How To Use Hind leg In A Sentence

She pulled back hard on the reins, and the horse reared back on its hind legs.
Also known as a ‘parrot lizard’ for its parrotlike beak, the herbivore was a strong, agile dinosaur that walked on its two hind legs.
Ultimately, one of the dog's hind legs shoots up in the air, as its head goes down.
A calf that spends the early hours of life licking a dirty udder and hind legs of a cow trying to find a teat is more likely to succumb to disease than a calf in a clean environment that got an early feed of quality colostrum.
Herodotus rejoins that camels have four thighbones in their hind legs, and that their genitals face backwards.

The coffin shattered into a million pieces while the hind legs and the wings of the hippogriff vaporized.
Meantime the bear has learned to paddle around all by itself on its hind legs, and says "poppa" and "momma. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
I decided that it must either be a muntjac or a Chinese water deer, but have ruled out the latter, because as can be seen above the chinese water deer's hind legs are noticeably longer than its forelegs.
The largest was Basilosaurus isis, which was up to 21 m long, with well developed five-fingered flippers on the forelimbs and the quite unexpected presence of hind legs, feet, and toes, not known previously in any archaeocete; a vestigial use may have been as claspers during aquatic mating. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
Tyran reared onto his hind legs in rage, his nostrils flaring and his breathing intense.
Males have hollow spurs connected to venom glands on the ankle of each hind leg.
Around the bend in the path came a soft, pale, velvety nose, attached to a large, prancing, silky brown body bearing a well-filled udder between the hind legs.
Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
Here it is used for "croupade," "a high curvet in which the hind legs are brought up under the belly of the horse" (_N. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children. Dragons in the garden
She pulled back hard on the reigns, and the horse reared back on its hind legs.
The unicorn whinnied and reared up onto her hind legs, ‘I'll take it from her Mel.’
He also touches upon the theory behind legal education itself which provides a useful view into the heads of Canadian law school administrators everywhere (forewarned is forearmed). Waddams v. Hutchinson : Law is Cool
The four-year-old son of Scenic appeared perceptibly lame in his right hind leg during the broadcast.
But there was a stroke of good fortune for Fallon in the paddock before the race as Gift Horse lashed out with his hind legs, narrowly missing the jockey.
The German shepherd stood up on his hind legs and looked me in the face. Times, Sunday Times
He pointed at her fine steed, which was currently occupied with kicking his hind legs in the air and stomping and snorting like an unbroken colt.
He said that the car'looked like a dachshund sitting up on its hind legs '. Times, Sunday Times
But danger is just around the corner when the scared horse rears up on its hind legs! The Sun
Melhiril's horse reared back on its hind legs, letting out a loud whinny.
No official measurement is recorded but he could be as tall on his hind legs as world record holder Zeus. The Sun
One of these involves using the hind leg to scratch an area of skin to which an irritant has been applied.
Then the turtle reared on its hind legs and grew five times its original size.
A cart has no brakes, so the horse is fitted with breechings around the hind legs to allow him to slow the vehicle.
Before the last elections, lawmakers of both parties were on their hind legs assailing these traitors, promising action!
The term, _thigh_, is usually applied to the part of the hind leg above the gaskin; but, correctly speaking, it is the part of the hind leg above the stifle. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
Both features help pollen grains adhere to their bodies, but they also have specialized pollen-carrying structures; in most bees, this takes the form of a structure known as the scopa, which is on the hind legs of most bees, and/or the lower abdomen (e.g., of megachilid bees), made up of thick, plumose setae. Pollinator
The fur was very soft and warm and the rabbit trembled slightly as I probed its smashed up hind legs with the tips of my fingers, then suddenly recoiled as they sunk into wet, ripped flesh.
While Belochamp was almost a uniform gray except for his white mane and tail, Theram had a white star and stockings on both his hind legs.
They also have extremely powerful hind legs, and can charge at up to fifty miles/hour.
Every now and then some would-be curmudgeon rises up on his hind legs and yowls at the sky that the latest form of social networking is a blight on the cultural landscape and proves that people have nothing better to do than post pictures of their pets in various shocking forms of dishabille. MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry?
They have sharp nails and their hind legs are naturally very strong.
It was a small Labrador puppy, with coal-black fur, sitting on its hind legs and looking up at her.
A second bear, standing on its hind legs, banged a tambourine with a forepaw.
It often stands on its hind legs. Times, Sunday Times
The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped. The Best American Poetry 2010
Once he gave me a free free-range chicken which had lost both its hind legs, but other than that was in pretty good nick. Times, Sunday Times
This is all rather like a dog complacently assuming that you will give him the entire turkey if he merely sits on his hind legs and limps his forepaws.
While Belochamp was almost a uniform gray except for his white mane and tail, Theram had a white star and stockings on both his hind legs.
Field diagnosed the kangaroo as a cross between squirrel and deer, with five claws on its forepaw but only three talons on its hind legs, as if it were partly avian (though it did its hopping with its tail).
The horse reared back on its hind legs.
The hind legs of the gerbil are particularly well adapted to leaping across its desert habitat.
Johnny obediently waited; but he wanted to _see_, so he sat up on his hind legs with eyes agog and ears acock. Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted
Early relatives of the sauropods, the Late Triassic plateosaurs or prosauropods, may have occasionally stood on their hind legs.
Both sexes have a pair of ‘spurs’ on each hind leg where the tibia, or fourth leg segment, joins the tarsus, or foot.
But danger is just around the corner when the scared horse rears up on its hind legs! The Sun
Herodotus rejoins that camels have four thighbones in their hind legs, and that their genitals face backwards.
It was a hind leg. The Sun
The terrier fell down the cabin companionway and lamed its nigh hind leg, then repeated the manoeuvre and lamed its off fore leg. Chapter 17
The horse reared up on its hind legs.
Pagiopodous: those Heteroptera which have the coxae of the hind legs hinged and the femora grooved. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
The tibia is shorter, too, than the tibia of the hind leg. The Insect Folk
He sits, lies down and stands on his hind legs. The Sun
The Elders showed them how to gut the carcass and prepare the hide with a traditional tool fashioned from a hind leg bone.
After the skin was sutured, the outer end of the tube was fixed with surgical tape at the shaved hind leg.
A second peon with his lasso gallops after the bullock, and throws his lasso round the hind leg above the hough and rides in a contrary direction to the other horseman, consequently the bullock is stretched between the two horses. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
There stands the wee dog on his hind legs, his wound bandaged, a gun-belt strapped around his middle.
On a grey flagstone beside the birdbath, a squirrel was sitting on his hind legs. DANSVILLE
He couldn't believe his eyes when he found them dancing on their hind legs around a shrub blossoming with bright red cherries.
Rampant regardant - on hind legs, tongue hanging out Archive 2008-05-01
The creatures included a monstrous blue unicorn with a beard like a goat and tailless, but talented, beavers that walked on their hind legs, lived in huts and built campfires. Marc Hartzman: A Touch of Knowledge: The Man-Bats on the Moon
Every hour, it jerkily rears up on its hind legs and waggles its forelegs a bit.
The climax of George Garrett's "Or Death and December," in which the speaker's puppy lifts a hind leg to pee for the first time during a frozen morning walk, might seem tailor-made to exhort and comfort parents working to potty-train their kids. Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost
These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than throwbacks to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago.
A kindly, gray-whiskered old gentleman came tottering and rocking into view, his rosy, wrinkled face beaming benediction on the world as he passed through it -- on the sunshine dappling the undergrowth, on the furry squirrels sitting up on their hind legs to watch him pass, on the stray dickybird that hopped fearlessly in his path, at the young man sitting very rigid there on his bench, at the fair, sweet-faced girl who met his aged eyes with the gentlest of involuntary smiles. The Tracer of Lost Persons
Dubai Millennium had fractured a bone in his hind leg on the gallops earlier that morning. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Frogs found in the vicinity of the refuge's oil fields had missing or misshapen hind legs and feet, and missing eyes.
