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Sentences ending with shoulders

I'll take the wrong of this now, sir, and such shame as there is in that falsehood on my shoulders. [11]
An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. [5]
You've been a wonder, the way you've caught on and taken things off my shoulders. [9]
Casper Eysvogel, on whom the resolution bore most heavily, submitted in silence, shrugging his shoulders. [10]
A white cloth was wound round his head, the ends of which hung down to the shoulders. [10]
The Cure, who was present, shrugged his shoulders. [11]
A third joke was played upon Nicodemus a day or two later--he walked up the middle aisle of the village church, Sunday night, with a staring handbill pinned between his shoulders. [5]
Tom and Weldon walked ahead, driving the two horses, followed by Cutcheon, his head dropped between his shoulders. [9]
Four bearers were waiting outside with the sedan-chair, three servants with torches, and two stout attendants carrying clubs over their shoulders. [10]
The high-priest went up to him and laid both hands on his shoulders. [10]

Short sentences using shoulders

He shrugged his thin shoulders. [9]
His shoulders set square. [11]
You shrug your shoulders? [10]
Richter shrugged his shoulders. [9]
He shrugged his shoulders. [9]
Ranulph gripped his shoulders. [11]
Pierre shrugged his shoulders. [11]
He shrugged his shoulders. [11]
Grandjon-Larisse shrugged his shoulders. [11]
My shoulders saved me! [11]

Sentences containing shoulders two or more times

Natasha threw off the shawl from her shoulders, ran forward to face "Uncle," and setting her arms akimbo also made a motion with her shoulders and struck an attitude. [2]
Van Blaricom and MacGregor had been naturalised by having their shoulders lanced with a spear-point, and then rubbed against the lanced shoulders of the chiefs. [11]
Natasha involuntarily gazed at that neck, those shoulders, and pearls and coiffure, and admired the beauty of the shoulders and the pearls. [2]

