hind-feet

His tongue is a long ways out, and his eyes like covered with cobwebs; but still he scratches the man's chest with his hind-feet and the man yow-yowls like a hen of the mountains.

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I will fasten a wolf skin about my back, and o'er my head put the brute's gaping jaws; then fitting its fore-feet to my hands and its hind-feet to my legs I will go on all-fours in imitation of its gait to puzzle the enemy when I approach their trenches and barriers round the ships.

Rhesus 2008

I will fasten a wolf skin about my back, and o'er my head put the brute's gaping jaws; then fitting its fore-feet to my hands and its hind-feet to my legs I will go on all-fours in imitation of its gait to puzzle the enemy when I approach their trenches and barriers round the ships.

Rhesus 2008

But, the wise donkey was at that moment in the act of bolting: not with the irresolution of his previous efforts which had been wanting in sustained force of character, but with real vigour of purpose: shaking the dust off his mane and hind-feet at Allonby, and tearing away from it, as if he had nobly made up his mind that he never would be taken alive.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

What it does is to place the hind-feet in front of the fore-feet and outside them, and so to run, if running one can call it.

On Hunting 2007

They move along by short jumps on their hind-feet, which do not seem particularly well adapted for climbing trees.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

He had a vision of the broad hind-quarters, the long scaly tail and long soles of the hind-feet of a rat, and fired his second barrel.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

First she reared upright in the air, and struck me full on the nose with her comb, till I bled worse than Robin Snell made me; and then down with her fore-feet deep in the straw, and her hind-feet going to heaven.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

There was a shuffle and a little stagger down below, then the soft thud as his hind-feet leaped down.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The symptoms of measles are obvious, for the pimples show chiefly on the under side of the tongue, and if you pluck the bristles off the chine the skin will appear suffused with blood, and further the animal will be unable to keep its hind-feet at rest.

The History of Animals 2002