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Then another front leg, then hindquarters, and then the box was empty, nothing but a metal shell with a couple of fake human legs attached. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
They've split into two groups at the sides of the horn and are using those powerful hindquarters to launch themselves at us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
“Hazel, go find Coach Hedge and tell him to get his furry hindquarters on deck!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
He scrambled to his feet and peered shortsightedly down the trail, his tail curving his hindquarters from side to side in welcome. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ahead of him, Pollard crouched and watched Special Agent’s churning hindquarters, waiting for him to fold. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
His eyes searched for Hushpuppy, who lay in the yard licking his hindquarters where he had been kicked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then they’d hoist her up some other way, but she’d get halfway there, and her hindquarters would be higher than her head. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Pollard must have seen He Did’s dark hindquarters suddenly in his face, too close. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
He shot it in the hindquarters and in the little hump at its back. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Great bears, both brown and black, that rose threateningly on their hindquarters. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
One rock clipped the wolf on the hindquarters, another on the back of the neck. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
Specify’s hindquarters neared, and Woolf pulled back a tick on his left rein to give Seabiscuit clear sailing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
He leapt up on his hindquarters and launched into the routine Chico had taught him at the animal shelter. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Its hindquarters lifted and wagged from side to side in mounting excitement. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
One of the men slipped off the wet hindquarters and fell. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
Looking more than a little distrait, she paused just long enough to push downward on Bloomberg’s roving hindquarters. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
Baggy jeans and fake feet hide the fact that he’s got furry hindquarters and hooves. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
He was trotting, shaking his shaggy hindquarters, and suddenly his story about a muscular disorder in his legs made sense to me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
The owner decided where and when the hunt would take place, and in the event of a kill, he’d receive the choicest portion of the meat, usually the hindquarter. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z
Arya made the stick whistle as she laid the wood across his donkey's hindquarters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
He could learn a horse’s mind from the bob of the head, the tension in the reins, the coil of the hindquarters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
His stallion’s spotted hindquarters were covered with ragged strips of cloth tom from the surcoats of men his master had slain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
They were enormous, pungent, and hoary beasts, and Ishmael and Hatsue stopped to stare at one rubbing his hindquarters against a fence post. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
A spray of pellets followed, stinging into their hindquarters so that they leaped simultaneously and redoubled their speed. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
Push the chair in too quickly or too slowly, or else sit too soon or too heavily, and misadventure ensues, perhaps even an unintended baptism of the hindquarters. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
His greatcloak was sewn from countless layers of cloth-of-gold, so heavy that it barely stirred even when he charged, so large that its drape covered most of his stallion's hindquarters when he took the saddle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
And the thing did, relaxing onto its hindquarters, tongue lolling from its mouth in a dopey grin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
They saw the fur on his shoulders rise, his hindquarters begin to lift from the ground, and the tip of his long tail begin to twitch like a thing with its own life. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
The pain in his hindquarters was intense and he wept because of it. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z
War Admiral burst out with such power that his hindquarters overran his forequarters. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
He nearly shook his hindquarters loose when Kino glanced up at him, and he subsided when Kino looked away. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
Crimson silk draped his hindquarters, over a coat of mail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Seabiscuit, like any prey animal, was hard-wired to bound forward at the whip’s brush over his hindquarters, a simulation of a predator’s grasp. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Look farther south to see the triangle of stars that make up the dog's hindquarters. Want to take a bite of sunshine? These lemony citrus cooler cookies are the answer 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z
