" an oracle that made me shrug my shoulders as soon as I had got outside the door.
" John Clayton departed chuckling, and Holmes turned to me with a shrug of his shoulders and a rueful smile.
" Molly's eyes sparkled, but she gave a little shrug as she answered, "She won't care.
And the men at St Ogg's were not all brave, by any means; some of them were even fond of scandal, and to an extent that might have given their conversation an effeminate character, if it had not been distinguished by masculine jokes, and by an occasional shrug of the shoulders at the mutual hatred of women.
Farebrother's might be concentrated into a single shrug and one little speech.
As the Vicar walked to Lowick, any one watching him closely might have seen him twice shrug his shoulders.
He did not shrug his shoulders; and for want of that muscular outlet he thought the more irritably of beautiful lips kissing holy skulls and other emptinesses ecclesiastically enshrined.
Naumann gave a shrug and said, "It is good they go away soon, my dear.
"I've tasted worse smoking mixtures in a pipe," he added, with a philosophic shrug of his shoulders, as he took a couple of cigars from the case I offered him, putting one in his mouth and the other in his pocket.
I left him the last word, and sought refuge in a shrug of the shoulders and taciturnity.
It seemed to dismiss the dead with a shrug of the shoulders.
Dirk Stroeve was one of those persons whom, according to your character, you cannot think of without derisive laughter or an embarrassed shrug of the shoulders.
"I tell you I know nothing," she said, in reply to my agitated questions, and then, with an airy shrug of the shoulders: "I believe that a young person in a city tea-shop has left her situation.
" "I can imagine it," said Valancy, with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Let me know if you ever need a…" sounds like an invitation, but it's really a shrug.
Getting that dreaded rejection letter stinks at first, but eventually you become able to just shrug it off and go on to the next one.
The only way you can shrug it off is if you resolve to just not care.
But Apple's strategy of charging higher prices for its phones has helped it to shrug off flagging demand.
He gave a massive shrug.
People who shrug off weight gain do so at their own risk -- risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and other life-threatening conditions, said Dr.
