was pretty thoroughly bewildered; he had come home, a jubilant prodigal, expecting to find everybody wild with joy over his return; and instead had got the cold shoulder and a jail. [5]
The monk; noticing this, drew him towards him, patted his shoulder, and said: "Keep up your courage! [10]
The woods warn't thick, so I looked over my shoulder to dodge the bullet, and twice I seen Harney cover Buck with his gun; and then he rode away the way he come--to get his hat, I reckon, but I couldn't see. [5]
It was they, these soldiers--wounded and unwounded--it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. [2]
Every now and then that calm, good-natured madman would bend a majestic look over his shoulder at us and say, "Ah, you perceive? [5]
She thanked him, then suddenly dropped her fingers on his shoulder, and murmured with infinite gentleness and pride: "You will miss me; you ought to! [11]
The candles threw their light across his shoulder on the face of the elder Monsieur de St. Gre. [9]
If he--" Here the youth hid his face in his hands in passionate emotion; but, feeling his sister's arm round his shoulder, he recovered himself, and went on more calmly: "Well, you heard that she was dead. [10]
The traveller examined the wounds in the shoulder and the head, and said: "The head is all right. [11]
He was wearing the white Horse Guard's cap and a military overcoat with a whip hanging over his shoulder by a thin strap. [2]
In a moment the vessel's nose was towards the bay, and she sailed in, dipping a shoulder to the sudden foam. [11]
He glanced at the star on the shoulder strap, and said. [9]
Gabord looked at the soldiers, looked at the wife, at the priest, then spread out his legs and stuck his hands down into his pockets, while his horse rubbed its nose against his shoulder. [11]
His coat at the shoulder was stained with blood, and there was a handkerchief about his head. [11]
He cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, and carefully placed her in an easy chair. [2]
He leans over the shoulder of Philip the Second at his writing-table, as the King spells patiently out, with cipher-key in hand, the most concealed hieroglyphics of Parma, or Guise, or Mendoza. [6]
Instinctively guarding against the shock--for they had been running together at full speed before they saw one another--Pierre put out his hands and seized the man (a French officer) by the shoulder with one hand and by the throat with the other. [2]
Twice again did the Seigneur's weapon draw blood, once from the shoulder and once from the leg of his opponent, and the blood was flowing from each wound. [11]
In one place the road was tunneled through a shoulder of the mountain; from there one looked down into a gorge with a rushing torrent in it, and on every hand was a charming view of rocky buttresses and wooded heights. [5]
Pierre glanced into the pit and saw that the factory lad was lying with his knees close up to his head and one shoulder higher than the other. [2]
What hour of the night it was I know not when a man touched me on the shoulder, and I came to myself with a start. [9]
He recalled how, the night before, as he sat by their little camp-fire, she had come and touched him on the shoulder, and, looking down at him, said: "I feel as if I was beginning my life all over again, don't you, Maitre Ranulph? [11]
Honora paused on the lawn before the house, and looked back at him over her shoulder. [9]
But he let the hand rest on his shoulder, and at length was able to pronounce, in a shamefully shaky voice, the name of his son. [9]
Pierre, glancing in the glass, saw Captain Halby's face looking over his shoulder. [11]
At this moment the gladiator Tarautas, as nimble as a cat and as bloodthirsty as a hungry wolf, sprang on to one of the enemy's piled-up wagons, and a tall swordsman, with a bear-skin over his shoulder, and long, reddish-gold hair, flew to meet him. [10]
He swung open the door, even as the engine touched the edge of the abyss and shrieked its complaint under the hand of the terror-stricken driver, caught David's shoulder, and cried: "Jump-jump into the river-- quick! [11]

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