Shoulders Sentence Examples
Her hair was free, the long, loose curls cascading down her shoulders and back.
He towered over them both, the muscles in his arms and shoulders straining against his shirt as he hooked his thumbs in the front pockets of his jeans.
Alex placed his hands on her shoulders, gently pushing her back.
Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room.
He squeezed her shoulders.
He watched her for a few minutes while she crawled under the wagon and pulled her blanket around her shoulders, and then he walked away.
She admired his magnificent back and shoulders and then looked away.
Her hands ceased quivering as she ran them across his chest, over his firm shoulders and shapely arms before returning to his chest.
But he threw it upon his shoulders and seemed well satisfied.
He put an arm around her shoulders.
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He grabbed her shoulders, pulling her roughly against him and kissed her lips in a demanding way that roused more anger than anything else.
His hands gripped her shoulders and pulled her back so that he could see her face.
And then he walked away, his shoulders swaying like a pendulum with his stride.
If his name scrawled across her shoulders didn't mark her as his, the collar did.
AdvertisementHis broad shoulders swayed with the swing of his stride.
She must have let her shoulders droop, or maybe it was her trembling body.
Like the way his broad shoulders swayed so gracefully with each step as he strode to the corral - or the way he lounged in a doorway, coffee in one hand, one long leg thrown carelessly over the other.
Molly shrugged her shoulders, as if she were being scolded.
He tried to look away but I turned him by the shoulders and until our faces were inches apart.
AdvertisementFrom his shoulders to his chest to his flat midsection, every part of him looked as if he'd been carefully carved from stone.
He opened his eyes and trotted silently up the stairs, rolling his shoulders back in preparation for a fight with the Other.
His long, sleek hair was tied in a tight braid, and despite the cold and wind he wore only a long-sleeved sweater that hugged the muscles of his arms and shoulders beneath a down vest.
She stayed the urge to curl up in her chair, jumping when a shadow with lopsided shoulders emerged from the corner dressed like an executioner in black hood and gloves.
So far, wee Maria stood head and shoulders over any other domestic helper Bird Song had employed.
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Narrow shoulders, rounded hips and a petite frame were distinctly feminine.
The tension melted from Gabriel's shoulders as he sat on the settee across from Andre.
Her shoulders were hunched, her head down.
Despite the danger outside the walls, tension released her shoulders when she'd gone far enough to lose sight of the city's walls.
They were so tame that they sat on the shoulders of St. Francis and ate from his hand.
She has a fine head, and it is set on her shoulders just right.
Of what use this measuring of me if she does not measure my character, but only the breadth of my shoulders, as it were a peg to bang the coat on?
My employment out of doors now was to collect the dead wood in the forest, bringing it in my hands or on my shoulders, or sometimes trailing a dead pine tree under each arm to my shed.
It can't be helped! said the count, shrugging his shoulders and speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him.
The peasants, adjusting the stretcher to their shoulders, started hurriedly along the path they had trodden down, to the dressing station.
Removing his hands from the wall, he placed them on her shoulders, pulling her closer.
His warm fingers released her shoulders and traced their way up her neck, cupping her jaws in his hands.
Katie shrugged her shoulders and focused on cutting an eye from the potato in her hand.
He put an arm around her shoulders, his gaze warm and admiring.
She pulled the blanket around her shoulders and curled into a shivering ball, staring through the window into the darkness.
His big hands came up, grasping her wrists and pulling her forward until her armpits rested on his shoulders.
Finally his big hands left her waist and moved to her shoulders, working out the stiffness in them, and then on to the back of her neck.
The braids not only held it out of her eyes, but thinned the bottom part down enough that it would lay loose across her shoulders and down her back without frizzing.
Lisa turned her face away and hoped Tammy didn't notice her shoulders shaking as she laughed silently.
She brushed the hair back over her shoulders.
She moved between Adrienne and Brandon, and put an arm around each of their shoulders.
Brandon sat with a comforting arm around her shoulders.
She leaned forward and draped her arms around the horse's shoulders.
She stiffened as he stepped closer and placed a gentle hand on each of her shoulders.
She shoved his hands from her shoulders.
In any case, Bordeaux slipped a comforting arm around her shoulders.
His hands slid up her arms, gently caressing her shoulders.
She pulled the buffalo robe over her shoulders and stared at his form in the moonlight.