Tatum bares more skin than Bullock does, flashing his sculpted hindquarters in a scene that, like the movie overall, isn’t as sharp or as funny as it should be. ‘The Lost City’ Review: Raiders of the 1980s Blockbusters 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z
A three-year-old Glen of Imaal terrier named Emmett sat on his hindquarters and waggled his paws in the air for a treat. A Heavenly Respite at the Westminster Dog Show 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z
We also saw, in a series of fragmentary scenes, his latest moneymaking scheme, which involved human cadavers, pig hindquarters, the hospital furnace and a funeral urn. 'The Knick' Recap: The Rogue Clinic in the Hospital Basement 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z
He sleeps in his truck to shop at sunrise and develops calluses on his hindquarters from sitting around on hard chairs waiting to bid at country auctions. Antiques: A Faberg? Exhibition Without ?Fauxberg?s? 2011-06-30T20:30:04Z
Yet it turned out that endless jiggling was not the key motif of the two global stars known for fine control of their hindquarters. Review | J-Lo and Shakira shake off boundaries, put on a ferocious master dance class at the Super Bowl 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z
The same pose is adopted by the most beautiful picture in “Rear View”: a small painting of a female model’s hindquarters by the uptight Swiss painter Félix Vallotton. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z
As a truly wild place, there are lots of things that can sting, bite, poison or, in the case of mt. lions, gnaw your hindquarters for lunch. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z
A church mosaic in the exhibition from eighth-century Jordan provides fascinating evidence of iconoclasm: a large feline figure whose hindquarters have been replaced by flowering plants. Art Review: ?Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition? at the Met 2012-03-15T23:06:56Z
As I snack on crispy, au jus-soaked french fries, two butchers begin breaking it down, drawing their boning knives through the white fat along the spine and down the hindquarter to remove the tenderloin. What is the next pork belly? How meat trends start, sizzle, and ultimately fizzle out 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z
When we get momentarily baffled in a Smith novel, we don’t, like Samuel Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon, sit and scratch our hindquarters. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z
Searles set out to reteach the bears some boundaries using a combination of non-lethal methods — sometimes a gentle word, sometimes a sting to the hindquarters with rubber buckshot — that have netted ursine attention and respect. Don't fear the bears! Mammoth's 'bear whisperer' will teach you how to coexist 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z
Those that do can lose coordination and appetite and have confusion, fever, stiffness and muscle weakness in their hindquarters. West Nile sickens 2 Eastern WA people and 2 horses in bad year for virus 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z
Okapis are also called forest giraffes because of their long necks and zebra-like stripes on their hindquarters, which act as camouflage in their rainforest habitat. Chester Zoo okapi birth will help reveal secrets of species, keeper says 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z
They take their name from the saddlebags attached to the hindquarters of the bike. I Fell in Love With Motorcycles. But Could I Ever Love Sturgis? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z
In 2019, the Wakes found the theropod ilium and the duck-billed dinosaur hindquarters that were excavated this summer. UW paleontologists dug up 4 dinosaurs in Montana this summer — see the fossils emerge at the Burke Museum 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z
Big Smokin Hawk, known outside the show ring as Mini Pearl, is a sorrel mare on whose left hindquarter the letters S, I and D are branded. The G.O.P. Won It All in Texas. Then It Turned on Itself. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z
One segment showed an earth-moving bucket hoisting an injured Holstein into the air by its hindquarters. Is Dairy Farming Cruel to Cows? 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z
This is what the Europeans are up against in the Juvenile Turf Sprint: Golden Pal’s opponents watch his hindquarters disappear into the distance in the Skidmore at Saratoga. Breeders' Cup 2020: day one – live! 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z
Luster said Heider had some requests, such as wanting it to be painted like it was a dapple-gray, including the dappling across the hindquarters. Artist paints carousel horse to fulfill former owner’s dream 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z
His hindquarters were collapsing below him; he couldn’t bear to be touched there, and the vet’s nurses, standing in for the vet, but not as skilled as the vet, caused him to cry out. The Strangeness of Grief 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z
Most trainers also rub chili powder and stinging plants on the hindquarters to numb the horses’ muscles so they don’t feel fatigue during the race. For Indonesia’s Child Jockeys, Time to Retire at 10, After 5 Years of Racing 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z
First, a little hindquarters covering on our part: Any analysis of an election 474 days away comes with enough caveats to render it nearly meaningless. No secret genius in Trump’s attacks on freshman four 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z
For Republicans to do anything but feel the sunshine on their hindquarters and generally be still is a mystification. To many voters, Mueller hasn’t mattered 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z
A mother goat that survived was found with a huge chunk of her hindquarters ripped out. Some called him Cujo, others knew him as The Dog. But in this Utah town, all knew him as a killer - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z
Butcher manager Allie Christian and Aniel both set to work on the hindquarter with flexible, wicked sharp boning knives, while Dawson took a hand saw to the forequarter. Wisconsin farmers work on grass-fed, locally grazed meat 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z
At one point, she picks up a hacksaw, which she uses to separate the hindquarters from the rest of the carcass. From crosshairs to the food bank: How deer feed the hungry 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z
His torso was full of puncture wounds and half of his hindquarters were eaten. Bear kills, eats Connecticut family’s donkey 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z
The mare was wounded twice, on the forehead and in the hindquarter, receiving the Purple Heart. A hero horse, a 'forgotten' war, both revisited 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z
The mare was wounded twice — on the forehead and in the hindquarter. Reckless, a hero horse for the Marines, honored with a statue at Camp Pendleton 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z
Each just meanders to the dairy, all rolling hindquarters, swishing tails and loping heads, the blue-black and tan Rorschach ink-blot patching of their hides vivid against the washed-out Australian summer light. Transforming the bush: robots, drones and cows that milk themselves | Paul Daley 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z
A dart fired by Lash struck high on a hindquarter. Tracking the travels of goats 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z
But they kept walking behind me, they kept discussing what they’d like to do with my hindquarters with or without my consent, my whole way home. Queer men like me are the victims of street harassment nobody talks about | Derrick Clifton 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z
An affidavit says Austin mounted patrol officers were trying to break up a fistfight outside a club when Mendez allegedly punched a horse in the right hindquarter. Man arrested after allegedly punching Austin police horse 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z
These two females—between five and seven years old—appear to Poole to be unwell: “Numerous small wounds can be seen on the hindquarters of the one farther away.” Photos Show Sad Plight for African Elephants Lifted to China 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
Strike it in rhythm with the horse’s stride, but only on the shoulders or the hindquarters. Jockeys Keep Whipping, Adding Urgency for Some to a Horse Racing Debate 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z
Their partnership—what J. Anthony Lukas later termed “a kind of journalistic centaur with an aristocratic Republican head and runty Jewish hindquarters”—never seemed closer to being ruptured. The Hidden Sources That Brought Down Nixon in Watergate
The rig would send calibrated jolts up the handlebars or the seat, into his hands or hindquarters, with sensors measuring the diffusion of force. What Can the McLaren Racing Team Teach the Rest of Us? 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z
Near the hospital a man leads a horse out of the ruins, a long streak of blood staining its hindquarters where it was struck by shrapnel. A pause in the bombing by Israeli forces – and the ruins of Gaza are laid bare 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z
These two females—between five and seven years old—appear to Poole to be unwell: “Numerous small wounds can be seen on the hindquarters of the one farther away.” Photos Show Sad Plight for African Elephants Lifted to China 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
They returned the chihuahua, Suzie, but kept the older dog, 14-year-old Faith, and leaked photos to local media outlets that showed her without any fur on her hindquarters. Off the Grid in a Florida Suburb, Fighting Municipal Code 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z
The dogs cooperate as a pack when they hunt a field mouse or a rabbit, possibly using their white hindquarters as signals. A Dog That Goes Way Back 2013-07-15T17:23:58Z
Working from the idea that male dinosaurs threw one of their legs over the back of the female, Alexander pointed out that the weight of the male would have rested on the female's hindquarters. How Did Dinosaurs Have Sex? (preview) 2013-03-29T11:45:03.047Z
Lunch ended with the hindquarters of both ducks intact, which would not have happened had Mr. Koch been at the table. City Room: Koch's Lunch Mates Convene Without Him, And He's Still the Center of Attention 2013-02-03T00:23:03Z
These two females—between five and seven years old—appear to Poole to be unwell: “Numerous small wounds can be seen on the hindquarters of the one farther away.” Photos Show Sad Plight for African Elephants Lifted to China 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
The remains of one lion—fragments of its hindquarters and front paws—were claimed by Harvard’s Semitic Museum, while another more intact one made its way to the University of Pennsylvania. 3D Printing Restores Ancient Statue 2013-01-30T06:35:00Z
