| 单词 | biped |
| 例句 | But one woman woke everybody up at dawn on Wednesday because she found the tracks of a biped with a cloven hoof. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I was telling the boy that according to Plato, man is delined,” he said, smiling affably and gesturing to the cart, “as a featherless biped with broad nails, receptive of political philosophy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ensconced on his transcendental throne, he is unruffled by the delusory problems we bipeds create for ourselves. Art Review: ?Colorful Realm,? Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery 2012-03-29T21:27:01Z On the other hand, any biped could well argue, we all know about crazy ladies who keep households full of felines and who mutter odd terms of endearments to pets called Precious. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z Rex: A carnivorous biped distinguished by its diminutive forelimbs and backward vision. Style Invitational Week 1231: TankaWanka 3 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Wired to our iPods,we are your average, middle-aged bipeds: half-trained, stiff-hinged, pegging up the course,as likely overtaken by a pantomime horse as a Lady Gaga . 'Play up! play up!' 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z Eugenides’s miserable bipeds want to behave well but there are so many obstacles in their way. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z “That’s the end of paradise,” he said, “And the beginning of biped world.” Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Only a few characters recur, but these are essentially the same unlucky bipeds, sometimes glimpsed a few decades later. Catching Up With Denis Johnson’s Star-Crossed Drifters 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z And before you ask, the movie offers no explanation why a bionic biped would bother shape-shifting into another bionic biped. ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z And the visual effects are competent, particularly in the computer graphics-illustrated Covenant home world filled with alien creatures that either look like large sea bugs or crosses between bipeds and giraffes. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The dance vocabulary is pedestrian, not in the sense of dullness, but of biped walking. Dance Review: Deborah Hay Dance Company at St. Mark’s Church 2012-12-01T00:48:25Z So, this celebration of straw-stuffed bipeds may be a good place to visit with your therapist, or perhaps your children. This week's new events 2012-08-10T23:05:37Z Thousands of years before its use by bipeds, the path was tamped down by what historians believe to be bison headed to the salt licks around Nashville. From Nashville to Tupelo on the Natchez Trace Parkway 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z After descending we continue on, haplessly peering into the mottled vegetation for animals in the last place they’d be — next to the bipeds’ walking path. From canopy walk to gator-filled waters, this Florida park offers wildlife aplenty 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Man is a featherless biped, says one famously inadequate philosophical definition. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Hefalump: A heavily wrinkled biped often seen in the company of bunnies. Style Invitational Week 1231: TankaWanka 3 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Its title, “viscera has questions about itself,” signals our posthuman moment, in which artists imagine a world where objects and organisms are imagined to have as much agency as large-brained bipeds. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The bipeds get short shrift in another batch of titles. Sundance 2015: What's in a (generic) movie title? 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z We also are biological oddballs: upright bipeds with big brains, language, increasingly complex technology and the ability to alter our planetary habitat — and even explore other planets. When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like? A Zoologist Has Answers 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Pelletier says Board & Vellum has been doing quite a few dual lawns — a traditional one for the bipeds and an artificial one for the dogs, which keeps maintenance easy. A look at animal-first architecture in Seattle | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z H. erectus—the likely ancestor to the lineage that led to our own species, H. sapiens—would have peered across its territory and seen two other bipeds from two different genera, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z We bipeds generally outlive our pets and must bear the pain of loss. Opinion | Three woofs for Michael Gerson 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z As we spoke, Rugg pulled out a 37-page term paper on the existence of the elusive biped, written while he was a student at Stanford. Leaning into the mystery on a weekend getaway to Santa Cruz, Calif. 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z He has used maximum rhetorical shrillness, warning that fossil fuels pose an “existential” threat to Earth — the end of all flora and fauna, including us bipeds. Opinion | The Biden presidential scorecard at 500 days 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Creating spaces for other kinds of locomotion — cyclists, bipeds, wheelchairs, skateboards, scooters — is an act of world building. How to Design a Bike Lane 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z When anthropologists uncovered five of its fossilized footprints nearly 50 years ago, they couldn’t say whether this ancient biped was a hominin, a bear, or some other ape. Ancient footprints suggest famed human ancestor ‘Lucy’ had company 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The end-result is that the bot can not only hop and walk but skateboard and slackline, skills that are beyond the remit of this particular biped. This bipedal robot uses propeller arms to slackline and skateboard 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Unlike today’s crocodile tracks, which are made from animals with feet splayed more to the outside, the track way of this ancient biped is narrow and well defined. Tracks Hint at a Crocodile Ancestor That Walked on 2 Legs 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “It’s really that physical principle that’s all-important, from everything we’ve done — devices, quadrupeds, bipeds, artificial limbs. That comes through every time.” How Fast Can a Human Run? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z If they were humans; and the worldwide gallery of known cave art offers so few stick figures or bipeds of any kind that we cannot be entirely sure. ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z This is important because, as one of the few obligate bipeds among mammals, we use our feet a lot. Why callused bare feet are a better fit than cushioned shoes 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z “In such applications, conventional biped robots have difficulties with reaching the site, and standard multi-rotor drones have an issue with stabilization in high disturbance environments,” says the professor. This bipedal robot uses propeller arms to slackline and skateboard 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z In a demonstration video released with the news, the skeletal biped rides curled up in the back of a van and is deployed like one of the Battle Droids from “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.” Ford's self-driving cars may have robot delivery people because humans are too lazy 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The cartoon version of evolution, in which a hunched ape becomes a tall and jaunty biped, suggests a journey with a destination. Bones discovered in an island cave may be an early human species 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z That didn’t stop bipeds from slamming the shoe as, in the words of one Twitter user, the latest addition to “so many sad things going on in the world right now.” The Internet hates Crocs’ high heels. Here’s why that’s good for the company. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The juxtaposition — robust muscleman and gawky fowl — is a wonderfully sarcastic rebuke to Plato’s description of humans as featherless bipeds. Out of the shadows, into the light: 'Chiaroscuro Woodcut' is a sleeper hit at LACMA 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z At the curtain call, the biped company patted the earth in obeisance. In 'Doggie Hamlet,' a cast of canines, sheep and, yes, humans — ay, there's the rub 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z But more importantly, bipeds are expensive, fragile, and fall over a lot. Walker is a biped butler robot with no arms but a lot of charm 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Too many meats had only the faintest whiff, detectable perhaps to beagles, but not to bipeds with the sad olfactory skills that come standard with the human species. The 10 best barbecue joints in the D.C. area 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Our brains evolved in two ways that were handy for a weak biped avoiding predators on the savannah, but not so much for a contemporary human dealing with narcissistic abuse. 5 sensible things to do instead of obsessing about, and enabling Trump’s narcissism 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z The front portal slides open, and in walks Jedidiah, an agreeable bloke who works as a ground-based backup biped drone for Amazon.com products when inclement flying weather makes the 3.5 Minute Prime Delivery guarantee impossible. Ron Judd fast-forwards 25 years for a more-fiction-than-science look at our beloved city’s future 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Ori and the Blind Forest sees a catlike, snow-white biped with wings who darts like a sylph across the screen on a journey to revivify an evanescent forest. The 5 Best Xbox One Exclusive Games Right Now 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The people at Ubtech, a China-based robotics company that sells a wide range of home and toy robots, are working on the impossible, and possibly the impractical: Walker, a human-sized biped for the home. Walker is a biped butler robot with no arms but a lot of charm 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In fact, they have apparently decided it is possible to coexist with the earthbound bipeds that used to shoot at them. Crows and Ravens Make New York Comebacks to Caw (and Cr-r-ruck) About 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z If they are right, the discovery could yield an important clue to how our ancestors evolved from tree-dwelling apes into bipeds that walked the African savanna. A 3.2-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In other ways, its body is more like those of modern humans, with the lower limbs and feet of a biped and hands that could have gripped tools with precision. Crowdsourcing digs up an early human species 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z A US Airways spokeswoman later told the Hartford Courant that the woman was able to bring the 70 pounds of stinking swine into the cabin among the bipeds because it was her emotional support animal. 