Bordeaux had one arm wrapped fondly around the shoulders of a saloon girl.
Claudette shrugged her lovely shoulders.
He jerked her around and grabbed her shoulders roughly.
His lips crushed down on hers, bruising them as his fingers dug into her shoulders.
She scooted closer to him, shifting the blanket so that she could drape the excess around his shoulders.
She stretched out on the couch beside him; resting her head on his chest and he draped the blanket across her shoulders, his arm falling loosely on her waist.
Tenderly, he gripped her shoulders, pulling her close.
After a slight hesitation, she leaned forward and gripped his shoulders.
She straightened her shoulders.
To be reminded first by a woman who should be dead and again by a Healer of some sort … He shook out his shoulders and nudged his XO awake, not wanting to deal with the thoughts.
You've taken a great deal off my shoulders, and I appreciate it.
Darian was cowering at the gate-line, his wide shoulders hunched and his frame shaking.
His shoulder didn't move as it should, and he switched the sword to his other hand, trusting his instincts to keep his head on his shoulders.
He shook the tension out of his shoulders.
Damian rested his hands on her shoulders.
It was dark, cold, and the shots hit the man with lopsided shoulders, dropping him dead to the ground.
He towered head and shoulders over the mostly female crowd and leaned with deceptive casualness that radiated danger against one of the pillars in the food court.
Their faces lit up at the sight of Jule, and Sofia trailed him in, watching as the three clapped each other on the shoulders and hugged.
The large man in black with lopsided shoulders and an executioner's hood pressed himself into a corner.
Two released Damian from the bonds and lifted him over his shoulders.
This was too similar to what she physically felt towards Gabriel to be anything other than the Immortal bond that branded Darkyn's name across her shoulders.
Deidre whipped the door open, ignoring the sting of her wet hair against her shoulders.
He sympathized and put an arm about her shoulders.
Fred shrugged his shoulders.
Something unspoken passed between them as Fred returned, his arm around his jailer's shoulders.
Cynthia held her young charge tightly about the shoulders.
His back was to her, his arms crossed, and his t-shirt stretched tightly across his thick back and shoulders.
The responsibility of Death weighed heavily on his shoulders.
He wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
She was so tense, her shoulders ached.
When Deidre was close enough, Gabriel stretched out and gripped the rope looped under her shoulders.
Dressed in the seductive clothing of Hell, her body's gentle shape appeared voluptuous, her narrow shoulders exposed, her round hips and breasts enhanced.
He put his hands on her shoulders and his troubled gaze met hers.
Alex put an arm around her shoulders.
The shoulders slid out slowly and the foal was out to his hips.
As they headed toward the house, Alex put an arm around her shoulders.
She put an arm around his shoulders.
She left it down, letting the soft curls spill over her shoulders For a minute she fought back panic.
His fingers forced the straps from her shoulders and slid them down her arms.
He let lose of her hand and slipped an arm around her shoulders.
The sight of his name across her shoulders made his body hot with anger and need that left him frustrated.
Her shoulders were still hunched, as if she waited for him to hack off her head.
She paced and rolled her shoulders to free them of tension.
While Gabriel was written at the center of the geometric designs on Deidre's shoulders, the tattoo on the woman before her bore the name Rhyn.
His shirt stretched tightly over his shoulders and across his back while his biceps flexed and the roped muscles of his forearms rippled with his tinkering.
It falls on your shoulders.
He set down his wine and settled his hands on her shoulders.
Wynn released her shoulders and returned to his side of the kitchen.
It was light enough that she felt naked, especially with the cut that left her back, arms and shoulders completely exposed.
Deidre's breath caught at the name scrolled across the narrow shoulders.
She had a mild headache, and the tension between her shoulders was aching from the stress of the discussion.
She straightened her shoulders, determined to approach her fate without fear.
He was taller than average, over six and a half feet, built like a rock with wide shoulders and tapered abdomen and hips beneath a jumpsuit similar to those worn by the prisoners.
She heard the kid scream and hunched her shoulders, nearly vomiting at the sounds of his body being torn apart.
The black-haired woman had dark Mediterranean skin and tattoos down her back and across her shoulders.
The tank top displayed his thick biceps and shapely shoulders.
Her eyes swept over his muscular form, from his shapely shoulders and wide back to the thick thighs outlined by the sweats.
He felt the weight of his brother.s death on his shoulders again.
Katie rose, hefted Iliana beneath the shoulders, and dragged the woman over to the shade.
His frame was thick beneath the snug clothing, with a tucked waist and flared upper body extending from the tucked waist to his wide, broad shoulders.
His lifemate was tiny, standing a full head shorter than the average woman and a head and shoulders shorter than him.
Her shape was firm but lush and had fit in his arms with her shoulders settling between his when he'd held her outside of the house.
She looked at him curiously, and he rolled his shoulders back, prepping himself physically for the verbal discussion to come.
It was not a decision he envied; he alone knew what a burden it was to know the fate of a planet and its inhabitants rested upon his shoulders.
He has a lot on his shoulders.
Mansr's shoulders shook, and she took his arm, alarmed.
One female figure moved forward, wrapping a shawl around Evelyn's shoulders and placing a translator on her ear.
Her long blonde hair, unfastened now, cascaded about her shoulders.
Cynthia put an arm about the woman's shoulders.
She just shrugged her shoulders as if she could care less about his lack of vocalization and moseyed over to near where Fred and the boy were sitting, the notebook between them.
Dean shrugged his shoulders.
The trio sat around the office desk, looking over one another's shoulders at the neat handwriting in the old notebook.
She reached up to unclasp her now-blonde hair, dropping it in a cascade about her shoulders.
Dean put his arm around his wife's trembling shoulders.
As it tolled its final gong, Edith Shipton appeared, in her late night attire— the Annie Quincy white dress—her hair loosened about her shoulders.
Hoisting the lightweight bike to his shoulders, he walked to the paved Main Street before mounting.
Her long blonde hair, unfastened, cascaded about her shoulders.
Dean had a memory of Fred draping a flannel shirt over Franny's bare shoulders, though no recollection of the order of arrival or any real details of what followed.
Franny came over and leaned down to put her arm around his shoulders.
Dean attempted to move, turning his body for a clearer look down at Shipton but the adjustment in his position caused a shower of snow to descend on him, nearly covering his head and shoulders.
The line burned across his shoulders and exposed neck.
Cynthia settled into the sofa where Dean joined her, putting his arm around her shoulders.
He felt hands on his shoulders as a voice broke through the madness.
He held her shoulders.
She appeared to be in her early thirties, had chestnut brown hair that fell in soft waves around her shoulders with thin streaks of what looked like fire running through it.
He bent down in front of her and held her shoulders.
She grabbed his shoulders, gyrated a bit and squealed, No, Jackson and Elisabeth are.
Sarah grabbed him, shaking his shoulders.
Sarah held his shoulders.
He stuffed his hands in his pockets and rounded his shoulders.
She opened the back door and in bounded a large Borzoi who rushed to Elisabeth and stood on his hind feet, resting his front legs on her shoulders, and then licked her face.
Elisabeth stood behind the sofa, rubbing Jackson's shoulders and neck.
He stepped behind Elisabeth's stool, placed his hands on her shoulders, and kissed the top of her head.
Jackson grabbed Connor's shoulders, held his eyes and ordered, "Get Elisabeth and lock yourselves in the holding room, now."
He held her by the shoulders, his stomach churning from her distress.
Elisabeth stood behind Jackson, and held her hands on his shoulders.
She grabbed his shoulders.
Jackson turned the camera on, placed it in front of her and stood behind her with his hands on her shoulders, feeling tension in them.
Connor held her shoulders.
He was lean, with broad shoulders, narrow hips and a flat abdomen.
A western cut shirt made the most of his broad shoulders.
His broad shoulders swayed gracefully with the swing of his stride.
His face contorted in rage and one long step brought him close enough to grab her shoulders.
He gently gripped her shoulders and leaned forward.
His shoulders were broad, his chest wide, his stomach flat, his hips lean.
With some dread, she hunched her shoulders to keep anyone from looking at her micro and opened those from Mr. Tim.
His shoulders were wide, his back wide and tapering to a slender, lean stomach and hips.
She hesitated, recalling how bruised her shoulders already were from the harness in the helo.
With a deep breath, she hefted the heavy sack and pulled it over her shoulders.
Rhyn said and gripped both the angel's shoulders.
Gabe looked away and started walking again. Katie saw his shoulders hunch. When he didn't respond, she asked, "Has she tracked us down?"
He shook out his shoulders, trying to focus on whatever it was Kiki had been talking about.
Toby hunched his shoulders. He'd wandered far enough away from camp that he'd hoped to get some food before running from Ully, who was still sleeping.
Rhyn grunted as he pulled Kiki over his shoulders.
Rhyn stopped in place. He'd never thought he'd hear her voice again, and he couldn't remember the last time he'd heard anything that stopped his world in place. He turned to see Katie supporting Hannah as they entered the Sanctuary courtyard. Katie wore simple jeans and a t-shirt. Her dark curls cascaded down her shoulders, and her face glowed. Her bright eyes locked on his. She stopped too far away for his comfort, struggling to support her sister.
It hung to her shoulders and swayed when she walked.
Dean shrugged his shoulders and perused the reports, hoping the young man would take a hint and leave.
Dean simply shrugged his shoulders.
He got out of the car, put his arms around her shoulders and gave her a hug.
Her shoulders dropped as she sighed.
Grabbing her shoulders, he stared down at her.
His hands slid off her shoulders and down to her arms.
He lifted her arms to his shoulders and drew her close.
He put an arm around her shoulders and glanced down at her.
His gaze scanned her face in that familiar way and then he squeezed her shoulders.
It was like having a heavy load lifted from her shoulders.
His free arm circled her shoulders and his eyes twinkled with mischief.
He sighed again, gripping her shoulders, his gaze stern.
There Alex took the lead as they rode into rough country, his shoulders swaying with the movement of the horse.
His shoulders and hips formed a triangle that rippled with movement.
He sat down on the cot beside her and put an arm around her shoulders.
Even his fingertips felt soft and warm as they pushed the straps from her shoulders and fumbled with the buttons on the front of her dress.
Finally he lowered his arms and took a step toward her, grasping her shoulders.
His fingers brushed her shoulders in a light caress.
He lifted his shoulders.
Carmen lifted her shoulders in a noncommittal shrug.
She watched as he crossed the room to the door, his broad shoulders swaying gracefully with each step.
His hands left her face and slid down her shoulders and back in a gentle caress that ended on her waist.
Mums put an arm around her shoulders and led her to the table.
He gently drew her shoulders back until her back rested against his chest, and then he slipped his arms around her waist.
His shoulders were shaking.
His shoulders moved with a graceful swing that defied the quick step.
Finally he took a slow breath and let it out, his shoulders drooping as if under some great load.
It was as if she lifted a load from his shoulders.
He turned and trudged across the corral, his shoulders were slumped and his walk lacked its usual spring.
He gripped her shoulders and stepped back.
Alex and Carmen took a chair on either side of her and Alex put an arm around her shoulders.
Long, auburn hair was loose around her shoulders, and her face glowed.
Jenn obeyed and hefted Darian's shoulders as Damian took his ankles.
She stepped away from his warmth in the cold room, gaze sweeping over his broad shoulders and whiplike frame.
Damian planted his hands on her shoulders, and she looked up at him for a long moment, feeling sick for more than one reason.
I have a good head on my shoulders.
Her eyes went to his long fingers and roped forearms then upward to the thick biceps and wide shoulders.
I'll live with their deaths on my shoulders for the rest of my life.
She knelt and carefully lifted him over her shoulders in a fireman's carry.
When they reached the meat locker housing her mate, Darian planted both hands on her shoulders before she turned.
The delicate shape of her slender neck and shoulders drew his eye.
Long, dark hair hung loose and dripping around her shoulders.
His shoulders hunched instinctively as he felt the eyes of the guards atop the walls on him.
She remained facing the door, shoulders hunched.
The man before her gripped her shoulders again and shook her, and the fuzzy faces of the men from her guard came into focus.
Her shoulders hunched as she awaited the flurry of arrows that struck Sami.
He settled his hands on her shoulders.
His shoulders hunched protectively.
She wanted to melt against him, to let him help her shoulder the weight on her shoulders.
Her body remained submerged while her head and shoulders were free.
He squeezed her shoulders with one arm.
Maybe he thought the weather was too cool for bare shoulders and midriff.
Gerald took the shovel from her and put a comforting arm around her shoulders.
Alex removed his rain coat and put it around her shoulders.
Rob put an arm around her shoulders.
She put an arm around Carmen's shoulders and spoke in a soothing, completely calm voice.
She returned and sat on the window seat beside Carmen, putting an arm around her shoulders.