This was associated with infection by a flatworm or fluke infection called Ribeiroia, which formed cysts near the hind legs.
Within a few seconds, its forelegs were bound together tightly, and its tail was fastened to its hind legs.
During the acupuncture stimulation, animals were kept in plastic holders with their tails and hind legs protruding out.
The Chief Steward said that the trainer admitted to administering bute to his horse five days before the trial after the horse kicked a rail in his barn resulting in a swollen hind leg.
Smaller, bonier forelegs can be cooked with the hind legs or reserved for stock or soup.
Dubai Millennium had fractured a bone in his hind leg on the gallops earlier that morning. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
The dragon reared up onto its hind legs, his front foot connecting roughly with Fin's chest.
You must notice that a horse's foot really begins at the point which we call his knee in the front legs, and at his hock in his hind legs. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
The second suffered a broken neck and looked like it had been wringed like a dishcloth, leaving its front and hind legs pointing in opposite directions. Murder Most Feline
The horse whinnied when Arnold caught hold of its bridle and it reared up on its hind legs.
Hence, when he waddled across the court to and from his old grey pony, he somewhat resembled a turnspit walking upon its hind legs. Waverley
The patagium extends all the way around to the bat's hind legs and tail, where it forms a flap called the uropatagium, supported by specialized foot bones called calcars.
Stroud (the Bartimaeus Trilogy) explores the consequences behind legend-worthy acts of glory and the power and peril of blind faith and hero-worship. Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud: Book summary
The horse whinnied when Arnold caught hold of its bridle, rearing up on its hind legs.
Some apes started walking on hind legs, employing their forelimbs as hands for holding and shaping tools.
-- Well, haven't I a splint and a corn, and ain't one of my fore fetlocks got a formoses, and my hind legs the stringhalt? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841
He had the hind legs of a stag, curved and cloven and furred, a dusky lion tail twitching by the left hock. Brush of Darkness
In the photo Glover was as stooped as ever, a trained bear on hind legs.
The Iberian species, however, has a distinctly spotted coat of grayish fur with tints ranging from yellow to rusty orange, a flared ruff framing its face, black ear tufts and tail tips, and long hind legs.
Artaxes reared onto his hind legs, and gave a quick kick of his back legs, and Miri could hold him back no longer.
The rabbit was sitting up on its hind legs, still staring at her.
I won't be leaving Dorey alone at the vet's any more, but I won't soon forget the way he looked, standing on his hind legs slashing the air with his forepaw.
They come down trees head-first like squirrels; stand on their hind legs balancing on their tails like kangaroos; and crawl and hang upside-down in the canopy like sloths.
They are noted for having the hind legs much longer than the fore ones -- in fact, being shaped very much like the kangaroos -- of which they might be termed Lilliputian varieties, were it not that they lack the pouch, which distinguishes these curious creatures. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
Alongside the apatosaurs, the smaller hadrosaurs stood on their hind legs to get at foliage. Jurassic Park
Spaced almost evenly a foot or so from one another, dozens upon dozens of the three-inch-long frogs float with their legs extended, hind legs buoyed apart, and snouts above water.
The flanks of the horses are often sore from them, and I have seen men come in from chasing bullocks with their horses hind legs and quarters covered with blood. Chapter XIII. Trading-A British Sailor
He threw his coned head to and fro, then, on hind legs, he reached his front paws forward and began swatting (in vain ...). Smokey
She suffered 16 puncture wounds to her hind legs, abdomen and neck. Times, Sunday Times
Nearly every part of the deer can be made into jerky, but the best cuts are the eye round and rump roast from the hind legs. The Best Way to Cut Venison Jerky
Such a wasp held the fly with the middle and hind legs head forward and ventral or dorsal side up.
The best cuts are the hind legs and the loin, which are sometimes cut as one piece to make a baron. Food Watch
A goat was standing up against a tree on its hind legs, trying to get at the leaves.
Again, the saltatory insectivores of Africa (_Macroscelides_) not only resemble the kangaroo family (_Macropodidæ_) in their jumping habits and long hind legs, but also in the structure of their molar teeth, and even further, as I have elsewhere [52] pointed out, in a certain similarity of the upper cutting teeth, or incisors. On the Genesis of Species
Unused to such harsh treatment, the horse reared back on its hind legs, unseating Jack Foster who landed with a thud on his backside.
On a cue from its master, the bear obediently stood up on its hind legs.
Some apes started walking on hind legs, employing their forelimbs as hands for holding and shaping tools.
He also touches upon the theory behind legal education itself which provides a useful view into the heads of Canadian law school administrators everywhere (forewarned is forearmed). Waddams v. Hutchinson : Law is Cool
Specialty butchers generally have access to rabbit and can debone the hind legs for you. Paneed Rabbit with Citrus, Sage and Caper-Butter Sauce
Down-stairs came Emily, dragging after her the unwilling Keeper, his hind legs set in a heavy attitude of resistance, held by the "scuft of his neck," but growling low and savagely all the time. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
The bear reared on its hind legs and tried to swipe its paw down towards Theresa.
Make sure the ferrules are tight fitting, the cane isn't soft, droopy or bent like the hind leg of a donkey.
Remaining motionless is their best defense, but when startled, snowshoes rely on their long, powerful hind legs to run away from danger. How to Hunt Snowshoe Hares
Each beast had two short, stubby forelimbs and two powerful, three toed hind legs.
Think of a tall, gray rabbit who wears white gloves and walks around on his hind legs.
Head in front and the pectus white; antennæ ferruginous at the base; abdomen long, a hoary band on the hind border of each segment; femora, tibiæ, and tarsi white at the base; hind legs long, rather stout; hind femora with a luteous band; wings limpid, veins black; halteres whitish, with piceous knobs. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
I like to watch the Belgian hares eating their trifolium or pea-pods or grass; graceful, gentle things they are, crowding about Mr. Heaven, and standing prettily, not greedily, on their hind legs, to reach for the clover, their delicate nostrils and whiskers all a-quiver with excitement. The Diary of a Goose Girl
The rest of its body looked as if it were a giant blue lizard, standing on its hind legs like an angered bear.
The meat-bearing parts of the fore - and hind legs (represented by scapulae, humeri, radii, ulnae, pelves, femora and tibiae) and the axial skeleton (vertebrae and ribs) were less frequently present. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 2
Generally, it has been the movie industry that has been the prime mover behind legislation requiring the use of anti-piracy devices.
Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm. The Conquering Sword of Conan
One of his hind legs was slightly smaller than the others, having regenerated after being lost in a molt. MINUTES TO BURN
A horse with stringhalt is often unable to back up and, in severe cases, will be unable to move because of the uncontrollable action of his hind legs.
Have you ever been roared at by a man-eater with fangs four inches away from your face, as it reared on its hind legs to lunge six feet tall at you?
A goat was standing up against a tree on its hind legs, trying to get at the leaves.
Smaller; anal plates 8-10; brachials 6 rows; femorals 8; femoral pores 25; hind leg extended reaches prenasal plate; yellow spotted on olive ground C. variolosua. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
A goat was standing up against a tree on its hind legs, trying to get at the leaves.
Another screaming beast collapsed on broken hind legs.
The cows were just being fastened for milking, that is to say they were tied by the head, each one to her stall, and then the hind leg was strapped so that there could be no danger of the animal kicking the pail over. The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking
Male grasshoppers court females by a producing a signal made by alternate stridulation, which is rubbing one hind leg against the tegmen, which produces sound.
One of his hind legs was slightly smaller than the others, having regenerated after being lost in a molt. MINUTES TO BURN
On a grey flagstone beside the birdbath, a squirrel was sitting on his hind legs. DANSVILLE
The hind leg of each animal to be used was shaved prior to the experiment.
Melhiril's horse reared back on its hind legs, letting out a loud whinny.
