18 examples of bull-necked in sentences
One the auctioneera perfect specimen of the "sport"; a ponderous individual, brazen of face and voice, who presented to the crowd an amazing front of mottled face, diamond stud, bulging shirt sleeves, and a bull-neck encircled by a soiled eighteen-and-a-half inch paper collar.
He was a bull-necked, bullet-headed, pugnosed young ruffian with beery eyes, who had an insatiable ambition and a still greater conceit, but who had devised a blundering, innocent, helpless way of conducting himself before a jury that deceived them into believing that his inexperience required their help and his disinterestedness their loyal support.
A young man stood at the entrance a stocky, bull-necked young miner, in tweed Sunday clothes and an aggressive neck-tie.
The square stout form, the bull-neck and broad shoulders, the powerful arms and coarse rough hands, the legs bowed from incessant riding, showed a frame fashioned to an extraordinary strength.
He dressed at last and stood like a lamba redfaced, bull-necked lamb while Mrs. Jobson fastened his collar for him.
He dressed at last and stood like a lamba redfaced, bull-necked lamb while Mrs. Jobson fastened his collar for him.
The word historian imports a sage and solemn author, one that curls his brow with a sullen gravity, like a bull-necked Presbyter since the army hath got him off his jurisdiction, who, Presbyter like, sweeps his breast with a reverend beard, full of native moss-troopers; not such a squirting scribe as this that's troubled with the rickets, and makes pennyworths of history.
Monsieur Defarge was a dark, bull-necked man, good-humoured-looking on the whole, but implacable-looking, too.
Kentish, the landlord, was a stout, bull-necked man, of no great communicativeness at first; but after a little acquaintance he opened out wonderfully, became quite a jolly (and rather intelligent) companion, and came out with innumerable anecdotes of his sporting adventures.
" Joe turned and met Oscar Heming, delicatessen man, stumpy, bull-necked, with fierce bristling mustache, and clothes much too big for him.
He is a bull-necked, good-humored, but implacable-looking man.
Harry, champion, by acclamation, of the College heavyweights, broad-shouldered, bull-necked, square-jawed, six feet and trimmings, a little science, lots of pluck, good-natured as a steer in peace, formidable as a red-eyed bison in the crack of hand-to-hand battle!
"That red-faced, bull-necked brute, is James Rutlidge, the son and heir of old Jim Rutlidge," continued the novelist.
Believe me, his power in modern art is a red-faced, bull-necked power that you will do well to recognize.
To illustrateour bull-necked friend and illustrious critic, James Rutlidge, in my story, will be named 'Sensual.'
Ronicky Doone saw a powerfully built, bull-necked man, with a soft hat pulled far down on his head.
The bull-necked man knows youthis first time His itching flesh sees form divine and vibrant health And thinks not of his avocation.
We need youmy Limousine-Lady, The bull-necked man and I. Seeing you here brave and water-clean, Leaven for the heavy ones of earth, I am swift to feel that what makes The plodder glad is good; and Whatever is good is God.