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Then they began songs, showed off tricks, raised heavy weights, performed feats with their fingers, then tried lifting carts on their shoulders, made broad jokes, kissed the women.
His own eyes lost themselves in these depths; he saw himself in miniature down to the shoulders, with his handkerchief round his head and the top of his shirt open.
Emma drew her shawl round her
shoulders
and rose.
Burnishing the horizontal pictures, it broke up against these in delicate lines where there were cracks in the varnish, and from all these great black squares framed in with gold stood out here and there some lighter portion of the painting—a pale brow, two eyes that looked at you, perukes flowing over and powdering red-coated shoulders, or the buckle of a garter above a well-rounded calf.
She was a woman of about forty, with fine shoulders, a hook nose, a drawling voice, and on this evening she wore over her brown hair a simple guipure fichu that fell in a point at the back.
The red claws of lobsters hung over the dishes; rich fruit in open baskets was piled up on moss; there were quails in their plumage; smoke was rising; and in silk stockings, knee-breeches, white cravat, and frilled shirt, the steward, grave as a judge, offering ready carved dishes between the
shoulders
of the guests, with a touch of the spoon gave you the piece chosen.
Emma threw a shawl over her shoulders, opened the window, and leant out.
Emma looked at him and shrugged her
shoulders.
The chemist went on—"You may say what you like; his table is better than yours; and if one were to think, for example, of getting up a patriotic pool for Poland or the sufferers from the Lyons floods—""It isn't beggars like him that'll frighten us," interrupted the landlady, shrugging her fat
shoulders.
It was a yellow box on two large wheels, that, reaching to the tilt, prevented travelers from seeing the road and dirtied their
shoulders.
As soon as she entered the passage, Emma felt the cold of the plaster fall about her
shoulders
like damp linen.
A shudder of his
shoulders
made the chair-back creak.
And with a shrug of the
shoulders
that stretched out over her breast the stitches of her knitted bodice, she pointed with both hands at her rival's inn, whence songs were heard issuing.
The mayor took everything on his own
shoulders.
Peasants and lords with plaids on their
shoulders
were singing a hunting-song together; then a captain suddenly came on, who evoked the spirit of evil by lifting both his arms to heaven.
He had great difficulty in getting back to his seat, for his elbows were jerked at every step because of the glass he held in his hands, and he even spilt three-fourths on the
shoulders
of a Rouen lady in short sleeves, who feeling the cold liquid running down to her loins, uttered cries like a peacock, as if she were being assassinated.
Monsieur Leon put her long lace shawl carefully about her shoulders, and all three went off to sit down in the harbour, in the open air, outside the windows of a cafe.
With a slight shrug of her shoulders, Emma interrupted him to speak of her illness, which had almost killed her.
She shrugged her
shoulders
and did not open her piano again.
A mass of rags covered his shoulders, and an old staved-in beaver, turned out like a basin, hid his face; but when he took it off he discovered in the place of eyelids empty and bloody orbits.
You come here and make scenes with her!"His mother, shrugging her shoulders, declared it was "all put on."
"Get along!" he said, shrugging his shoulders; "you've not got anything."
Emma shrugged her
shoulders
as she stamped her feet.
Her
shoulders
were shaken by a strong shuddering, and she was growing paler than the sheets in which her clenched fingers buried themselves.
But he made a slow gesture with his
shoulders.
Her hair is to be spread out over her
shoulders.
"Perhaps you're afraid?""I afraid?" replied he, shrugging his
shoulders.
CHAPTER 4 Father and SonE sara mia colpa,Se cosi e?MACHIAVELLI'My wife certainly has a head on her shoulders!' the Mayor of Verrieres remarked to himself the following morning at six o'clock, as he made his way down to Pere Sorel's sawmill.
A burst of coarse laughter, a shrug of the shoulders, accompanied by some trivial maxim as to the foolishness of women, had regularly greeted the confessions of grief of this sort which the need of an outlet had led her to make to her husband during the first years of their married life.
Julien lost no time in joining her; he admired those fine arms which a shawl flung in haste across her
shoulders
left visible.
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