They seemed very broad-shouldered when I wrote them.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Gray, Beyond 'Babylon'] Reference

On one side a broad-shouldered official sat at a table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

A tall, broad-shouldered figure broke through the circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

He's a broad-shouldered 80-year-old married to his fifth wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Flowers And Fathers] Reference

The man was bronzed, broad-shouldered, his hair wavy and blond.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Could Be Anything] Reference

The general is tall and broad-shouldered, and as agile as a boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

Tall and broad-shouldered, he was every inch a man in appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

He was of very powerful physique, broad-shouldered and bull necked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

He was long past fifty -- spare, broad-shouldered and hard as a log of oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

'He was tall, broad-shouldered, with face and figure of somewhat loose formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

Kensington was tall and broad-shouldered, clad in dark-blue tunic and baggy trousers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference

He watched the huge, broad-shouldered figure moving down the hallway toward the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Door] Reference

His hand went half-way to his revolver, but a broad-shouldered rancher caught his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

The man was apparently about forty years old, not tall, but broad-shouldered and strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference

"I'm a tough boss," the broad-shouldered Clevelander is shown saying in a 1990 interview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shining New Light On Steinbrenners] Reference

He was a broad-shouldered man with a square brown face and a mustache cut straight across.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

In spite of being short, he was broad-shouldered and compact in plain gray evening pajamas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Security] Reference

Charles was broad-shouldered and sat erect; Louis was slender of frame and slightly stooped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

Khalil is a clean-shaven, broad-shouldered young Afghan who wears a gold ring in one earlobe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Chic Comes to London] Reference

He could stand it better than most men, for he was a broad-shouldered and powerfully built man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference

A broad-shouldered man with side whiskers, who was writing at a desk, looked up as they entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

He was a tall, broad-shouldered man with a rather grim, weather-beaten face and shrewd blue eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

Dirk was a great broad-shouldered, slouching fellow, with a general air of shiftlessness about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

He is still young, tall, broad-shouldered, and his constabulary uniform seems almost too tight for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

He was big and broad-shouldered, and he wore a plain white robe, ragged and gray with dirt, and sandals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

He could see the tall, broad-shouldered man wearing a blood-red cloak and the helmet with the gilded crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

He was a tall, deep-chested, broad-shouldered man, having a light complexion, dark moustache, hair and eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference

There was an Englishman, broad-shouldered, ruddy, and iron-grey, with bushy eyebrows and blue eyes and a square chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

He was a broad-shouldered man, inclining to be portly, and he was currently accepted as a man of an indomitable will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

He was signing the registration book, a tall, broad-shouldered man in a marsuit, holding his marshelmet under his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference

He was a splendid-looking young fellow, tall, broad-shouldered, and somewhat bony, with a voice that rang frank and true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

And one day the little laddie who had once been carried about in the arms of a slave mother, was a big broad-shouldered man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference

'That is indeed a woman's speech,' said a voice behind her, and a tall broad-shouldered man laid his hand gently on her shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

He was tall and broad-shouldered now, an admirable fulfilment of the physical promise of his boyhood, and far overtopped Mrs. Rusker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

A broad-shouldered, well-built young man walked into the room and kissed the old lady right in the mouth, before she could say a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference

Lights flared on the deep porch, and the old-fashioned iris door dilated to frame the black silhouette of a stocky, broad-shouldered man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference