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Rolling his shoulders and belly, he went on at length, allowing his facile eloquence to flow with the lulling gentleness of warm water.
They both shrugged their shoulders.
The engine-man shrugged his shoulders.
Then he affected to sneer with an offensive shrug of the shoulders.
And he described the catastrophe in a few stammered words, while the engineer incredulously shrugged his shoulders.
Négrel was seized by nervous impatience; he wanted to see, and he was already advancing alone into this awful void when he was seized by the shoulders.
They ascended the chimney passage, soaked to the shoulders.
To reach the upbrow they had to walk doubled up, again wetted to the shoulders.
She clasped him, hanging to his shoulders, and he clasped her; and they hoped that they would die.
The old man listened with bent shoulders.
But her shoulders sank as if beneath the weight of destiny.
From rubbing shoulders with scientists in our little universe by the Botanical Gardens, the boy had come to know a thing or two.
Conseil made one final effort, and bracing his hands on my shoulders, while I offered resistance with one supreme exertion, he raised himself half out of the water, then fell back exhausted.
Without hesitation, I identified his dominant qualities-- self-confidence, since his head reared like a nobleman's above the arc formed by the lines of his shoulders, and his black eyes gazed with icy assurance; calmness, since his skin, pale rather than ruddy, indicated tranquility of blood; energy, shown by the swiftly knitting muscles of his brow; and finally courage, since his deep breathing denoted tremendous reserves of vitality.
"Have it your way, sir," the harpooner replied, shrugging his shoulders.
The Canadian stared at Conseil, then he shrugged his shoulders.
We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
Armed with bows, arrows, and shields, nearly all of them carried from their shoulders a sort of net, which held those polished stones their slings hurl with such dexterity.
"What about the Papuans?""What about them?"Captain Nemo replied, with a light shrug of his shoulders.
His rigid body, clenched fists, and head drawn between his shoulders, all attested to a fierce hate breathing from every pore.
Looking with greater care, I observed that four of them were carrying on their shoulders an object that was oblong in shape.
When I told them we would be lying in Mediterranean waters within two days, Conseil clapped his hands, but the Canadian shrugged his shoulders.
So don't shrug your shoulders so blithely, and don't discount something with the feeble excuse that you've never heard of it."
I asked, despite the Canadian's shrug of the shoulders.
The Canadian didn't even bother shrugging his shoulders.
As for Ned Land, no human shoulders ever executed a higher shrug than the pair belonging to our Canadian.
Bending from the waist, he shook the Canadian by the shoulders.
Captain Nemo shrugged his shoulders.
Between the window and the hearth Emma was sewing; she wore no fichu; he could see small drops of perspiration on her bare shoulders.
Some, too (but these, you may be sure, would sit at the bottom of the table), wore their best blouses—that is to say, with collars turned down to the shoulders, the back gathered into small plaits and the waist fastened very low down with a worked belt.
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