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
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
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
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
