Mistakes made by some bad drivers

Usage examples of shanks.

Moore had suggested that his partner, a man named Shanks, take over the job of concentrating on getting evidence against the corrupt waterfront commissioner.

She was too polite to tell Shanks that a blind man could have spotted the big, badly dressed private eye.

They suspected Raina and the Shanks had concealed her, but the Shanks and the Blackhail hammermen had closed ranks: Effie was one of their own, and no one was going to find her, so help them gods.

When they trudged into thicker shanks of light, he saw them clearly and let his rifle fall.

He is never among the first wave to put his tools downlike Thick Shanks the cactus spiker who Judah thinks is a Runagater, like Shaun Sullervan the pugnacious alltradesmanbut he is always among the second.

Judah sees Thick Shanks talking to someone without looking at them, standing with his back to the Remade stockade, a refigured man behind the chains lounging as if by chance but Judah knows he is listening.

She comes at night to a place where the guards are not watching, and does as Thick Shanks has done, her back to the fence, a Remade man behind her, pretending to be there by chance.

That night Judah goes to the hollow where the men who fuck men gather, and when he comes back Thick Shanks is waiting.

Judah sees Ann-Hari whisper to Thick Shanks and another man, sees them nod without turning.

One of them, a man with pipes that emerge from his body and enter it again, stares back at Thick Shanks and moves his head.

It is not Judah who moves firsthe never moves firstor the Remade with the pipes, nor Thick Shanks nor Shaun but someone quite unknown in the forefront of the tunnel-men.

The free men want to treat Shaun and Thick Shanks as leaders of a Remade rabble, but Ann-Hari stands with them, and with the pipe-woven man, whose name Judah learns is Uzman, and with other Remade.

We have to link up, shouts Thick Shanks, but no one is listening to him.

Ann-Hari and shouts obscure praise to her while she and Thick Shanks argue.

The man cowers from her and she passes him and runs in the direction of the train, followed by Remade, Thick Shanks and Uzman, and Judah, who slaps his golem on its arse as if it is a baby and shocks it, hexes it into motion.