Shins
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Examples
- He'll brak his shins agean some o' yer pots, and tables, and stuff. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I kicked his shins and got my left knee into his groin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then he threw himself down into the chair opposite, and drew up his knees until his fingers clasped round his long, thin shins. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is the same before a fire, the heat of which sooner penetrates black stockings than white ones, and so is apt sooner to burn a man's shins. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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