I crept past the nursery without accident, but barked my shins on the stocks in the hallway.
Distressed at her greediness, I removed the caraways from the plate and pouched them to eat at my pleasure, whereupon she kicked my shins under the table.
He cared more about the tremendous bark one of his shins had got, close up under his knee.
I have smashed my shins across a confounded chair," said he, querulously.
The damaged brethren gathered round; the sisters, after giving their injured shins a consoling rub, also came to the rescue, and the man was picked up.
Then I will tell you just what kind of a chap he is: One of those long-armed fellows, with short legs, that can scratch their shins without having to stoop over to do it!
To say this and to let fly at Calandrino's shins with the stone were one and the same thing; and the latter, feeling the pain, lifted up his leg and began to puff and blow, but yet held his peace and fared on.
Alex kicks me in the shins under the table so hard that I moaned aloud.
Before Jared can deny the charge, Alex presents him with a kick on the shins and says we are all of that.
Having satisfied himself on these points, he examined both shins delicately by the sense of touch, and carefully tested the capacities of his neck-muscles to move his head in a wonted manner.
Sam looked at his mother in a puzzled way, and then he found it necessary to rub each of his shins in turn with the palm of his right hand.
He staggered up to the road, pulled himself together, then hurried back as fast as his barked shins would let him.
He turned and with Woodward who had picked himself up in spite of his barked shins and they ran back through the door by which they had entered.
Twas vain: the ranks met; the next moment the truncheon of the Prince of Orleans was dashed from his hand by the irresistible mace of the Duke Jenkins; his horse's shins were broken by the same weapon.
I cut King's shins under the table, and got the fellow to hold his tongue.
Five years earlier Marjorie would have kicked her shinsfor that.
I don't much fancy kicking a skirt before my shins again--and I'll be a black, coarse woman down to my neck at dinner for years to come!
Presently the fugitive caught his foot in a rabbit hole, fell, and hit his shins on stone.
Better the cheel should holler than the man groan; better the li'l things should kick agin theer faither's shins than kick agin his heart, come they graw.
Gunter soon found, after bruising his shins and elbows, and stumbling over ropes, etcetera, that the effort was hopeless, and gave it up.
In another place you have a man glaring up at a trunk, in another glaring down;--in all cases action the most violent and most diversified, coupled with cool contempt of crushed fingers and bruised shins and toes.
There was to be no tripping, no hitting on the shins when the ball was out of the scrimmage, and all disputes were to be settled by the umpire, who on this occasion was the master of the Sixteenth school.
It was a deliberate trip, as well as a savage swipe at a man's shins when the ball was not near.
But I'm telling her it's pretty hard when a fellow clubs you on the shins when you're away from the ball.
An' ebry one ob um seems tryin' teh git a crack at de nigger's shins wif dem sticks!
Toots got a crack on the shins that upset him and made him howl with pain.
But Tom was accustomed to that, and got his head safe between Mr. Grimes' legs, and kicked his shins with all his might.
The wooden door-hinges creaked, and stumbling shins blundered against the benches.
His bare shins reddened in the wash of the lake, standing beyond its rim of shining gravel.
First they fastened on greaves and covered their shins with green bean-pods broken into two parts which they had gnawed out, standing over them all night.
I saw the attempt made, and for that matter you got kicked in the shins and tumbled over, didn't you?
Remove those logical forms, waiter, that no gentleman break the tender shins of his apprehension stumbling across them.
It is only by breaking our shins upon a fact that most of us ever learn anything; and the exalted ministry of New Zealand had broken its shins aplenty on a fact that might have been discerned from the start.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
