saltatorial

Believe it or not, they included saltatorial deer-like forms, macropredatory crocodile-mimics, diminutive long-tailed forms that looked like giant desmans, ‘megaseals’ and forms sporting tapir-like trunks.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

The cause of his recent trivial indisposition was a hostile criticism in a local paper, but with the dismissal of the critic the incident is now regarded as closed, and M. Gordkin will resume his saltatorial activities in a day or two.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Various

Mr Yarrell, a cautious unimaginative man, accustomed to quote Shakspeare as if the bard of Avon had been some quiet country clergyman who had taken his share in compiling the statistical account of Scotland, confines their saltatorial powers only within ten or twelve perpendicular feet.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Mexico, and Hanchett, at that time a resident of Vicksburg, and laboring in a profession -- the saltatorial, to wit -- a shade less illustrious than that to which he was so soon to attain, was the first man in the city to enlist.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

Collembola: an ordinal term applied to species which are apterous; have no metamorphoses; have variably developed abdominal saltatorial appendages and a peculiar ventral tube at base: the spring-tails.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

The astonished monk inquired the cause of this saltatorial madness; and Kaldi told him of his precious discovery.

All About Coffee 1909

It is well known that power lies in a saltatorial ensemble of white lace skirts, pale blue hose, lustrous naked arms, undulating bodice, magnetic eyes, flying hair, and an unchanging smile, to focus the perceptions of a man, to absorb his consciousness, aided by a tune which seems to close out from him all the rest of the world.

Tales from Bohemia Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

On the contrary, there was something saltatorial and jerky about all the dancing I saw both among the men and women.

The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871

The Eskimo are clearly not successes in a cubistic or saltatorial line, as I have had ample opportunities to observe.

The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871

Besides all which, we are in the habit of considering ourselves at the present season more than ever entitled to partake of the recreations offered us, whether theatrical, musical, pictorial, saltatorial, philosophical, or scientific.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 Various 1836