He sat down beside her and put a comforting arm around her shoulders.
He worked his way across the crowded room and knelt beside Alondra, putting a comforting arm around her shoulders.
He gripped her shoulders and pulled her back so he could look at her face.
She squared her shoulders.
He stopped abruptly and faced her, clutching her shoulders as he shook her slender frame.
She straightened shoulders that had unconsciously slumped.
He wrapped a towel around her shoulders and helped her get into her shoes.
At the cabin, she opened the car door and climbed out, clutching the towel around her shoulders.
He threw the towel across his broad shoulders and lowered himself to a bench beside the table.
At some point it had broken its bounds and now cascaded down her shoulders and back.
She slipped into a pair of white sandals and grabbed her purse, giving her long curls a toss to send them cascading down her back instead of tickling her shoulders.
He gripped her shoulders and gazed into her eyes.
A full head and shoulders taller than other kids his age, he had lost the ability to work with the rest of the street urchins.
One of Ashley's shoulders was bandaged, and her skin was pale.
Sloping shoulders, huge biceps, wide chest, lean abdomen … Now she understood rule number three and why it had the most exclamation points.
Thick shoulders and arms, chiseled chest and abs.
He was dressed in jeans and a casual button-down shirt that was snug across his shoulders and chest and loose over his abdomen.
His thick shoulders were wider than the back of the chair he sat in.
He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her against him, until her head was resting on one shoulder.
The arm around her shoulders dropped to drape loosely around her waist.
Jessi tried to sit up, but he held her in place by wrapping his other arm around her shoulders.
He was dressed from head to toe in black leather with a spiked collar, heavy boots, and his dark hair down around his shoulders.
Her eyes took in his broad shoulders, thick upper body and lean lower body.
He lifted it over his shoulders and snapped its body over his knee then flung the man-like creature aside.
He took Ashley by the shoulders and turned her to face him.
Jule had one of his arms, Darian the other, while Eden's hands were on his shoulders.
A specimen in the Zoological Gardens of London had the back and tail dark grey, the tail tipped with black, and a rufous wash on the cheeks, shoulders, flanks and outer surface of the limbs, with the under surface white.
Only his superb strategy and the heroic devotion of his lieutenants - notably the converted Jew, Jan Samuel Chrzanowski, who held the Ottoman army at bay for eleven days behind the walls of Trembowla - enabled the king to remove "the pagan yoke from our shoulders"; and he returned to be crowned at Cracow on the 14th of February 1676.
Hastings did not hesitate to take upon his own shoulders the whole responsibility of military affairs.
Personally, Ivan was tall and well-made, with high shoulders and a broad chest.
Their shoulders are lifted high above the tree-line.
At the age of puberty the lad was tattooed or scarred with gashes cut in back, shoulders, arms and chest, and the septum of the nose was pierced.
In ancient sculptures and coins he is represented as a young man, habited like a shepherd, and sometimes carrying a sheep on his shoulders.
Camden describes the wonder with which O'Neill's wild gallowglasses were seen in the English capital, with their heads bare, their long hair falling over their shoulders and clipped short in front above the eyes, and clothed in rough yellow shirts.
Apart from this, it is possible that the words have been written to shift from Solomon's shoulders the bloodshed incurred in establishing his throne.
If by the " old Political Economy " we mean the methods and conclusions of certain great writers, who stood head and shoulders above their contemporaries and determined the general character of economic science, we are still under no obligation to define the attitude of the present generation with regard to them.
In his violence, bound as he was, he tore his clothes into shreds, and his bare shoulders and breast were exposed to the gaze of the surging crowd.
Another form of almuce at this period covered the back, but was cut away at the shoulders so as to leave the arms free, while in front it was elongated into two stole-like ends.
The fingers of the clock had been pushed back; once more things were as they had been at the time of the First Crusade; once more the West must arm itself for the holy war and the recovery of Jerusalem - but now it must face a united Mahommedan world, where in 1096 it had found political and religious dissension, and it must attempt its vastly heavier task without the morning freshness of a new religious impulse, and with something of the weariness of a hundred years of struggle upon its shoulders.
Generally it is thrown over one or both shoulders, a turn given round the waist, and allowed to fall to the ankles.
The greater part of the animal is covered with long brown hair, thick, matted and curly on the shoulders, so as to give the appearance of a hump, but elsewhere straight and hanging down - that of the sides, back and haunches reaching as far as the middle of the legs and entirely concealing the very short tail.
At midnight all the first-born of the Egyptians are slain and Pharaoh sends the Israelites out of Egypt in haste, and the people took the dough before it was leavened upon kneading troughs upon their shoulders.
The name Atlas given to these mountains by Europeans - but never used by the native races - is derived from that of the mythical Greek god represented as carrying the globe on his shoulders, and applied to the high and distant mountains of the west, where Atlas was supposed to dwell.
At the conclusion the priest, his shoulders wrapped in the humeral veil, takes the monstrance and with it makes the sign of the cross over the kneeling congregation, whence the name Benediction.
The second group represents, first, the birth of Mithras; then the god nude, cutting fruit and leaves from a fig-tree in which is the bust of a deity, and before which one of the winds is blowing upon Mithras; the god discharging an arrow against a rock from which springs a fountain whose water a figure is kneeling to receive in his palms; the bull in a small boat, near which again occurs the figure of the animal under a roof about to be set on fire by two figures; the bull in flight, with Mithras in pursuit; Mithras bearing the bull on his shoulders; Helios kneeling before Mithras; Helios and Mithras clasping hands over an altar; Mithras with drawn bow on a running horse; Mithras and Helios banqueting; Mithras and Helios mounting the chariot of the latter and rising in full course over the ocean.
Some of them believed that the essential matter in the consecration of a bishop consisted in the placing the book of the gospels on his head and shoulders.
Egyptian women had a tight foldless tunic which exposed the breasts; it was generally kept up by means of braces over the shoulders.
A significant feature is the kind of cape which covers the shoulders; it would not and no doubt was not intended to leave play for the arms; it was the dress of the leisured classes, and a typical FIG.
In time this mantle covered both shoulders and assumed sleeves, and in one form or another it is frequently represented.
In course of time various plaids or mantles are assumed, and in Babylonia the goddesses were the first to have both shoulders covered.
It must suffice, therefore, to record the Pharaoh's simple girdle (with or without a tunic) from which hangs the lion's tail, or the tail-like band suspended from the extremity of his head-dress (above), or the panther or leopard skin worn over the shoulders by the high priest at Memphis, subsequently a ceremonial dress of men of rank.
The back and front were then pulled up over the shoulders and fastened together with brooches like safety-pins (irepovat).
The chiton, xcrcww, was formed by sewing together at the sides two pieces of linen, or a double piece folded together, leaving spaces at the top for the arms and neck, and fastening the top edges together over the shoulders and upper arm with buttons or brooches; more rarely we find a plain sleeveless chiton.
Youths, when engaged in horsemanship and other exercises, wore a chlamys round the shoulders, which, however, was semicircular in cut, and was fastened on the breast by buttons and a loop, or tied in a knot, whereas the Greek chlamys was oblong and fastened on the shoulder by a brooch.
His neck is short, his shoulders slope greatly, his body is thick-set and wanting in suppleness.
The general colour is blackish, with a more or less marked grey or brownish tinge on the hair of the shoulders, and sometimes of chestnut on the head.
In his prime Gladstone was just six feet high, but his inches diminished as his years increased, and in old age the unusual size of his head and breadth of his shoulders gave him a slightly top-heavy appearance.
The norimono resembled a miniature house slung by its roof-ridge from a massive pole which projected at either end sufficiently to admit the shoulders of a carrier.
It was an open palanquin, V-shaped in cross section, slung from a pole which rested on the shoulders of two bearers.
Early in 1764 Lord Grenville had informed the London agents of the American colonies that he proposed to lay a portion of the burden left by the war with France upon the shoulders of the colonists by means of a stamp duty, unless some other tax equally productive and less inconvenient were proposed.
From under the shoulders on each side springs a dense tuft of goldenorange plumes, about 2 ft.
Sometimes he was represented in his pastoral character, as when he bears a sheep on his shoulders; at other times he appears as the messenger or herald of the gods with the KfpvKEiov, or herald's staff, which is his most frequent attribute.
The princess was accordingly roused, and quickly came downstairs in a dressing-gown, her fair hair flowing loose over her shoulders.
Their distinctive external features are their large size, light-brown colour, high shoulders, massive heads of great breadth and shaggy coat.
He then appears as a vigorous youth, beardless, with curly hair, broad head and stalwart shoulders, with helmet and chlamys.