They cover up their scat by pushing dirt over it with their noses, not by using their hindquarters to scratch the ground. A Dog That Goes Way Back 2013-07-15T17:23:58Z
She doesn't look to have lost much weight, looking over her hindquarters. Black Caviar 'in very good condition' after arriving in Newmarket 2012-06-08T12:00:48Z
The hindquarters, though strong, should be lighter in proportion to the forequarters. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z
He slapped his coat pocket where the automatic rested and lifted his quirt to cut the hindquarters of the slow moving stallion. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z
His cage is so small that he cannot walk up and down; he sits there almost upright on his hindquarters, rocking his meek and heavy head from side to side. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z
They were followed by a turkey of enormous size and fatness, and a hindquarter of veal; the accessories were preserved melons and gourds, apple chips, and pickled mushrooms. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z
The huge black beast wagged his hindquarters frantically and wallowed on the floor in his fawning delight at the sound of a human voice. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z
The hindquarters, like those of a collie, should be similarly clad with long hair or feathering from the top of the rump to the hocks. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z
He cut across the intervening flat and, ears back, hindquarters scrooching far under his body as he changed his gait for the steep drop, he disappeared over the rim. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z
A big timber wolf sat on its hindquarters, staring steadily at him through the firelight. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z
They live in trees, where they construct nests, on nuts, acorns, fruits, insects, birds and eggs, and squirrel-like rest upon their hindquarters when eating, holding their food between their forepaws. 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
Finding no tail to wag, he did the best he could with his whole massive hindquarters, to the discomfiture of all that got in the way. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z
Before the unwieldy animal could turn, the launch had literally scraped the hippo's submerged hindquarters. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z
Size: As big as possible, but not leggy; reasonably plump for the show-bench, but very graceful in all their motions; with stoutish short forelegs, and plenty of spring in the hindquarters. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z
Mark ran to the knoll, but Pan was there before him, and just in time to seize a wounded kangaroo by the hindquarter as he was paddling into a hole by the fore paws. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z
I had only three cartridges left, having expended the others on the wounded buffalo, whose vanishing hindquarters had been my occasional target for several hours. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z
Of course there’s more to this 4-year-old mare than hindquarter muscle — but Moody is the first to admit it’s what drew him to the filly when she was offered at the Melbourne Premier yearling sale. The Rail: The World's Best Horse? She's in Australia 2011-05-19T02:00:45Z
He switched his tail about his hindquarters sharply, and backed a step. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z
The bear reared on its hindquarters and whimpered, brushing at its eyes with its forepaws. Polaris of the Snows 2011-03-02T03:00:28.900Z
All the summits of those melancholy-looking hills, bared of their covering, resume again their brown colour and resemble hindquarters of animals couching on these plains which still remain white. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z
With the shot the hindquarters of the lion heaved mightily into the air, and fell forward towards the hunter. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z
He should respond to the simultaneous and equal action of both legs by engaging his hindquarters and moving forward; to the predominant action of one leg by moving his haunches to the opposite side. Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917 to be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training 2011-02-03T03:00:09.473Z
His hindquarters slipped downhill, throwing his head up to confront VB. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z
At this great oath the horse stood up on his fore-feet, and sat like a dog on his hindquarters. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z
The horse, a nice-looking sorrel, was down in the hindquarters and up in the front. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z
He had but one barrel loaded; the bullet took the animal in the hindquarters, making him stop and turn. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z
During the rest period between the second and third loop, the horse belonging to the American Lindsay Graham, Monk, received a new shoe while others massaged his hindquarters. Big Money Aids Endurance Race on 4 Hooves 2010-09-27T01:51:00Z
“They don’t even own the dog,” he says, gesturing toward Mr. Pittman and his assistant, who is holding Sloan’s hindquarters in an attention-getting grip that makes it impossible for her to sit. 2010-02-13T23:16:00Z
We soon found it too heavy to carry that way, so skinned it and hung up the foreparts and took the skin and hindquarters. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.