My daughter has a 9 year old gelding who has a very mild form of stringhalt in his near hind leg only.
Unlike most other snakes, boa constrictors possess small vestigial hind legs.
Very spooked, the horse reared on its hind legs and flew out of the stables.
The goat stands on his hind legs, embraces the glass, and pokes his long pointed tongue into the foam.
He would make a good politician—he could talk the hind legs off a donkey!
Thereupon the ploughman took the Ass, and worked him through the live long day at the Bull's task; and, when he failed for weakness, he made him eat stick till his ribs were sore and his sides were sunken and his neck was hayed by the yoke; and when he came home in the evening he could hardly drag his limbs along, either fore hand or hind legs. Arabian nights. English
Usually small spots on the hip or back indicate white factor; some breeders believe that any white extended up the hind leg into the stifle suggests that white factor is present.
Unused to such harsh treatment, the horse reared back on its hind legs, unseating Jack Foster who landed with a thud on his backside.
The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped. The Best American Poetry 2010
This lone polar bear bemused tourists on a cruise through Svalbard in the Arctic by standing on its hind legs and appearing to wave. Times, Sunday Times
They were described as man-size bipeds, but digitigrade, which gave their feet almost the appearance of a dog's walking on its hind legs. Agent Of The Terran Empire
With the hind legs you need to run your hand down the inside of the leg. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
A fifth lion, rearing up on its hind legs, prepares to attack an unsuspecting but seemingly ill-natured winged griffin seated stiffly on its haunches.
Down-stairs came Emily, dragging after her the unwilling Keeper, his hind legs set in a heavy attitude of resistance, held by the “scuft of his neck,” but growling low and savagely all the time. The Life of Charlotte Bronte
These marks included distinctive spots and stripes on the back, shoulders, hips, hind legs, and rump of the gerbils.
The dog was taken to a veterinarian, who discovered a National Dog Registry tattoo on its hind leg.
In my examination I asked Art if he still owned the billy goat that had lost a hind leg in a dog fight. THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
The "humpies" were so plentiful here, however, that they were tossed out on the bank, but not eaten, the bear preferring to capture one while in the water then wade about on his hind legs while he held the fish in his arms and devoured it. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
The dog proceeded to stand on his hind legs, waving his front paws at the man and lolling his tongue out in an expression of doggy glee.
In order for a horse to buck, it has to lower its head and slow its pace to bring both hind legs together and underneath to gain enough power to push upwards.
His massive forequarters, hind legs, miniature hooves, and primly uplifted tail might easily have been devised by Fritz Freleng for Warner Brothers. Archive 2009-04-01
The meat-bearing parts of the fore - and hind legs (represented by scapulae, humeri, radii, ulnae, pelves, femora and tibiae) and the axial skeleton (vertebrae and ribs) were less frequently present. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 2
The same held true when they injected the drug into multiple ganglia that connect to the tail and hind legs.
On the instant he struck, Lute lightly touched his neck with the rein, impelling him to the left; and in that instant, tottering on the insecure footing, with front feet slipping over into the pool beyond, he lifted on his hind legs, with a half turn, sprang to the left, and dropped squarely down to the tiny gravel bed. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
We instead reared up on our hind legs like a wounded animal and began thrashing about, enraged and unhinged, stoking bloodlust and fear.
Think of a tall, gray rabbit who wears white gloves and walks around on his hind legs.
I will forever be a foreigner, of course, gaijin, a dog who walks on hind legs, and that's fine by me - it's not my culture.
The biscacha is not a tribe of Indians, but, like the coney, a very feeble people, who dwell in caves or burrow underground, but all day long may be seen playing about the mounds they raise, or sitting on their hind legs on top of them. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure
Being hungry, Mittavinda thought nothing of grabbing the goat by a hind leg.
The beast reared up on its hind legs, screaming with blood showing at its lips and teeth.
It wasn't long before I began to predict the frogs' underwater routes by watching the wakes left by the powerful thrusts of their hind legs.