His flight on the shoulders of Aeneas is frequently represented on engraved gems of the Roman period; and his visit from Aphrodite is rendered in a beautiful bronze relief, engraved in Millingen's Unedited Gems.
Varenus Diphilus, a freedman, a magister herculaneus, were found in situ in 1883, and in 1902 two vases of statues erected by Diphilus, as inscriptions showed, in honour of his patron, and a bas-relief of bearded Hercules entirely draped in a long tunic with a lion's skin on his shoulders.
Though planetae decorated with narrow orphreys are occasionally met with in the monuments of the early centuries, these vestments were until the 10th century generally quite plain, and even at the close of this century, when the custom of decorating the chasuble with orphreys had become common, there was no definite rule as to their disposition; sometimes they were merely embroidered borders to the neck-opening or hem, sometimes a vertical strip down the back, less often a forked cross, the arms of which turned upwards over the shoulders.
The colour varies from white or grey to black, but is frequently fawn, with a dark line down the spine and another across the shoulders.
The rider sitting in the position described, square to the front, with his shoulders well back, will be riding with fairly long reins, one of the secrets of good hands.
The legend of the Omophorus and Splenditeneus, rival giants who sustain earth and luminous heavens on their respective shoulders, even if it already figures in the cuneiform texts of Assyria, is yet to be traced in Mithraic bas-reliefs.
Augustine, again, stood on the shoulders of Tertullian and Cyprian; and these three North Africans are the fathers of the Western churches.
The uniform is a complete suit of mail, with a helmet, from which leather curtains fall over the shoulders.
The particular persons whose virtue is to be transmitted lay their hands on the head or shoulders of the consecrand, e.g.
The shoulders are broad, the arms round; the legs are not well developed, the calf is especially small.
In our days when a knight is personally made he kneels before the sovereign, who lays a sword drawn, ordinarily the sword of state, on either of his shoulders and says, " Rise," calling him by his Christian name with the addition of " Sir " before it.
It is a rectangular piece of cloth which is wrapped round the neck, shoulders and breast.
As it is impossible to use an ordinary wheelbarrow in these narrow pathways, the workman carries a specially made wicker basket called a " hotte " on his shoulders by means of two straps.
Fox, Cross.-Size 20X7 in., are about as large as the silver and generally have a pale yellowish or orange tone with some silvery points and a darkish cross marking on the shoulders.
The whole burden of government weighed exclusively on the shoulders of the new king, a young man of seven and twenty.
The Mazurs are distinguished from the Poles by their lower stature, broad shoulders and massive frame, and still more by their national dress, which has nothing of the smartness of that of the southern Poles, and by their ancient customs; they have also a dialect of their own, containing many words now obsolete in Poland, and several grammatical forms bearing witness to Lithuanian influence.
But these gods have not on their shoulders the burden of upholding and governing the world, They are themselves the products of the order of nature - a higher species than humanity, but not the rulers of man, neither the makers nor the upholders of the world.
Then follows the bier, borne on the shoulders of friends, who are relieved by the passers-by, such an act being deemed highly meritorious.
But the most common feature of these holy days was the procession of the god, when he was carried on the shoulders of the priests in his divine boat far beyond the precincts of his temple; sometimes, indeed, even to another town, where he paid a visit to the god of the place.
The picture painted by Darer on this commission was the "Adoration of the Virgin," better known as the "Feast of Rose Garlands"; it was subsequently acquired by the emperor Rudolf II., and carried as a thing beyond price upon men's shoulders to Vienna; it now exists in a greatly injured state in the monastery of Strahow at Prague.
Sometimes women cover the shoulders, and on great occasions the men robe themselves in tape, bark-cloth.
Finding that events were going against his judgment, Morris, as was so often the case with him, shrugged his shoulders and broke free from the movement.
He had no teacher and no grammar; but Paulus Scriptoris carried him a huge codex of the prophets on his own shoulders all the way from Mainz.
As they led Him out they forced the cross, which the sufferer commonly carried, upon the shoulders of one Simon of Cyrene, whose sons Alexander and Rufus are here mentioned - probably as being known to St Mark's readers; at any rate, it is interesting to note that, in writing to the Christians at Rome, St Paul a few years earlier had sent a greeting to " Rufus and his mother."
In the end the rebellion, formidable as it seemed for a few months, was crushed, and a heavier yoke was laid on the shoulders of the unfortunate peasants.
