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Sentences ending with shrug

From time to time the curtain was lifted and a lovely head appeared, whose questioning blue eyes fixed at once on the physician, but were always dismissed with the same melancholy shrug. [10]

Short sentences using shrug

You shrug your shoulders? [10]

More example sentences with the word shrug in them

Do you shrug your shoulders at that, son of the pious Erigone? [10]
Suddenly Kingsley got to his feet, with a cry of consternation; but sat down again smiling with a shrug of the shoulders. [11]
Then she turned to Heliodora with a shrug, and said, as the tears filled her eyes: "Poor, poor little thing! [10]
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]
Charles listened to this explanation with a silent shrug of the shoulders. [10]
But Detricand answered the Chevalier with a look of blank surprise and a shrug of the shoulder, which had the effect desired. [11]
Thus the picture that raised Caracalla to the level of an Achilles made Melissa shrug her shoulders over the man she dreaded; and while she even doubted Caesar's musical capacities, Diodoros's young, fresh, bell-like voice rose doubly beautiful and true upon her memory's ear. [10]
Not until Els stooped to pick it up did he calm himself, saying, with a shrug of the shoulders, "Who can remain unmoved when the whirlwind of despair seizes him? [10]
Good talk has so much short-hand that it cannot be reported,--the inflection, the change of voice, the shrug, cannot be caught on paper. [4]
I, in turn, sigh, shrug my shoulders, and put down the oranges, amid a chorus of exclamations over my graspingness. [4]
Therefore, with a shrug of the shoulders expressive of regret, he added, "However badly off we may be ourselves, there is always some one with whom we would not change places. [10]
Don't shrug your shoulders at me, Bareback, you pig, or you'll think that Ballzeboob's loose on the mat. [11]
With a shrug of his shoulders the other replied "Yes, so have I-- sometimes. [11]
On such occasions Nahoum would shrug his shoulders, and say with a sigh, "Ah, my friend, let us begin again. [11]
Iras's reply was merely a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders. [10]
He took the letter, turned it over, looking at it curiously, and at last, with a shrug of the shoulders, passed it back. [11]
By degrees Florette learned to meet his discontent with a shrug of her shoulders, and to arrange her life in her own way. [10]
But when again I had interpreted his words, and Tetzel still would but shrug his shoulders, this vexed me so greatly that it was as much as I could do to refrain myself, and hold my peace. [10]
He could shrug his shoulders and play with his beads, and urbanely explain his own helplessness and ineligibility when his influence was summoned, or it was sought to entangle him in warring interests. [11]
When she rejected his prayer with a silent shrug, and went on towards the boat he put out his hand to help her, but she intentionally overlooked it and gave her hand to the physician. [10]
Orion listened to his opinion with a shrug, and before going to seek Katharina gave orders that Paula and the nurse should be conducted to separate rooms. [10]
Andreas gazed after him, and muttered, with a shrug "My first petition to a great man, and assuredly my last. [10]
He waved his hand with a gesture of disgust and dismissal, and then turned to the Vekeel with a shrug, to answer the man's scornful exclamation. [10]
Then he--he the grave, just man, on whose support Paula had confidently reckoned--went up to her and with a regretful shrug asked her whether the other necklace with the setting of which she had spoken was in the trunk. [10]
He made a French gesture, a shrug of his thin shoulders, which caused me to suspect he was not always so good-natured. [9]
That, too, was denied her, and she did but shrug her shoulders; then she turned to the Bohemian, who had gone towards her, and asked him with icy politeness to remove from her presence, inasmuch as he was an offence to her. [10]
The stooping posture and the cowering form were there, but no hands were stretched out to meet the grateful warmth, no shrug or shiver compared its luxury with the piercing cold outside. [12]
The Intendant look, and shrug a shoulder, and shake his head for no, and M'sieu' Doltaire smile in a sly way, so that the Intendant's teeth show at his lips and his eyes almost close, he is so angry. [11]
Defend me, then, against those Romans who may shrug their shoulders over the weakness of a weeping Caesar--the Terrible. [10]
And Lancy--that was a thing I couldn't understand--he did no more than shrug his shoulder and call for more ale, and wish them all good health and a hundred a year. [11]
Hib obeyed with a shrug of the shoulders. [10]
The man shrugged a pitiful, desperate shrug, "Mais, Monsieur--" March put a coin in his hand, and then suddenly the man's face twisted up; he caught the hand of this alms-giver in both of his and clung to it. [8]
Siebenburg listened with a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders, then he said bitterly: "I thought that a life of poverty was the chief rule in the order of St. Francis. [10]
The Magian gave a compassionate shrug, and in the look he cast at the philosopher, the question was legible, "What have such as these to do with the highest things? [10]

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