'Emotional support animals' stink up service dog reputation 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Probably those bipeds were thinking the same questions. In 'Cosmigraphics,' Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In tetrapods and bipeds, dynamic regulation of locomotion is simplified by the modular organization of spinal limb circuits, but it is not known whether their predecessors, fish axial circuits, are similarly organized. [Report] Modular Organization of Axial Microcircuits in Zebrafish 2014-01-09T18:56:56.652Z The Flash is the fastest man, biped, anything. Why The Flash is the Only Human Living In the Present 2013-07-11T16:15:11.117Z In isolation, the anatomies of the heel, midfoot, knee, hip, and back are unique and curious, but in combination they are internally consistent for a biped walking with a hyperpronating gait. [Introduction to Special Issue] Introduction: The Mosaic Nature of Australopithecus sediba 2013-04-18T15:56:22.657Z As body size increased, the importance of the prehensile forelimbs in apprehending and subduing prey increased such that the most modified members of the group are erect-bodied bipeds with stupendously long arms and grasping hands. Welcome to the Squamozoic! 2013-04-01T13:45:05.040Z Image: Courtesy of David J. Green Eventually the idea that A. afarensis was a committed biped seemed to eclipse the competing theory. 3.3-Million-Year-Old Baby Shows Lucy's Species Hung Out in Trees 2012-10-28T20:17:27.227Z Two hundred million years ago, a two-foot- long, beaked biped covered in quills scampered about an area that is now part of South Africa. Diminutive Dinosaur Bore Beak, Bristles and Fangs [Video] 2012-10-03T17:45:03.563Z These bipeds were small-brained, and they weren’t busy becoming human, but being australopithecines. The Denisova Genome and Guys Banging Rocks 2012-08-30T19:15:00.440Z But pedestrian advocates say that as roadways become more crowded, more needs to be done to protect the most vulnerable: the bipeds without wheels. San Francisco Cyclist Charged With Manslaughter 2012-06-16T03:31:43Z Both involving cruelty to bipeds "on the wing," and each "more honoured in the breach than the observance." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z He has been called, by those who strove to define him, "a forked radish, fantastically cut," "a viviparous biped, without feathers," "a cooking animal," and many another name. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z By which the man, when heavenly life was ceased, Became a helpless, naked, biped beast. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This god, as you may probably know, is represented by almost every kind of animal, biped and quadruped, into which during the lapse of centuries his soul is supposed to have passed. 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 The two stablemen let go the reins, the steed rose up erect on his hind legs and bucked along as a biped for several yards. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z "What is the fare from here to O——?" inquired the stationary biped in the corner behind me. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The place sits on you, broods on you, stamps on you with the feet of its myriad bipeds and quadrupeds. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z As much as we regret it, deplore it, and anathematize the men who make it, it is nevertheless made, and men, or rather biped brutes, get drunk. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z While constantly fighting fatigue and declining health, he denounces a world made only for “bipeds,” and is particularly critical of French companies, which rarely follow government quotas to hire more disabled people. The Saturday Profile: Jean-Christophe Parisot, a Champion of France?s Downtrodden 2012-01-14T01:29:34Z To tell the truth, the jay is not the fiercely courageous and militantly aggressive biped his harsh cries and erected crest might lead one to suppose. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z The terms the quadruped seems to be on with the small biped, are those of the most easy and intimate friendship. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z It is a lordly brown biped, a plateful of nice slices, a salad, a pot-pie, hash. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z In 1852 came the "Betting Book," against both drink and betting; this has a drawing of two wonderfully knowing fox-faced bipeds contemplating a row of geese absorbed in the perusal of the betting lists. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The two others form the left lateral biped. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z But with the intrepidity of a new Congressman delivering a speech in the Record, I dare assert, “without fear of successful contradiction,” that the blue jay is among the most intelligent of feathered bipeds. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z His initiatory lessons had been taken that summer, with his father standing over him to keep the refractory in order, whether biped or quadruped. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z At first one could not believe that biped, however specially organized, could possibly cope, in simple activity, with the wild-goats on their native rocks. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z It has run ahead with a speed marvellous in so small a biped, and is pecking among the stones a hundred yards off. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Thus, the right diagonal biped is formed by the association of the right fore-limb and the left hind one. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z In the background stands a self-important eagle arrayed in the Napoleonic uniform and a biped lion dressed in a sack coat and an air of conscious superiority. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z Nothing was being done on the farm but what common care for the living, biped and quadruped, rendered necessary. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z I woke the next morning under a shed, horses harnessed, postillion on the box whipping, and a Jew at their head holding them, and the two bipeds quarrelling furiously about the stabling. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Small suspicion had that commanding little damsel that the bipeds who were amusing her with their blunders were playing for love of her. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z The left diagonal biped is, consequently, the inverse. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Oregon and Washington are bragging about what the native biped conceitedly calls enterprise, western spirit, progress, prosperity, etc. The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z In his boorish simplicity, the Hindoosthanee concludes that the Bengalee Baboos are well versed in charms, or else how do they manage to tame a grim biped like a Sahib. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z But poor Jonathan, with all his smartness and all his cleverness, is probably the most gullible biped that crawls upon this earth. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z The remaining figure is ostensibly that of a biped, and apparently that of a man, but I hesitate to allow him the whole benefit of the higher classification. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The left foot of the posterior biped is the one which commences the action. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Well, they haven’t guns anyhow, like the beastly biped called a keeper, who tried to shoot my hind-legs off because I was a strange bird. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Rainsfield was not one of those unfortunates, belonging to that class of marital bipeds known as "hen-pecked husbands," though he was certainly of an uxorious disposition. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z A vast courtyard crowded with feathered bipeds of every kind that could be imagined. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z One boy gave the following: "A biped has two legs and a quadruped has four legs, therefore, the difference between a biped and a quadruped is two legs." The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z Indeed, in the latter, where it is of very great thickness, its volume is due to the important function which it fulfils in maintaining the biped attitude. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Our friend was engaged in ostrich-farming, and many of these queer-looking bipeds, with their long necks and floating feathers, the beauty of which is certainly wasted on their own backs, were wandering around the house. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z There is nothing at all of the Uriah Heep about my little friend; he has quite as good an opinion of himself as any feathered biped need to have. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z An hour later, both Harrod Summers and myself were curiously inspecting a pair of inebriated bipeds at the police station. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z The pupils in a school in Boston were asked to give in writing the difference between a biped and a quadruped. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z The posterior biped is that formed by the posterior limbs. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Looking up, I saw the little feathered biped, perched on a bush close by, his head on one side as if making a minute inspection of my person. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z That the queer biped he meets occasionally might also serve him for a meal, he generously ignores. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z One day I met the overdue biped and I said, “How about it?” Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z The very human biped whose cries had been mistaken for a loon's, heard their voices wafted to him by the wind—the same wind that was blowing him farther and farther from the shore. St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-07-18T02:00:22.977Z The name of lateral biped serves to designate the whole formed by the two limbs of the same side. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z She is an omnivorous biped, I gather, from the two feet I can see and her evident endeavor to eat them, at least, I fancy that is why she is kicking so high. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z Mr Bhosh inflicted corporal punishment upon its loins with a golden-headed whip, at which the rebellious beast erected itself upon its hinder legs until it was practically a biped. A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z Eventually he had reached the employing of a dozen or two, with the bipeds that drove and the quadrupeds that drew them. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Beyond the truculent biped, are the indistinct faces of several persons looking over a wall, and underneath the whole is pencilled the legend: “Cornered—or Brute Force versus Intellect.” The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z We should thus conclude from this that the trot is characterized by a succession of displacements of the diagonal bipeds. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z A biped with feathers in his or her hat. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z What had been the screams of the American eagle, if any, concerning his moral leadership of the family of unfeathered bipeds? The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Those great reptilian lords, the biped Saurians of the Mesozoic, already foreshadowed his erect posture, though their limbs may have been more ornithic than mammalian. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z “We fear sharks less than we do a certain brand of featherless biped.” The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z As to the nature of the bipeds which succeed one another, it is easy to understand them by means of the notation. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z An agglomeration of bipeds who subsist on one another's shanks. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z Climate affects bipeds in the same way that it does quadrupeds. The Philippines A Century Hence 2011-04-20T02:00:25.047Z Casting off speculation as unprofitable for the nonce, Why-Not Pape kept after her, trailing with care lest she realize that her biped protector had more doggedness than the rebuked canine. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z He told his sister, "The place sits on you, broods on you, stamps on you with the feet of its myriad bipeds and quadrupeds." Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Behind it stood a strange-looking figure of the biped species, to whom, however, at the moment, I paid little attention, but of whom I shall have plenty to say in the sequel. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z This, then, was the quid pro quo—quadrupeds in exchange for bipeds! Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The case is now far from being so good a one, as that every two-handed biped possesses land to the value of an hundred and twenty livres a year. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Considering the tenderness of her mood toward the four-footed fakir, her change was sudden and radical toward the biped of the pair when she grasped that he intended to send her home in a taxi. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The frequent delivery of his elaborate speech, before an audience of feathered bipeds and amphibious quadrupeds, had fully prepared M. T. Pate for the day of trial. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z What was I more than a biped beast of burden, an animal designed to eat, sleep, labor, and reproduce itself? Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Some of these bipeds must have been of colossal size—as much as twelve or fifteen feet in height. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Their modes of progression were more varied, for the structures indicate an equal capacity for movement on land as a biped, or as a quadruped, with movement in the air. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z The only furred creatures in evidence—except chipmunks and squirrels—were worn about the shoulders of fair bipeds instead of prowling on four feet, uncured, through the underbrush. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z A tar's headway on land—A gentleman's at sea—An agreeable trio—Musical sounds—Helmsman—Supper—Steward—A truism—Helmsman's cry—Effect—Cases for bipeds—Lullaby—Sleep. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z No end of it was reached that day; but the barn was reached, and all the quadrupeds and bipeds were found, safe and hungry, and were carefully attended to. Winter Fun 2011-01-25T03:00:22.297Z For example, in the sandstone along Connecticut River, the tracks of more than forty species of bipeds and quadrupeds have been found most distinctly marked. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z This may have been a common position, but Dimorphodon may probably also have been a biped. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z We see, in short, with existing monkeys various gradations between a form of progression strictly like that of a quadruped and that of a biped or man. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z But, both feathered and plucked bipeds, it seems, it is equally hard to please. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z In frail piraguas, these amphibious bipeds will make long voyages from island to island. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z It comprehends all the quadrupeds and bipeds, with man at their head, and is much superior to all other classes in complexity of organization and strength of the mental powers. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z They were bipeds, for he saw them from head to heel. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z When a featherless biped is bearer, And through the lone woods his path picks, The feet of this weary wayfarer Cover yards quite 1466. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Indeed, there are neither hotels nor boarding-houses enough to accommodate one-tenth part of this class of forlorn bipeds. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z We never witness this barbarity without wishing the brutes could change places, long enough at least to teach the biped that humanity by his own sufferings which his reason and sensibility have failed to inspire. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. No demagogue bipeds were permitted to fatten at the public crib—no droning sinecures were lounging under the mantle of government. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution By mid-day bipeds and quadrupeds would rule the town, our beautiful palace find itself desecrated. Glories of Spain On the scrap of paper I clutched out of Jenkins' hand was a crazy scrawl of just a half-dozen words: I'm a biped, not a centipede! The Haunted Pajamas Trentham he did not recall as suggestive of the ungainly biped. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life Having probably never seen a biped before, both animals 195were consumed with curiosity and comparatively unafraid. Unexplored! The atmosphere was becoming rather too highly charged with patriotic fire to be comfortably inhaled by the governor and the bipeds of the crown. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution They were bipeds with two armlike extensions, lumpy objects, clad in bulky white folds. The Secret of the Ninth Planet But poor old Taylor, he’s been drug up where they hold biped life unaccountable high. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus It made the filthy bipeds who marched look at the thronged sidewalks. H. R. They would not slip on smooth rock ledges, they could hop up or down bowlders like so many bipeds. Unexplored! What is now more than then considered by too many heartless bipeds a sine qua non—she brought with her—wealth. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution It would, perhaps, be rash in us "featherless bipeds" to condemn Star all at once; there is no saying on what grounds he may have resisted this educational attempt. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) And the four-footed demon growled in response to the biped one. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising “I did not bring it down, for with characteristic perversity, the ill-conditioned biped has chosen to yield up the ghost at the top of the cliff, whereas we are at the bottom.” A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Lion and his great tribe are needed in rear of Buffalo’s forces, for they are apt in their fury to overlook the crafty bipeds. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories Such back-breaking toil, they thought, might be well enough for kangaroos, but it certainly was not suitable for an erect biped, like man. The Romance of the Reaper This third planet of the yellow sun was a paradise thick with warm-blooded biped mammals.... The Invader Behind them walked Gert, armed with a formidable thorn tack in case any of the aggressive bipeds should assail them in preference to being fooled by the diversion aforesaid. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion Mankind replaced by a thinking species of biped felines—descended from a race of giant jungle cats. Deepfreeze Plato calls man a featherless biped: never mind; he decks himself with borrowed feathers. Black Forest Village Stories The biped beasts, as you know, have been our food; we have trained them to be our slaves as well. Brood of the Dark Moon The sleeping biped relaxed and the Triomed inched forward again, a flat, almost two dimensional smear of glistening matter on the floor in front of the biped. The Invader The Zark noted the bruise upon his forehead and marked his regular breathing, and came to the correct conclusion that, whatever had happened, the biped was relatively undamaged. Insidekick The official in a leisurely way took the toll of all the passengers, quadruped and biped alike, eyed us narrowly without speaking, and then, in still more leisurely fashion, began to smoke his hookah. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches Swarms of cigar-smoking bipeds were lounging edgeways from the cafés and billiard rooms. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia They were about four feet high—bipeds, and covered with a soft, pinkish fur. The Unprotected Species In the guise of the indigenous biped he could roam among the natives at will. The Invader In fact, as a smooth-skinned thinking biped, with a well-developed moral sense, he fit The Visitor’s definition of a human. Garth and the Visitor It appears then that the angel and the biped brute which together compose our human nature in their intimate union, instead of mingling their attributes, only live side by side with one another. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory He betrays his relation to what is below him—thick-skulled, small-brained, fishy, quadrumanous—quadruped ill-disguised, hardly escaped into biped, and has paid for the new powers by loss of some of the old ones. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse "I am no longer a divine biped," he wrote. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine If there was a proper method of egress from the cubicle in which he found himself, it was not imprinted on the biped's brain. The Invader On pony-back we used to make the soles of our feet smack together below the belly, for quadruped and biped were both unshod, and hoof needed no iron on that stoneless sward. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) He saw huge saddled reptilian bipeds dragged out of the concealing brush. The Instant of Now These ominous black heaps scattered everywhere are, as it were, eggs, and out of each of them will crawl in due time a full-fledged biped. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Hunting, the most necessary of arts to the vagrant and carnivorous savage, is the employment celebrated on all these vessels, A stag, followed by ferocious quadrupeds and hungry bipeds, forms their general ornament. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew He had a fleeting glimpse of a small biped running down the walk toward the cubicle he had deserted. The Invader His people were well-to-do farmers, and his affection for the horses, cows, and plump pigs under his father’s roof was as sincere as that for the bipeds. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day By the ancient Egyptians cats were held in the highest esteem; and we learn from Diodorus Siculus, their "lives and safeties" were tendered more dearly than those of any other animal, whether biped or quadruped. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 Then we two bipeds hacked off gobbets from the venison, and taking us sharpened sticks, roasted and charred and toasted the meat in the doorway of the stove and over the gap in its lid. The Recipe for Diamonds Will his race linger on and outlive the race of Man when that biped has shelled and torpedoed and dynamited himself out of existence? When Ghost Meets Ghost A vehicle had stopped at an oblique angle to the lane in which it was travelling, and its single occupant, a very pale-faced biped was goggling stupidly in the direction of the hidden Triomed. The Invader I was half-an-hour at least in the society of these distressing bipeds, and alone with my own reflections and necessities. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The impresario put down the dogs, cracked his whip, and suddenly every one of the actors forsook the horizontal for the perpendicular position, and transformed itself into a biped. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 The division of biped mammalia into merely men and women is of comparatively recent date. An Ocean Tramp "Pork!" echoes a decidedly Green Mountain biped, at the elbow of the first speaker. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Presently he came upon a street where streams of bipeds jostled one another, each seemingly intent upon its own particular incomprehensible errands. The Invader Surely a male biped need not dwell In a prejudiced pedantic prig's skin, Not to like that prospect passing well. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 Many a featherless biped has had the same experience with his society-spoiled wife. Ways of Nature Should he not rejoice in the next bloody cockpit of featherless bipeds? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Human nature doubtless has a great many weak points, and no few bipeds have a great itching after notoriety and fame. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes His decision made, he stepped confidently out into the throng of bipeds, seeking the shortest route back to his hidden craft. The Invader They were tall bipeds of vaguely reptilian ancestry, most of their height being body. Join Our Gang? As it is, the quadruped will disappear before the biped native. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 If man's supremacy is to be challenged at all let it be by a creature of flesh-and-blood, a big-brained biped who must kill to live. The Man the Martians Made Ponderously the thing turned over and headed up from the inky depths, spewing out from its concave under side an army of furry brown bipeds. Wanderer of Infinity Behind the first row of bipeds, he could see others running in every direction, and screaming at the top of their voices. The Invader Tricky, of course, followed the biped, for he had always been accustomed to human society; and, as the shepherd fled towards the hut, he saw the monkey close at his heels. The Monkey That Would Not Kill He belongs to that division which addicts itself mainly to laziness—a species of the biped called husband, which unfortunately is not so rare that we seek for the specimen only in museums. Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 The classification of animals into quadrupeds, bipeds, &c. is another useful specimen of the manner in which children should be taught to generalize their ideas. Practical Education, Volume I The biped full of fire and courage, transformed by war-work to a wiry muscular dragoon, is able and willing, but the overloaded quadruped cannot gallop—he staggers.” A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid Here and there a biped, apparently braver than the rest, made threatening motions with bundles or knotted fists. The Invader She thought of an English girl who had been cut by the good society of Plainville because she dared to ride like a biped instead of a mermaid. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West The braconnier alone is infallible on these points, and curious specimens of the human biped are these same poachers! Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches In the ape tribe we are able to trace nearly every step by which the gulf between quadruped and biped has been crossed, from the quadrupedal baboon to the nearly erect gibbon. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution There is no good reason why animals with four feet should be more favored in this respect than bipeds. The Land of Thor He noted for the first time that he towered head and shoulders over most of the bipeds nearby, and his host's brain interpreted the smells of hate and fear all about him. The Invader At length we were sensible of a diminution in our speed, and the confusion of noises so far ceased, that we could hear the panting of our biped cattle. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Will those who regard slavery as immoral, or crime in itself, tell us that man was not intended for civilization, but to roam the earth as a biped brute? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It must, in its developed state as a land-dwelling, wandering, and hunting biped, have needed a wider range of utterance than during its arboreal residence. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution I have more fear of a two-legged creature I know of; and I should be in greater danger of meeting with that dreaded biped by staying at home? The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Ahead of him a line of bipeds all clothed in identical blue sacs of fabric had formed, spilling from the vehicles as they halted. The Invader The forms that had been mystifying the crew of the Catamaran, though of the biped class, were no longer to be regarded as human beings, or even creatures of the earth. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Before they had gone a great way over the karroo, five huge bipeds were seen about a mile away. The Giraffe Hunters How far back he may have existed as a man-like biped is another question, which we are not likely soon to solve. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution To the Professor she was Miss H. Sapiens—an agreeable, featherless plantigrade biped of the genus Homo. Bones in London Ahead the blue bipeds stood holding artifacts that the Triomed did not for an instant doubt were weapons. The Invader There were at that time three different but similar racial strains of pulpy bipeds, numbering a total of perhaps a hundred thousand individuals. Upstarts I shall go to him and I shall say, 'now, my friend, give up your rotten little love-stories and descriptions of nature, and expose the vileness of the human biped.... The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Evidently their mode of life in the trees has overcome all tendency toward the quadruped motion in these apes and developed a tendency toward the biped. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution But the horses preferred him a biped to a quadruped, and the Master Horse threw up his head and gave the word to move. Tales of Space and Time A score or more of armed bipeds blocked him into a triangular corner of the roof. The Invader “Our harmless race shall every savage, “Both quadruped and biped, ravage? The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems His monotone was drowned every minute by the chorus of voices, each shouting out some new fact in natural history touching the biped or quadruped whom the keeper was attempting to describe. Tom Brown at Oxford The conclusion to be derived from all this is that the man-ape was in its early days much more truly a biped than are any of the species named. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution The following rather broad hints to certain bipeds who ought to be gentlemen, were clipped from some newspaper. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies It was the small biped he had seen in the searchlight beam running toward the cubicle he had deserted so long ago it seemed. The Invader With birds, as with some other bipeds, the shortest way to the heart is through the stomach, and a choke-cherry tree in full blaze of fruit is always a natural aviary. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year On such occasions the creature loses all self-command, its eyes shoot forth fiery flashes, and long and frightful howls respond to the immelodious concert of the mischievous bipeds. Anecdotes of Dogs In short, the biped attitude was much the best suited to its organization and the one it was most likely to assume. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution And Spring gave up the ghost, to the great comfort and relief of the emus and kangaroos, and to the deep distress of the worthy Doctor and his biped companions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. The biped stopped, and the Triomed could smell his sudden fear. The Invader And Bobbie would have been a living, breathing human being, by his side and ready to aid him, even to creep into his heart; not a stuffed biped on a shelf in a musty museum. Penguin Persons & Peppermints But always he reflected that master and mistress set a high valuation on the little biped. Frank of Freedom Hill The animal had ceased to be in a full sense a quadruped, while not yet a biped, and a variation in the length of its limbs was almost sure to take place. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution It is time to pass from quadrupeds to bipeds. Birds of the Rockies One of these wooden bipeds once slipped inside and nearly strangled her. Chimney-Pot Papers A few days before and Guinevere had been a fish, then a helpless biped, and now suddenly, somewhere between my salad and coffee, she became an aquatic quadruped. Edge of the Jungle Down by the woods Frank was waiting for them now—waiting for these slow-moving bipeds. Frank of Freedom Hill Its easiest attitude must then have been the erect one, and its motion a true biped walk, not the swinging and jumping movement of the other anthropoids. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Where the proud bipeds, who would fain confine Infinite goodness to the little bounds Of their own charity, may envy thee!” 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers It required, however, but a few generations of experience to show these creatures that the unfeathered biped was a singularly dangerous animal, and they at once and permanently adopted the habit of avoiding him. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization You see here millions of bipeds like yourself, who suffer a man like themselves to despoil them of their property, to flay them alive, and to murder them at his pleasure. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Whatever attracted man to the frizzled, giggling, smirking, smiling bipeds in shirts remained a mystery to Skippy. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World After this ancestor had become a true, surface-dwelling biped, the differences in structure were probably so slight that physically the two forms were in effect identical. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Similarly "featherless bipeds" will have a complex meaning, containing as constituents the presence of two feet and the absence of feathers, while its denotation will be the class of men. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays "I won't see those elephantine bipeds come any nearer to me!" Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner "These villainous bipeds do fearfully exorbitate mine ear," said the agonised musician. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Not through the efforts of the fish itself, which now, badly damaged, swims but feebly; nor do the gulls appropriate it, but a wingless biped—no other than Ned Gancy. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure In short, man's ancestor may have become in considerable measure a biped while still largely a dweller in the trees, and to that degree set its arms free for other duties than that of locomotion. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution As soon as a stock is pretty well supplied with this world's goods, like some bipeds, they become very haughty, proud, aristocratic, and insolent. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained All other unfeathered bipeds were asleep, and we varied our bath by wandering around the beach in a state of nature, viewing things generally, but a turtle pond held us fascinated. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude “They will take us for a couple of feathered bipeds of some new species,” said the doctor, laughing. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. Among them were several very large bucks with superb antlers, and these seemed very little afraid of the small, quiet biped in leaf-colored rig. Woodcraft All the anthropoid apes dwell to some extent upon the ground, but these can neither be called quadrupeds nor bipeds, their usual mode of progression being an awkward compromise between the two. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution It needed a specimen from the other world, and this biped would serve nicely, but it might as well learn as much as possible about him first. Cat and Mouse "Of our feathered bipeds," I said, frowning at her, "the blackbird is notoriously the most hasty." Once a Week Because her heels are so high and her skirts are so snug, she takes about twice the time to climb aboard that a biped in trousers would take. 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' He was a rugged biped with something saurian in his ancestry; for his skin was scaled, and bony plates grew into a low crown upon his long skull. A Transmutation of Muddles Taking the stand that such a partly carnivorous anthropoid ape, biped in structure, appeared and made the ground its usual place of residence, we find ourselves on the direct trail of man. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution A large biped had found the opening from the other side. Cat and Mouse Plucked while the ingenuous biped had its head in the sand. Once a Week Plunge though they might, the horses could not join; dodge though they might, the bipeds could not catch him. Waring's Peril A great destruction of capital has been the result, but 'victory at last' has rewarded her efforts, and she is now followed by a train of four bipeds, one black, one white, and two octoroons. The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative The pony was sitting on the ground, erect, after the manner of a biped. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer The biped ejected a thin squirt of brown liquid through the hole—venom of some sort, apparently. Cat and Mouse They pretty well had to be bipeds, too, and if they weren't warm-blooded they couldn't have the oxygen-supply that highgrade brain cells require. A Matter of Importance These are neither so large nor human-like as the ourang or the chimpanzee; nevertheless, they are capable of walking upon their hind legs, after the manner of bipeds. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys On the ground beneath move enemies of a different kind, both biped and quadruped. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Featherless biped mammals that we are, what need have we in common that might conceivably provide a good and sufficient reason for the dolling up to which I am about to subject myself? The Perfect Gentleman In veterinary nomenclature each two of the legs, as referred to in pairs, is denominated a biped. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse A biped is an animal having but two feet; as man. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois A string of carriages, of the same build used throughout the States, occupied half the little street, all loading heavily with baggage and bipeds, till by nine we got in motion, forming quite a caravan. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. We may safely believe, that if the lions of Africa were placed in the same circumstances, a very similar shyness and dread of the upright biped would soon exhibit itself. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Willy-nilly, even higglety-pigglety and helter-skelter, these are what the featherless biped is after. The Perfect Gentleman If the two legs of a biped are both in action and raised from the ground, their congeners, still resting in inaction, will carry the total weight of the other two, or 500 pounds. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse And the Sieur Guillemot next performed a pas seul, While the elderly bipeds were playing a Pool. The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball I hear the bipeds clamorous for their supper.” Rich Enough a tale of the times “Only if I meet a piebald one with a taste for Scotch—or maybe a pearl gray biped jaguar with violet spots,” Gusterson told her, clapping on the cap with a We-Who-Are-About-To-Die gesture. The Creature from Cleveland Depths You may be the best trailer in Texas; and no doubt you are, for a biped: still here’s one can beat you.” The Death Shot A Story Retold Thieves, biped and quadruped, human and animal, troubled me more than ever; and perhaps the most difficult to deal with were the least dangerous. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands "And do you remember," he asked, "the day Isaac Hunchberger defined bipeds?" Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Silius Italicus describes a fearful epizoötic, which first attacked the dog, then the feathered biped, then horses, and cattle, and, last of all, the human being. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure And I began to repeat the note to myself again, when, on a crossing, I was accosted by a biped, commonly known as a small boy: 'Mister, yer stocking is sticking out of yer pocket.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It was very odd having the elephant walking after us, it seemed so much at home; with his length and number of legs, it could walk slowly but comfortably where we bipeds had to struggle. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah By this time everyone must know that woman, like man, is a biped. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 Indeed, we bipeds are in a sense trespassers upon the domain of the subterranean peoples. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 The fourth pervaded the whole of England in 1125, and was equally fatal to the biped and the quadruped. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure The geese went before him in regular platoons, following the word of command, and doing what he ordered—whether it might be the most ordinary act of the feathered biped, or some mighty miracle. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author The last vestiges of the bipeds were carefully nurtured and guarded by our forefathers until the vanishing atmosphere made their survival impossible. Giants on the Earth When a packer has learned all that there is to learn about quadrupeds, he knows only one-eighth of his business; the other seven-eighths, and the important seven-eighths, has to do with the study of bipeds. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." Who ever saw half a dozen of us hovering and watching and fussing round a masculine biped, thankful even to be snubbed rather than not noticed at all. Kate Coventry An Autobiography It was lying sound asleep on a mud-bank, not dreaming, doubtless, of the daring bipeds who were about to disturb its repose. Hunting the Lions Ere long numerous black lumps on the prairie told of death to the quadrupeds and success to the bipeds. The Big Otter To bolt and jump into the cart was almost an involuntary and instantaneous impulse on my part, though there was no need for haste, because the furious biped could not leap the wall. Six Months at the Cape The preacher looked up inquiringly, for he was too well acquainted with the ways of Indians not to know that the cry was a signal from a biped without wings. The Prairie Chief Are men the only bipeds that can be at the same time brave and virtuous? Kate Coventry An Autobiography After some pulling and hauling we got him up, and having caught his mule, which was quietly grazing near, wiser than his rider, we put the biped on his back. Hurricane Hurry “I should be very unwilling to pass many days here,” remarked the Count, as passing along street after street they scarcely met a creature, quadruped or biped. Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin “When provisions run short they will to a certainty be killed and eaten by the bipeds,” answered the stout orator. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures If we may credit the stories which from time to time have reached us, she can, if necessary, use her riding-whip in vigorous fashion about the ears of any offending biped or quadruped. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Its actions were contagious, for the next minute fully a hundred of the long-legged bipeds were capering about the marsh in a frantic dance, snapping their bills, and evidently enjoying this ebullition of fantastic gambols. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales In all likelihood the quadruped would have triumphed over the biped: the entrance would have been forced; the old hen dragged off her nest—perhaps killed and eaten—and the eggs after her. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" If that's all thought the crow, "I will soon let you know That all doubt on that score may be ended;" Then most laughingly piped, the poor silly biped, When quickly her dinner descended! Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress Presently, however, the moon topped the higher ground, and he saw one of these moving forms more distinctly, and perceived that it was a four-footed animal, not a biped. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Each of us then straddled the neck of a Filipino standing in the water and was held by ankles to be steadied while our biped mounts proceeded to the shore. An Epoch in History A Duke who cannot be dukely in his shirt, a Pope who is but an afflicted biped between the blankets, is no Duke at all, is a Pope by toleration. Little Novels of Italy Both animals, at the same instant, uttered a fierce, snorting sound, and rising upon their hind-legs, stood fronting each other like a brace of bipeds. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" An effeminate, solemn-looking dandy outwardly—within, as ferocious and hard a human biped as ever disgraced the name of man. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I As you draw cover after cover to find a fox, so in the desert you try watering-places when you are seeking game of any kind, quadruped or biped. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War We doubt whether it would have been possible, if he had been described as an open acknowledged biped in coat and trousers, to have retained our regard for him. Short Studies on Great Subjects He was humanoid, to the extent of being an upright biped, with two arms, a head on top of shoulders, and a torso that housed, among other oddities, four lungs. Oomphel in the Sky At first he could absolutely do nothing with her; she would not be ridden by any male biped. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem Oviparous bipeds, or birds, also "have many parts like the animals described above." Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology It is highly probable that birds evolved from certain Dinosaurs which had become bipeds, and it is possible that they were for a time swift runners that took "flying jumps" along the ground. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told And then I came to an open parade above the town—“except the Schlosskirche Weathercock no biped stands so high.” Journeys to Bagdad The biped did not bark or growl, as the quadruped had done, but he looked wickedly at the intruder. The Drummer Boy Experiments, training, co-operation, had developed a tie which gave the water-limited race of mankind new eyes, ears, minds, to see, evaluate, and report concerning an element in which the bipeds were not free. Key Out of Time The country was so much a primeval wilderness that a big bull moose stalked almost upon their camp before discovering the presence of a strange biped. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North The average Eastern tourist is a funny biped anyhow, and he is at his funniest out in California. Roughing it De Luxe He was a biped, vaguely humanoid, but he had four arms and a face like a lizard's, and, except for some equipment on a belt, he was entirely naked. Uller Uprising He was a biped, vaguely humanoid, but he had four arms and a face like a lizard's, and, except for some equipment on belt, he was entirely naked. Ullr Uprising Now and then he awoke with a start, and looked up at the obstinate biped above his head. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Make up a sentence containing the word "biped." New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words Their Commander, author of that thrilling shocker, "The Man-killers of Tsavo," finds Assyrians and mules rather a mouthful and is going to tabloid bipeds and quadrupeds into "The Zion Corps." Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Man is not, for example, an albatross, but a land biped, with a considerable disposition towards being made sick and giddy by unusual motions, and however he soars he must come to earth to live. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought Where the proud bipeds, who would fain confine Infinite goodness to the little bounds Of their own charity, may envy thee! The Dog's Book of Verse You and this—this biped, are at the bottom of it. The Cow Puncher The biped in its paper cof- Fin, cramped and plump and neat, Had scratched its very toenails off In making both ends meat. Poems Vol. IV The bipeds of the party made haste to follow their animals' example, only, in their case, their heads were sheltered as snugly as if under a tent, by the big, high-peaked, broad-flapped Mexican saddles. The Border Boys Across the Frontier They rolled over and over, fighting and clawing like wild cats, two bipeds in a death struggle as fierce and ruthless as that between wolves or grizzlies. Steve Yeager "None of these; it is the production of a biped." Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Within its hospitable portals, hungry bipeds of the male persuasion were supplied, to their intense satisfaction, with abundant oysters, and unlimited foaming Dublin stout. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men He made a man of him according to the ancient definition of a "biped without feathers." Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match Remorse smote me that I had consented to engage this frail, pink-and-ivory biped for an enterprise which lay outside the suburbs of Manhattan. In Search of the Unknown Was a "man" a biped with certain easily recognized physical characteristics? Star Born "Is it biped or quadruped, fish, flesh, fowl, or insect?" Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Thus begins the sad history in this country of the rise and annual fall on Thanksgiving days of that exalted biped—the American turkey. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z They saw a small furry biped, some twelve inches tall, which waddled insanely in the exact line of their progress and with no apparent hope of outdistancing them. Operation: Outer Space Fifth and last, whether bipeds or quadrupeds I do not know, though all evidence appears to confirm my theory that they walk erect. In Search of the Unknown The faint rumor carried by the migrating runners must be true, for here was a hopper afraid of bipeds. Star Born We doubt whether it would have been possible if he had been described as an open acknowledged biped in coat and trousers, to have retained our regard for him. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc He will recompense all who deserve recompense, be they great or small—biped or quadruped. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Tiny, furry biped animals waddled desperately to get out of their way. Operation: Outer Space It is very meet, right, and the bounden duty of every quadruped, biped and decapod to prey upon the clam. Some Winter Days in Iowa He knew that Those Others were biped, quasi-human in form, closer in physical appearance to the colonists than to the mermen. Star Born Being a biped put it in a class by itself for this planet. Little Fuzzy "Oh, yes, and I want to be something better than a mere biped without feathers." Medoline Selwyn's Work Babs, too, spotted one of the small, foot-high furry bipeds feasting gluttonously on small round objects that grew from the base of a small tree instead of on its branches. Operation: Outer Space There was a terrific squawking and peeping and clucking as the absurd bipeds ran about in an utterly bewildered manner. Marjorie at Seacote We are old men trying to sing the loves of children; we are wingless bipeds trying to understand the gods. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The bipeds that love mousing and carrion have a chant of their own, and nobody quarrels with it. The House by the Church-Yard The sun had set, and these grave birds were seeking their roosts; every tower of church and monastery affording a domicil to some feathered family, with the full sanction of the biped denizens below. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters The pictures of foot-high furry bipeds on the glacier planet had made a sensation on television. Operation: Outer Space Outside: another spaceport, surrounded by the variegated hostels for the variegated tourists, and bipeds are in bare majority. Home Again, Home Again How they managed to live at all is a mystery to the twentieth century biped. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope Away waddled the human biped, and Mary, with another heavy sigh, lighted the candles, and retreated into the bar-room. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers The human biped with the 'os divinior' is slower than a racehorse even. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Every body clings to it—the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals With the habits and tastes of the male biped he was tolerably familiar. The Voice in the Fog Stop," said the long-legged biped, "don't move for your life! The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia In a Carnival frolic, he appeared in the streets with two companions in the character of bipeds with feathers,—a scanty addition to Plato's definition of man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Ah! when Dean Swift was quick, how he enhanc'd The horse!—and humbled biped man like Plato! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood One merely accepts them, thankfully—" "I was a fool—" "Say rather, merely an animated biped, an instinct on legs. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment Venerable crows, vultures, buzzards, and other bipeds, most of them with their plumage gone, pass the remainder of their lives in peace in this curious retreat. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East My first view of the feathered bipeds was strikingly spectacular. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park Of words, mantras, and of bipeds, the Brahmanas, are the foremost. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 I am only a Jack-in-the-Pulpit, you know, quite dependent upon what the birds and other bipeds tell me, so you cannot expect a full description and explanation of the sphygmograph here. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 The inevitableness of Home Rule resides in the fact that it is, as one might say, a biped among ideas. The Open Secret of Ireland Doubtless he imagined that all his troubles came from that biped or monkey hanging up yonder, just within reach of his claws if he arose on his hind legs. The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness Here the classification of naturalists would be useless, for a biped and a reptile not unfrequently bear the same interpretation as emblems. The Cathedral One example of these will perhaps be enough:— 'These crawlers,' for instance, 'should they be still here,' 'Not yet become bipeds?' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He felt ashamed of his two legs, knowing that the defendant in this case was a biped. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 However, the vast enfolding iniquity is yet to be displayed and duly shuddered at; for WALL, the biped hyena, wears—a fustian coat! