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  • Still when I was a freshman in college and rode my bike to the big roll damn in downtown South Bend, I was absolutely entranced by the broadshouldered bullets throwing themselves at the white wall of water.

    Great Lakers Not Steelhead? Tim Romano 2007

  • He was a broadshouldered loose – limbed swarthy fellow of great strength, never in a hurry, and always slouching.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • The figure seated on a large boulder at the foot of a round tower was that of a broadshouldered deepchested stronglimbed frankeyed redhaired freelyfreckled shaggybearded widemouthed largenosed longheaded deepvoiced barekneed brawnyhanded hairylegged ruddyfaced sinewyarmed hero.

    Ulysses 2003

  • This was a gentleman of about thirty, tall, broadshouldered, and red-haired; his face was red, too, and he possessed a pair of thick lips, a wide nose, small eyes, rather bloodshot, and with an ironical expression in them; as though he were perpetually winking at someone.

    The Idiot 2002

  • He had a thick bull neck, was broadshouldered with long, muscular arms and a small pouch of a stomach.

    Honey V.C. Andrews 2001

  • Scene A broadshouldered room containing hugh fireplace facing a large big windy, a giant-size desk is covered in all type of many business paper and great disorder to look on.

    In His Own Write John Lennon 2000

  • He was a broadshouldered man, slightly shorter than Derec, with a thick mane of nearly-white hair.

    Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000

  • All she saw were more strangers, broadshouldered men like Lucas.

    Pirates Linda Miller 1995

  • Mek Nimmur was broadshouldered, with a heavily muscled back and hard, tight buttocks.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • Mostly, though, I noticed that the two broadshouldered predators previously assumed to be part of the Queen's escort, had suddenly materalized at his side, towering over him like a pair of bookends ... mean looking bookends.

    Hit Or Myth Asprin, Robert 1983

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