| 单词 | tailless |
| 例句 | The charred, headless, tailless bodies laid out on the crates were not squirrels at all—they were rats—but the cry of the vendors never changed: “Squirrel! Squirrel!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Weismann had surgically excised the tails of five generations of mice, then bred the mice to determine if the offspring would be born tailless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Hayek has lived with cats all her life, among them a tailless kitty rescued by one of her dogs years ago. 'Puss' stars Banderas, Hayek share cat tales 2011-05-12T11:47:09Z Lear passed his later years in San Remo, Italy, with a tailless cat and a loyal servant, dying at age 75. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The movie ends with Winter, the tailless dolphin, helping save the struggling Florida aquarium that rescued her. ‘Dolphin Tale’ aquarium struggles despite movie’s success The veteran actor plays the specialist who takes on the challenge of designing the new appendage for the tailless animal. Art imitates life in 'Dolphin Tale' 2011-09-12T10:09:13Z I thanked the longshoreman guy and headed upstairs, followed quickly by orange, tailless Lucy the Bookstore Cat. L.A. Affairs: I was focused on work. I didn’t realize he was flirting with me 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z This was a harmless arachnid called an amblypygid, sometimes known as a whip spider or tailless whip scorpion, which was neither spider nor scorpion. Making Sense of the Great Whip Spider Boom 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Jason Goldman, a travel guide for Atlas Obscura, proves that tailless whip scorpions are harmless.Credit: Why working as a travel guide or cruise lecturer can be an effective form of science outreach 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z With long, spiky legs and formidable fangs, tailless whip scorpions look a lot scarier than they are. Watch Cannibal 'Scorpions' Fight to the Death 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The dog-sized rodent – native to South America and resembling a large, tailless beaver with stumpy legs – was lured into a metal cage on Sunday evening in one corner of a 400-acre park in the city. Fugitive capybara captured in Toronto park 19 days after zoo escape 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The rodent in question is the agouti—a house cat–size critter that resembles a leggy, tailless squirrel. Cache Crop: Rodents May Have Replaced Extinct Megafauna as Seed Dispersers [VIDEO] 2012-07-16T22:45:00.207Z Larks and wheatears ran along the ground in front of us, and small tailless marmot rats dodged in and out of their holes as we approached. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Alas! the monkeys, who were the first inhabitants of the Rock—tailless Barbary apes—are now becoming scarce. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Michael Seiter, a tailless whip scorpion expert at Austria's University of Vienna, say the study is the first to statistically describe the arachnids' conflicts—an improvement upon random observations in the field. Watch Cannibal 'Scorpions' Fight to the Death 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Black is their colour, and taillessness their most intimate quality; some, we are told, are born tailless, most—are not! A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z "Why, in the name of the social relations, art thou as dull as a tailless peacock?" said Nicholas. The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China 2012-03-18T02:00:17.620Z Gibbon, gib′un, n. a genus of tailless anthropoid apes, with very long arms, natives of the East Indies. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The same fate awaited any that killed one of the tailless pigs, or dared to dig up any plant that grew near the Nanga. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z One of the Foxes said: "You would not be speaking thus, if you were not tailless!" Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Hindquarters.—Fine compared to the foreparts; muscular and well-developed thighs; tailless; rump well rounded. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z It is tailless, but clean and neat in appearance, being marked with black, white, and orange colours. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Bats, however, can be consistently recognized, if clearly seen, by their tailless appearance and the forward tilt of their wings, as well as by their erratic flight. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z A new species of tailless batrachian from North America. A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope 2011-10-23T02:00:22.253Z The tailless Fox grew silent and went away. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z These facts militate strongly against the importance which was once attached to the dentition in the classification of the tailless batrachians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Apteryx, ap′tėr-iks, n. a bird found in New Zealand, wingless and tailless, reddish-brown, about the size of a large hen. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z I have heard it said in jest that a tailless cat must walk in a circle—from whatever point they start from, they must return to the same. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z If you see a tailless jackal you will know that he is the one you want.’ The Orange Fairy Book 2011-06-29T02:00:31.520Z I looked upon those who dwelt across the Tamar as “uncanny,” as being scarcely to be classed with Christian people, and certainly not to be freely associated with by tailless Devonians. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z In the seventh generation he obtained some tailless mice, and finally a tailless breed. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z At other times they recalled more precisely the plaintive appeal of the tailless tabby when she is pressed hard for time and space. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z Here were tailless Manx cats, lizards, snakes, and fifty or sixty rats, usually kept in the cellar. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z He further states, "Its contortion is due to deformity of the bones of the tail," and there is a tailless breed of cats in the Crimea. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z The females of that country are very beautiful and are tailless. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z So he ordered an aeroplane, a herd of sheep, a shepherd, and two tailless sheep-dogs, and made plans to spend most of his vacation yachting, when he did not spend it in town. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Designing a tailless, fighter-sized unmanned aircraft from a clean sheet is no small feat. Test flight of X-47B stealth jet 2011-02-07T12:05:10Z The tailless tiger forgetting himself jumped to one side, and the whole pillar of tigers fell in a heap on the ground. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z As a proof of this, Mr. Herbert Young, of Harrogate, has had in his possession a very fine red female long-haired tailless cat, that was bred between the Manx and a Persian. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z "You are just a tailless Tadpole," said the Yellow Brown Frog sternly. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z U' ro style, a long bone forming the hinder extremity of the vertebral column of tailless amphibia. A Guide for the Study of Animals 2011-01-18T03:00:14.913Z The flight was primarily designed to test the jet's guidance and navigation systems and the aerodynamic control of the tailless design. Test flight of X-47B stealth jet 2011-02-07T12:05:10Z The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z It differs chiefly from the ordinary domestic cat in being tailless, or nearly so, the best breeds not having any; the hind legs are thicker and rather longer, particularly in the thighs. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z He donned his crown, took a few valuables with him in a carpet-bag, fuming and fretting all the time at having to start—like a tailless fox—without his body-guard. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The term is now sometimes employed as synonymous with amphibia, but is more usually restricted to the order Anura or tailless amphibia. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Some are tailed, others, such as the orang, are tailless, but none have prehensile tails like the American monkeys. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli I would rather look at you, my pretty neighbour, than at all the fat old women or tailless cats in Europe. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 Be this as it may, we have the Manx cat now as a distinct breed, and, when crossed with others, will almost always produce some entirely tailless kittens, if not all. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z BOOK-SCORPION, or False Scorpion, minute arachnids superficially resembling tailless scorpions and belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones of the class Arachnida. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Some of the European Amphibia—especially among the tailless forms—appear to be immigrants from Asia. The History of the European Fauna The skull and other bones met with in the South of France belong to a gibbon, or one of the tailless apes, which stand next in the scale of organization to the orang. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology And grow strong, O tailless ones, till I return. The Three Mulla-mulgars Not only does she produce tailless cats when crossed with the ordinary cat, but the progeny again crossed also frequently have some tailless kittens in each litter. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z So up the Deuch Water we rode, the little birds making a choir about us, and young tailless thrushes of the year's nesting pulling at reluctant worms on the short dewy knowes. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway None of the tailless Batrachians—the Frogs and Toads—are peculiar to the Alps, but one, viz. The History of the European Fauna We now come to the Amphibia, which are represented in the Seychelles by two tailless and two serpent-like forms. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras And the sun and moon on high, And the stars—the stars with tails Even as the tailless ones— Are reflections of His power. Atta Troll I have also been told there is a breed of tailless cats in Cornwall. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z The tailless tiger proposes they shall all stand one the top of the other, to reach the men in the tree. Indian Fairy Tales Suppose I own at once to tail and claws; The tailless man exceeds me: but being tailed I'll lash out lion fashion, and leave apes To dock their stump and dress their haunches up. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning In tailless dogs and cats a stump is left; but I do not know whether it includes at an early embryonic age rudiments of all the caudal vertebr�. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) "Perfectly," said I, in a maze of wonder at this deep solicitude in a tailless cat who had lost one foot and half an ear in some cruel trap. The Grey Woman and other Tales Be this as it may, one thing is certain: that cross-bred Manx with other cats often have young that are tailless. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z The tigers in terror all tumble to the ground, crushing their tailless friend in their fall, and flee to their homes. Indian Fairy Tales When a perfectly tailless cat is crossed with an ordinary-tailed individual, the progeny exhibit all intermediate states between tail and no tail. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc Salamanders correspond in development with the tadpoles or larv� of the tailless Batrachians, and both possess to a large extent the power of regrowth; but not so the mature tailless Batrachians. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) We saw at first no domestic animals except a tailless cat, with an attempt at that appendage, which was a decided and ignominious failure. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months There was an alarming suggestion of intimacy anyway in a midnight scene with a tailless dog, a boy clad in your own night-shirt—and an inferential person with an eye by the name of Sweeny.... Jimsy The Christmas Kid But Doggie went on bashing till the cabinet sank in ruins and the little dogs, headless, tailless, rent in twain, strewed the floor. The Rough Road The real tailless breed are rather longer in the hind legs than the ordinary cat, and grow to a large size. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. There are two groups of amphibians, one called tailless—to which frogs and toads belong—and the other tailed, of which the newt and the axolotl are members. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young It was well fitted out, and equipped with a crew of seven, including the captain's wife, and a small dog known as the "tailless one." A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia At first I attributed this to concern at my presence, but after a while it transpired that a young oriole—a blundering, tailless fellow—was the cause of the disturbance. The Foot-path Way I suppose that I have, during the past ten years, contributed money enough to Sugar to endow a fair-sized asylum for tailless bears. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated The astonishing and most saddening feature of the equestrian promenade is the presence of ladies riding mares which are almost tailless. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. “Princess —— wore a black hat, a cloak of tailless ermine, and a black and silver toque.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 The "tailless one" had come walking up the gangplank, quietly returned under cover of darkness. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Kate there was a tailless Manx cat with three tailed kittens, and Philip began to play with them. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 A number of brown-haired, tailless dogs, so much resembling bear-cubs that at first sight we took them for such, were playing about the doors. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland I have seen an allied, white, tailless breed from Turkey. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. The same is true of all tailless animals. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions Don't you want to have yours cut off before you go to see these tailless little fellows? The Tale of Grunty Pig Slumber-Town Tales The master had a fancy for tailless—Manx—cats, and these made their beds everywhere without disturbance. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Company E had had their last sight of “Paterno,” their tailless monkey mascot. Bamboo Tales Turkish breed having an extraordinary appearance; black and tailless; crest and beard large; legs feathered. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. "Then come along, and I'll prescribe for the poor, tailless gentleman," and he jumped to his feet. Tom Gerrard Nature abhors imperfect work, And on it lays her ban; And all creation must despise A tailless man. The Book of Humorous Verse There are no very large animals, those peculiar to Celebes being the tailless baboon and the "pig-deer," which has tusks and curving horns. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The thick, long-haired tail of the dog in this country is indeed his blanket, and in cold weather the tailless dog is at a great disadvantage. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska They have one for the morning, which is called a sack-coat, that is, tailless, and is of mixed colors. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home We see it in tailless dogs and cats. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Tailed species in India or the Indian region become tailless as they spread eastward through the archipelago; 7. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Across their slender undulating bodies he struggled to the shore, battered, bruised, and tailless, but alive. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character After the first thrill of starting, when we seemed to be tearing like a tailless comet through a very small portion of space not designed to hold comets, I grew happy, though far from tranquil. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon I turned my eyes in the direction she pointed, and saw, peering at us from among the boughs of a neighbouring tree, a whole tribe of almost tailless monkeys. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco For himself, the good doctor dislikes the narrative, not because it does violence to possibility, but because it did violence to St Mark; there is evidently an incomplete dignity about a tailless evangelist. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Cynopithecus, a tailless Ape allied to the Baboons; Anoa, a straight-horned Antelope of obscure affinities, but quite unlike anything else in the whole archipelago or in India: and Babirusa, an altogether abnormal wild Pig. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays This he had to do, or freeze or starve to death, and so he broke loose, and ever after has been tailless. Three Boys in the Wild North Land Tailed species in India or the Indian region become tailless as they spread eastward through the Archipelago. On the Genesis of Species Though the gaseous globe, tailless of course away from the sun, showed as big as the full Earth, the danger was past. Out Around Rigel He used for these books Caxton's type No. 8, with the tailless 'y' and the dotted capitals. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 The tailless females exhibit simple variability, scarcely two being found exactly alike even in the same locality. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays "I never heard such a gallimaufry of headless and tailless nonsense," he declared. The Lady Paramount Animals of small size and robust form; short-eared and tailless; two premolars above and below. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon And a scientific student came to Santa Barbara not so long ago, and found on one of these islands a species of tailless fox, and hastened to communicate the interesting anomaly to the Smithsonian Institute. A Truthful Woman in Southern California That this "tailless, catarrhine, anthropoid ape" should have had anything resembling a religion, is, of course, not to be thought of. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique They are characterized by their stout tailless bodies, flattened heads and toothless mouths. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices "And I want to see the tailless monkeys," added Dwight, as he joined them. All Aboard A Story for Girls It lives in rocky ground or amongst loose stones in burrows, and is the tailless rat described by Turner in his 'Journey to Thibet,' which had perforated the banks of a lake by its holes. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon It seems that as an editor he took to telling falsehoods on his own account so often that the Syndicate is packing him off as Special Correspondent to a tailless comet. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) I hold it to be a tailless lemur, the galago of the East Coast. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative However, the unsightly, tailless condition of the vigorous steed was, to the last hour of the noble creature’s life, an awful warning to the Carrick farmers, not to stay too late in Ayr markets. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Look, he doesn’t have the least vestige of a tail, and there isn’t another tailless mammal on the planet. Little Fuzzy If he cannot grow one, he must have recourse to art, for he could not appear tailless, either in this world or the next. China and the Chinese The tailless quadruped, the shedless cow, the unwhitewashed African, the condemned felon, the unhappy prisoner, actually treated as if he were no gentleman, in him have lost a friend. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Suppose I own at once to tail and claws; 350 The tailless man exceeds me: but being tailed I'll lash out lion fashion, and leave apes To dock their stump and dress their haunches up. Men and Women A flock of small swallows now appears: they seem tailless and with white bellies. 2nd September, 1872.—The people are preparing their ten days' food. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi We laid our hands together so, and swore by the paw of the cinnamon bear and the ear of the tailless cat, to take the part of our brother beasts and birds. The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Ah, yonder he goes, the tailless beggar; did you see him as he stole past the corner out of the early-cabbage bed? Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities The tailless kite, sent from the hands of a master, will fly in all winds. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 It is the old story of the tailless fox. Promenades of an Impressionist Associated words: caudal, dock, scut, prehensile, caudate, bicaudal, rump, uropygium. tailless, a. acaudate, anurous. tailor, n. Putnam's Word Book It is small, only six inches or so in length, tailless but with large round ears and soft grayish fur like a rabbit's. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Ultimately the tailed mice would be put to death as monsters by their fellows, and the miracle of the tailless mouse completely achieved. Back to Methuselah This is the one serious defect of kites with tails, that they cannot adapt themselves to wind currents of varying intensities; whereas the tailless kites do so without difficulty. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 And that surely was worth a trip to the Isle of Man, even if one failed to see one of their tailless cats. Reveries of a Schoolmaster There was a fat thrush on the lawn, young and tailless. Five Nights When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great However, the unsightly tailless condition of the vigorous steed was, to the last hour of the noble creature's life, an awful warning to the Carrick farmer not to stay too late in Ayr markets. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Barbary ape, a tailless monkey of gregarious habits, native of the mountainous parts of Barbary, and of which there is a colony on the Rock of Gibraltar, the only one in Europe. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The tailless pink cat and the purple fish with the pale blue eyes are for the kiddies. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration This tailless absentee was not what I had bought as the champion prize winner. Adopting an Abandoned Farm Then he flung the tailless body to the hounds, and in the act spied two black eyes peeping through the apple-leaves. Chivalry Mr. W. A. Eddy was one of the pioneers, and a very serviceable tailless kite, in which the cross-bar is bowed away from the wind, is his invention, and has been much in use. The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation It was certainly a young man in a dark-blue, tailless coat and huge Cossack trousers, that being the livery of the men about the stables. A Personal Record On the other hand, Gr-gr-gr's people were, for the most part, quite hairy, but they were tailless and had a language similar to that of the human race of Pellucidar; nor were they arboreal. Pellucidar It subsided when he saw Adam, holding up his finger at him to impose silence, and in his dumb, tailless joy he must content himself with rubbing his body against his master's legs. Adam Bede Of the tailless Apes it is said that they originally erased their rear appendages by too much sitting--perhaps as members of the "Rump" in some Anthropoid Congress. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 In vain have we searched in the closet, where the headless dolls and tailless horses, the collapsed drum and the torn primer, are put away. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 For bear in mind that it was the loss of this prehensile power that resulted in the caudal atrophy of our monkey progenitors, who became men simply because they were tailless monkeys! Life: Its True Genesis The proper name for tailed monkeys, as distinguishing them from apes, baboons and gorillas, which are tailless. The Mysterious Island Her thickly-matted hair was ornamented with kangaroo teeth; and to her shoulder, closely clung a native tailless bear, whose appearance could not do otherwise than excite a smile. A Love Story His love for cats amounted to a passion; a menagerie of eight or ten tailless white or ginger Persians was kept in an enclosure, at Pyrford. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Or, could natural selection explain the loss of the tail on the ground that all the monkeys with tails died off, while the tailless ones survived, and developed into human beings? The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments And Mr. Darwin might have immortalized himself by deriving the builders of the ancient pile-habitations and other primitive water-rats and croakers of the Swiss lakes, from this tailless batrachian. Life: Its True Genesis Funny fat Japanese dolls and stuffed rabbits and cross-eyed, tailless cats demand attention. The Lady of the Decoration They have small heads, slender curved beaks, unfeathered legs and feet, and are tailless; the plumage is deep yellowish, marked with black and brown above. The Naturalist in La Plata At the winter cottage at Pyrford, among the pines, was a cattery, where Persian tailless cats, some ginger and some white, were bred. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 It is also permissible for him to wear a short roundtail coat in the morning hours; it is similar to the gentleman's tailless evening coat, but it is not faced with silk. Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 Anyhow the Schipperke is no more "tailless" than the old English Sheepdog. Dogs and All about Them As in many nebulae, there was a visible concentration in one part; but this did not occupy the centre, but a position more resembling that of the nucleus of a small tailless comet. Across the Zodiac The animal creation was represented by the leopard, hyena, rhinoceros, Waraba, four kinds of antelopes, hares and rats, tailless and long-tailed. First Footsteps in East Africa It seemed to be a young Arctic wolf, yellowish white in colour, but tailless, Next day, at noon Preble and Billy returned bearing the illusive visitor; it was a large Lynx. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake The tailless body changes into an unshapely tube, and, by the atrophy of some parts and the modification of others, gradually assumes the appearance we have already described. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 And, really, it is better to have for a forefather Hanu-man, the poet, the hero, the god, than any other monkey, even though it be a tailless one. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan The most suitable and most available objects of study in this class are the eggs of our indigenous amphibia, the tailless frogs and toads, and the tailed salamander. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Games suitable to the occasion are played; among them pinning a tail to the picture of a tailless donkey fastened on the wall. Entertainments for Home, Church and School The tail kite will do for tandem, but as the tails are apt to get snarled, it is not so desirable as the tailless kind. Healthful Sports for Boys Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Like the tailless fox, I might naturally maintain that my state is the more gracious, but honestly I am not assured of that. Born in Exile The lagomys, or tailless hare, of the European eaves, is now found in the colder regions of North America. Atlantis : the antediluvian world One day I went to the camp, saw the old man in his usual airy costume, only assumed as I came in sight, a tailless shirt. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia And all who were about the King began to laugh at him and say, "Yea, by Allah, he is tailless!" The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 The coat was tailless, with rows of silver buttons running from collar to waist. The Puppet Crown If you see a tailless jackal you will know that he is the one you want.' The Orange Fairy Book WATERTON, C., production of tailless foals. -on taming wild ducks. -on the wildness of half-bred wild ducks. -assumption of male characters by a hen. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 Another Turkish breed having an extraordinary appearance; black and tailless; crest and beard large; legs feathered. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 So it is with tailless or hornless animals, and with sudden and great changes of colour in flowers. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 He was suddenly conscious of the long trousers on his own small legs, of the ignominy of his tailless Eton jacket and stiff, rolling collar, of the crowning disgrace of his derby hat. Long Live the King! The place was kept by a deaf old lady and her tailless cat. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan In tailless dogs and cats a stump is left. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 I have seen an allied white, tailless breed from Turkey. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 It was so unusual to see a nearly tailless monkey from America, that naturalists thought, when the first specimens arrived in Europe, that the member had been shortened artificially. The Naturalist on the River Amazons In his tailless black jacket, his long gray trousers, and his round Eton collar, he looked like a very anxious little schoolboy, and not royal at all. Long Live the King! Job assented with grateful curiosity, wishing much to see the tailless phenomenon. Mary Barton Salamanders correspond in development with the tadpoles or larvae of the tailless Batrachians, and both possess to a large extent the power of regrowth; but not so the mature tailless Batrachians. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 Never had there been in their country a woman such as he described, nor any tailless man other than himself that they ever had seen. Tarzan the Terrible "Go along, go along, and may you burn up with vodka, you tailless Satan!" The Witch and other stories Many of these tailless comets were known to the eighteenth-century astronomers, but no one at that time suspected the true meaning of their condition. A History of Science — Volume 3 It was certainly a young man in a dark blue, tailless coat and huge Cossack trousers, that being the livery of the men about the stables. Some Reminiscences "All tailless," admitted Chang Tao, with conscious humility. Kai Lung's Golden Hours He drew down and back, and scuttled off for the tree like a gigantic tailless "goanna". On the Track Gowing dropped in just in time, bringing with him a large sheet, with a print of a tailless donkey, which he fastened against the wall. Diary of a Nobody |
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