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Thick-coming fancies brooded in our brain—all things conspired against us; the day was damp and wretched—the church-bells emulated each other in announcing the mortalities of earth’s bipeds—each toll’d its tale of death. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Curious, isn't it?" she said to Nina—"the inborn antipathy of two agreeable human bipeds for one another. The Younger Set A better-drenched biped than climbed into the wagon at the close of this episode, or a more thoroughly-satisfied quadruped than jogged along before him, it would be difficult to find. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 I knew, also, that nandus are among the most stupid of bipeds, and it was just conceivable that the man-killer, not perceiving his danger until too late, might go over the cliffs into the sea. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance He is afraid of a bicycle or a wheel-barrow, which do not alarm the most timid bipeds, and when he is afraid he shies, and when he shies I no longer remain. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892 Now holly and mistletoe girdle Its halls and its homesteads, And every biped is beaming With peace and good will. A Christmas Garland The wolf was evidently a prey to curiosity—the same propensity which has caused the death of many bipeds and quadrupeds. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne There is a stable for a horse and a cow, and all about were the conventional traps of a civilized biped who lives upon a blending of wit, woodcraft and industry. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 No reasonable doubt now exists that the imprints in question have been produced by the tracks of bipeds impressed on the stone when in a soft state. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Does not the gratuitous ingenuity of the young bipeds indicate a far higher degree of intelligence? Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 By the ancient Egyptians cats were held in the highest esteem; and we learn from Diodorus Siculus, their 'lives and safeties' were tendered more dearly than those of any other animal, whether biped or quadruped. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852 The footprints now under consideration form a double series of single prints, and therefore, beyond all question, are the tracks of a biped—that is, of an animal which walked upon two legs. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science Indeed it is a cynicism amongst physicians that the proper definition of woman is "a constipated biped." The Nervous Housewife Wolves are numerous in all Siberia, and are not admired by the biped inhabitants. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life There is only one biped under the sun who is in his eyes more contemptible and hateful than any animal of marsh or forest. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 The quadrupeds, Dutch and English, were on the best of terms—a happy augury, surely, for the amity which would unite the bipeds of the land when the war was done. The Siege of Kimberley The sense of fellowship with every other walking biped, the full-blooded understanding that Whitman and O. Henry knew in brimming measure, comes by gulps and twinges to almost all. Shandygaff Birds and bipeds both trembled and obeyed; taking a wide circuit to avoid the spot. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The poorest qualities go to the dogs, and the best are reserved for bipeds. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Tea and some palatable baked persimmon—very like figs when baked—were brought me by an awful-looking biped who was still in mourning, his unshaven skull sadly betokening the fact. Across China on Foot The human biped cannot drag across the snow for any distance more than its own weight; hence equipment is of the simplest. Pardners The sleeping accommodation also is, as a rule, amicably divided between quadruped and biped, and, taken all round, it cannot be said that either is any the worse for their brotherly relations. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Here were quadrupeds and bipeds, feathered creatures and hairy creatures, large animals and small, shy and tame, friendly and predatory—horses, horned cattle, rats, cats, dogs, jackals, crows, chickens; what not. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 The plan they adopted was systematic, and worthy the imitation of biped hunters. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described In a few minutes their chief, a stalwart, brawny biped, swaggered in, twirling his moustaches, clanking his sword, and studying to seem truculent. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Man, according to the Sphinx, is successively a quadruped, a biped, and a triped. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 They stop: the man to lower his feet is seen And the tired beast, withdrawing from between, Mounts, as they start again, the biped's neck, And scarce the crowd can say which one's on deck. Black Beetles in Amber Where the proud bipeds, who would fain confine Infinite Goodness to the little bounds Of their own charity, may envy thee. Voices for the Speechless These sweet songsters seem to have left far behind them to the south all suspicion of bigger bipeds. The New North Forthwith, the mass of biped wolves raised their murderous yell, as they started for their canoes on the Miami. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. Meaning, I presume, the organ of building; which I contend to be not a natural organ of the featherless biped. Headlong Hall "True," replied the biped, with a contented grunt; "I was then a learned pig; I am now a learned man." Cobwebs from an Empty Skull And I--I," his eyes shone with an unholy light, "shall be as you are now--a biped--a real man--a giant of a man. The Penalty The wayward disposition of the bipeds at the moment was too much for the driver's temper, and he indignantly cried out, "Deevil choke them!" Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character There stood two feathered bipeds on their tip-toes, with their giraffe necks stretched up to my sister's swinging shelf where the cream and butter were kept. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 "Well," replied Harris, "I indeed thought I saw that those animals, which have just made off so rapidly, were bipeds." Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen How could a man of to-day be compared to the biped animal of prehistoric times, though bearing visibly the traces of the animalism from which he had lately emerged? The Shadow of the Cathedral "One can hardly expect a smiling countenance from the human biped trudging ten or twenty miles under a load fit for a mule." Primitive Love and Love-Stories Pickpockets are the least faithful to each other of all known rogues, and are the most difficult of all biped animals to tame, or make any thing of in the way of improvement when caught. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Animals that go on their two hind limbs only, like Bird People and House People, are called bipeds. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Then, this biped and this quadruped, passing rapidly, on a sudden may, very properly, be taken one for the other. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Formerly, he had been a conventionalized masculine biped in a blue-serge covering who paid her salary and struck attitudes that were symbols of predatory instincts rather than an indication that such instincts existed. The Blood Red Dawn But the cranberry-cultivator has one enemy, which is neither bird, nor worm, nor blight, but biped,—a Rat, two-legged, erect, or moderately so, talking, even, in audible and intelligible speech,—the Pine Rat, namely. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 I think I'm getting to be—just a biped…. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Groups of merry children were sporting on the green lawn, enjoying their privilege of roaming every where at will, while the older bipeds were confined to the regular walks. Views a-foot Then, deliberately, and with the utter unconcern of the male biped he divested himself, piece by piece, of every stitch of covering wherewith his body was clothed. Cheerful—By Request The present "march of intellect" will march away these bipeds and quadrupeds, and no doubt the noble Marquess of Exeter "would much rather have their room than their company." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829 His company consisted of seventy-five bipeds and one hundred and twenty-five quadrupeds. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada It was my hope and desire that you, through some one else, would learn of it, and come to understand more fully what a generous and splendid biped I am. The Hunted Woman As for the birds, I do not believe there is one of them but does more good than harm; and of how many featherless bipeds can this be said. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers The American reserved his fire, thereafter, for bipeds with wings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, was as little like a starveling Sanyasi as any biped descendant of the anthropoids could possibly be. Essays in Rebellion This is essential; for Spanish custom prevails in the inns, whose host considers his duty accomplished when he has provided ample stabling for the mules and dubious bedding for his biped guests. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Such is the involuntary operation of the mental faculty in the imitative biped man. Martin Chuzzlewit Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. Nicholas Nickleby A bullock in a biped's boot, I iterate, is Billy! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens This afternoon a male biped is coming to this house, and he's not coming to see Eileen. Her Father's Daughter As for the birds, I do not believe there is one of them but does more good than harm; and of how many featherless bipeds can this be said? My Garden Acquaintance The water from these springs is in great demand and is not only sought by the human biped, but is also in favor with the equine quadruped. Arizona Sketches He had grown up to the tacit fiction that women on horseback were not bipeds. Burning Daylight For instance, the human race has one kind of shape—bipeds. Sylvie and Bruno It was for this trifling, straddling biped, intent only upon getting his goose-head above the foolish geese, that the Regent of the universe suffered ignominy and death. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 There is, however, a difference between us two-handed bipeds and other living creatures—what is it? What is Property? One horse reared up to his full height—the titanic and terrifying height of a horse when he becomes a biped. The Wisdom of Father Brown We all have our conception of the indispensable, and the indispensable, to this young lady, was a spectator; almost any male biped would serve the purpose. Confidence "Yes Captain; but we have unfortunately brought a troop of bipeds, whose vicinity troubles me." Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea They both have the ability to climb giddy heights, inaccessible to any other wingless biped. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 His eye is to take in fish, flower, and bird, quadruped and biped. Excursions I had a better opinion of my fellow bipeds, of whom I yet knew but little, and heard him with something like contempt. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor The man who holds himself barred from admiring one woman just because he happens to be engaged to another is not a very conspicuous biped. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Their circumspection proved to me that these birds knew what to expect from bipeds of our species, and I concluded that, if the island was not inhabited, at least human beings occasionally frequented it. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Why, if they had been born in North America they would have known how to treat that mammiferous biped called man, and would have fled at the first glimpse of us. The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Big Dan, the horse, was truly a horrible creature; the rooster was a new and suspicious species of biped, and the bleating calves objects of her direst hatred. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others We pass on to another division of our subject, 'the moral qualities of the dog', strongly developed and beautifully displayed, and often putting the biped to shame. The Dog It is surely the most intelligent of all animals; the unfeathered bipeds, as the French wits call us two-legged mortals, excepted. Anna St. Ives The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Oh, my dressing-room was very pretty just then; but I let Frantz believe that all Paris was full of chickens, ducks, geese, and other domestic bipeds. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt The cats immediately took a great fancy to these diminutive bipeds, and watched them with the greatest interest. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others He attacks both the quadruped and the biped. The Dog He was, indeed, a model for his biped brethren in the New and the Old World! The Mysterious Island Among them are still fussing to and fro the insects, thou knowest, the bipeds that have never yet once defiled thee nor me.' Dream Tales and Prose Poems Our harmless race shall every savage Both quadruped and biped ravage? The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes The monkeys, of all sizes, forms, and colors, continually chattering and grimacing, as fully represented the four-footed animals as the parrots did the bipeds. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale There they ought oftener to be; for they have not much individuality of attachment to recommend them, and, like other spoiled animals, both quadruped and biped, misbehave. The Dog One thing, however, never varies,—be the agent biped or quadruped, dumb or speechful, young or old, the stranger invariably takes the hint, and gets off scott free for his sharpness. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive. The King in Yellow A little anaemic and humble biped whom I had not previously noted, as he stood in one corner with a painfully deferential expression, looked all at once relieved. The Enormous Room For women like Margaret Pole can endure vice and folly and disappointment, but not a petty, trivial, chattering biped that masquerades as Man. Together My arguments carried the day, and the biped accompanied us as well as his four-footed companion. The Mystery of Cloomber As I have before observed, it is a well-established fact, that all four-footed emigrants are not less subject to the coast fever than bipeds. Journal of an African Cruiser He was to be the instrument to punish me-the audacious biped, so insulting to the entire tiger species! Autobiography of a Yogi So, amongst bipeds, the most solid service must sometimes give way to the claims of congeniality. Friends in Council — First Series For an Englishman then was a strange and ever fresh curiosity to a Frenchman, a specimen of another race of bipeds, with doubts whether marriage could make parentage between them. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War A single night's repose is more precious to me than a myriad birds or quadrupeds or bipeds; my ideas on the sacred nature of sleep being perfectly Oriental. Alone She remained here two weeks, not daring to move in any direction, as the wealthy New Orleans planter's biped bloodhounds were seen and heard from in almost every direction through the city. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Taught by Pythagoras are we, That we our forms with animals exchange; We're kites or pigeons for a while, Then biped plodders on the soil; And then As volatile, again The liquid air we range.--' Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes But for all the cold, there was keen life in the air, and yet keener life in the two animals, biped and quadruped. The Marquis of Lossie The habit of rising on the surge and falling into the trough behind it enables a biped, as soon as he lands, to take things that are flat with indifference. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War They also play at dominoes, and with so much skill as to triumph over biped opponents, whining if the adversary place a wrong piece, or if they themselves be deficient in a right one. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation And to tell the truth, it is man, the hypocritical and cunning biped who has the least share in it. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories At this spring season, true, the migratory host of unfeathered bipeds crowds northwards; even as in autumn it accompanies the birds southwards. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 For now his grandson Ephraim was growing into biped shape, and having lost his mother when he first came into the world, was sure to need the more natural and maternal nutriment of money. Erema — My Father's Sin These queer bipeds made no effort to retaliate. The Grizzly King However, "in verdure clad," I was persuaded into wearing them, and stiffly sidled off, a badgered biped, my head swinging round the circle, and my voice hanging on the verge of profanity all the way. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870. My dear sir,—a good licking—and he had one, and something over—is the best lesson for that manner of biped. Two Years Ago, Volume I The world, like a Mississippi steamer, was coaling, with an eye to the needs of its future biped passengers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 The auctioneer in America is a curious specimen of the biped creation. An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States How can a person who stands four feet in his boots be called biped? Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 37, December 10, 1870 The mere drudge, whether biped or quadruped—he, I mean, whose thinking powers are scarcely alive—has little need of the relief which is afforded by amusement. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health The habits of animals were familiar to her and the vices of the biped man. Man Size He had portraits of celebrated racers, both quadruped and biped, and he could tell the fastest time ever made by either. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 Now, as fitting representative of himself and of his clan, a great responsibility had come upon him, and he was lost in as anxious thought as could come to a biped of his quality. The Wolf's Long Howl In midwinter, when the seashore watering-places are forsaken by men, you may find Nahant or Nantasket Beach more thronged with bipeds of this sort than by the featherless kind in summer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 Last spring I had a favorite speckled hen—she was the specklest biped which ever wore feathers. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 Here come the growling bipeds for such bones and messes as are thrown them. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come You are not like the poor brutes of the field and forest, who lack the reason which would show them how superior in physical force alone they are to the insignificant biped who commands them. Temporal Power The professor had been driven well-nigh distracted by these migratory bipeds. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Or again, that man means a rational, and does not mean a speaking, a religious, or an aesthetic animal, or a biped with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth? Deductive Logic He is the mere outline of a man—the "featherless biped" of the philosopher. A Handbook of Ethical Theory An absurd simile drawn from an ignorance of the formation of the biped. The Prairie Certainly they were a menagerie of curious human bipeds. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II He who might have dazzled us with divinity is visibly a feather-less biped. Without Prejudice What we need here is a tamer for vicious and ungentle bipeds. The Rose in the Ring The lordly elephant does likewise, and so does the rhinoceros, save when he is in doubt about the identity of the biped animal and trots up to get certainty out of a nearer view. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations I do not understand about the infant's sole; since all men become bipeds, all must exert pressure on sole. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 When Gidi Mavunga rose from his meal, the elder dependants took his place; the junior bipeds followed, and the remnants were thrown to the quadrupeds. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 The settlements are sometimes provided with little plots of vegetables; usually, however, the plantations are distant, to preserve them from the depredations of bipeds and quadrupeds. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 I think of his physical evolution as completed when he assumed the upright attitude or passed from a quadruped to a biped, which must of itself have been a long, slow process. Time and Change Man has not yet learned it himself; and therefore do we find the beasts of the field a lap ahead of the quarrelsome biped who has assumed dominion over them. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Yes! gentlemen," addressing the attentive cowboys, "I can cure anything that touches the ground—biped, quadruped, or centipede—glanders, botts, greased hoofs, heaves, blind staggers, it makes no odds. Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery But as for the goldfinches returning—it is the instinct of us bipeds to return. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box We should not believe so scandalous an assertion without detailed proof; it is hardly fair to make the innocent biped as needlessly cruel as man. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 He has overturned its surfaces, and a feeble biped has become king of creation. The Physiology of Taste Wary, timid and fearfully afraid of man, at the first sight of a biped they swing away. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations |
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