All were armed with wooden bows strung with silver strands and all shouldered a quiver full of golden arrows. |
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Wool-bearing merinos shouldered aside the Khoikhoi fat-tailed varieties adopted by the early trekboer colonists. |
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The big beasts have irrevocably shouldered the burden of architectural eminence. |
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He pushed his chair back in and shouldered his bag once more as he placed his dirty dishes in the sink. |
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I hurried back to my room, shouldered my knapsack, and hesitated over my suitcase before deciding to leave it. |
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As it has turned out, the more appropriate implement to have been shouldered that day would have been shovels. |
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His weapons, having previously been shouldered, were now outstretched to point at Lazarus. |
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The scout shouldered his Necrorifle, ducked behind a bush and handed his field ocular to his commanding officer. |
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In the shadows of stumps Jason Gillespie added his second delicious off-cutter to remove his second batsman of the day to shouldered arms. |
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In recent times Whitsun has been somewhat been shouldered aside by the secular Spring Bank Holiday. |
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They shouldered baskets of vegetables and dried fruits which they had brought to change for salt and candies. |
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The paying jobs have shouldered their way to the head of the queue, and I'd best give them their due. |
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We shouldered our backpacks and set out up a steep hill in the direction of some thick green woods. |
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Donny and Trevor shouldered their way past me with manic grins on their faces. |
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Victor nodded thoughtfully, face impassive, then shouldered his tote bag and bade me goodnight. |
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If costs are shouldered and technical difficulties have been ironed out by these, ID cards will have a much smaller hill to climb in cabinet. |
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The leader of the group shouldered a much larger gun than the others and fired it into the trees hoping for a lucky shot. |
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When their preparations were complete, they shouldered their back-bags, slung their rifles and set out. |
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The risk of error is unacceptably high, and disproportionately shouldered by certain groups. |
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That big task is being enthusiastically shouldered by Nader-Camejo campaigners across the country. |
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The work of protection cannot be shouldered by individuals or local governments alone. |
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In terms of the money we pay to AIDS victims, we taxpayers must understand that this is a cost to be shouldered by the whole of society. |
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He held posts in London and Leeds before moving to Harrogate where he shouldered a heavy clinical load and provided an excellent service. |
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As a result, working women often shouldered double burdens as they juggled work and home responsibilities. |
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Like most failures to master our culture's pitfalls, this one is shouldered by the individual. |
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Others before him have shouldered the burden of responsibility at a young age. |
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This leads to worries about government mismanagement causing losses that will eventually be shouldered by the entire populace. |
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Last year, he shouldered David Coulthard aside so comprehensively that the Scot's enduring relationship with McLaren suddenly dwindled. |
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I walked past him calmly, but when I was at his side, I used all the force I could and shouldered him forcefully. |
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Nevertheless, on his way to escort them out of the club, one of the security personnel shouldered me aside and trod heavily on my foot. |
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Then he came back out and shouldered past Pearson so he could go in and clean himself up properly. |
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They shouldered past him and began searching through the inn, looking everywhere that a person could possibly hide. |
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Their friend shouldered past the entering woman, earning him a huffed comment he completely ignored. |
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She gave me a most unfriendly stare, shouldered past me and stomped off to inspect the works. |
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As the Oto and Missouria delegations approached, the soldiers came to attention, shouldered arms, dressed right and passed in review. |
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Sonia quickly shouldered the enormous trunk and climbed up to the deck, hiking her skirts and petticoats out of the way. |
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The cost is 5 per night per person but the school has shouldered the bulk of the costs. |
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Are we less than the men who left safe harbors and shouldered through cold oceans? |
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They shouldered responsibility, faith and idealism along with muskets, carbines and courage. |
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She gave a description of the robber which described him as being broad shouldered and stocky, which the appellant was not. |
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He said he was stocky, not too tall, very broad shouldered and middle-aged. |
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He shouldered past the young men who never had a chance to claim the greatest prize. |
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The seventh member of the chorus, a wide shouldered, mannish, strong woman with steel gray eyes, took her place. |
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Among raptors were two dark phase Booted eagles, Marsh harriers, Black shouldered kites, female shikra, and brahminy kite. |
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They paled and backed away quickly, and he shouldered past them. |
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He reached down to pick up his son, but Hoss shouldered him aside. |
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I shouldered past a junior officer and swung my lower body out the window. |
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Shane shouldered his bulky gym-bag and turned to his friends. |
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Dustin shouldered past Zackary and led Danielle to her class. |
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Gilt threads glittered in the weave of pennants and tapestries and high overhead a gold-trimmed groin vault shouldered off the arches of a marble ceiling. |
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I waited in a stiff chair while Orson went through the rail and sat down alongside a thick shouldered erubescent man with a pince-nez on a black ribbon, and an erubescent bald head. |