The hair is shaved off from the forehead to the top of the head, the remainder at the sides being allowed to fall in large curls over the shoulders.
Neither zamindar nor village officer intervenes between the cultivator and the state, which takes directly upon its own shoulders all a landlord's responsibility.
The ends are frequently allowed to hang down over the shoulders, and are called shimla or shamla, terms which also apply to the whole head-dress.
Meman women wear also the aba, or overcoat, which differs from that worn by men in that it has loose half sleeves, and fastens with two buttons at each side of the neck over the shoulders; it is embroidered on the breast, and adorned with gold lace on the skirts.
It is worn across the shoulders, or wrapped round the body, but when bathing, round the loins.
From these internal dissensions Baldwin was now summoned to the north, to regulate anew the affairs of Antioch and also those of Tripoli, where the death of Count Raymund had thrown on his shoulders the cares of a second regency.
It seems to me, as if I saw already the blood between your turbans and your shoulders.
We stand upon his shoulders.
On the day of the funeral it was borne to the Campus Martius on the shoulders of senators and there burnt.
On his early death his mantle fell on to the shoulders of Ignatius Dellinger (1799-1890).
As the elements (his deities) entered into combinations, there appeared quaint results - heads without necks, arms without shoulders.
The ends of the char-kadd cover the shoulders, but the gauze pirahan is quite transparent.
With scarcely any neck, he had round shoulders, a broad face with a flat nose, a thin beard, and squinting eyes, which were generally downcast.
His white hair hung gracefully on his shoulders, and his whole figure was patriarchal."
The shoulders and fore-limbs are feebly developed, and the hind-limbs of disproportionate strength and magnitude, which give the animals a peculiarly awkward appearance when moving about on all-fours, as they occasionally do when feeding.
He is said to have had a vision, while he was at Amiens, of his wife, with her hair over her shoulders, bearing a dead child in her arms, on the very night that Mrs Donne, in London (or more probably in the Isle of Wight), was delivered of a still-born infant.
He looks too old for his years, but quite unbroken; the character of a veteran sage has fully imprinted itself on his countenance; the features are grand, clear and deeply lined, the mouth firmly set and almost stern, the eyes strong and intent beneath their bushy eyebrows, the hair flows untrimmed over his shoulders and commingles with a majestic beard.
In the 6th century, his statues of stone were naked, stiff and rigid in attitude, shoulders square, limbs strong and broad, hair falling down the back.
These rods pass through holes in the front and back plates of the box, and are furnished with spiral springs, which (when the rods are forced back by hand) are in compression between the back plate of the box and shoulders on the rods.
The rods are held in this position by detents which take hold of the shoulders of the rods, and are acted upon from the front end of the upper beam and the weights-pan end of the lower beam respectively, in order to release the rods at the proper times and reduce orcut off the flow of sugar from the hopper.
In past times Leicester blood was extensively employed in the improvement or establishment of other longwool breeds of sheep. The Leicester, as seen now, has a white wedge-shaped face, the forehead covered with wool; thin mobile ears; neck full towards the trunk, short and level with the back; width over the shoulders and through the heart; a full broad breast; fine clean legs standing well apart; deep round barrel and great depth of carcass; firm flesh, springy pelt, and pink skin, covered with fine, curly, lustrous wool.
It has a black face and legs, a big head with Roman nose, darkish ears set well back, and a broad level back (especially over the shoulders) nicely filled in with lean meat.
The wool is strong and coarse, standing up round the shoulders and down the breast like a mane.
It mattered little to Henry that the cardinal was arrogant, tactless and ostentatious; indeed it suited his purpose that Wolsey should be saddled by public opinion with all the blame that ought to have been laid on his own shoulders.
In the contested election of 1159, for instance, though a majority of the cardinals had elected Cardinal Roland (Alexander III.), the defeated candidate Cardinal Octavian (Victor IV.), while his rival was modestly hesitating to accept the honour, seized the pluviale and put it on his own shoulders hastily, upside down; and it was on this ground that the council of Pavia in r 160 based their declaration in favour of Victor, and anathematized Alexander.
The Spanish mantilla is a covering for the head and shoulders of white or black lace or other material, the characteristic head-dress of women in southern and central Spain.
So light and portable are these boats that they can easily be carried on the fisherman's shoulders when proceeding to and from his work.