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The young men wore long-waisted loose uniforms wide across the shoulders with white waistcoats, or else were in uniforms with black collars embroidered with laurel leaves – the emblem of the Ministry of Justice.
It was not a picture, but a living and charming woman with curly black hair, bare shoulders and arms, and a dreamy half-smile on lips covered with elegant down, looking at him victoriously and tenderly with eyes that troubled him.
'Who is that?' she thought, gazing in the mirror at the feverish, frightened face with the strangely brilliant eyes looking at her.'Yes that is I!' she suddenly realized, and looking at her whole figure she suddenly felt his kisses, shuddered, and moved her shoulders.
But she did not take her eyes off the wheels of the approaching second truck, and at the very moment when the midway point between the wheels drew level, she threw away her red bag, and drawing her head down between her shoulders threw herself forward on her hands under the truck, and with a light movement as if preparing to rise again immediately dropped on her knees.
The old man shrugged his shoulders, and then let them fall as if overwhelmed beneath an avalanche of gold.
But she remained seated, her head so heavy that it fell back between her shoulders, seeking to return to the bolster.
Maheu shrugged his shoulders with an air of resignation.
And from the extinguished village to the roaring Voreux a slow filing of shadows took place beneath the squalls, the departure of the colliers to their work, bending their shoulders and incommoded by their arms folded on their breasts, while the brick behind formed a hump on each back.
And this gross good-natured joke increased the laughter of the men, who expanded their shoulders, half cooked by the stove, while she herself, shaken by laughter, was displaying in the midst of them the indecency of her costume, embarrasingly comical, with her masses of flesh exaggerated almost to disease.
Zacharie and Levaque were quietly roasting their shoulders.
Fortunately the young man was thin, for, as he was still awkward, he hoisted himself up with a useless expense of muscle, flattening his shoulders and hips, advancing by the strength of his wrists, clinging to the planks.
Separated by planks, hooked on to retain the fallen coal, they each occupied about four metres of the seam, and this seam was so thin, scarcely more than fifty centimetres thick at this spot, that they seemed to be flattened between the roof and the wall, dragging themselves along by their knees and elbows, and unable to turn without crushing their shoulders.
But the father shrugged his shoulders.
The body had to be bent, the arms made stiff so as to push with all the muscles of the shoulders and hips.
He shrugged his shoulders with despair, and again bit at his bread and butter.
Her shoulders were bent.
" The engineer shrugged his shoulders without replying.
Chaval and Levaque, however, made a furious gesture, while Maheu restrained them by a glance, and Zacharie shrugged his shoulders chaffingly.
They no longer spoke, they snorted, became enraged with the rock, which they would have hustled and driven back by the force of their shoulders if they had been able.
They let themselves down on their backs, flattening their shoulders for fear of taking the skin off their foreheads, and they slipped so fast down the rocky slope, polished by all the rumps of the workers, that they were obliged from time to time to hold on to the woodwork, so that their backsides should not catch fire, as they said jokingly.
The colliers thrust out their shoulders, folded their arms, and set forth irregularly, with a rolling gait which made their large bones stand out beneath their thin garments.
His wife shrugged her shoulders and demanded justice, absolutely.
The other woman shrugged her shoulders.
She took soap and worked away at his shoulders while he held himself stiff so as to resist the shock.
The father, who was crouching down before the fire to dry his neck and shoulders more quickly, contented himself with adding:"Try not to dawdle about at night on the road.
Then, as she shrugged her shoulders, he said suddenly:"Come with us if it will amuse you.
I say, you knew Roussie?"Mouque was silent for a moment, rocked his shoulders; then, returning to the house:"Good night, good night, old man."
Then he shrugged his shoulders with tranquil indifference, What should he do with a putter?
" The young man joked and shrugged his shoulders.
A burst of laughter interrupted her; even the children shrugged their shoulders, being incredulous in the open air, keeping a secret fear of ghosts in the pit, but glad of the empty sky.
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