Four big Macedonians carried his litter shoulder-high. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
A shoulder-high cupboard was fixed against the one wall. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6 - We Meet the Comrades] Reference
She looked over the shoulder-high wall, brick, of course. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
They were caught up shoulder-high and carried by the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Part in a Revolution] Reference
Past a shoulder-high stack of sawn logs, contrastingly neat. From Wordnik.com. [Twice shy]
When I was a boy, the grass here was shoulder-high on my mount. From Wordnik.com. [Darksong Rising]
'In some sections the nettles and brambles were shoulder-high.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Jigsaw Man]
And the reeking, sulfurous steam hissed in great shoulder-high plumes. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
Uther was swept from his feet and carried shoulder-high back to the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
I suppose when the tide's in, all these coves are shoulder-high in water. From Wordnik.com. [Five Go Down To The Sea]
He lifted the boots off the shoulder-high shelf and turned back to Cerryl. From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
The car, a black Chrysler, was parked behind a clump of shoulder-high grass. From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
The little kitchen was spotless, tiled shoulder-high, and painted blue above. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Sparrow was small, and the big dog, even crouched, stood shoulder-high to her. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
They had found a second chair, and tossed me into it, lifting it shoulder-high. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
She rose under her own volition, rose in my fist until I held her shoulder-high. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
Hawaikan product, was housed in long pods which dipped from shoulder-high bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
He was no more than shoulder-high to Hovan, and so slender he seemed almost frail. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference
High corniced ceilings, wainscoted walls, and shoulder-high chimney-pieces abound. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Each electronic terminal was its own little booth, with shoulder-high privacy walls. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary]
A gold wash of land flecked with the green of shoulder-high scrub slides past my windows. From Wordnik.com. [So Much Silence, So Much Space] Reference
An inn still stood in the square, the common room divided in two by a shoulder-high wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
There was a shoulder-high wooden fence across the entrance now, to keep sensation seekers out. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
Mr Mandela, other ANC leaders and many in the crowd hoisted shoulder-high clenched fist salutes. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The shoulder-high mud walls which ran around the weed-covered yard had collapsed in several places. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
Drawing still nearer, he prepares to crawl up; his hand touches the top; it is less than shoulder-high. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Two upright chairs flanked the shoulder-high chest of drawers, but they were narrow, hardly comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Jaric was startled by his size, for the Lord of Shadowfane rose no more than shoulder-high to a grown man. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
Boxmakers of Mauchline, with large Scotch Thistle, carried shoulder-high by Four men, and Banner, inscribed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
With breaking backs they heaved some shoulder-high into waggons; others they laid on mattresses on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
The briefest of moments saw her once more on her feet, struggling, fighting her way through shoulder-high bracken. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
On either side of that wall were cell-like divisions, all having partitions about shoulder-high and each like a room. From Wordnik.com. [Sorceress of the Witch World]
A tall and angular woman in the green usually worn by the recorders stood beside a black wooden chest, shoulder-high. From Wordnik.com. [Cadmian's Choice]
If the fugitives reached the corn fields, where the rows of stalks were shoulder-high, the riders would never catch them. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Beside him stands a shoulder-high stack of South China Morning Post newspapers; the headlines blare: TUNG 'WILL STAND DOWN EARLY.'. From Wordnik.com. [Taiwan: The Last Tycoon?] Reference
There was a three-sided corral made of head-high brick walls shielding a shoulder-high plastic garbage receptacle from public view. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
He went through the air like a panther, hit Ahmed shoulder-high, and in the same breath wrenched the scimitar out of his right hand. From Wordnik.com. [Death Stalks The Ruins]
He shook his head sadly and turned, brushing through the shoulder-high grass so quietly that he sounded like the faintest of breezes. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
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