shoulders
/ˈʃoʊldɚz/ noun A2- The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back.
- Capacity for bearing a task or blame. · The responsibility for the job was placed on his shoulders.
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“Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
“And where _have_ my shoulders got to?
Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down “stupid things!” on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them didn’t know how to spell “stupid,” and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him.
He drew her to the couch, sat beside her and put his arm across her shoulders.
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