Slowly Sadu crouched for the spring, his giant head flattened almost to the ground, massive hindquarters drawn beneath him like powerful springs, his long tail extended and quivering. The Return of Tharn
I shall never forget the thrill of excitement that went through all my nerves as we started down the gully, Jim in the lead and my horse close on his hindquarters. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure
His unwounded forepaw was over the trap, his hindquarters gathered beneath him as though for a spring, and his long tail waved viciously to and fro. Harley Greenoak's Charge
The horse, relieved of its double burden, shot forward, its pace accelerated by a stone, lightly hurled by its late owner, which struck it on the hindquarters. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland
Slowly Sadu settled into a crouching position, head flattened, hindquarters drawn beneath his taut frame, tail twitching in jerky undulations. Warrior of the Dawn
Cautiously he began to inch his way toward the flames, his hindquarters held low, his majestic head extended and flattened until his nose was close to the ground. The Return of Tharn
The animal jumped, collapsed, began to slink away into the undergrowth, dragging the arrow from its hindquarters. Voyage To Eternity
Finally they came upon one of the hindquarters floating sluggishly almost under water. Northern Diamonds
If he hesitates, pass the hand behind the waist and strike the near hindquarter. Maids Wives and Bachelors
It was Sadu, the lion, crouching there, massive head flattened to the ground, hindquarters beneath a taut frame, waiting for the approaching prey to move within the radius of his spring. Warrior of the Dawn
But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter. Manifesto of the Communist Party
Then he took a hindquarter of the newly killed buck and 224 departed for the Indians’ camp, where he stayed for an hour. Gold
She began by ordering forty sugar cured hams and four hindquarters of beef. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs
But again the maddening pain in its hindquarters sent it careening toward the building wall. The Red Hell of Jupiter
Vesta was riding a big brown gelding, long-necked, deep-chested, slim of hindquarters as a hound. The Duke Of Chimney Butte
Sancho, overcome with some innate foreboding of disaster, took refuge in the shade of Rocinante's hindquarters; but Don Quixote stood resolute and held his ground. The Story of Don Quixote
He drives a team of five grey huskies, the leader of which has a yellow face and a patch of brindled-brown upon its right hindquarters. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin
I've a suspicion that if Tom cares to look he'll find one or two number six pellets in the hindquarters of the setter. Thurston of Orchard Valley
It has high hindquarters and walks with a curious jump, which I suppose is why it got its name. Blake's Burden
She answered every blow on her lathered hindquarters with an angry hump. The Biography of a Prairie Girl
And so he swung his hindquarters up to the sky, and down he went to the bottom. Eskimo Folk-Tales
He strained on the traces, exposing to them only his hindquarters, running well ahead, and keeping his throat safe. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin
If rabbits are very plenty and very fat, put down a jar of hindquarters in marinade for three days, then wipe, and hang in a cold, dry place. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
Whereupon Narcisse uncurled himself from slumber and planted himself on his hindquarters in front of me and grinned at me with lolling tongue. The Belovéd Vagabond
The new moon was just rising over the elephant’s hindquarters, and the poetry of the incident appeared to move the manager profoundly. The Maids of Paradise
A Moor will not trouble to prevent his beasts having sore backs and fistulated withers and raw hindquarters, any more than he sees that his children are warmly clad and suitably fed. In the Tail of the Peacock
Before Saxham rise the bony brown and bay and chestnut hindquarters of half a dozen lean horses, that are drowsing or fidgeting before their emptied mangers. The Dop Doctor
Its tail and hindquarters were exactly like those of a panther, its chest and forelegs were like a hawk's, and it had pointed wings. David and the Phoenix
Notwithstanding their huge paunches, big hindquarters, and immense tails, there is something graceful and attractive about these creatures. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands
Nor did she notice the suggestion of impotence about his hindquarters. Anthony Lyveden
Every one of them fell away in the hindquarters. In the Tail of the Peacock
A favorite place was the hindquarters of a gorgeous gilded deer that swung with the wind on the roof of the barn. Little Brothers of the Air
I proceeded towards it, and soon perceived that it was a fox, sitting up on his hindquarters Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
One man carried the hindquarters of a gnu, the other had a brace of birds dangling from the haft of his spear. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force
Having satisfied themselves that the bear was dead, the miner and the guide, with the aid of the Indians, moved the enormous mass which, with the Indian’s blow, had slumped down upon its hindquarters. The Boy Scouts on the Yukon
And Duke, his hindquarters trembling with eagerness, his head turned beseechingly toward the man, crouched awaiting the signal. The Adventures of Bobby Orde
Jim rode in the lead on a splendid gray, with a powerful arching neck, strong shoulders and hindquarters made for speed. Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power
Clean and cut them in halves, leaving two ribs on the hindquarters. Woodcraft
You see his hindquarters were paralysed, and he couldn't help himself much. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
Seizing his gun, which he had laid down, Dan faced round just in time to see the hindquarters and tail of a large grey wolf disappearing in the bushes. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
In a few seconds he was half buried, and his hindquarters and tail alone remained above ground. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
Roberts unloaded from the saddle the hindquarters of a black-tail deer he had shot just before sunset. Oh, You Tex!
When a sharpened sliver will pass easily through the flesh, take the hindquarters from the kettle, drain and place them in the frying pan with pork fat hissing hot. Woodcraft
"I think your groom's here, sir," he said, and the trees were so close set that my shoulder brushed the hindquarters of a row of mules as he piloted me along. Pushed and the Return Push
Up went his hindquarters, and Peg found herself sprawling on his bushy mane. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
Something about his hindquarters had been wrenched or torn or broken. Bloom of Cactus
He discusses the question of the kind of horses required, even to the colour, and indicates ranges of country where horses can be bred that are "strong in the hindquarters." Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
A horse, for instance, may be carved in low relief, presenting either its head or hindquarters to the spectator, and yet not look absolutely absurd. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
As he threw open the door, we saw, not a dozen paces from the hut, a huge bear squatting on his hindquarters and apparently taking a leisurely survey of the hut. Adventures in the Far West
It has a large hump on the shoulder, and its fore-quarters are much larger, in proportion, than the hindquarters. The Dog Crusoe and his Master
The dog howled again, made a fresh effort, and this time managed to sit up on his hindquarters, and drooped his fore-paws, opening his great mouth and lolling out the curled-up tongue. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
He was amazed at the strength which enabled him to dig out from the ground a hindquarter of the bear and easily carry it away to another place, where he cunningly hid it. Three Boys in the Wild North Land
One steatopygean girl was so bulky in legs and hindquarters that she could waddle only a few inches with each step, yet her head and upper torso were skinny and fragile. Rebels of the Red Planet
If the badger managed to snap the dog's hindquarters, an angry tussle ensued, but never resulted in a real fight. The Human Side of Animals
Peppermint ought to be as good for a pain in your hindquarters as it is for one in your first cabin. Joyce of the North Woods
He stooped to examine the dead wolf, catching it by the tail and hoisting its hindquarters off the ground. The Time Traders
The two best shots got, each, a hindquarter of the beef. Sergeant York And His People
"Wall," said he, "believe I'll knock this critter in the head, skin him, take a hindquarter over to that preacher's house and make him eat it raw." The Starbucks
Out of the scrub trotted a huge, shaggy, black thing, all head and shoulders, with body slanting back abruptly to a pair of weak hindquarters. The Danger Mark
The remaining portion of the hides marketed were from buffaloes killed in spring and summer, when the body and hindquarters ware almost naked. The Extermination of the American Bison
There, to my disgust and vexation, he fixed the master with an expectant stare, and then sat up upon his hindquarters and begged a sweatmeat. Berry And Co.
