forepaws

Finally, above the forepaws was a yard-long lipless gash of a mouth, half-hidden by hair, curved very slightly upward at the corners.

Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969

Finally, above the forepaws was a yard-long lipless gash of a mouth, half-hidden by hair, curved very slightly upward at the corners.

Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968

The beavers seemed quite at home, collecting snow between their forepaws and their chin and half push, half carry it along.

Weatherwatch: Visit to a frozen London zoo in 1874 2011

His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground.

CHAPTER XIX 2010

When I am cooking she is next to me with the forepaws on the counter supervising my cooking.

Archive 2009-05-01 Anjali 2009

We passed one of the elaborate clan houses, this one festooned with magnificent raccoon carvings; one was seated atop the ridgepole over the doorway, his forepaws dangling.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

A deer mouse stands with forepaws clasped, a soulful-looking grizzly peers across a stream, and a gray jay picks at a half-eaten salmon lying in the snow, one perhaps caught by the same grizzly we see elsewhere loping after spawning chum, its fur shagged with ice.

Photo-Op: Yukon Ho 2012

Next, something brushed past him, and he encountered it with a snarl and a splashing of his forepaws.

CHAPTER XX 2010

So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts.

CHAPTER XI 2010

We passed one of the elaborate clan houses, this one festooned with magnificent raccoon carvings; one was seated atop the ridgepole over the doorway, his forepaws dangling.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011