straight from shoulder
Example Sentences
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She’s short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron- gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
When his right arm rises, all the force in his veins flows straight from shoulder to finger-tips; not an ounce is diverted into sudden impulses, sentimental regrets, wire-drawn distinctions.
From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Six feet three he was, straight from shoulder to hip, broad-chested and singularly well formed and graceful for such a big man.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
Legs.—Fore set straight from shoulder, with plenty of bone and muscle; hindlegs very muscular and well bent, with the hocks well let down.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams
LEGS—Fore-legs set straight from shoulder, with plenty of bone and muscle.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