More example sentences with the word shoulders in them

Do you shrug your shoulders at that, son of the pious Erigone? [10]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
Priests in their yellow robes and with bare shoulders went by, oblivious of all things. [11]
A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right--everything's right! [5]
Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
He muttered, "I wonder what's the matter; I don't know what her mouth's doing, but I think her shoulders are swearing. [5]
Slung upon the woman's shoulders was a small fisherman's basket. [11]
He was seized with such violent terror that he stood as if spellbound, the goat slipped from his shoulders, and he felt as if his heart had ceased to beat. [10]
Then he retired with less assurance than he had come, and John Paul sprang to his feet and laid his hands upon my shoulders, as was his wont when affected. [9]
Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. [2]
From queer old-fashioned windows along the curve projected boxes of bright flowers, and over the edge of one of these boxes hung the head and shoulders of a cat--asleep. [5]
He looked concentrated will and power as he stood with his hands clasped behind him, his shoulders thrown back, his eyes alight with fire and determination. [11]
There were many who came regularly to inquire of him, and each afternoon I would see the broad shoulders and genial face of Governor Sharpe in the gateway, completing his walk by way of Marlboro' Street. [9]
Sparkling on their white-robed breasts or shoulders were the colors of their favorite knights, and were it not for the fact that the doughty heroes appeared on unromantic mules, it would have been easy to imagine one of King Arthur's gala-days. [5]
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. [7]
I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic. [4]
I wondered mightily what tailor had thrust this garment upon him; its fashion was of the old king's time, the cuffs slashed like a sea-officer's uniform, and the shoulders made carefully round. [9]
Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
Suppose your father went out to walk and a Spanish grandee should jump on his shoulders and make him taste whip and spur, as if he were a horse. [10]
She was found weeping one day on the veille because she was no longer able to get her shoulders out of the window to use the clothes-lines stretching to her neighbour's over the way. [11]
Their long, flowing, wavy hair, and an atmosphere of ideality which enveloped them both, might have inclined one to the latter supposition; while the form of their brows, indicating deep thought and severe mental labor, and their slightly stooping shoulders, would have suggested the former. [10]
They had no waterproofs nor rubbers, of course; over their shoulders they wore gunnysacks--simply conductors for rivers of water; some of the volume reached the ground; the rest soaked in on the way. [5]
But, as she was wont, she made good her own will and he shrugged his shoulders, wrathful indeed, but overmastered by her. [10]
And yet he was not tall; but on his deep chest, his enormous square shoulders, and short, bandy legs, the muscles stood out like elastic balls, showing the connoisseur that in strength he was a giant. [10]
The trivial commonness was gone from her coquetting shoulders and drooping eyelids; and from her body had passed its flexuous softness. [11]
General Wool still walked the corridors, inexpansive, with Fort McHenry on his shoulders, and Baltimore in his breeches-pocket, and his courteous aid again pressed upon me his kind offices. [6]
One day Monsieur Vigo's young Creole clerk stood shrugging his shoulders in the doorway. [9]
The proprietor is very indifferent, and shrugs his shoulders in an amiable manner. [4]
He did not usually give much heed to his dress, yet he was glad that the rain kept people in the house, for the outgrown wrap on his shoulders was by no means pleasing in appearance. [10]
A woman stood upon a point of the great rock, a red robe hanging on her, her hair free over her shoulders, her finger pointing at the Intendant. [11]
His head came up, his shoulders straightened out, his eyes snapped fire. [11]
This fellow stood up with his eyes shut and his shoulders stooped forward a little, and looked as if he had his hands under his coat tails. [5]
Weakly he reached up and put his hands on her shoulders. [9]
The knees of twenty generations had worn the pavement; their feet had hollowed the steps; their shoulders had smoothed the columns. [6]
Once when I turned short and dodged under his arm he made a grab and got me by the jacket between my shoulders, and I thought I was gone; but I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning, and saved myself. [5]
The big river-driver turned on the grizzled old man beside the bar- counter with bent shoulders and lazy, drawling speech. [11]
He did not turn, but a heavy stone caught him high in the shoulders, and he fell on his face and lay clutching the epaulettes in his outstretched hands. [11]
The senators sat trembling on their antique seats of gilt ivory, the relics of departed splendor imitated from those of the Roman senators, looking at each other and shrugging their shoulders while they listened to a letter which had just reached them from the hadi. [10]
If he can travel with us, so much the better for him"; and the Factor shrugged his shoulders. [11]
I felt airy touches on my shoulders and my hair, and I shrank from them and cringed, and was not ashamed to show this fear, for I saw the others doing the like, and knew that they were feeling those faint contacts too. [5]
In a second Tom was on Kenton's shoulders, and they passed me up with as little trouble as though I had been my own drum. [9]
He led her to the window-seat and gently disengaged her hands from his shoulders and took one of them and held it between his own. [9]
He sometimes went to the city to buy iron or coals, but usually avoided any intercourse with the citizens, who shrugged their shoulders or pointed to their foreheads, when they spoke of him. [10]
But he managed to study him pretty well,--first his face, then his neck and shoulders, the set of his arms, the narrowing at the loins, the make of his legs, and the way he moved. [6]
I will undertake to restore the Berenice and put your mother's head on her shoulders. [10]
He never sought to make friends, had a thorough contempt for social trifling, and shrugged his shoulders at the "swagger" of some of the other officers. [11]
Suddenly Kingsley got to his feet, with a cry of consternation; but sat down again smiling with a shrug of the shoulders. [11]
His dress answered to his face--if indeed that could be called dress which consisted of a linen apron and a white kerchief thrown over his shoulders after sundown. [10]
Rameri went up to him, touched his shoulders and said: "We have played the game, and now must bear the consequences for good and for evil. [10]
He came over to her, after a moment, and spoke over her shoulders as he just touched her waist with his fingers. [11]
Macrinus repeated this to Caesar with a shrug of his shoulders, but he withheld the remark added by the venerable elder of the ambassadors, that they did not fear a foe who by so vile a deed had incurred the wrath of the gods. [10]
The house of thy father rests on the shoulders of the people. [10]
As he rode through the streets, people stopped him and poured out questions; but he only shrugged his shoulders, and gave no information, and neither denied nor affirmed anything. [11]
He remembered the thrill he felt as the coil settled on his shoulders, and the sudden impulse which led him to fire as he did. [6]
The sorrows of three years were suddenly lifted from his shoulders, and for an instant Ephraim wanted to dance until he remembered the rheumatism and the Wilderness leg. [9]
How wonderfully, he thought, it was poised upon her shoulders. [9]
Just then a thought struck me with such force that I got up with a cheer and hit the astonished captain between the shoulders. [9]
She had never thought herself good looking, and now--it was astonishing!--she seemed to have changed, and she saw with pride that her arms and neck were shapely, that her dark hair fell down in a cascade over her white shoulders to her waist. [9]
It seemed as though the tempest had seized the ends of the rope, and was dealing terrible blows with them upon her shoulders, her back, and her feet. [10]
He moved as though some heavy burden of care bowed his strong shoulders. [10]
It was as though one in armour awaited the impact of a heavy, cruel, overwhelming foe, who suddenly disappeared, and the armour fell from the shoulders, and breath came easily once again. [11]
Surreptitious smiles, at this, passed from one rascal to another, and they filled all the glasses, and whilst Backus honestly drained his to the bottom they pretended to do the same, but threw the wine over their shoulders. [5]
Charles listened to this explanation with a silent shrug of the shoulders. [10]
I will condense this account, as follows: On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden. [5]
Norinne and Bargon they go out to the Souris, and Bargon have a hunder' acre, and he put up a house and a shed not ver' big, and he carry his head high and his shoulders like a wall; yes, yes. [11]
Garlands, stripped of their leaves and flowers, still crowned their heads and hung over their shoulders. [10]
So much on the young shoulders, the kitchen, the parlour, the market, the shop, society--and so on. [11]
His eyes followed the young man to the gate, and presently, with a quick lifting of the shoulders, he said: "Robert Belward! [11]
A man of the world to the cut of the coat across the broad shoulders. [9]
A tremor shook the woman's shoulders, and little Tom stood before her, a quaint figure in a butternut smock, his blue eyes questioning. [9]
Because he feels the weight of a tremendous responsibility on his shoulders, because he knows if it weren't for him and men like him upon whom the prosperity of this nation depends, we'd have famine and anarchy on our hands in no time. [9]
We jumped from the wagon and were watching the people file out of the car, and I noticed that more than one paused to look back over their shoulders as they reached the door. [9]
Will you take the trouble to ask your tailor how many persons have their two shoulders of the same height? [6]
The peasants, adjusting the stretcher to their shoulders, started hurriedly along the path they had trodden down, to the dressing station. [2]
The kneelers rise; the spectators break into chattering groups; the ladies look at the dancer with curious eyes; a young gentleman with the elevated Oxford shoulders leans upon the arm of her chair and fans her. [4]
It is on the shoulders of others. [11]
Please to consider the seals about his waistcoat, and the lady-like droop of his shoulders. [11]
They all did the same, Jeff Hyde leaning on the shoulders of Gaspe Toujours. [11]
A half-hour later the roisterers, who had meant to carry Constantine Jopp on a rail, carried Terry O'Ryan on their shoulders through the town, against his will. [11]
The Chinaman at the right of Li Choo looked steadfastly at him; then, all at once, he bared his shoulders and quickly bound a piece of sackcloth round his head. [11]
On hearing this the regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. [2]
The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders. [2]
Six shoulders upheld the rear end of the Petrel, others shoved, and Thomas Jefferson's rickety horse began to move forward in spite of himself. [9]
At supper after the opera he described to Dolokhov with the air of a connoisseur the attractions of her arms, shoulders, feet, and hair and expressed his intention of making love to her. [2]
Unable to control the muscles of her face, shoulders and hands, she went into the middle of the room, beckoned the men to come close to her, raised her fan to her face, and whispered: "Don Fabrizio and I are now one. [10]
Then she saw the light mantle slip from Sirona's shoulders, and observed Hermas start and press his hand to his heart. [10]
As he travelled the intervening space, shrugging his shoulders, staggering serenely, he told himself in confidence that he would leave the church at dawn, go to the tavern, purchase a horse as soon as might be, and get back to his wagon. [11]
The circle of the heavy eyebrows ended at the wide nostrils; the mouth was a crescent, but bowed downwards; the heavy shoulders were rounded. [9]
But he had the head and shoulders of a lion, and even the lion's roar. [9]
He protested, and the great Talleyrand shrugged his shoulders. [9]
She had fastened the epaulettes on its shoulders. [11]
Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not stir. [2]
When toward evening the Emperor asked him how Barbara had received his decision, he shrugged his shoulders and answered: "As was to be expected. [10]
He took in the blocky shoulders and the square head, and he pictured the little eyes at a vanishing-point in lines of a bargain. [9]
The buttons on the backs of these came high up between the shoulders, and the tails did not reach below the waistband. [4]
The toe of the Arab leading the horse touched his head, then a hoof was on him--between the shoulders, pressing-pressing down, the iron crushing into the flesh--down--down--down, till his eyes seemed to fill with blood. [11]
So it happened that Zoe's fingers often came in touch with those of the stage-manager, that his hands touched her shoulders, that his cheek brushed against her dark hair once, and that she had sensations never experienced before. [11]

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