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To get away from them, he shouldered past Clark into the bedroom. |
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McCoist has already shouldered a fair share of criticism for Rangers' squandering of a league advantage to Celtic. |
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In the past, employers made a retirement promise to their workers and shouldered the risk that investment returns might not meet it. |
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On route marches, when my turn came to carry the platoon's 10kg Bren gun someone shouldered it for me. |
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She shouldered a full waterskin, and a bundle of wrapped dried meat and flour, and stepped into the footsteps of the men who had violated her and murdered her lover. |
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I become really fed up with it all and find myself thinking that the responsibility must be shouldered by us all together. |
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From a decentralization standpoint, these responsibilities should essentially be shouldered by local and regional governments. |
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I watched incredulously as two guys shouldered her out of the way. |
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The burden of a lost war was shouldered by the men and women of the National Assembly. |
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Once again Brecht's eyes surveyed the grounds before they settled on a broad shouldered brute of a man who was already striding confidently toward him. |
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She arched an eyebrow, then shouldered past him to smile at Red. |
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The Reds nudged and shouldered at the lead, putting their first batter aboard in the third, fourth, and fifth innings but never quite bringing him around. |
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Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion. |
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She had parted with her jeans and t-shirt ensemble and had been fitted with a slim wrap-around, just-about-the-knee, blue swirly skirt and a matching, single shouldered shirt. |
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The EU has shouldered its full share the burden of the South East Asian crisis and economic difficulties in the CIS countries. |
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As we shouldered our daypacks, the sun broke through a thin haze of clouds, and melting snow soon revealed a patchwork of meadow and forest lying in gentle folds before us. |
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In response, Salaberry stood on a tree trunk, shouldered the musket of one of his Voltigeurs and put an end to his speech! |
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As her jockstrap of a partner, Kieran Bew is loathsomely believable, a bloke-streak, long jawed, rolling shouldered, gloomily strong. |
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The south wall of the chancel has three Decorated windows with reticulated tracery and a Decorated double piscina in a recess with a shouldered arch. |
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One should also add a part of the costs shouldered by the postwar generations in the form of diverse long-term adverse effects of wartime overstrain. |
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Too often, immigration is perceived as a burden to be shouldered rather than an opportunity to be seized. |
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He wasn't conventionally rugged, or square shouldered, or full of muscles. |
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And, by granting legitimacy to the inspections, a flawed regime might have been worse than no regime at all. Naturally, America has shouldered all the blame for rejecting the protocol, but there is plenty more to go round. |
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The Council can be proud that it has shouldered its responsibility by helping Lebanon to overcome the obstacles that it was facing and to proceed along the path to recovering its independence and its sovereignty. |
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Rising expenditure on, notably, public pensions and health care, will have to be shouldered mainly by a shrinking share of the working age population. |
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Our government has shouldered its responsibilities, as usual. |
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It is a responsibility to be shouldered by all Member States. |
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Everything came to a grinding halt because of this red shouldered hawk. |
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We may well ask why he shouldered his philosophy with such heavy baggage that made it inaccessible to the mathematically untrained, an inaccessibility that largely persists to this day and age. |
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It has been the task of Canadian Alliance MPs, and they have shouldered this task in an admirable way, to slog their way through that red book of promises and find out just how mendacious they are. |
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Iran has shouldered this burden almost single-handed. |
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Indeed, Iran has shouldered the burden almost single-handedly thus far. |
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The group would be right with him, the drummer and guitarist setting the base rhythm as Fela installed himself at his Hammond organ, shouldered by the horns before launching into his wild fevered rhythms. |
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Those responsibilities are also shouldered in part by international and non-governmental organizations, but not by indigenous peoples, who are not taken into consideration in any way. |
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Developing countries believe the rich countries have not shouldered a fair share of the burden and should lead by example, in terms of cutting emissions and also providing financial support to poorer nations. |
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An ever increasing number of studies state that there are going to be very considerable problems and these are being shouldered by the weakest parties: the consumer and the retail trade. |
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Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall. |
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The oversized ambidextrous charging handle allows for thousands of charges even while shouldered. |
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And, shouldered with just a mandatory 5lb penalty, Always The Groom looks the banket bet on this modest six-race card. |
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And much of what could be a humongous tab will be shouldered by taxpayers. |
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I shouldered my Mountie and as I levered my action I saw the cottontail tumble before me. |
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Scientists knew that the funguslike microbe Phytophthora infestans causes potato blight, and for years a lineage called US-1 shouldered the blame. |
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He joined FAO in 1986 and shouldered several responsibilities, the last being Senior Operations Officer for the New World Screwworm Eradication Program. |
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Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums. |
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