fore-shoulders

And I confess that this desire was increased as I looked at the dead body of poor Dennis, lying limply across the fore-shoulders of Rayburn's horse.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

But his fore-shoulders, mounting to an enormous hump, were of an elephantine massiveness, and clothed in a dense, curling, golden-brown growth of matted hair.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

The moose was like the buffalo in having his hind-quarters relatively slight and low, and his back sloping upwards to a hump over the immensely developed fore-shoulders.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

Little short of twelve feet in length, a good five foot ten in height at the tip of his humped and huge fore-shoulders, he seemed to justify the most extravagant tales of pioneer and huntsman.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

Little short of twelve feet in length, a good five foot ten in height at the tip of his humped and huge fore-shoulders, he seemed to justify the most extravagant tales of pioneer and huntsman.

Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The maned and hump-like ridge of his mighty fore-shoulders stood a good six feet three from the ground; and the spread of his polished, palmated antlers, so massive as to look a burden for even so colossal a head and neck as his, was well beyond five feet.

The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The moose was like the buffalo in having his hind-quarters relatively slight and low, and his back sloping upwards to a hump over the immensely developed fore-shoulders.

Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

But his fore-shoulders, mounting to an enormous hump, were of an elephantine massiveness, and clothed in a dense, curling, golden-brown growth of matted hair.

Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The Stag is larger than the Deer – nearly seven feet in length, and about four feet eight inches in height to the fore-shoulders.

Rural Hours 1887

Before a second had passed, he launched his body high into the air, and descended upon the back of the crocodile just over his fore-shoulders!

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850