32 collocations for shrugging

To this class I was more communicative; and when I severally informed them that I had actually been to the Moon, some of them shrugged their shoulders, others laughed in my face, and some were angry at my supposed attempt to deceive them; but all, with a single exception, were incredulous.

"It's quite useless," shrugged the prisoner with careless arrogance, "I will have nothing to do with Maître Curé.

" Basilio shrugged his shouldershe had no papers, nothing more than his clinical notes.

" A little chilly shiver ran through Hervey but he managed to shrug the feeling awaythe feeling that someone was standing behind him, listening, and looking into his shameful soul.

The negro shrugged away such thoughts, and with a certain effort replaced them with the constructive idea that was bringing him South once more.

She shrugged away his hand without ill-temper.

" "Then would it not be better to be without him?" The guardsman shrugged his epaulettes in despair.

"Oh, I thought maybe they were trying to scrimp on the ring" Mrs. Heeny, shrugging away this explanation, rose from her seat and rolled back her shiny black sleeves.

He does but shrug his head.

"Ah!" shrugged the judge, and turning to his secretary: "Ask the lady to come in.

"And the other white manwhat became of him?" Nicholas shrugged: "Kaiomi," though it was plain he knew well enough the other lay under the Yukon ice.

As to Sir Francis Trevellyan, he merely shrugged his shoulders, as much as to say: "What management!

" George shrugged his shoulders impatiently: "Nonsense!

" "Ba oui," shrugged Achille Picard, "eet is wan chance.

She shrugged the question away and stepped out of her room toward the kitchen, whistling a tune to raise her spirits.

" She saw that he was shaking with rage; so she shrugged and drawled: "Oh, your reason!"

Then Ajax shrugged his shoulders and said significantly, "You know what this means?" "Rehabilitation.

" Sinclair shrugged away this rejoinder.

"Oh, a month, or maybe six weeks," shrugged Nurse Sarah.

But how could Squire Davenport so wickedly try to cheat us of our little property?" "My dear boy," said the tramp, shrugging his shoulders, "your question savors of verdancy.

"So you're playing the game like all the rest?" "Why shouldn't I?" shrugged the secretary.

" He watched her going, saw the smiles of the two men, as they greeted her again and closed in beside her, and watched the light flash on her shoulders, as she shrugged away some shadow from her mindperhaps the small care she had given about him.

I shrugged my shouldersthose of my body only.

" He stopped and drew himself up, shaking his head, as if to shrug off the spell of his own feeling.

and then smiled a little, perhaps shrugged a trifle, and added: "Great fellowPrescott.

32 collocations for  shrugging