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Voicing the pleasures of high living is a duck in full zoot regalia—the high-waisted pants ballooning at the knee and tapered to an ankle-choking peg; the wide-shouldered jacket swooping down to fingertip-length; the pavement-skimming watch chain; and the wide-brimmed hat with a long, angled feather.
Hep Cats, Street Fights Eric Felten 2011
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At well over six feet, he towered above the crowd, wide-shouldered, thick-chested, with an untrimmed tangled mass of black hair obscuring the lower half of his large pockmarked face, his bowler hat pulled low, the brim resting just above his bushy eyebrows.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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The bearded man was wide-shouldered and wide-necked, the deck chair barely able to hold his girth.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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But Toshis wide-shouldered frame was headed straight at them, shoving his way between a leopard-pelted surge-monkey and a bunch of manga-heads.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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I saw his huge dark eyes as he sat on the cross alongside Jesus in all of his wide-shouldered, regal beauty.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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I saw his huge dark eyes as he sat on the cross alongside Jesus in all of his wide-shouldered, regal beauty.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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Snippets of conversation danced around me as I wedged my way between wide-shouldered men and women.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Make Your Manuscript Less Bathetic 2008
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I saw his huge dark eyes as he sat on the cross alongside Jesus in all of his wide-shouldered, regal beauty.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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At well over six feet, he towered above the crowd, wide-shouldered, thick-chested, with an untrimmed tangled mass of black hair obscuring the lower half of his large pockmarked face, his bowler hat pulled low, the brim resting just above his bushy eyebrows.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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Had short, clean hair, a wide-shouldered, muscular physique, and a freshly pressed blue suit.
Veracity LAURA BYNUM 2010
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