One of them, a fine bull, turned his shoulder towards me.
Had I attempted to run over the rough ground he would have overtaken me, and as certainly squeezed the life out of my body; so I stood still where I was, threw up my arms, and prepared to bring my rifle down to my shoulder to fire.
The animal, if he touches the bait--a piece of tough meat or a bird--brings the log down on his shoulder and is crushed to death.
She sat perfectly still, her lips pressed together, watching Mr. Iglesias over her shoulder but without turning her head.
On a shoulder of the hill behind the barracks, full in the glare of the searchlight, stood revealed a radio plant and antenna.
In the west, where the sun only a few moments before had sunk beneath the waters over the shoulder of San Miguel, the sky was yet bright.
The poor man put his ax on his shoulder and started off with Lenka.
Oh," the shepherd said, pointing over his shoulder with his thumb, "I decided to leave her up yonder in a pond.
So Longshanks put Keen on oneshoulder and Girth on the other.
He ceased, and all the faces of the crowd Shone with the light that kindles when the boon Of speech has eased the heart; as when a cloud Falls from the labouring shoulder of the moon, And all the world stands smiling silver-browed.
Since trails, in order to avoid freshets and too many crossings of the water-courses, took the higher shoulder of the hill, the newcomer ordinarily looked down upon his first glimpse of the mines.
General Gibbs advances, brushing with the shoulder of his corps, the cypress swamp.
It is as though he lays his strong, bony hand on the shoulder of every man, and, the first shock over, every man feels safer for it.
As her back was towards me I could only from time to time catch a glimpse of her face when she glanced over her shoulder at her companion.
I joined him; he laid his hand upon my shoulderand said: "How gloriously the stars are shining, and how delicious the air is!
Oh, you belong to the great folks now," replied Klaus, jerking his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the quarter-deck.
While we were heaving at the stone, shoulder to shoulder, he kept bandying coarse jokes with those above, and in the intervals addressed me in rapid, broken sentences.
With these words, I laid my hand on the shoulder of the inhospitable smith, and gave him a hearty shake, in token of my friendly feelings.
I felt justified in looking over my shoulder at the door, and remarking to him that William was no longer in the room.
Death overtook him while he was writing," said the landlord, whose discretion had not hindered him from looking over my shoulder into the paper.
I stopped: he came behind me and patted me two or three times gently on theshoulder with his great broad hand, saying: "So then, so!
Now and again too, the canny Scotch lad, with his gun on his shoulder and his retriever at his heel, would walk through a Saulteux settlement.
Macdonald was first reported as killed and then as wounded, but he was not injured, though struck on the shoulderby spent buckshot.
Clad in his rough clothes, with a bundle on his shoulder and his accumulated wages in his pocket, he entered Sydney for the second time, and walked with pleasure and some bewilderment in the cheerful streets, like a man landed from a voyage.
For, as we entered the smoking-room, he laid his hand on my shoulder with a kind familiarity.
O, I don't suppose it does," said he, glancing over his shoulder at the spouting of the scuppers.
In the quietness of his new surroundings, a voice summoned him from this exorbital part of life, and about the middle of October he threw up his situation and bade farewell to the camp of tents and the shoulder of Bald Mountain.
And then he would pat my shoulder or my hand with a kind of motherly way he had, very affecting in a man so strong and beautiful.
A heavy stone struck him on the shoulder and he turned across the street, making for the "National House" corner, where the joyful clerk brandished his pitchfork.
Mamie had risen, and skirting Norbert frostily, touched Eugene upon the shoulder as she went up the steps.
He thrust his thumb under his woolen brace, lifted it slowly, and moved his thumb down from the shoulder to the trousers button.
The great road continued along this river, but the guide explained that he would ford it here in the morning, cross the shoulder of the abutting mountain on a trail, and thus save half a day of travel.
He observed that the mountaineer attended thus carefully to but one end of the sack, the end which he carried over his shoulder on his chest, the other end he left to pound and swing as it liked.
They pushed through a huckleberry thicket and climbed the shoulder of the mountain on an old trail, hardly to be followed; made, doubtless, by the deer and the red Indian.
The entire shoulder of the mountain, on which they now stood, had been cut down, leveled and formed into these great terraces.
The road lay outlined in shadow, running in a long sweep around a shoulder of the mountain on its way to the sea.
The mountaineer lifted his sack from one shoulder carefully to the other, glanced up at the sun, standing above the mountain, and clucked to his mule.
The old man removed the gun from his shoulder and handed it to the Duke, stopped, picked up his hat and put it on his head.
One from a distant country, coming at this moment to the entrance of the hall, would have stopped there, wondering, with his shoulder resting against the posts of the doorway.
Presently, when the mule turned the shoulder of the mountain, the girl stopped.
But feeling his shoulder touched as his hand pressed the knob, he turned to meet the eye of Mr. Van Broecklyn fixed upon him with an expression which utterly confounded him.
If I ventured upon a remark, he gave me a long and curious look; if I went so far as to attack him with a direct question, he responded with a hitch of the shoulder or a dubious smile which conveyed nothing.
