"The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders."
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"Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead."
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"…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered."
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"When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders."
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"Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders."
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"Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders."
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"When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip."
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"you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you."
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"You can't carry the world on yer shoulders, broad as they are."
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"I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then."
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"And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one."
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