Shoulders in sentence

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They entered two or three at a time, stood in front of it, and then went away without a word, shrugging their shoulders as if their backs were crushed.

The old miner and the young one looked as though they expected something more; then they went away with depressed shoulders.

She had remained with naked shoulders, already over-mature, but still imposing and desirable, with the broad bust of a Ceres gilded by the autumn.

M. Grégoire, when he heard that the strike had at last broken out, shrugged his shoulders in his placid way.

The engine-man shrugged his shoulders, and a smile again came on his lips.

With open arms and accompanying his periods with a swaying of his shoulders, he had an eloquence which recalled the pulpit, a religious fashion of sinking the ends of his sentences whose monotonous roll at last carried conviction.

With his back to the wall, Bouteloup was mechanically rubbing his shoulders with the amazement of a good-natured fellow who has eaten up his savings, and is astonished at having to tighten his belt.

Words often failed him, he had to force his phrases, bringing them out with an effort which he emphasized by a movement of his shoulders.

As to Rasseneur, he shrugged his shoulders with contempt and anger.

She was certainly not there, but he still saw Chaval, affecting to jeer, shrugging his shoulders, but devoured by jealousy and ready to sell himself for a little of this popularity.

Those who wished to work stood with their lamps, barefooted, with shovel or pick beneath their arms; while the others, still in their sabots, with their overcoats on their shoulders because of the great cold, were barring the shaft; and the captains were growing hoarse in the effort to restore order, begging them to be reasonable and not to prevent those who wanted from going down.

When their garments had been thrown over her shoulders he set out running, supporting his burden with one hand, and carrying the two lamps with the other.

From the bottom to daylight there were a hundred and two ladders, about seven metres in length, each placed on a narrow landing which occupied the breadth of the passage and in which a square hole scarcely allowed the shoulders to pass.

And in the dizziness which came over her, she recalled her grandfather Bonnemort's stories of the days when there was no passage, and little girls of ten used to take out the coal on their shoulders up bare ladders; so that if one of them slipped, or a fragment of coal simply rolled out of a basket, three or four children would fall down head first from the blow.

After every grip she expected to see her hands leave the uprights; they were so peeled and stiff she could not close her fingers, and she feared she would fall backward with torn shoulders and dislocated thighs in this continual effort.

She never knew how she reached daylight, carried up on people's shoulders, supported by the throttling narrowness of the passage.

Souvarine, whom the young man went up to consult, shrugged his shoulders; ten resolute fellows could do more work than a crowd; and he turned back to the open book before him, refusing to join in.

He repeated:"On we go to the other pits, and you come with us, you dirty devil!"Chaval had scarcely time to get his sabots from the shed and to throw his woollen jacket over his frozen shoulders.

They all cheered, and rushed on, while Chaval, seized by the shoulders, was drawn and pushed violently along, while he constantly asked to be allowed to wash.

So Rose has gone out, leaving all the house on my shoulders!"

Beaten and deceived at every hour, with shoulders bent from morning to night over a ledger, perhaps she was laughing, while the band of women rushed along with that evil beast, that crushed beast, at the end of the stick.

M. Hennebeau, when informed, contented himself with saying, as he shrugged his shoulders:"If he troubles us too much the bishop will free us from him."

The other shrugged her shoulders.

She had shrugged her shoulders in resignation.

And suddenly, as a cloud threw its shadow, Jeanlin leapt on to the soldier's shoulders with the great bound of a wild cat, and gripping him with his claws buried his large open knife in his throat.

A new dream took possession of him; he thought no more of dying, but remained for hours with his feet in the mud, and a drizzle from the thaw falling on his shoulders, filled by the feverish hope that victory was still possible.

But his voice was lost in the midst of so frightful a tumult that he had to leave the window again, simply shrugging his shoulders.

The Levaque woman was almost putting her shoulders out, being so large and soft that she had to come near to get her aim, in spite of Bouteloup's entreaties, and he dragged her back in the hope of being able to lead her away now that her husband had been taken off.

He was about to reply, but then shrugged his shoulders in despair.

He resigned himself, and took refuge at the other end of the parlour, while the innkeeper filled up the doorway with his broad shoulders.

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