He flung the shovel to his shoulder and turned, but the voice of the man hailed him.
Rod twisted the upper part of his body round and gazed over his shoulder at two lads with guns who were hurriedly approaching on snowshoes.
Agitated and apprehensive, one fellow seized the shoulder of the chap who stood at the door.
Would you have me pike around after those fellows who have given me the cold shoulder and meachingly protest that I wasn’t boozy last night?
This time the butt of the gun in Rodney Grant’s hands was pressed to his shoulder for an instant.
Rollins had a chip on his shoulder and was looking for trouble.
I saw a cow die once: She tried to turn her head across her shoulder And looked at me as if 'twas all my doing, Then laid it down again with a straight throat .
She lays her hand on his shoulder and, leaning her mouth to his ear, speaks in a low, distinct voice.
When he returned he wore a brand new coat withshoulder straps of the recruiting officer's size.
The bullet that went through my roll of blankets also made two holes through my blouse on my shoulder underneath the blankets.
He was wounded in the right shoulder and the bones of that joint were knocked all to pieces.
The Czar advanced and placed a hand upon the shoulderof each.
At a large mahogany desk sat a man in a military uniform, though of what country or what his rank the boys could not tell, for they had never seen a similar uniform and the man wore no shoulder straps.
Alexis' aim was true, and the point of the weapon pierced the German commander squarely between the shoulder blades.
Then, without a word, he dropped his club and put his shoulder to the boulder that barred the exit.
He staggered to his feet, brought his rifle to his shoulder and fired.
One glance over his shoulder convinced Hal that at least half a dozen of the enemy had mounted and were spurring forward in pursuit.
To the left, on the shoulder of the Horseshoe Hill, the sunbeams still lingered, and the gigantic shadows of the trees on the right hand prong were strongly cast across the valley on a red precipitous bank near the top of it.
His wound was a lacerated puncture in the left shoulder from a boarding pike, but it appeared to be healing kindly, and for some days we thought he was doing well.
He was standing with hisshoulder against a post of the verandah when Dan went out to him.
The bullet went wide of its intended mark, but struck the shoulder of the bay mustang, which reared, kicked and whinnied with pain.
He realised that the fugitive would take the shorter one over the steep shoulder of Minnewanka Peak, and that he would give the mare a rest before ascending.
Bill's gun came to his shoulder like a flash, but I hollowed, "Don't shoot.
The man drew his gun to his shoulderin the act of shooting and I exclaimed, "My God, man, you are not going to shoot that deer, are you?
The man jerked his gun from his shoulder as he turned in the direction in which I was standing and gazed at me for a moment and then said, "You frightened me.
Stretchers for most fur that we case should not taper more than 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch from shoulder to hind legs.
After some hard tugging we got the deer on hisshoulder and he started up the hill.
I thought right, for when Bill touched the trigger and his gun spoke, I saw two yearling deer jump into sight and my gun came to my shoulder from habit, but there was no need to shoot.
I took the large powder horn that I had strung over my shoulder with a cord and gave the porcupine a rap on the nose that sent him tumbling down the tree.
He was carrying a deer on his shoulder and when near camp it was necessary to cross a small stream to get to the cabin.
Now brother bear trappers, these traps that you see on my shoulder are of my own make and are made with a half circle bed piece instead of a straight bed piece, as the ordinary trap is made.
I had hardly time to bring my gun to my shoulder when the buck wheeled and disappeared back over the ridge from where he had come.
My gun came to my shoulder as I turned in the direction of the noise, and there stood Bill a-grinning.
She laid her soft hand on his shoulder as if to support herself floating in her sea of doubt: "I do see I am a poor credulous girl; but how can my Alfred be false to me?
But Maxley stretched his long limbs, and caught him in two strides, and griped his shoulder without ceremony.
Her hands rose toward her face, and she shrank away sideways from him as if he was a serpent, and her dilated eyes looked over her cringing shoulder at him, and she was pale and red and pale and red a dozen times in as many seconds.
He patted the helmsman on the shoulder and pointed to it; for now neither could one man speak for the wind, nor another hear.
Mrs. Beresford clung to Vespasian: she held his bare black shoulder with one white and jewelled hand, and his wrist with the other, tight.
At this observation the young saint laid her head on her brother's shoulder and had a good cry like any other girl.
The doors were not shut but were just on the point of closing when Sir David put his shoulder to them and forced his way in, followed closely by his companion.
One of the trio got in a nasty crack on the top of the beggar's bonnet, which brought him to his knees, and before he could recover his footing, a blow on the shoulder felled him.
Hark ye, Talbot," said the king, lowering his voice and placing an arm affectionately over the shoulder of the other.
She glanced over her shoulder with a half-formed thought of escape, but the man sprang forward and laid a rough hand on her arm.
He turned quietly round and just touched the shoulder of the person seated at the bureau, who now rose.
Harold, throwing himself into his chair again, and turning his shoulder toward Christian.
Felix Holt's shoulder--the shoulder of the arm that held the naked weapon which shone in the light from the window.
Mr. Lyon removed his hand from Felix's shoulder and walked about again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoulder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
