He's a barrel-chested horn player without the horn. From Wordnik.com. [New Faces Of 1996] Reference
Mark and Tony resembled their barrel-chested father. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
A barrel-chested man entered as the receptionist left. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
Larger than barrel-chested huskies, taller than wolfhounds. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
Swan was as wide as ever, barrel-chested, thicker in the gut. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
“I did the stitching,” said the barrel-chested barbarian. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
He was kind of barrel-chested, but the voice was extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2002] Reference
He was about six feet tall, broad-shouldered and barrel-chested. From Wordnik.com. [Till Hell Freezes Over]
The chieftain here was a barrel-chested graybeard named Takshaki. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
The other was a short, barrel-chested guy in a blue shirt and tan suit. From Wordnik.com. [Lifeguard]
Along with some barrel-chested figure, but she didn't think he mattered. From Wordnik.com. [The Lunatic Fringe]
"Well now," murmured a barrel-chested individual with a Manchu mustache. From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
Dolly Phillips, the elementary school's barrel-chested assistant principal. From Wordnik.com. [My Hairy Thumbnail] Reference
Some, like Evan, were grotesquely barrel-chested, with or without the hump. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
He was a big, barrel-chested man with thinning red hair and a ruddy complexion. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Care]
He was large, barrel-chested and thick-armed even now, from a lifetime of work. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Victim]
In a barrel-chested voice, he called roll before taps: "Pfc. Shipway!" he said. From Wordnik.com. [Slaughter Of The Innocents] Reference
The man Vollin, barrel-chested and bald, surged to his feet, along with his men. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
"Kenneth Link, the barrel-chested gentleman speaking with William Wilson," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
At the age of 50, the bearded, barrel-chested Hank Williams Jr. is worldly and strong. From Wordnik.com. [Ali Farka Toure Disciple Makes a Great Debut] Reference
Distorted, humpbacked and barrel-chested, it scuttled on reed-thin legs to Goat's side. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
He was a tall, barrel-chested man and he was drinking the wine as if it were grape juice. From Wordnik.com. [Naked] Reference
Odysseus, barrel-chested, loud, and angry, attacked each day as if it were a mortal enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
Harman laughed before he realized that the barrel-chested man in the pale tunic was not joking. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
He was a large barrel-chested man in his mid-sixties, with a booming voice and bright blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Lawman]
“Taliriktug,” said Tikerqat slowly, pushing forward the barrel-chested young man next to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
And along the walls stood at least fi ve barrel-chested men in tuxedos, hands behind their backs. From Wordnik.com. [Lifeguard]
I picture him a bit like my grandpa, actually: Tall, barrel-chested, with thick fingers like, um, sausages. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Morrison: The Sausage Maker and His Books] Reference
The men were typically Brown and barrel-chested with black mustaches, stubby calloused hands and gold teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Bruno Sanz: The Gates Affair: Why We Care] Reference
A barrel-chested career NCO, he spent every waking moment planning his escape and shouting epithets at the guards. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
A big barrel-chested unamiable brute, he had once been described by Frank as half German shepherd and half gorilla. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
A gift from the magazine gods, Swift was a blue-eyed, barrel-chested Navy officer who spoke not in sentences but in stories. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Mahler: Salim Hamdan's Tribunal and the Strength of the Constitution] Reference
The man she let into her office was barrel-chested with skinny legs that seemed ridiculously spindly beneath such a large bulk. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
He had always been a large man, a gentle giant, barrel-chested and barrel-waisted; but of late, the waist had been outdoing the chest!. From Wordnik.com. [Ascendance]
Where Layne was clean-cut and athletic, Lennox was all bulk, with sloping shoulders of tremendous power, barrel-chested, thick-waisted. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
The barrel-chested Mr. Raja, the former rebel leader, says he hopes to put to use his new plumbing skills to get a job outside the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lanka Begins Painful Reconciliation] Reference
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