I remember those girls merely as faces in the schoolroom, gay and rosy, or listless and dull, cut off below the shoulders, like cherubs, by the ink-smeared tops of the high desks that were surely put there to make us
round-shouldered and hollow-chested.
The short,
round-shouldered Captain Tushin, stumbling over the tail of the gun carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out shading his eyes with his small hand.
He was a man of about forty-two years of age, of large build, but slightly
round-shouldered. His massive head momentarily shook a shock of reddish hair, which resembled a lion's mane.
Sergey Ivanovitch read the act and began to explain its meaning, but at that point a tall, stout,
round-shouldered landowner, with dyed whiskers, in a tight uniform that cut the back of his neck, interrupted him.
And they stood on the rail of the ship, like
round-shouldered soldiers all in a row, stern and still and stiff; while their great, gleaming, black eyes shot darting glances here and there and everywhere.
The big,
round-shouldered sand-dunes were the sleeping giants of some old northern tale.
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden--what a sorry, set of
round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
Archer had been born a Newland, and mother and daughter, who were as like as sisters, were both, as people said, "true Newlands"; tall, pale, and slightly
round-shouldered, with long noses, sweet smiles and a kind of drooping distinction like that in certain faded Reynolds portraits.
The man listened
round-shouldered, but seeming much too stupid to understand.
This resulted in the funniest goal ever seen at the Gallowgate end, as the ball hit the post, bounced upwards and hit the falling Vic on his back (he was
round-shouldered) and the ball rocketed into the net.