"I am sure it's not," said he, superciliously over his
shoulder; "I don't think anything about it."
She sank her fangs into her mate's
shoulder in reproof; and he, frightened, unaware of what constituted this new onslaught, struck back ferociously and in still greater fright, ripping down the side of the she-wolf's muzzle.
In this way, with ten warriors, I built a series of three steps from the ground to the
shoulders of the topmost man.
And Harley would point to the scarred
shoulder and say, "That may account for it, and most possibly a hundred other things like it of which we cannot see the marks."
Anna was not in lilac, as Kitty had so urgently wished, but in a black, low-cut, velvet gown, showing her full throat and
shoulders, that looked as though carved in old ivory, and her rounded arms, with tiny, slender wrists.
Rising from the sailor who had precipitated the battle he shook his giant
shoulders, freeing himself from two of the men that were clinging to his back, and with mighty blows of his open palms felled one after another of his attackers, leaping hither and thither with the agility of a small monkey.
The sailor jerked out his weapon and leveled it at Clayton's back, Miss Porter screamed a warning, and a long, metal- shod spear shot like a bolt from above and passed entirely through the right
shoulder of the rat-faced man.
Left foot a trifle advanced, knees slightly bent, he was crouching, with his head drawn well down between his
shoulders and shielded by them.
I left him the last word, and sought refuge in a shrug of the
shoulders and taciturnity.
Then Buck took to rushing, as though for the throat, when, suddenly drawing back his head and curving in from the side, he would drive his
shoulder at the
shoulder of Spitz, as a ram by which to overthrow him.
Mighty Idomeneus speared him on the right
shoulder as he was mounting his chariot, and the darkness of death enshrouded him as he fell heavily from the car.
Gripping George by the
shoulder and pulling him to his feet, he held him with one hand while he looked at Belle Carpenter seated on the grass.
Still Jerry was not satisfied, and he squirmed around until he lay in the hollow of Skipper's arm, his head resting on Skipper's
shoulder, when, with a profound sigh of content, he fell asleep.
Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing......Now, then -- your head's right, speed's right,
shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right -- every- thing's right!
With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss and ivy, with a gleam of white
shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely
shoulders, back, and bosom- which in the fashion of those days were very much exposed- and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as she moved toward Anna Pavlovna.