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Still when I was a freshman in college and rode my bike to the big roll damn in downtown South Bend, I was absolutely entranced by the broadshouldered bullets throwing themselves at the white wall of water.
Great Lakers Not Steelhead? Tim Romano 2007
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He was a broadshouldered loose – limbed swarthy fellow of great strength, never in a hurry, and always slouching.
Great Expectations 2007
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The figure seated on a large boulder at the foot of a round tower was that of a broadshouldered deepchested stronglimbed frankeyed redhaired freelyfreckled shaggybearded widemouthed largenosed longheaded deepvoiced barekneed brawnyhanded hairylegged ruddyfaced sinewyarmed hero.
Ulysses 2003
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This was a gentleman of about thirty, tall, broadshouldered, and red-haired; his face was red, too, and he possessed a pair of thick lips, a wide nose, small eyes, rather bloodshot, and with an ironical expression in them; as though he were perpetually winking at someone.
The Idiot 2002
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He had a thick bull neck, was broadshouldered with long, muscular arms and a small pouch of a stomach.
Honey V.C. Andrews 2001
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Scene A broadshouldered room containing hugh fireplace facing a large big windy, a giant-size desk is covered in all type of many business paper and great disorder to look on.
In His Own Write John Lennon 2000
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He was a broadshouldered man, slightly shorter than Derec, with a thick mane of nearly-white hair.
Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000
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All she saw were more strangers, broadshouldered men like Lucas.
Pirates Linda Miller 1995
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Mek Nimmur was broadshouldered, with a heavily muscled back and hard, tight buttocks.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Mostly, though, I noticed that the two broadshouldered predators previously assumed to be part of the Queen's escort, had suddenly materalized at his side, towering over him like a pair of bookends ... mean looking bookends.
Hit Or Myth Asprin, Robert 1983
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