Good advice was, to a greater or less extent, thrown away upon me, and if I had any trouble it rolled off from my broad shoulders as water from a duck's back and left not a trace behind.
DI NOLLI (shrugging his shoulders and smiling sadly, like one lending himself unwillingly to an untimely joke).
When I was a kiddie, so so high, you know, with plaits over my shoulders and knickers longer than my skirts, I used to see him waiting outside the school for me to come out.
Buries head in Fathers breast, and with her shoulders raised as if to prevent her hearing the cry, adds in tones of intense emotion): Cry out as you did then!
Her raven hair descended to her shoulders in many curls on each side of her face, and was braided with strings of immense pearls.
They came out upon grassy shoulders still snow-speckled, and through forest, to grass anew.
For some absurd reason their weight on his shoulders was nothing to their weight on his poor mind.
His huge shoulders bore no redundant flesh, and his figure was straight and hard and supple as a young pine tree.
Mr. Kinosling seized him by the shoulders and, giving way to emotion, shook him viciously.
Another low-spirited yodel reaching his ear, he perceived the head and shoulders of his friend projecting above the roofridge of the stable.
He must be careful not to strain the little eyes at his scholar's tasks, not to let the little shoulders grow round over his scholar's desk.
At this bidding, Rupe approached, while Sam, still protesting, moved to the threshold of the outer door; but Penrod seized him by the shoulders and swung him indoors with a shout.
The Crown is arranged between the shoulders of the Warden and the Kneeler.
The responsibility of getting these supplies to them rested heavily on the shoulders of my good friend John Bourne, the only trader in the district.
Mr. Wyman shrugged his shoulders and turned to the general.
For a long time she stood like a statue with the glasses trained on the steamer, and then suddenly she took a white shawl from her shoulders and waved it wildly above her head.
From the unaccustomed work of dragging, the shoulders of the men began to evince symptoms of rawness, although they constantly shifted their drag belts from one shoulder to the other.
As those women who had been detailed to watch her were among the most prominent in the settlement, Beekman, lying on the ground with his head and shoulders against a tree, noted their absence.
He hugged me like a bear and kissed me like a battering ram," she explained with a little movement of her shoulders singularly expressive of resentment, and even more.
But he reappeared triumphant, And upon his shining shoulders Brought the beaver, dead and dripping, Brought the King of all the Beavers.
There he lay in all his armor; On each side a shield to guard him, Plates of bone upon his forehead, Down his sides and back and shoulders Plates of bone with spines projecting!
The poor girl was shivering and chattering with the cold; now she began crying, wiping her eyes with the corner of a blanket in which her head and shoulders were wrapped.
As a result of most patient and careful investigation, Congress found itself able to reduce to the extent of one hundred millions of dollars per annum, the taxation resting upon the shoulders of the American people.
But the Lady drew him toward her, and snatched the clothes from off his shoulders and breast, and fell a-gibbering sounds mostly without meaning, but broken here and there with words.
The rest of the trunk follows in this position, and as the breast approaches the inferior aperture of the pelvis, the shoulders press through its superior aperture in the direction of the left oblique diameter; and during its passage (viz.
When this has been effected, the shoulders follow as the head descends through the pelvis.
The practice of using force to hurry the shoulders and body of the child through the os externum as soon as the head was born, is very generally laid aside.
The two seized the body of Jules by shoulders and feet, and flung it brutally into the limousine.
It took him a bare ten minutes to make an opening, sufficiently large to push his head and shoulders through: the rest of his body followed easily.
To freshen himself up still more he put his head and shoulders out of the half-opened window.
The investigation will show on whoseshoulders the responsibility rests.
The Sailor caught the old woman by the shoulders and shook her, and went on shaking her.
The two had stopped on the edge of the pavement, and were talking without paying any attention to the passers-by who rubbed shoulders with them.
She threw over her shoulders a superb mantle of zibeline which was quite needed, for, though it was the middle of April, it was quite cold.
In fact they gave more generous tips than their masters; for did they not rub shoulders with misery and thus realise, only too vividly, the measureless horrors of destitution?
Pushing his knees and his shoulders against the wall to support himself and stay his movements, he examined the mark.
The figure was that of a woman, tall, stately, and dressed in garments of deep black, fitting tightly round the shoulders and the waist, and flowing away in ample folds below.
Jean merely pulled the serape snugger about her shoulders and sat down sidewise upon the railing.
I'll go over and get Lite," she said at last, rubbing the cramp out of her writing-hand and easing her shoulders from their strain of stooping.
She was glad to shift the whole matter to his broad shoulders now, and let him take the lead.
Art Osgood sat with his shoulders drooped forward a little, and painstakingly snipped off tiny bits of the splinter.
Robert Grant Burns was head-and-shoulders under the car, digging badger-like with his paws to clear the front axle, and coming up now and then to wipe the perspiration from his eyes and puff the purple out of his complexion.
Then Jean in the loge looked and saw screen--Jean's mother kneeling before Bob's chair and sobbing so that her shoulders shook.
He ducked, but the loop settled over his head andshoulders and pulled tight about the chest.
She twitched her shoulders and went around to the door leading into her own room.
Philip shrugged his shoulders in horror, and declared that he should not return again till that was over; but he should look in again before he went home to settle about Herbert's coming to York.
Mathias Raby shrugged his shoulders as one who does not understand grammatical subtleties.
The prefect coughs disapproval and shakes his head each time he glances at his wayward niece, who, on her part, only shrugs her shoulders defiantly.
My son was asleep, but I got up and put my overcoat across my shoulders and went out where they were and got them quieted down.
The mantle of the dead Prophet had fallen upon the shoulders of the living.
The work of God was growing so rapidly that the Prophet, in order to devote more of his time to spiritual concerns, was obliged to roll some of the burden of the public business from his own shoulders upon those of the Twelve.
The hour of the Prophet's martyrdom was approaching, and upon the shoulders of the Twelve, as the First Presidents of the Church, was about to roll the burden of the kingdom of the latter days.
We cut a pole and fastening the deer on it, got it on our shoulders and carried it along to camp, when we dressed it and divided it among the different companies, and had an excellent feast.
As usual the onus of responsibility was placed upon the shoulders of the Prophet, although he had withdrawn from the institution some time before.
Sarah's shoulders moved with her quick breathing; she had a hand on Joe's arm.
And Mrs. Lawrence, with a shake of the shoulders as though she threw off all responsibility in her young relative's affairs, bustled away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoulders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