She was big and brown, with hindquarters that looked like jumping; she was also very dirty and obviously underfed. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
He looked for all the world like a miniature buffalo bull, the same ungainly head and fore-quarters, big, heavy shoulders, neat legs, shapely barrel, light loin, and hindquarters, the same proppy, ungainly gait. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
He lifted himself on his hindquarters to snap his long teeth into her thigh and spring to the ground with her, where he would have her completely at his mercy. Children of the Wild
What little hair he has is very short and thin, his hindquarters being almost naked. The Extermination of the American Bison
The horses' heads and the saddles were fairly well protected, but the hindquarters of the animals were presently streaming with water. Clover
It looked, and was, an utterly degraded little object, as it stood with its tail tucked in between its drooping hindquarters, and the rain running in brown streams down its legs. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
Aunt Mary raised her eyebrows in a manner that appeared a trifle indignant, and riveted her gaze on the hindquarters of the horse. The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
Also, her feet were twice as big as a kitten's would have been, and her hindquarters were high and powerful, like a rabbit's. Children of the Wild
The color of the body and hindquarters of a buffalo is very peculiar, and almost baffles intelligent description. The Extermination of the American Bison
Instantly the girl was in motion again, flying up the cañon past the white-stockinged roan, her pony's hindquarters gathered to take the sheep trail like those of a wild cat. Mavericks
It has high hindquarters, and walks with a curious jump—I suppose that is how it got its name. The Intriguers
Yet he had good, solid feet, plenty of bone, deep withers, and powerful hindquarters. Partners of Chance
But the people generally never thought of that, and were mainly influenced in their judgments by the spareness or fleshiness of the animal's hindquarters. The Siege of Kimberley
The aurochs is taller, and possesses a larger pelvis and heavier, stronger hindquarters, but his body is decidedly smaller in all its proportions, which gives him a lean and “leggy” look. The Extermination of the American Bison
Then a hare slipped out and ran the gauntlet, and filled the hollow with his cries when the shot broke his hindquarters, till the dog had him. The Amateur Poacher
We killed and skinned her, and I cut off about five pounds of hindquarter. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
Its fore and hind legs resembled in proportion those of the kangaroo; and it used the latter by leaping on its hindquarters in the same manner as that animal. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
While I was trying to pull him back, he got in his hindquarters, and then, in further answer to my efforts, sat down in the water! The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon
As before remarked, it becomes astonishingly short and rotund, and through liberal feeding and total lack of exercise the muscles of the shoulders and hindquarters, especially the latter, are but feebly developed. The Extermination of the American Bison
The ferret had therefore deliberately gnawn away the hindquarters and so bored a passage. The Amateur Poacher
They said they would require about twelve buffaloes a day—twenty-four hams and twelve humps, as only the hump and hindquarters of each animal were utilized. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
The declaration that his headquarters would be his saddle, which Lee so wittily turned, saying, "then his headquarters would be where his hindquarters ought to be," Pope declares he never made. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
Neck and shoulders long, loins short, and hindquarters stretched out, shoulders flat, forehead almost pointed. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen
The setting sun lights up his powerful bronzed back, his prominent shoulders, and the hindquarters of the cow. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.
The main trouble that seems to come on the poor wretches is the icing up of their hindquarters; once the ice gets thoroughly into the coat the hind legs get half paralysed with cold. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
He does not show the quality he ought in his hindquarters. A Cotswold Village
But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter. The Communist Manifesto
The two boys had drawn up at his side, but MacWilliams had turned in the saddle and was still looking toward the Palace, with his hand resting on the hindquarters of his pony. Soldiers of Fortune
There's no harm in a kick in the hindquarters when your belly's full," said Captain Nichols, "and personally I never take it in bad part. Moon and Sixpence
To-day I have been helping the Soldier to design pony rugs; the great thing, I think, is to get something which will completely cover the hindquarters. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
Harry sprang away from Benjamin's rush and brought his stick down on the hindquarters of the horses. The Highwayman
And so, I suffered like a dog, whose hindquarters have been run over by a wheel. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
The stag tried also to get to shore, but the ball had inflicted a wound which partially paralysed his hindquarters. A Woman Tenderfoot
Make Mrs. Clare pick off the hindquarters; boil them plain with parsley and butter. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
At Hut Point he looked a miserable object, as the hair refused to grow on his hindquarters. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
She did not stir, because she was aware of the presence of the dark hindquarters of the horses, though she could not see them, and she was afraid. England, My England
There is a lot more flesh on the hindquarters than there is on the rest of the stag. In the Heart of the Rockies
The animal may show a swelling in the regions of the shoulder and hindquarters or on other parts of the body. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
We brought his tongue, hump, and a hindquarter to the ranch with us, and had a glorious feast and a big laugh that night with the boys over the ridiculous adventure. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
Some sat on their hindquarters, while others stood at full height. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul.
To our great wonder in a few seconds he crawled out from beneath the hindquarters of his enemy, and engaged him again. American Big Game in Its Haunts
The Indians seldom carry off more than the hindquarters of a deer, never if they think there is a chance of getting more soon. In the Heart of the Rockies
To these his father had added the smoked hindquarters of a young buffalo, half a barrel of dried fish, and fifty pounds of pemmican. Man Size
Bang! went a second discharge at this juncture, and the bear now turning bit savagely at its hindquarters as though its wounds smarted severely. The Outdoor Chums The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club
The lynx lay on its belly, like a cat, its hindquarters twitching, and gathered for the spring. Kazan
By the time we had run up he was shaking and biting his hindquarters in a most approved style. American Big Game in Its Haunts
Then we fell upon them, and the hindquarters of all bore witness to our greeting. Salute to Adventurers
She breakfasted on stew made from a hindquarter of fox. Man Size
On side overlapping circle.—Tail and hindquarters of rat, with head in a hole. Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves
But to-day he caught the edge of it, and he knew why Gray Wolf's ears flattened, and her hindquarters drooped. Kazan
In the American species, Bison bison, the pelvis is less elevated, producing the characteristic slope of the hindquarters. American Big Game in Its Haunts
She seized the hindquarters of the bear, gripping the fur in her bare hands, and actually dragged the animal off its victim! The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
Why, our headquarters would be in Constantinople and our hindquarters in Further India! The Gilded Age, Part 1.
My knife went home to the hilt in the body of one dog—and it came to the ground and lay there—for its hindquarters were paralysed, howling, snarling and biting at me. Ayesha, the Return of She
Six days and six nights of fasting had drawn in their ribs and put deep hollows in front of their hindquarters. Kazan
The most striking symptom seems to be a partial paralysis of the hindquarters. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
The gunners of the town, seeing a number of officers approaching, fired, and with so good an aim that a cannonball carried off the hindquarters of the horse the king was riding. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus
In the first trap house McTaggart had placed as bait the hindquarter of a snowshoe rabbit. Baree, Son of Kazan
Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant. Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts
Like a schoolboy who has been caned, Purdy dug his knuckles into his eyes and rubbed his hindquarters—to the fresh delight of Trotty and the girl. Australia Felix
Zahur described the shot he had taken as oblique; as the bear had passed him, therefore the bullet must have struck either the hindquarters full, or the thigh. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1
He was a light gray over all his hindquarters, with shoulders and head black. The Man of the Forest
To get a better look, the old beaver spread his flat tail out beyond him and rose to a sitting posture on his hindquarters, his two front paws held squirrel-like over his breast. Baree, Son of Kazan
One does not encircle one's hindquarters with a coronet for the sole satisfaction of displaying it. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
Head first they go downward, setting the fore paws forward, the claws clutching around projections and in fissures, the weight hung from the stout hindquarters, the body flattened on the earth. Greyfriars Bobby
The reddish Lyubim rushed forward from behind Milka, sprang impetuously at the wolf, and seized it by its hindquarters, but immediately jumped aside in terror. War and Peace
I was unable to ride on horseback, because of an accidental injury to my hindquarters, so I rode in one of the commander-in-chief's coaches. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot
Twice in crossing the cabin his hindquarters had sagged to the floor. Baree, Son of Kazan
He clawed wildly with his toes for a purchase on the smooth cliff wall; over which his hindquarters had slipped. Further Adventures of Lad
Lena, who seldom showed a symptom of fear, dashed up to me in a state of great excitement, with the deep scores of a leopard's claws on her hindquarters. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
The one with the colic had its legs stretched wide; its flanks heaved and spasms shook its hindquarters. The Path of the King
Then he caught sight of legs and hindquarters a few feet up the cliff from the bottom. A Voyage to Arcturus
The drooping of the hindquarters would almost make me doubt the purity of its German breed, and I think there is English blood in him. Ten Years Later
The broader and shorter the loins the more easily will the horse raise his forequarters and bring up his hindquarters under him. On Horsemanship
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