Both sexes have a pair of ‘spurs’ on each hind leg where the tibia, or fourth leg segment, joins the tarsus, or foot.
He sent me videos of such practices that include "shackle and hoist", designed to help drain the blood from the animal much more rapidly by pulling it into the air with chains attached to its hind legs. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Jewish Obligation for Humane Treatment of Animals
Play For keeps was an ex-racehorse, who always stood on her hind legs every time her rider asked her to halt.
Workers started by removing the front and hind legs from the mastodon, which is supported by a steel bracket. StarTribune.com rss feed
Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pygmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm. Conan The Warrior
One of his hind legs was slightly smaller than the others, having regenerated after being lost in a molt. MINUTES TO BURN
My shoulders are also strong and well shaped which means I can use the power in my hind legs to lift my front end effortlessly. Times, Sunday Times
The bear cleaned the collops of meat off the floor, stood on her hind legs, and danced with spirit, roaring.
The little truck I pushed around the summer of '44 didn't use much gas, nor did the hind legs by which I locomoted the last year of that conflict. Progress/regress free association
When he introduced Magico with a flick of the whip, the horse stood straight up on his hind legs and pawed the air, walking toward the spectators.
For as his hind legs collapsed beneath him he seemed to tower upwards like a huge rock toppling, his trunk reaching skywards like a tree.
Known as a theropod because it walks on its two hind legs, the is said to be a close relative of T-rex. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The front part of the body (ending just after front legs) and its hind legs are black, while its back has a saddle of grizzled white or grey.
But danger is just around the corner when the scared horse rears up on its hind legs! The Sun
Most people admire a dog that works with its head low to the ground, with its hindquarters high and its tail tucked between its hind legs.
It has two powerful hind legs. Times, Sunday Times
Lacey tried to get close to the Mare, but it reared up on its hind legs, kicking out at her with her forelegs, forcing her back out of the horse's reach.
The flaws I disqualify a horse for are back at the knee, long pasterns, and a weak hind leg.
Besides self-coloured tiles, there were some that were ornamented, one representing the "Capitoli Wolf," a strange-looking, long-legged animal, with its face inclined towards the spectator, while between its fore and hind legs could be seen in the distance the figures of Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of From John O'Groats to Land's End
The signs were bad in the paddock before the race where he was sweating behind his hind legs and he looked dull.
It's true. He told me that his grandma could talk the hind leg off a donkey.
Crickets and grasshoppers communicate their location and availability to potential mates with sounds made by rubbing the rasplike edges of their hind legs together, while fireflies communicate a similar message by flashes of light. How to Speak Dog
Its front legs were almost twice as long as its hind legs, which gave it a vaguely humanoid appearance.
He couldn't believe his eyes when he found them dancing on their hind legs around a shrub blossoming with bright red cherries.
With the hind legs you need to run your hand down the inside of the leg. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
Melbury and his daughter drew near their house, having seen but one living thing on their way, a squirrel, which did not run up its tree, but, dropping the sweet chestnut which it carried, cried chut-chut-chut, and stamped with its hind legs on the ground. The Woodlanders
Suddenly the cow kicked up its hind legs.
Growing up with horses, I learned about strange diseases particular to the equine, such as sweeney (a shoulder disorder caused by nerve damage and muscle atrophy), stringhalt (a neurological condition in which the horse involuntarily lifts a hind leg), and strangles (a strep infection that causes yellow nasal discharge). The Last Chance Dog
One of the animals filled the screen, rearing up on its hind legs and seemingly staring back at her with dark eyes.
There's this one, the capriole, where the horse jumps up and snaps his hind legs out.
Like the broncs, the bulls were encouraged to be mean: a shank girdle of rough hemp was cinched around the bull's body just in front of its hind legs, pinning its considerable genitals tightly to its belly. The Body Ricardo
During a class on operant conditioning, I asked whether anyone had placed a rat trained to press a bar for food into a naturalistic setting to see if it would get on its hind legs to press twigs or similar protuberances.
The pioneering family left behind legacies of pastoralism, art, and agriculture.

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