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  • The existence of the starfish correctly called a sea star is more eventful than you might imagine if you've only ever encountered the five-legged animal dead on a beach or dried and hung on the wall of a seafood restaurant.

    Enchanted Gardens, Wherever You Look Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • Basically, a woman bought a five-legged puppy for $4,000 to save it from being sent to a freak show.

    2009 July « paper fruit 2009

  • The farmer in Chelsea is charging fourpence a head to see the five-legged cow.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Fourteen people froze to death in the village of Highgate, a five-legged cow was born in Chelsea, and the king asked his new queen to accept Barbara Castlemaine as her First Lady of the Bedchamber.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Basically, a woman bought a five-legged puppy for $4,000 to save it from being sent to a freak show.

    because they can’t speak « paper fruit 2009

  • It's $10 and starts at 9, but you should be there early to browse the dime-store museum (marvel at the five-legged goat!) and get a good spot up front.

    Nightlife Agenda Fritz Hahn 2010

  • Fourteen people froze to death in the village of Highgate, a five-legged cow was born in Chelsea, and the king asked his new queen to accept Barbara Castlemaine as her First Lady of the Bedchamber.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • The farmer in Chelsea is charging fourpence a head to see the five-legged cow.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • As a result, they exist not in the realm of policy, but in the realm of fiction, and comments on the strangeness of those five-legged cows floating through distant clouds near Hellfire-armed Predator drones are left to marginal characters like me.

    Tom Engelhardt: Five Absurd Things That Simply Can't Happen in Wartime Washington 2010

  • As a result, they exist not in the realm of policy, but in the realm of fiction, and comments on the strangeness of those five-legged cows floating through distant clouds near Hellfire-armed Predator drones are left to marginal characters like me.

    Tom Engelhardt: Five Absurd Things That Simply Can't Happen in Wartime Washington 2010

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