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All were armed with wooden bows strung with silver strands and all shouldered a quiver full of golden arrows.
Wool-bearing merinos shouldered aside the Khoikhoi fat-tailed varieties adopted by the early trekboer colonists.
The big beasts have irrevocably shouldered the burden of architectural eminence.
He pushed his chair back in and shouldered his bag once more as he placed his dirty dishes in the sink.
I hurried back to my room, shouldered my knapsack, and hesitated over my suitcase before deciding to leave it.
As it has turned out, the more appropriate implement to have been shouldered that day would have been shovels.
His weapons, having previously been shouldered, were now outstretched to point at Lazarus.
The scout shouldered his Necrorifle, ducked behind a bush and handed his field ocular to his commanding officer.
In the shadows of stumps Jason Gillespie added his second delicious off-cutter to remove his second batsman of the day to shouldered arms.
In recent times Whitsun has been somewhat been shouldered aside by the secular Spring Bank Holiday.
They shouldered baskets of vegetables and dried fruits which they had brought to change for salt and candies.
The paying jobs have shouldered their way to the head of the queue, and I'd best give them their due.
We shouldered our backpacks and set out up a steep hill in the direction of some thick green woods.
Donny and Trevor shouldered their way past me with manic grins on their faces.
Victor nodded thoughtfully, face impassive, then shouldered his tote bag and bade me goodnight.
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.
The leader of the group shouldered a much larger gun than the others and fired it into the trees hoping for a lucky shot.
When their preparations were complete, they shouldered their back-bags, slung their rifles and set out.
The risk of error is unacceptably high, and disproportionately shouldered by certain groups.
That big task is being enthusiastically shouldered by Nader-Camejo campaigners across the country.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An hour later, a big broad shouldered Irishman who proved to be the pumper, came ambling along on a railroad velocipede.
He began to pace wildly to and fro, he shouldered his spade, he gesticulated with his other arm.
Slade shouldered past the half-bound Carmena and came to stare gloatingly down at Lennon.
He satisfied them severally and shouldered them away, begging for peace that night.
Fink, who was the veteran bill poster of the town, was as round shouldered as a hod carrier.
Dragging the skiff well above high-water mark, I stacked my stuff in it, shouldered my packsack and climbed the levee.
The amah shouldered the steaming buckets and splashed across the bare boards of the ancestral hall beyond.
As man shouted to man, each shouldered his peavy and came running ashore, eager question on his lips.
He was a big fellow, broad shouldered and tall, overtopping the chief by several inches, though the latter was not short.
He reflected that mort had shouldered him aside and won her favor, then boasted of it.
He was great and fierce, somewhat spare in frame, but wide shouldered and shallow flanked.
Nishikanta bellicosely shouldered his vast bulk up to the captain, opened his shirt, and exposed his revolver.
So I shouldered my firelock and went and offered my services.
The third man snorted as he shouldered a keg and moved toward the Wagon.
Twice he was heaved, kicked, and shouldered back again into the unpaintable inferno of a hotly contested charge.
The boy shouldered the carpetbag and started in advance, Robert following.
With hands still up, he shouldered and bodied Duane out of the room.
With that, Jo shouldered her broom and marched into the house, wondering what they would all say to her.
Seesaw was pale, flaxen haired, blue eyed, round shouldered, and given to stammering when nervous.
The law clerk shouldered the trunk and marched from the room.
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