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Shoulder in sentence

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Her head was bent upon her shoulder, and the pearl tips of her white teeth were seen between her lips.
Emma silently nestled against Charles's shoulder; then, raising her chin, she watched the luminous rays of the rockets against the dark sky.
Emma!Emma!""Oh, Rodolphe!" said the young woman slowly, leaning on his shoulder.
"How are you?" they said, clapping him on the shoulder.
She leant on his shoulder murmuring—"Ah! when we are in the mail-coach!
The sand of the paths was disappearing beneath the dead leaves; she walked slowly, dragging along her slippers, and leaning against Charles's shoulder.
"Yes, but you know," he went on, leaning against her shoulder, "I like to understand things."
He was standing behind her, leaning with his shoulder against the wall of the box; now and again she felt herself shuddering beneath the hot breath from his nostrils falling upon her hair.
Then bending his head over her shoulder, he seemed to beg the consent of her eyes.
He found again on her shoulder the amber colouring of the "Odalisque Bathing"; she had the long waist of feudal chatelaines, and she resembled the "Pale Woman of Barcelona."
Then the passengers in the "Hirondelle" ended by falling asleep, some with open mouths, others with lowered chins, leaning against their neighbour's shoulder, or with their arm passed through the strap, oscillating regularly with the jolting of the carriage; and the reflection of the lantern swinging without, on the crupper of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior through the chocolate calico curtains, threw sanguineous shadows over all these motionless people.
Emma, filled with disgust, threw him over her shoulder a five-franc piece.
Emma's head was turned towards her right shoulder, the corner of her mouth, which was open, seemed like a black hole at the lower part of her face; her two thumbs were bent into the palms of her hands; a kind of white dust besprinkled her lashes, and her eyes were beginning to disappear in that viscous pallor that looks like a thin web, as if spiders had spun it over.
The priest did not need any persuading; he went out to go and say mass, came back, and then they ate and hobnobbed, giggling a little without knowing why, stimulated by that vague gaiety that comes upon us after times of sadness, and at the last glass the priest said to the druggist, as he clapped him on the shoulder—"We shall end by understanding one another."
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
His father who had stepped down not wishing to take the trouble to climb up again on to the machine, went to find a long pole used for knocking down walnuts, and struck him on the shoulder with it.
As soon as he was inside the house, Julien felt his shoulder gripped by his father's strong hand; he trembled, expecting to receive a shower of blows.
As the weather was very warm, her arm was completely bare under her shawl, and Julien's action in raising her hand to his lips had uncovered it to the shoulder.
His mistress, leaning upon his shoulder, gazed at him; he himself gazed at those ornaments and fripperies which on a wedding day are displayed among the presents.
The said Governor, when he met M. de Renal in society, gave him the cold shoulder.
He saw Madame de Renal's head, pale, absolutely devoid of consciousness, drooping upon her shoulder.
The gentleman smiled and laid a hand on his shoulder.
'She is the belle of the ball, no doubt about it,' said a young man with moustaches, whose shoulder dug into Julien's chest.
Mademoiselle de La Mole, leaning forward with the keenest interest, was so close to him that her beautiful hair almost brushed his shoulder.
This bullet had struck her in the shoulder, and, what was surprising, had glanced back from the shoulder-blade, which nevertheless it shattered, against a gothic pillar, from which it broke off a huge splinter of stone.
'It is nothing,' she told him, 'you hurt me.''In your shoulder,' cried Julien, bursting into tears.
They were significantly bigger than him, especially the second man, who frequently slapped him on the shoulder.
The student briefly looked away from the woman to glance at K. over his shoulder but did allow himself to be disturbed, in fact he even pressed himself close to the woman and put his arms around her.
K. ran the few steps up to him, but when he had reached him and was about to take hold of him and, if necessary, throttle him, the woman said,"It's no good, it's the examining judge who's sent for me, I daren't go with you, this little bastard... " and here she ran her hand over the student's face, "this little bastard won't let me.""And you don't want to be set free!" shouted K., laying his hand on the student's shoulder, who then snapped at it with his teeth.
But even I'm vain and that makes me very unhappy that you don't like me."K. replied to that last comment merely by embracing Leni and drawing her towards him, she lay her head quietly on his shoulder.
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