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McCoy passed the benediction of his gaze over the tall, heavy-shouldered man with the haggard, unshaven face who had joined the captain.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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The tall, heavy-shouldered man broke out in a harsh laugh that was partly amusement, but mostly hysterical.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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(First published in Ainslee's Magazine, Jan, 1902) "Thus will I give six blankets, warm and double; six files, large and hard; six Hudson Bay knives, keen-edged and long; two canoes, the work of Mogum, The Maker of Things; ten dogs, heavy-shouldered and strong in the harness; and three guns — the trigger of one be broken, but it is a good gun and can doubtless be mended."
KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010
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The charr attacked the wall, their heavy-shouldered feline troops striding across the screen from the left.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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The charr attacked the wall, their heavy-shouldered feline troops striding across the screen from the left.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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The charr attacked the wall, their heavy-shouldered feline troops striding across the screen from the left.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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The charr attacked the wall, their heavy-shouldered feline troops striding across the screen from the left.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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Ordinary Russians, watching heavy-shouldered guys hand bricks of dollars around the lobbies of Moscow's hotels, can be forgiven for being more blunt.
Corruption 2008
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Stevens was fifty-two years old, powerfully built, heavy-shouldered, five foot ten, with black hair and black mustache and a hard, weather-beaten, handsome face.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Stevens was fifty-two years old, powerfully built, heavy-shouldered, five foot ten, with black hair and black mustache and a hard, weather-beaten, handsome face.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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