fore-leg

What had happened was that the livery horse, in its stiff - jointed, broken-kneed gallop, had stumbled, nearly fallen, and, in its sprawling recovery, had accidentally stepped on Jerry, bruising and breaking his fore-leg.

CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

But ever they took in the slack and paid it out again, until, ere he was aware, a similar noose tightened on his fore-leg.

CHAPTER XXXIII 2010

Strange, is it not, that the Porpoise should have in this queer-looking affair — its flapper (as it is called), the same fundamental elements as the fore-leg of the Horse or the Dog, or the Ape or Man; and here you will notice a very curious thing, — the hinder limbs are absent.

Essays 2007

I once saw two males fighting together; each had a fore-leg laid across the neck of the other, and the rostrum bent quite in an attitude of defiance, and looking most ridiculous.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Coiling himself round he lay quite snug in the bottom of the kettle, while with his fore-leg he managed to put the lid on, so that he was entirely hidden.

The Green Fairy Book 2003

And a dog dare never approach him; he would have his fore-leg on his head in a minute! and that was the end of the beast.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

We lost one camel with a broken fore-leg, the result of a stumble in a pot-hole; and the many bones which lay about showed that we were not the only party to suffer misfortune in the passage.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

The dragon's fore-leg and claw on his right went through exactly the same motion.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis, C. S. 1952

But the arm of a man, the fore-leg of the horse, the paddle of the whale, and the wing of the bat and the bird are all also homologous parts, yet of another kind,

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

The horse, a big, splendid seal-brown animal, had fallen on its right side, with its off fore-leg plunged deep in a snow-filled badger-hole.

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall