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  • What does matter is that his stimulating essay should get us all to appreciate how fascinating other animals are and that we can no longer continue to be over-producing, over-consuming, arrogant, big-brained, big-footed, and invasive mammals who don't give other animals the respect, compassion, and love they deserve.

    Marc Bekoff: Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism Marc Bekoff 2011

  • What does matter is that his stimulating essay should get us all to appreciate how fascinating other animals are and that we can no longer continue to be over-producing, over-consuming, arrogant, big-brained, big-footed, and invasive mammals who don't give other animals the respect, compassion, and love they deserve.

    Marc Bekoff: Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism Marc Bekoff 2011

  • Without doubt the clumsy, big-footed, over-grown giant of a boy is overside and dead.

    CHAPTER XL 2010

  • What does matter is that his stimulating essay should get us all to appreciate how fascinating other animals are and that we can no longer continue to be over-producing, over-consuming, arrogant, big-brained, big-footed, and invasive mammals who don't give other animals the respect, compassion, and love they deserve.

    Marc Bekoff: Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism Marc Bekoff 2011

  • He crawls upon my back, pulling my hair and clutching at my body seeking to insure another clumsy, big-footed member of the pack be born in spring.

    The Three Of Swords - любовь среди волков* Larry Strattner 2011

  • Mr. Mellaire raised the theory that they were Finns of some sort, but this was indignantly denied by our big-footed youth of a carpenter, who swears he is a Finn himself.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • “Keep in mind that they are peopled with witches and dragons and trolls and mean big-footed stepsisters and evil queens—”

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Amateur skating is just televised "walking gingerly", and if you want to watch that go to River Island shoe dept on a Saturday and see big-footed women trying on size 4 120mm heel pumps.

    Dancing On Ice: Grace Dent's TV OD 2012

  • Elsinore off the lee-shore of the Horn; and Boney the Splinter, following, washed overboard to drown as we cleared the sea-gashing rock-tooth where the southern tip of the continent bit into the storm-wrath of the Antarctic; and the big-footed, clumsy youth of a

    CHAPTER XLVIII 2010

  • “Keep in mind that they are peopled with witches and dragons and trolls and mean big-footed stepsisters and evil queens—”

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

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