| 单词 | webbed |
| 例句 | Cracks webbed from the asphalt beneath Mr. Flux. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Nearby is a black leather examination table with thick, webbed, restraining straps. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Except for the wet solidity under his webbed feet, he was living in nothing—a solid nothing, like chaos. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He could no longer use his webbed hands to propel himself forward; he worked his flippers furiously, but Ron and Fleur’s sister were like potato-filled sacks dragging him back down. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I looked out the spider- webbed window of that bullet-riddled car at brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, one and all, my human family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the absolute blackness, his vision is webbed with a thousand traveling wisps of red and blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When they were solid she webbed them with hide, made loops for her toes, and put on her snowshoes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the oversized, brown webbed feet left something to be desired in their design. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My nail-bitten fingers twinned with his, pale and webbed with purple veins. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He twisted around and looked at his bare feet — they had become elongated and the toes were webbed too: It looked as though he had sprouted flippers. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The stone floor was webbed with fissures like a sheet of ice. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His face bore little resemblance to the one on the Wall of Fame, with little webbed feet around a pair of eyes that looked like brittle coals. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll never smoke cigarettes or eat pork or birds with webbed feet,” she murmured as she swabbed out the guinea-pig cages. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s dressed like her Warcross avatar—in a limited edition suit and webbed glitter cape—and dancing with a bunch of businessmen in bright pink suits. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The fabric of the island seemed to be an intricate, tightly webbed mass of tube-shaped seaweed, in diameter a little thicker than two fingers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The fear was so complete it webbed together our screams and motion. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Black hair’s still webbed in the silver hairbrush. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His long, clean, yellow teeth appeared and disappeared in a yellow face all webbed, though he was not an old man, with fine, soft wrinkles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Before I could get too panicky, though, I began to glimpse some open spaces through the webbed branches. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It has a shorter nose than a seal, small webbed feet instead of flippers, and fur that is thicker and much more beautiful. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He sits motionless, propped up in bed, deathwhite hands folded on top of the covers: his eyes, once webbed with visions, are shut. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The leader didn’t stop moving until they reached a huge bus, its sides dented and scarred, most of the windows webbed with cracks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Bulging blue veins webbed the backs of his hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Merpeople were emerging on all sides now, watching him eagerly, pointing at his webbed hands and gills, talking behind their hands to one another. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He must’ve been at least fifteen feet tall, but the most startling thing was his enormous milky eye, scarred and webbed with cataracts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z From Red Caps they moved on to kappas, creepy water-dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The one dark red leg that they could see ended in a webbed foot and three powerful, taloned toes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Or something else, an Unbaby, with a pinhead or a snout like a dog’s, or two bodies, or a hole in its heart or no arms, or webbed hands and feet? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Davos had heard that some of the lords of the Three Sisters had webbed hands and feet, but he had always put that down as just another sailor’s story. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were outfitted in a uniform C.P. didn’t recognize: white helmets, heavy black boots, light blue shirts, and dark blue pants with what appeared to be webbed Army belts, some of which held holstered guns. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They looked green and ghostly under the water, and they had become webbed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z With his lanky legs and webbed feet, he looked like a tomatillo with toothpicks jutting out of it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He held in a webbed hand the chain from which Seth dangled. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Outside the webbed gates a guard was stationed, and he escorted Bivas to the textile factory every morning. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Her creations include open-centered globes defined by webbed lines, a book-like fan of rough leaves and a long hanging piece, unfurled like a scroll or a scarf. In the galleries: The beauty of nature, in all its horror 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z I had rented a cabin in the hills, from which we could see across the town to the Anyksciai Pinewoods, an ancient forest webbed with riverbeds bearing imprints of prehistoric armored fish. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z He begins to wear the kind of “expandable webbed leather belt favored by rotund country club golfers, which grew and shrank with the size of one’s trousers.” In New Memoirs, Food Writers Serve Up Stories About Their Beat 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z To commemorate the film, Jordan Brand released a special edition Jordan 1 with a distinctive webbed pattern, known as the Spider-Man Origin Story. Air Jordans on the Big Screen: When the Sneaker Is the Real Star 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z He dives, his black-winged arms pulled inward until he clears the plane; he extends his arms, pivots his shoulders forward and spreads his webbed legs. Wingsuiting: adrenaline highs and dangerous lows 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The Daffy statue stands in the corner of a low, rectangular pedestal, a webbed toe overhanging the edge. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z It will also be fibrous, and webbed with chewy, sticky collagen. Brisket Is Worth the Wait 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The bottom of each cable resembles a small webbed hand, a distinctly anthropomorphic vision that makes it seem as if he were being cared for by an extraterrestrial nanny. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The “veil” is the exoskeleton, punctured by diagonal cuts and distended windows that look a bit like the webbed packing material that has mercifully replaced Styrofoam peanuts. The problem with The Broad is the collection itself 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Her size, strength, webbed paws and waterproof fur enable her to rescue people at risk of drowning along the coast of Italy. Real, furry superheroes get their own movie 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Each piece is webbed with skinny filaments of ceratotrichia, rich with collagen, which may or may not keep you young. East Meets West, and Cafe Becomes Sake Bar, at Hi-Collar 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Gripping the sides of her thighs, the dancer stretched the “skin” outward like the webbed wings of a bat. Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fantastical Imagination 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Standing flat on golden, webbed feet, it turns its head to stare with goosey, goggle-eyed curiosity. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z It looks vaguely like Ireland, undulating greens rolling to the sea, webbed by thin footpaths, the only other sign of humanity a Hobie Cat, skittering over the reef. A St. Martin vacation reminds parents they don’t really want to get away from kids 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z They are duck-billed, egg-laying, semi-aquatic mammals with poisonous spurs on their webbed feet: the Australian platypus is so weird that early European zoologists thought it must be an elaborate hoax. Platypus milk: unlikely weapon in fight against superbugs 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z At the back of the apartment, another door led to a small garden with a webbed fence. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The Old World is webbed with well-traveled beer trails in places like Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z This October Revolution allowed your ears to receive a broad, loosely webbed assortment of music, but there wasn’t much — coming from the audience or the organizers — to remind you what united them. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z So Spider-man 3, which critics were lukewarm towards, may be partially to blame for the webbed wonder's slight downturn in sales. Spider-man: no longer the US's favourite comic book hero? 2013-06-28T15:54:50Z Work it off in local style aboard a Bellyak, a kayak derivation in which paddlers lie on their bellies and use their hands, clad in webbed gloves, to paddle. Summer’s Not Over Yet! 8 Ways to Extend Your Vacation 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z After donning a pair of blue webbed gloves for extra resistance, I checked my inhibitions at the poolside and joined 13 students — most were women — in the water. Urban Athlete: Aqua Zumba and Deepwater Running Round Out Fitness Routine 2012-08-02T19:28:37Z "They had discovered an animal that lived in water, had webbed feet and tasted like fish," Wong wrote. The strange history of how the Catholic Church declared beaver to be a fish — at least during Lent 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z They wear green-brown attire tight on the torso, with loose, webbed leggings. Dance Review: Tao Dance Theater at Alice Tully Hall 2012-07-26T21:24:32Z A small group of men stand in front of the webbed balcony that, eight decades later, would lead to the room that I used as an office. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z There was the blond with the webbed hand who told me all Asian people look the same. Asymmetric love, part one: I'm going to tell him how I feel 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The spines of the books are webbed in faded gold designs looping around gothic font titles. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z A six-foot-high webbed gate stood at the building’s main entrance, and then, inside the lobby, an old-fashioned elevator was encased in a web-shaped cage. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The rough concentric circles on its shell looked like small topographical renderings of a cluster of hills; its tiny webbed feet displayed miniscule nails shorter than thumbtacks. In Chesapeake Bay, Poplar Island is a man-made miracle 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z We see Alvar’s beginnings in Nordic Classicism, including a 1924 metal table with webbed feet that evokes both Dr. Seuss and a Norse gnome. In ‘Artek and the Aaltos,’ Caution — Sleek, Modernist Curves Ahead 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z While tarantulas wait below with their eight eyes pointed skyward, trapdoor spiders build a webbed door and fling it open when the unsuspecting prey walks by. Spiders, spiders everywhere? Tarantula mating season starts early amid threats to arachnids 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z This three-foot long reptile was shaped like a chubby miniature whale, but with an elongated trunk, webbed feet and a long, narrow snout. Ancient filter-feeding reptile had a freaky similarity with modern whales 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The webbed feet of platypuses are an adaptation for swimming. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The platypus is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal that is native to Australia, measures a foot or two, and has webbed feet and a duck-like bill. Man Accused of Kidnapping Platypus Is Charged in Australia 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z After weeks of digging, the area around the small town of Medvedivka, near a crossing to mainland Ukraine, is webbed with an elaborate trench system stretching several miles. A web of trenches shows Russia fears losing Crimea Sumatran tigers are the smallest of the six tiger subspecies and have webbed paws, which make them excellent swimmers. Sumatran tiger twins thriving in first public appearance at Chester Zoo 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The district center in Qadis is home to just 4,000 or so families, living in low, mud-brick homes webbed by dirt alleys. Dying Children and Frozen Flocks in Afghanistan’s Bitter Winter of Crisis 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Beavers fascinate people not only because of their landscaping skills but because of their anatomical oddities—their scaly tails, burnt-orange teeth, webbed hind feet and dexterous hands. How Beavers Shaped America, from Capitalism to Climate Change 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The small traditional webbed hoop with feathers is used to offer protection, and she said that it had given her strength during challenging times. California Is Home to the Tallest, Largest and Oldest Trees in the World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The small traditional webbed hoop with feathers is used to offer protection, and she said it’s given her strength during challenging times. First Native American woman in space awed by Mother Earth 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z In fact, though, a more obvious antecedent is “One Froggy Evening,” the Chuck Jones cartoon classic from the 1950s, with Lyle following in the webbed footsteps of Michigan J. Frog. ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ review: A musical showstopper this is not 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Mann is a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in California, and taking up her mother’s dream catcher, a small traditional webbed hoop believed to offer protection. Russian launches to space from US, 1st time in 20 years 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The webbed feet of a duck help it swim. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The researchers found that the wings and webbed feet combined would have been enough to propel the animal from a resting position. Little Pterosaur Could Have ‘Pole-Vaulted’ into Flight from the Water 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Visually, one of the standouts is D. Michael Cheers’s downward shot of a boy wearing a Spider-Man shirt and riding a webbed swing above a puddle that captures his shadow. Review | In the galleries: Women view environmental issues via imagery 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The boats parked within close range of a scrubby berm dotted with nests and the white-capped heads of pelicans warming their eggs between their webbed feet. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z But the parachute frogs splayed their heavily webbed toes to glide horizontally before touching down. How Parachute Frogs Took to the Sky 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z A snail shell, mushrooms, webbed footprints and woodpecker-drilled holes in trees were highlights. City Nature Challenge lets kids help scientists around the world 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The paleontologists used a process known as laser-stimulated fluorescence to detect the fossilized tissues, including a wing membrane and webbed feet. Little Pterosaur Could Have ‘Pole-Vaulted’ into Flight from the Water 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z With its long sensitive nose and large webbed feet, it is one of only two remaining desman species in the world. Dragonflies disappearing as wetlands are lost 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, it is a marvel, with a deeply golden, webbed interior pocketed with oblong holes. Where to order the best panettone this holiday season 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Nor are we San Francisco, with its century-plus resume of public officials webbed in bribery, sex and nepotism scandals and even an instance of gun-running. In L.A., at least our corrupt officials don’t have much power 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z She also had webbed fingers, no thumbs, six toes on each foot, one kidney and only parts of her stomach. Masters level: Paralympian eyes medal in 4th different sport 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Villains also get “webbed,” wrapped in webs and incapacitated. What to watch with your kids: ‘Spidey and His Amazing Friends,’ ‘The Suicide Squad’ and more 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The movie confirms and debunks those rumors in the opening minutes, plunging beneath the surface and into a neighborhood of underwater dwellers whose webbed and scaly humanoid bodies might well seem fearsome at first glance. Review: ‘Luca’ is Pixar, Italian style — and one of the studio’s loveliest movies in years 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z It is named for its short claws, which are so tiny that they do not even extend beyond the pads of its webbed hands. Adorable sea otters are the latest animal to fall victim to the novel coronavirus 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “Their branched antlers are also unique in that the long tines point backward. Another unique feature of these deer is their hooves - they are webbed to aid in swimming.” Memphis Zoo welcomes baby deer from rare species 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z In 2019 and 2020, Ibrahim and his colleagues collected more parts of the Moroccan Spinosaurus, including foot and ankle bones, which may allow scientists to test whether the dinosaur’s feet were webbed. Did the 'river monster' Spinosaurus hunt like a stork? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “That’s a habitat where a bird with webbed feet doesn’t belong, and they were thriving,” Sharp says. Do Canada geese still fly south for winter? Yes, but it's complicated 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z When last we checked on the platypus, it was confounding our expectations of mammals with its webbed feet, duck-like bill and laying of eggs. Platypuses Glow Under Blacklight. We Have No Idea Why. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The best of the bunch is Ghost Girl, dressed in a long green-and-purple skirt with a webbed top. Zadzooks: ‘Scooby-Doo! Adventure in the Cemetery’ playset (Playmobil) review 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The 10 players on each side each use those sticks with webbed ends to pass and catch a rubber ball — also to smack one another — as they angle for shots. Imagine inventing a sport and then being shunned by it. That's the Haudenosaunee story 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z A drawing of four webbed penguin feet illustrated the point. Maryland Zoo reopens to public with precautions for people and animals 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Last year, over 275,000 people came to see the swimming iguanas, giant tortoises and birds with webbed feet the color of blue cotton candy. Pandemic upends life on isolated, idyllic Galapagos Islands 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Once he gets his tiny webbed feet covered in paint, he’s off and sometimes tough to keep up with. Akron Zoo home to a budding art colony of critters 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Yet just what is it about this oddly Gothic brood, forever clad in black humor, that keeps audiences gleefully returning to the Addamses’ webbed doorstep? Why the appeal of the Addams family endures, up through its new animated movie 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The webbed contraption looks something like an unraveled alimentary canal — esophagus, stomach and intestines. Review: With the Amazon rainforest on fire, Ernesto Neto's art opens a jungle clearing 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z They do not have webbed feet, and their fur becomes waterlogged if they are forced to remain in the water for long. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: stories behind classic portraits 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The pads are lovely, soft, and enveloping, and the webbed leather strap at the top is light enough to be forgettable. MrSpeakers Ether 2 review: true high-resolution headphones 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps the real lesson of 30 years of webbed connectedness is that a “disrupted” economic model is every bit as vulnerable to human failings as the one it supplants. Opinion | The World Wide Web just turned 30. We’re celebrating with anti-tech fervor. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z A simple bamboo teepee further webbed with jute twine will work just as well as a formal metal obelisk. What’s not to love about the sentimental, sensationally scented sweet pea? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z “I was up at six-thirty this morning, so I have webbed toes.” Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z "We had to escape over bodies, and I looked down at my hands and I couldn't understand what was wrong. The fingers were webbed, like a duck's feet. The skin was just all melted." 'It's crazy. Why has it happened again?' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z A.Human asks visitors to find beauty in looks that would usually be used as a kind of body horror — like hands webbed in delicate, lacy patterns, or a full-back array of anglerfish lanterns. A.Human is a sci-fi fashion show about changing your body instead of your clothes 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z To accomplish the feat, they also relied on their feet, the rear two of which are webbed. Beavers Made America Great, a New Book Explains 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z And so, on this first day, 17 of 33 of the juveniles went to the queen and remained unmarked, the others went to the guilds and were awarded a numbered ring on their webbed feet. Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstance 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Stanford also has found the webbed prints of pterosaurs — flying reptiles — and five-toed tracks from primitive mammals. How to find fossils: Lessons from a self-taught dinosaur tracker 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z And Denmark is presenting, among other things, a lightweight, webbed material for building temporary structures. Eight of the most intriguing national pavilions to see at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Beltology belts are made with webbed designs and woven stretch fabrics that eliminate the need for holes, which maximizes all-day comfort. Best Belts For Golfers - Golf Digest 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Masters was born with five webbed fingers on each hand, and no thumbs. Oksana Masters’s Road From a Ukrainian Orphanage to Paralympic Stardom 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The caterpillars spend winter webbed in leaves on oak and apple trees. Maine says it’s time to kill rash-causing caterpillars 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Cormorants, for instance, boast hooked beaks and large, webbed feet which allow them to dive below the surface and snipe fish. Watch a Bold Little Bird Dive-Bomb the World’s Largest Fish 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The spot closes with Trump looking down at her feet to discover that they are webbed. Donald Trump would like to remind us that Melania Trump was once in an Aflac commercial 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z But visually it’s a mess, a tangling of two grilles, actually: the webbed hourglass shape of the Lexus brand, above and over which is imposed Toyota’s recognizable spread-wing design, rendered in composite. 2018 Toyota Camry: Drives Like a Dream, Looks Like a Nightmare 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Magnified 15 times on the monitor, her brain, webbed with bright red blood vessels, gleamed in the light and pulsated with each heartbeat. Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Dr. Godefroit said the dinosaur lacked webbed feet, so it is unlikely that it swam like a swan, gracefully gliding on the water’s surface while feverishly paddling below. This Duck-Like Dinosaur Could Swim. That Isn’t the Strangest Thing About it. 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z And, as in many horror movies, the heroine’s mind and body become riddled with self-doubt and self-disgust, presenting her with images of blood and ugliness, feathers and weird webbed feet. Tarred and feathered: the blackest visions of Swan Lake 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The dancer, amateur gymnast and huge Spider-Man fan exhibits a boyish charm and bundles of energy making him the webbed hero for the current generation of younger fans. ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ review (4K UHD) 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The six species of these living Pokémon don’t actually fly, but glide through the treetops thanks to skin flaps on their body, limbs, and webbed toes. See the Lizard That Shoots Blood From Its Eyes 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The ducks inhabit two worlds, heads and backs above water, bellies and webbed feet below, with the ghostly orange goldfish. The Great Hunger and the Randomness of the World 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Heavy webbed rubber mats minimize slipping, but early on, my tennis shoes are as wet as a used Brillo pad. Chefs say a dishwasher can make or break a restaurant. So I signed up for a shift. 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z There were ligature marks, not unlike the ridges of a webbed military belt, around his neck, which had not been mentioned in the autopsy report. How the Death of a Muslim Recruit Revealed a Culture of Brutality in the Marines 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Ella’s feet are webbed and her fingers are fused together by the scar tissue from incessant wounds. A baby girl. A baffling disease. And the only way to help her is to hurt her. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z But the Zarma Tour cushions the turf and your feet while providing better grab thanks to its webbed shape. Gear & Gadgets: Best Cleats/Spikes - Golf Digest 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z He could be kind, he could be neat and conscientious, and all it took was laying his folded jacket on the seat beside him, tucking his newspaper into the webbed nylon pocket. “Northeast Regional” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Sessions has new new type of webbed armor on. Hearing Highlights: Democrats Do Little to Undermine Jeff Sessions 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Using their partially webbed toes and fingers, they are able to escape predators and cross rivers to find food. Watch Monkeys Swim for Their Supper in Rare Video It was crafty timing to promote the movie while doing a stunt during a shoot in Atlanta in all his webbed red vigilante glory. Tom Holland Just Showed Off His New Spidey Suit 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z My brother and I stand like the fences of abandoned farms, changed times too loosely webbed against deicide homicide A really powerful blow would bring us down like scarecrows. Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z They use their webbed back feet to swim while using their broad tails as a rudder to steer. Volunteers protecting trees along Wabash River from beavers 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Compounding their digestive distress, a booby, ignoring the limitations of its webbed feet, had crash-landed on the deck, barring the men’s access to the head. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z With cords attached to the painted canvas, Mr. Lyght extends his drawn lines into actual lines, crisscrossing them toward the ceiling and along walls, transforming empty gallery space into a webbed labyrinth. In New Paltz, the Soaring Art of Andrew Lyght 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Jan Roger Lerbukt was almost born with webbed feet, his massive hands bear the scars of many years at sea in rough, dangerous conditions. How does Norway's relationship with the EU work? - BBC News 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z This where both hands and feet are webbed mostly because the bones in the tips of the digits are fused. Kid football team raises money for community members in need 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Given those choices, most fans would have no problem if players wore gloves with webbed fingers. SNYDER: Better gloves have made for better catches — and for better games 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z And maneuvers its stumpy, webbed limbs like this: Meet the adorable tiny octopus that may soon be known as “Opisthoteuthis adorabilis” 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z In a world webbed by social media, there is an enormous emerging opportunity to use peer-to-peer communication to amplify education efforts. Amid Katmandu's Earthquake Wreckage, Hints of a Shift to Safer Construction 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z And the new Octogone handbag was unlike anything Hermès has ever done before, an emerald-shaped box bag with a webbed strap. Paris Fashion Week: Designers find a rough, more real beauty on runway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Flat and fertile, with oaks webbed in Spanish moss, the landscape stands in defiance of the numerous oil refineries and petrochemical plants that threaten its natural splendor. Building the First Slavery Museum in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z One was blue canvas and the other black and webbed "like a dog leash," Kinlaw said. FBI investigates suspicious death of North Carolina teen Lennon Lacy 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z One was blue canvas and the other black and webbed “like a dog leash,” Kinlaw said. FBI investigates suspicious death of North Carolina teen Lennon Lacy 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The regal white bird paddles along on its huge, black, webbed feet, each tiny feather rippling with the water. Where Audubon Found Repose, Sprayed-On Specimens Alight 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Now they’ve got two jerseys featuring the webbed “D” logo as a crest, essentially turning last season’s black third jersey into the home sweater and creating a new white road jersey with dark shoulders. Anaheim Ducks make changes for another run at Cup 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Instead, each point on the network acts as a "node" in a kind of webbed mesh, able to efficiently route traffic on to any other node within range. Mesh network apps to the rescue 2014-04-30T23:01:29Z Swimmers tend not to sprout webbed feet, nor typists extra fingers. Walmart's $150 tablet aimed at children is missing the point 2013-07-19T10:45:48Z Years later, the slim, magnetically webbed ship went into a high orbit above Earth. Think big 2013-07-17T17:20:44.347Z The book includes other fun facts, such as this: If human hands were proportional to a bat’s wings, which are essentially webbed hands, each finger would be longer than our legs. Modern-day bestiary looks at curiosities of the animal world 2013-06-03T19:50:19Z Its front paws are tiny, but its back feet are huge - and webbed. Tracking down a beast called desman 2012-09-04T23:45:17Z Their hind feet are about 5 inches long and are webbed. Beaver or muskrat? Here’s how to tell 2012-05-21T22:46:05Z A Town in “No Man’s Land” For many years after the Civil war, Fredericksburg’s connection with the great tragedy was told in the lines of patient suffering that webbed the faces of the older generation. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z The feather should be well displayed on the ears and feet, where it is so long as to give the appearance of their being webbed. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z These webbed feet are the principal agents by which the birds propel themselves through the water, upon the surface of which most of them pass a great portion of their time. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The toes are completely webbed; the fingers, one-third webbed. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z Indeed the only difference between them and a common Rat, exclusive of their superior size, is, that their hind-feet are large and webbed, and the tail, instead of being round, is flat and scaly. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z The foot of the Grebes is not webbed like that of most water birds, but each toe is separated and flattened, so as to serve as a separate paddle. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z Feet entirely webbed, or all four toes connected by webs. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z You notice that, unlike those stilt-walkers, the herons, the flamingoes have webbed feet. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z There they floundered about till they learned to paddle with their black webbed feet. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Some say that its feet are webbed like an aquatic bird. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z It may be known by its partially webbed feet. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z External nostrils are produced into tubes; anterior toes fully webbed; hallux small or absent. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Long legged, wading Snipe; in Avocets toes four, front three webbed; bill recurved; in Stilts toes three, almost unwebbed; bill straight. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z He raised himself and tried to fly; he waddled several steps on his wide webbed feet. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z The food of the sea-otter is fish, which he is very dexterous in taking, being an excellent swimmer, with feet webbed like those of a goose. The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island 2011-11-15T03:00:19.650Z Three toes which are webbed for about half their length. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z He is an expert swimmer, his feet being webbed and so peculiarly adapted for the exercise. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Toes four; three front ones webbed; bill with swollen, hooked tip, its base with a scaly shield. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z But his pink webbed toes oared their way gleefully through the clear water, and his little brown bill learned to snap the fleeing fish as cunningly as the crimson beaks of the older birds. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z It was heavy going, even the broad webbed snowshoes sinking deeply into the fluffy white smother that covered the wind-packed fall of the night. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Its webbed feet and long upward turned bill are features by which it may always be known. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z They lashed a cord around his jaws, They sat astride his back, They twisted round his webbed claws, And made the sinews crack. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Toes four, three front ones webbed; bill thin and blade like, the maxilla longer than the mandible; tail slightly forked. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Grebes are nearly allied to the great Northern Diver, but their feet are not, like his, quite webbed. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The river, sometime of molten copper, was again grey, unpolished silver under the moon, save where the webbed and delicate shadow of the great suspension bridge slept on the water. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Its black wings, with broad, white patches, and feet webbed for about half the length of the toes, are distinguishing features, easily recognized. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z As their feet are very slightly webbed, they have not the advantages that a duck or gull has when swimming in this way, but supplement their foot-work by short quick strokes of their flippers. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Bright red or pink and white birds, standing four feet or more in height; side of the bill with gutters, its end bent downward; wings rather short; legs long; feet webbed. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Matteo dragged old Brother Joseph, the caretaker, from his work in the crypt to scrape the original dragon off the wall until only the outline of curling body and webbed wings remained. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z From end to end, from border to border, the fenny expanse roars with discharge and echo, and nowhere within it is there peace or rest for the sole of a webbed foot. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Immediately beneath, webbed and criss-crossed by innumerable cracks, lay an amphitheatre of vast glaciers flowing down from a crescent of grim and frowning cliffs culminating in the Ober-Gabelhorn, a tower of precipitous rock. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z They were a pretty brown colour, with thick, somewhat bristly coats, in form like a large guinea-pig, with short legs, and webbed feet. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z Their feet are webbed, and their bill is set with ridges, which serve as sieves or strainers, as do the 'gutters' on a Duck's bill. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The tentacles are always webbed at the base. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z Without logic and a sense of the ludicrous a man is religious as certainly as without webbed feet a bird has the land habit. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z This bird has long been celebrated for the manner in which it passes over the waves, pattering with its webbed feet and flapping its wings so as to keep itself just above the surface. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.207Z The sorts covered with strongly webbed or netted markings are in high favor for shipping to distant points, as they carry well. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z They are, however, wading birds and their webbed feet are of use in supporting them on the soft mud of shallow lagoons or bays where they search for the favorite food of small mollusks. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z In none of these divisions are the tentacles webbed at the base. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z She might have bounded forward, to stay Dennis's hand or divert his aim; but her muscles failed her as if they had been caught and webbed with invisible cords. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z They prey upon fish, which they pursue under water, making use partly of their wings, but chiefly of their legs and webbed feet in their subaqueous progression. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z He saw the soft black soil on the edge of the pond stamped with countless impressions of webbed feet. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Bill, with upper mandible hooked; nostrils opening through tubes; wings long and pointed; tail short; feet webbed; hind-toe rudimentary or absent. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z It clutched the ground with its broad webbed feet as it crawled forward. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z In my red webbed harness and crash helmet, I certainly felt ready to get on the track while I was driving it. Is The $250,000 Sunhawk the Solar Car of the Future? 2011-03-21T20:58:53Z Hand.—The species in the Ptychohyla euthysanota group have a vestige of web between the first and second fingers; the other fingers are about one-third webbed. A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla 2011-02-28T03:00:32.093Z The figure has one foot slightly raised, and set upon a duck, as is quite plain from the general form of the bird, though the webbed feet are much worn away, and the head gone. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Bill flattened and much broadened at the end; crown and face bare in adults; toes partly webbed. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z The skeleton is about four feet long: the fore-paws are short, strong, and webbed; almost in the same proportions as a mole's; the hinder extremities are flappers, like the seal's. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The fore paws may be compared to webbed hands; the hind feet, in their ordinary position when at rest, form an expansive tail. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z All specimens, except the one described above, have the fifth toe webbed to the base of the disc. A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla 2011-02-28T03:00:32.093Z It looked easy to go stalking over the drifts on those webbed ovals, but it was trying work for a novice I discovered at my first attempt. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Bill long and curved down; its side with grooves; toes partly webbed. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z She could see their strong little pointed tails too, and their webbed feet with a stout claw on each toe. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z At break of day he summoned his host, the farmer, the cook, and the cook's boy, ordered them to slay, pluck, and roast directly all that bore comb or webbed foot. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Diagnosis.—Diameter of tympanum more than half of diameter of eye; internarial region depressed; toes three-fourths webbed; no red flash-colors on thighs. A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla 2011-02-28T03:00:32.093Z She had more of a mastery over the webbed boots of the North than I, it shortly transpired. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Bill long and slender; head wholly feathered; toes not webbed. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z It was a beautiful hindfoot, thickly padded, and with short partly webbed toes, and no hair at all growing between them. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z Hind feet webbed, but fore feet with separate claws. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Though the feet are not webbed, several of these swamp-dwellers swim well. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z But under my webbed shoes there was an uneven feeling, as if it were trampled. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Toes three, webbed at base; tarsus stout, with rounded scales; bill heavy, compressed, and said to be used for opening shells. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z All toes webbed, fourth largest, hallux short; metatarsus laterally compressed; tibia with high, pyramidal crest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Jack knows about moist eyes and singing mouths, about webbed hands and coral combs pulling through hair as tangled and coarse as kelp. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z Their toes are not webbed, but are broadly lobed. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z The beak is sharp-pointed, the mouth very wide and large, the tongue very small, the eyes great, the foot hath four toes webbed together. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History There are also some special traps manufactured for these animals, having double jaws or webbed jaws, to prevent the animal gnawing off its foot. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Steganopodes.—Well flying, aquatic, nidicolous; with all the four toes webbed together. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z This was not a struggle; there were no webbed fingers pulling him down, holding him under. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z It has short ears, a blunt nose, small fore-feet, large webbed hind-feet, with a flat ovate tail covered with scales on its upper surface. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The four-toed aquatic birds either have all the toes webbed, as the pelican, gannet, cormorant, &c., or have the hind toe loose. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The webbed jaw and the double jaw traps are especially desirable for mink, as when caught in these traps, they cannot escape by gnawing off the foot. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Front toes completely webbed; hallux very short or absent; feed chiefly on small aquatic invertebrates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The bill is straight and strong, the upper mandible hooked at the point and the lower one truncated; there are three webbed toes on each foot. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The bill is long, slender, elastic, and bent upward toward the tip, the legs long, the feet webbed, and the plumage variegated with black and white. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Beak incurvated as if broken, denticulate; feet webbed: 1 species. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History It has a long body, short, stout legs, and webbed feet; the tail is long, thick at the base, and tapering to a point. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture The fingers become distinct, and the toes appear as small projections webbed together like a frog's foot. What a Young Husband Ought to Know The crumbling walls were webbed with briars; their foundations were buried in thickets of docks and nettles, and the fruit trees that grew against them had long ago broken loose from any restraint. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The latter is about the size of a domestic pigeon, but has webbed feet and a hooked bill, and is the only wild bird having variegated plumage, no two being marked alike. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document Some averred, that the queen had legs like a goat, grown over with wool; others swore, that instead of human feet she had webbed feet, like a goose. Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity The front feet are small, the hind feet, large and slightly webbed, making the animal an expert swimmer. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Any one who endeavoured to invade the solitude of his suburban abode must have "webbed feet and been able to croak and spawn!" Lafcadio Hearn The first section of the family, forming the subfamily Mustelinae, is typically characterized by the short and partially webbed toes, furnished with short, compressed, sharp, curved and often partially retractile claws. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" "No, you don't," she answered him sternly, retreating before a sudden forward scramble of the broad webbed feet. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road The gleaming green shoulders and shapely long arms ended in graceful webbed fingers. The Dark Goddess Feet webbed to base of discs; dorsum dull olive green; flanks having cream-colored spots H. crassa, p. A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group It walked on webbed feet that angled outward, had short flippers, set low on a body covered with coarse hair that might have been feathers, and was armed with long, vicious claws. Big Stupe Toes short and slightly webbed at the base. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Though the hands seemed human, the feet were clawed and webbed. The Golden Amazons of Venus Frogs from Costa Rica and northward have the toes about three fourths webbed, whereas in Panamá the toes are about two fifths webbed. The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America All have round, sloping snouts, robust forearms, long, unwebbed fingers, and large webbed feet. A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group Its large size, aquatic habits, partially webbed hind-toes, and the smooth, broad, orange-coloured incisors, are sufficient to distinguish this rodent from the other members of the family Capromyidae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" A little noiseless leap! and a dripping musk-rat with long flat tail and webbed feet scrabbles up the moss-covered tree towards the stupid bird. The Story of the Trapper Gerry could have caught him easily, for the webbed feet of the Venusian did not make for great speed, but he was content to let him go. The Golden Amazons of Venus He tapped the Analects with a webbed forefinger. To Choke an Ocean Jonner recoiled, only his webbed safety belt preventing him from plummeting from the control chair. Atom Drive They swim rapidly, propelled by the powerful tail and by the mostly webbed limbs, or they submerge themselves, with only the tip of the nose and the eyes showing, or sometimes also the back. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Besides, the trapper observed tracks, tiny leaf-like tracks as of little webbed feet, over the soft clay of the marsh bank. The Story of the Trapper They tramped steadily onward through the dust in silence except for the dull slap of the webbed feet of the reptile men and the jingle of their equipment. The Golden Amazons of Venus Gracefully the creature glided up to the lone human, and when only a foot away extended one of its long upper flippers so that its webbed edge rested on his sea-suit's casque. Seed of the Arctic Ice The fingers become distinct and the toes appear as small projections webbed together like a frog's foot. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects His tiny webbed feet clutched at the cloth as he buried his face against her leg. Narakan Rifles, About Face! The water animal leaves a spreading footprint, the mark of the webbed toes without any fur on the padding of the toe-balls. The Story of the Trapper Then the slapping tread of the guards' webbed feet died away and he was left alone. The Golden Amazons of Venus He found himself in a long and rather narrow room, with a high ceiling, duskily lighted by three wide windows that were thickly webbed and dusted, like ancestral bottles of fine crusty Port. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 He had noticed little tracks of five-toed, webbed feet on the thin drift of powdery snow that led to the bank above this pool. The Wilderness Trail Bayonets, clubbed rifle and heavy webbed fist fought against claw, teeth and knife. Narakan Rifles, About Face! Kirby saw to his horror that, in addition to four short legs with webbed, claw-tipped feet, there sprouted from the body a number of octopus tentacles. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 A moment later, tired of his flight, he sprawls his eight webbed legs out in every direction, breaking them seemingly into a thousand joints, and settles back like an animated parachute awreck. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science He also explained the use of the two sets of webbed paralysis belts which he fastened about TT's legs. Novice Last of all, he had seen a smooth incline worn by these webbed feet down to the brink of the pool. The Wilderness Trail O'Shaughnessy managed to jam his gun and was beating frantically at it with one webbed fist. Narakan Rifles, About Face! They have a large bright orange gular sac, a long, hooked bill, and small slightly webbed feet. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Instead he allowed these other giant things to grip him with their webbed hands and lead him away. he wavering light had shown many passages through the rock. Two Thousand Miles Below He lived in an old picture-book, and would nowadays be considered quite out of fashion by up-to-date ostriches, having webbed feet and an improper number of toes. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Here and there the pale green of the birches was thinly webbed with gold. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories The Narakan's face split into two replicas of the map of Ireland and he saluted flat handed, his webbed fingers at just the proper angle. Narakan Rifles, About Face! Their appearance is very similar to that of the Least Sandpipers, but they are slightly larger and the feet are partially webbed. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Their great bodies were yellow: their outstretched hands were webbed. Two Thousand Miles Below Around its shores, and covering the adjacent, softly rolling countryside as far as eye could reach, was a thick growth of carmine-tinted vegetation: squat, enormous-leaved bushes; low, sturdy trees, webbed together by innumerable vines. The Planetoid of Peril It went down with a wild flurry of waving webbed paws and croaking cries, stilled almost instantly by Norman's terrific blows. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 The quills of the albatross make excellent pipe stems, and the skin of the webbed feet is used for tobacco pouches. Six Letters From the Colonies Puffins, Auks and Murres are otherwise recognized by the presence of but three toes which are webbed. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. It was then that I noticed for the first time that her hands were webbed!” Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 There was a terrific rending of tree trunks and webbed creepers. The Planetoid of Peril The blow to their hopes came when the officers told them that the murdered woman had webbed or deformed toes, and described them to her. The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan or: the Headless Horror. The otter is a large water weasel with close, dense, shiny fur and webbed feet. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Gulls are webbed footed birds having a slight hook to the end of the upper mandible. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. With a start, Bert noted that his fingers were webbed, as were his toes. Wanderer of Infinity Mr. and Mrs. Grebe have very curiously webbed feet, looking more like a horse-chestnut leaf with three lobes than anything else. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Her legs were short and powerful, her toes webbed, and her tail served the purpose of a rudder. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The beaver is known by its great size--weighing from twenty-five to fifty pounds--its chestnut color, darker on the crown, its webbed feet, and its broad, flat, naked, scaly tail. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 The feet are webbed, but more for the purpose of supporting them upon the mud flats than for use in swimming. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. In the fore-ground squatted a great fat frog with big bulging eyes, singing base, and leading the choir by flapping his webbed fingers up and down with his frightful cavern of a mouth wide open. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan The common fresh-water turtles have distinct toes, which are webbed and provided with long nails. Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly By using head, hands, teeth, tail, and webbed 59 feet the beaver accomplishes much. Wild Life on the Rockies When in the water they are webbed like a duck's, but if the creature comes on shore, the web shrinks, and leaves long sharp claws ready for burrowing. Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Phalaropes are small Plover-like birds, but with lobate webbed feet, similar to those of the Grebes and Coots. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. "Nonsense!" said Snowdrop, as, with an eye dark and bright as that of Betty, she glanced at her own orange legs and webbed feet. Dick and His Cat and Other Tales Its feet are partly webbed, so that it can swim a little. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks In my haste I caught one of my webbed shoes on the top of a gnarly, storm-beaten tree that was buried and hidden in the snow. Wild Life on the Rockies It differs from most other birds frequenting the sea in the fact of its feet being but slightly webbed, and its claws being talons, like those of hawks or eagles. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Although they do not have webbed feet, they swim on or under water with the greatest of ease and rapidity, using their wings as paddles. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The platypus is covered with fur like an otter, and has four webbed feet, like those of a duck, and a black duck-like bill. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia When in the water, it can open and shut its webbed feet like a fan, and so can swim rapidly. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks They were large and broad and strongly webbed, and the short stout legs which carried them were flattened and compressed that they might slip edgewise through the water, like a feathered oar-blade. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Hence the patient would be constantly sliding down during sleep, unless supported by this bow, with webbed forks, covered also with fur, placed beneath the chin, and beneath the occiput. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life It is a largish bird with webbed feet, long thin neck, and spear-like bill. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young There were levers, gears, and rollers mounted on a webbed platform no larger than a rather oversized typewriter. Lease to Doomsday Its feet are webbed, so that it can swim well in the water. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks Her body was much larger than those animals ever are, and on this account it was much more hideous in appearance; for she looked like a wretched dwarf, with a frog's head, and webbed fingers. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen There they would sit, rocking on the little waves or swimming about with their red webbed feet. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds My fingers happen to be webbed rather higher than usual. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet A white-green mouth spread over half her face, her arms became thin and slimy, and broad hands with webbed fingers spread out upon them like fans. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales The duck has the same number of toes as a chicken, but its foot is webbed by a strong skin, which binds the toes together. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks A greenish white mouth spread half over her face; her arms became thin and slimy; while broad hands, with webbed fingers, spread themselves out like fans. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Its short hands and feet were webbed like those of a duck. Omega, the Man Every man has two sticks, with a kind of hoop at the end, webbed across, and with these they catch and strike the ball. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians When they spy some edible bit floating beneath them, down they drop until their tiny webbed feet just rest upon the water. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The feet of some of these birds are partly webbed, so that, if necessary, they can change their mode of locomotion from running and wading to swimming. Our Bird Comrades Over his shoulder, he saw the guard reach inside a small pocket in his webbed pistol belt. Next Door, Next World The toes of the frog are webbed to make them more serviceable in swimming. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Every one with his webbed stick raised above his head; no one is allowed to strike or to touch the ball with his hands. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians Represent to yourself an enormous duck with a neck like a swan, a bill straight, tapering, and longer than the head, webbed feet, and widely spreading and well-feathered wings, and then know the anhinga. Adventures of a Young Naturalist Birds whose feet are partly webbed are said to be semipalmated. Our Bird Comrades The toes are long and not webbed, but bordered by a scalloped membrane. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Birds that swim have webbed feet, which act as oars for pushing them through the water. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study And everybody knows that webbed feet are the best for swimming. The Tale of Chirpy Cricket My friend—after Lucien had examined its broad muzzle and wide nostrils, its smooth, black coat, and its feet, webbed like ducks—skinned the game, and put it at once upon the spit. Adventures of a Young Naturalist We can readily understand why they are thus formed, for their webbed feet answer the purpose of oars to propel them over the water. Our Bird Comrades Or a misguided frog, pursued perhaps by some enemy on land, would dive in and swim by with long, webbed toes. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Sometimes a half dozen young bees, nearly mature, will be removed alive, all webbed together, fastened by legs, wings, &c. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained Its hinder feet are webbed, the imprint on the soft mud being very similar to that of a duck. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Next he unfastened the neat, webbed belt, and unlaced the soldierly leggings. The Rich Little Poor Boy Most swimming birds have only the front toes webbed, but in a few species, like the pelicans, even the hind toe is connected with its fellows by means of such a membrane. Our Bird Comrades Over half a century had passed since, with the webbed, boneless fingers of its original owner closed about it, it last spat deadly radiation at human foemen. Watch the Sky The feet of the platypus are five-toed and webbed, being, like the rest of the body, suited for an aquatic life. Chatterbox, 1906 The hind-feet are webbed, and with these—together with his tail, which acts as a rudder—he is enabled to swim rapidly through the water. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America His hind feet were four-toed webbed paddles; his legs were long and powerful like a kangaroo's. The Native Soil Thousands of them, at least—great broad feet, webbed like those of a duck, but with sharp claws—were impressed in the sand and mud, all along the banks of the stream. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness I did catch sight of her feet, though; they were bare, they were greenish, and they were webbed, and I think there were some large white blisters on the soles of them. The Five Jars Their webbed feet are placed very far back, close to the stumpy tail, and so the long body has to stand very straight up in order to balance itself. Chatterbox, 1906 It is about the size of a tern, with short legs, webbed feet, and extremely long, pointed wings. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America He let out a squeal, dropped his line in the mud and bounced up to the surface, dancing like a dervish on his broad webbed feet as he stared in unabashed curiosity. The Native Soil Their fore limbs were shorter than the hind ones, and both had feet with five claws, but the hind feet were broad and large, and completely webbed between the toes. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Dark are the dark and darkling days Winding the webbed and winsome ways, Homeward she creeps in dim amaze— Sleep, little babe, sleep on! The Book of Humorous Verse This species is not a swift runner upon land; but it is semi-aquatic in its habits, and can swim and dive like an otter, its feet being webbed or palmated. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys They are partly webbed, and thus adapted to the aquatic life it enjoys, and which has gained for it the name of the water-hog. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Another, the platypus, or duck-bill, has the bill and webbed feet of a duck and the body and tail of a beaver. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania It had an oddly-shaped beak, webbed feet, and a funny great tuft of feathers for a tail. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo He stood over the thing, webbed hands on scaly hips, peering at it intently. Stairway to the Stars With their strong wings and great webbed feet, they can flap faster over the surface than a canoe can follow them. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North The neck is partly bare, and very extensible; the bill long, and hooked at the end; the feet small, and webbed. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Notwithstanding their webbed feet, they managed to perch securely among the branches, many of which were so heavily freighted, that they bent almost to the ground beneath their load. The Island Home A pair of large webbed feet were seen slowly paddling above them, and beyond them the outline of a bird’s body could be traced. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo His hand was damp and webbed, but felt fairly human for all that. Stairway to the Stars The walls of the cabin are made by splitting the bamboo, and, after removing the webbed joints, each half is beaten out flat. The Philippine Islands The real alligator is distinguished by having its toes only partly webbed—the outer ones being free. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Poseidon/Neptune had come in more briskly, smelling of fish, his skin pale green and glistening wet, his fingers and toes webbed and his eyes bulging and wide. Pagan Passions “Only I’m not quite sure if his feet were webbed.” Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo After a long silence, he knelt, and started feeling over the machine with his webbed hands. Stairway to the Stars He is a man of small frame with slightly webbed eyes, betraying the Chinese blood in his veins, and a protruding lower lip and prominent chin indicative of resolve. The Philippine Islands The body of this curious creature is extremely short and thick, and its feet are half webbed. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Their hands and feet were webbed, and their grinning mouths became great, sad, gaping openings by which to swallow worms and flies. A Book of Myths Paved roads webbed the island, wide and well-drained, by which bodies of troops could be massed at any given point with incredible rapidity. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain My fingers happen to be webbed rather higher than usual, and this is most highly thought of in Tibet. In the Forbidden Land Its hind feet are webbed, so that it is a powerful swimmer, and its tail is flattened, and serves as an excellent rudder. The Stamps of Canada One of the species is aquatic, and has webbed feet. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Each was sewing a piece of thin waterproof cloth upon a pair of white woolen gloves; so that the fingers, when outspread, had the appearance of the webbed foot of a frog. The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War Their broad webbed feet shew that they frequent the water, and in fact, they are not only found in rivers and lakes of most European countries, but at sea. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals With their webbed feet they never roosted in trees. The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales Three animals, about the size of a musk-rat, with webbed feet, and the color of mice, came scrambling forth and scampered away for the shelter of the rocks. Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys Gerald told me that there are various species of opossums, one of which lives in the water and has webbed feet, but they are mostly found on trees. The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela Its hind feet were webbed, its small fore-paws armed with claws, and it had large, hard, sharp teeth in its somewhat blunted head. The Trapper's Son The fore-paws are a kind of webbed hand; they are above two feet long, and may be stretched out to the width of fifteen to eighteen inches. Peter the Whaler See its feet; they are unlike those of water-fowl, being but partially webbed. In the Eastern Seas It had short legs, and peculiarly long feet, partially webbed, which enable it to swim so well. On the Banks of the Amazon The hind feet are webbed, and, with the aid of the tail, which acts as a rudder, enable it to swim through the water with ease and rapidity. Afar in the Forest “Gold!” exclaimed Sir Humphrey, as he saw that the stone was webbed with glistening thready veins. Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig Whereupon the duck blushed, and spread one of her webbed feet before her face, and looked quite pleased at the compliment. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn Its peculiar legs are wide and thin; its webbed feet are so large that it can swim with amazing rapidity. Three Boys in the Wild North Land It is an amphibious animal, and fond of the water, in which its webbed hind feet enable it to move with considerable celerity. The Castaways You observe that the legs are short and very muscular—that there are five toes on the fore-feet, slightly webbed or palmated, and four on the hind-feet much longer and much more webbed. The Boy Hunters He turned tail at once; and, propelling himself away with vigorous strokes of his webbed sculls, made the water foam from his prow-like curving neck, leaving a broad wake behind him of glistening sheen. She and I, Volume 1 The hands and feet were very large and very broad, and the fingers and toes were heavily webbed. Skylark Three His wife was doing her duty, his enemy was webbed: what else could matter? Little Novels of Italy It plumage, except a few of the wing feathers, is white; its long, hard beak, which Is very powerful, is of a pale yellow colour; and its short, webbed feet are flesh coloured. The Castaways She could hear its webbed feet going pad pad over the slippery stanes. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton A leg lifted as a forefoot, webbed, clawed for a new hold. Storm Over Warlock Feet black, webbed, the membrane being deeply notched, great toe articulated to the metatarsus. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology By means of his webbed feet he could swim as easily as Mr. Crow could fly. The Tale of Timothy Turtle Small bird with entire upper parts almost black—under parts white—wings tipped with white, bill black—feet pale red—toes webbed. Stories of Birds I saw a few bees or wasps, several lizards, and the blackberry bushes were full of ants nests, webbed as a spider's, but so close and compact as not to admit the rain. A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat Then, as if that was the last effort, the webbed, clawed feet relaxed their grip of the rock and the scaled body slid sidewise, out of their sight, into the water. Storm Over Warlock Using the webbed hands and feet that had led the Allied scientists to think them an aquatic race, he swam upward, and through the water-dense atmosphere of the planet toward the door. Invaders from the Infinite But, being a heavy bird, its flight is very exhausting, and it appears to have more confidence in its webbed feet than its wings. Chatterbox, 1905. It turned over in its sleep, the cover was hurled aside, and a grotesque object, round, pulpy, webbed, and of leprous whiteness—an object which Letty could hardly associate with a hand—came grovelling out. Scottish Ghost Stories The webbed feet of the seal and ornithorhynchus typify the period when the hands and feet of the human embryo are as yet only partly subdivided into fingers and toes. Plain Facts for Old and Young A claw jammed the mike closer to Shann's lips, but also slid in range the webbed loop of the translator. Storm Over Warlock As he approached us, he began to make uncouth noises, and held up his hands to show us his fingers, which were webbed to the first knuckle, like a duck’s foot. My Ántonia The breast is white, but the back, tail, and legs are black, with scattered white spots; its feet are webbed. Chatterbox, 1905. I admired the curious animal, with its rounded head ornamented with short ears, its round eyes, and white whiskers like those of a cat, and its webbed feet and nails and tufted tail. The Literary World Seventh Reader When those blue beams struck the nearest ovals they webbed with lines which cracked wide open. Key Out of Time The feet are five-toed, separate, not webbed like the moles; the snout is long and pointed and very mobile. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon He seemed to be floating in mid-air, his body rising against the webbed straps of his chair! Stand by for Mars! "The same broad yellow bill, the same short yellow legs, and the same webbed feet." Among the Farmyard People In depressions where the soil was webbed with cracks, a livid scurf broke out as if the face of the earth were scarred with the traces of inextinguishable foulness. The Emigrant Trail In one skeleton claw it fumbled a rod and with this it now traced certain symbols in the dust before Varta's webbed feet. The Gifts of Asti The feet are five-toed, webbed; pads bald; claws semi-retractile; tail very long, with from thirty-six to thirty-eight vertebræ; the pupil of the eye is linear and erect. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon It also happens, not infrequently, that a subject will have two or more fingers webbed or grown together, as in figures 383 and 384, making it impossible to roll such fingers on the inside. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses He did not have the trim, boat-shaped body that swimmers have, and then, his feet were not webbed. Among the Farmyard People It is by far the finest of the webbed forms. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. It took only a moment to make secure the webbed shoes, to pull on and fasten the hood, to tighten the buckles of her gloves. The Gifts of Asti Gymnopus.—Head elongate, narrow; feet rather naked, bald beneath, between, and rather behind the pads; toes largely webbed; soles hairy behind; body slender. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon She was near to tears when he stooped and knelt in the snow to tighten a thong slipping from one webbed foot. Then I'll Come Back to You Khaki shirt, khaki breeches, a wide, webbed belt, a flat-brimmed hat. The Sky Is Falling Also I noticed that the animal possessed legs—four of them—with most unpleasant-looking webbed claws fully eight feet long. In Search of the Unknown With webbed toes and beating wings he fought every step; but she pulled herself up by the balustrade and dragged him along. The Lady of Fort St. John Bobo gave a jump and a bark at the gander, and the latter, which had now climbed to its webbed feet, scurried away, the flock following him. Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's So has the aquatic Yapock opossum of Australia, while the feet of the duck-bill are even more boldly webbed than those of the bird from which it takes its popular name. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 The webbed foot is fitted to the water; shall we say, then, that water is liquid in order that geese and ducks may swim in it? The Breath of Life Then one is tempted to step down from the porch, and follow the voices of the birds into the vague recesses of a night webbed with dark tree shadows outlined in blue moonlight. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' But Cob did not move, beyond drawing one webbed leg—the free one—up under him. The Way of the Wild He thrust his muzzle under the hissing gander and sent him over on his back, where he lay and flapped his webbed feet ridiculously. Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's For example, we naturally expect to find that the feet of swimming animals are webbed. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 The fingers were long, bony and webbed, like the sea-creatures they were, the feet slightly longer and similarly arrayed. The Mantooth Now Old Mother Nature had just fitted out Mr. Duck with a pair of webbed feet that he might swim, so she was quite prepared to fit Mr. Loon out in like manner. Mother West Wind "Where" Stories It has the fore-feet of a land animal, and the hind ones of an aquatic one—the latter only being webbed. Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits He had long ears, curling hair, a long bushy tail, and webbed feet, like all dogs that are fond of the water. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. This form is adapted by its slender body and partly webbed feet to a semi-aquatic life; it seems to have halted at a point beyond which all of the seals have passed in their evolution. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope They were of the size of a hen, and had a long beak, long legs and four flat though not webbed toes. In Indian Mexico (1908) Slender; fore-toes quite free; hinder toes webbed to the last joint. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 His eyes have a golden color, and the toes of his hind legs are webbed. Gritli's Children I saw a few bees or wasps and several lizards; and the blackberry bushes were full of ants nests, webbed like a spider's but so close and compact as not to admit the rain. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship Swimming birds like the swan and duck and loon possess feet which are constructed in general like those of the former examples, but they are webbed and shortened to serve as paddles. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope They have webbed feet, which give them an advantage over the herons in enabling them to swim as well as to wade. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 There were handsome grounds about it, and girls playing some game with a ball and curious webbed implements across a net of cords. The Girl from Montana These birds have a beautiful black and white plumage with a long neck and bill and webbed feet and weigh five or six pounds each. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State Then out from under the old board appeared the queer webbed feet of Grandfather Frog tied together. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog It has but one foot webbed; so it swims in a circle and can be easy shot by the sportsman, who first baits it with snuff that it will go miles to get. Ma Pettengill Sylvia has been sending bouquets to the gosling who was her escort on the evening of her Commencement—him of the duck trousers and webbed feet. Aftermath The bird was, so to say, suspended between them and moved forward by quick strokes of a pair of enormously large webbed feet, precisely as a duck propels itself in water. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 I cannot tell of the effect as Mary Ashburleigh swept into that splendid banqueting-room, one long pyramid of velvet pierced with webbed interstices of light. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 They clung to the twigs by the hooked claws, which are at the extremity of their webbed fingers and toes; sometimes they hung with the head downwards, and sometimes the reverse. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 These fresh-water tortoises, the greater number of which are included in the genus Emys of naturalists, are distinguished by having their toes webbed. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Its beak baffles description, its long legs and webbed feet are a joke, its nesting habits are amazing, and its food habits the despair of most zoological-garden keepers. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation They have strong wings and fly great distances, and with their webbed feet swim well, too. Stories of California Its face was that of an Indian, but covered with hard scales, and its feet were webbed. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Their feet are broad, and webbed like ducks, being water fowl, yet they commonly roost on rocks or trees, and always sit with their heads to the wind, varying their posture as that changes. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. But its feet were as strongly webbed and its habits as aquatic as those of the "Newfoundland" of the modern breed. Pioneers in Canada In a similar way the webbed feet of birds that swim were developed by their aquatic habits. Creation and Its Records The gate proper was made of wire, webbed together with stays, admitting of a pliability which served a double purpose. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Now Grettir got all ready for swimming, and had on a cowl of market-wadmal, and his breeches girt about him, and he got his fingers webbed together, and the weather was fair. The Story of Grettir the Strong Sirs, it was a Hand, a webbed hand, and turning, I looked straight down into another pair of flat dark eyes. Us and the Bottleman Cape Barren Island, besides the kangaroo and wombat, is inhabited by the porcupine ant-eater; a rat with webbed feet; paroquets, and small birds unknown at Port Jackson, some few of which were of beautiful plumage. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 Come and see the wonderful Peruvian maiden of Tanjore, with webbed fingers and toes, her mouth in the back of her head, and her eyes in the soles of her feet! In the Days of My Youth On this day likewise they took a bird resembling a heron, of a black colour, with a white tuft on its head, and having webbed feet like a duck. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time On examination during the previous night, their feet were found to be webbed with this burr. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories Then he stopped to run his webbed fingers through his damp green hair, and grin at the poor captive Prince, as if he enjoyed his suffering. The Gate of the Giant Scissors The fore legs are short, and the feet webbed. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 The third and fourth toes are deeply webbed, allowing a wide space between them, which is apparent even in their passive state. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The third and fourth toes are deeply webbed, allowing a wide space between them, which is apparent, even in their passive state. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Men born with fins and webbed feet might enjoy themselves in the lakes and swamps, which form a considerable portion of Florida. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation At that, a hideous-looking fellow, with eyes like a frog's, green hair, and horrid clammy webbed fingers, clutched him before he could turn to defend himself. The Gate of the Giant Scissors Each foot has five toes with curved claws, and webbed; but the web does not extend beyond the points of the toes. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 Her skirt and the step are webbed with threads clipped from machine-embroidered linen, or pulled from handkerchiefs for hemstitching. What's the Matter with Ireland? Feet flesh-colored, the front toe webbed like a Duck's or Goose's, but the hind toe very short indeed. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners A light creel hung by its webbed strap from her shoulder; in her hand, she carried a slender fly rod of good workmanship. The Eyes of the World I wished to let my wife see this rare bird, which, if standing on its webbed feet, would have been four feet high; I therefore forbade them to meddle with it. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island World War II saw the demise of this lightning fast webbed ball because of the shortage of rubber and the game all but died. Squash Tennis Their tails are flattened sideways, and all four feet partially webbed. The Voyage of the Beagle Feet coral-red, very small and weak, the front toes webbed like a Gull's. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners He looked at the scaly hands, the strangely webbed fingers and toes. The Tarn of Eternity The webbed digits swept over O'Keefe's face, felt at his heart; she shook her head and moved ahead of us up the passage. The Moon Pool The middle and ring fingers of the supernumerary hand were webbed as far as the proximal joints, and the movements of this hand were stiff and imperfect. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W Bill and feet black, the toes webbed like a Duck's or tame Goose's; but the wild Canada Goose is not the kind that our tame Geese came from. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the hind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H On each foot there was a double halux and five other digits, some of which were webbed. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine He wore a cloak of coarse material with breeches and had his fingers webbed. Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Again, Beside webbed purples from some galleon's hold, A black chest bore the skull and bones in white Above a scrawled "Gunpowder!" Young Adventure, a Book of Poems “No,” said Egbert, “there were marks of webbed feet all over the place, and we followed the tracks down to the stream at the bottom of the garden; evidently an otter.” Beasts and Super-Beasts As he approached us, he began to make uncouth noises, and held up his hands to show us his fingers, which were webbed to the first knuckle, like a duck's foot. My Antonia The eleven toes were all perfect and none of them were webbed. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine As a rule, Perrault travelled ahead of the team, packing the snow with webbed shoes to make it easier for them. The Call of the Wild I admired this curious mammal, with its rounded head ornamented with short ears, its round eyes, and white whiskers like those of a cat, with webbed feet and nails, and tufted tail. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Now and again he would look down passages between the trees—narrow pillared corridors, dusky as if webbed across with mist. The Trespasser His feet well webbed: he dipped his head, and turned his long bill sidewise. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 The beach was soon reached, and some hundred walrus had collected, either waddling about on their clumsy webbed feet, or sleeping in family groups. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude The bell-like tinkle of water out of sight was the only sound until I heard a patter-patter of webbed feet coming along the road. Two Summers in Guyenne I should say that, in the water, which is their element—the spine of these creatures is flexible; with smooth and close skin and webbed feet—they swim admirably. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The most interesting of these creatures is the Beaver, with its webbed hind feet and broad tail. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation From the ceiling above him droop the dingy splendours of a sort of dais-work, a streaming circle of pendants like a fringe, shimmering faintly through the webbed dust of centuries. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Phil noticed that she was as agile in the water as she was clumsy on land, and that two toes on each foot were webbed. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories A little breeze was blowing, and the ducks bobbed like corks in the waves, keeping themselves in place with graceful side-strokes of their webbed feet. Memoirs of My Dead Life They saw black swans and redbills, an aquatic bird so called whose back is black, breast white, beak red and feet not fully webbed. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant The bowls were webbed with brown seams, and the tin spoons wore an air of having emerged from the first pyramid. Men, Women, and Boats The feather should be well displayed on the ears and feet, and in the latter case so thickly as to give the appearance of their being webbed. Dogs and All about Them In the hind foot of a frog the toes are very long and webbed from point to point. Concerning Animals and Other Matters They were undoubtedly related to the ordinary ducks; for, like these, they too had a thick-set body, broad bill, and webbed feet; but they were much more elaborately gotten up. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Why must he be born with webbed toes, and run at once to the wash-tub, there to make nautical experiments with walnut-shells? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 His beak and legs and webbed feet are greenish yellow, and this is quite enough to distinguish the two birds. On the Seashore The going here was difficult, for the thick moss was full of short, stiff brush that caught the webbed shoes and tripped the traveler. Man Size Bow-BILL DUCKS, &c.—Every one knows how awkward are the Anatidae, waddling along on their unelastic webbed toes, and their short legs, which, being placed considerably backward, make the fore part of the body preponderate. The Book of Household Management On this day likewise they took a bird resembling a heron, of a black color with a white tuft on its head, and having webbed feet like a duck. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation His webbed hindfeet were twice as large as his mate's and he was easily the swiftest swimmer in the colony. Kazan The powerful webbed feet of the Cormorant, set far back on the body, the darting head, long neck, and long curved beak, tell you plainly how he earns his meals. On the Seashore Then out into the hot open attic fluttered a tiny little object with webbed wings and the body of a mouse. Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners |
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