Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.
His forefeet were strongly tied together, his only possible gait a shuffling walk, or else a desperate labored bounding with feet so unnaturally held that within a few yards he was inevitably thrown each time he tired to break away.
It flattened its ears down at the sound of the man's voice, and its restless, hunching movements and the liftings and shiftings of its forefeet became more pronounced but it would not come to the man.
When he fell down a second time, it curled its tail over its forefeet and sat in front of him facing him curiously eager and intent.
It had wet its forefeet and legs, and almost immediately the water that clung to it turned to ice.
With the next calf that he tried to rope he did better, but, being unable to control his rope properly, the calf's head and forefeet went through the loop.
Every now and then the badger would sit up and look about him, and then again would put its forefeet on the ground and begin to dig.
Taking his hatchet he went toward this, and, as he did so, a wolf rose up, with its forefeet on a log, only five yards beyond the tree and gazed curiously at him.
Planted his forefeet and refused to go on another step.
A coolie carrying a log of wood came round a corner, and the mare went wide to avoid him--forefeet in and haunches out, as a sensible mare should go.
He grinned nervously and set his spurs into the mare, who rapped with her forefeet on the road, and the struggle began.
The two forefeetmust be fixed with running nooses and dragged on moderately while the oiled hand seeks to bring up the head.
When the disease is well developed the general appearance of the animal is one of great lassitude, and it either stands off by itself with hind feet drawn under the body and its forefeet extended, or it assumes a recumbent position.
The two forefeet present, but they make no progress, and the oiled hand introduced can detect no head until the poll is felt at the entrance of the pelvis, between the forearms.
Under the throes of the mother the forefeet pass through the narrow opening into the vagina, while the nose, striking against it and unable to enter, is pressed backward into the womb and turns aside on the right or left shoulder.
If, however, the cow is to be preserved, her two forefeet and the lower hind one should be safely fastened together and the upper hind one drawn back.
Her forefeetwere on my chest pressing it down so that I could scarcely breathe, while her savage eyes glowed with rage in my face.
They do not tear up their food, but swallow it whole, using the forefeet to assist in forcing it down.
His spinal cord was cut, and half his body was dead; but he would not give up even then, and he half rose on his forefeet and tried to drag himself away.
He had stopped so suddenly that his forefeet were thrust forward into the snow, and he was leaning backward a trifle.
He laughs at every horse he meets; he laughed at the cows cropping the furze, and at the geese on the common, and now he is laughing at that old horse with itsforefeet tied together.
What are the old horse's forefeet tied together for, pa?
The sow stands on her hindlegs, resting her forefeet on the thigh and the drapery of Theseus.
The horse of the Persian rears as if to strike down with his forefeet the left arm of the Greek, which is thrust forward, protected by his shield.
The vines had now become so numerous and so tall that I could no longer step over them; sometimes I had to rise on my hind legs and place my forefeet upon a tangle of green creepers that barred the way.
I worked the pedals with myforefeet and steered with my trunk.
The burro rigidly planted her forefeet in the dust and sorrowfully dropped her head.
Astonished, Pepita leaped to escape the attack and landed her forefeet upon the fourth stair.
When making the noise the animal was standing with the forefeet on the ground and the tail lying extended.
The pony put her twoforefeet over the edge of the descent and clung to solidity and sanity with her hind two.
The poor nag replied with all his power to the call upon his courage, and reared his forefeet out of the slough, and with straining eyeballs gazed at him.
There they are emptied by placing the forefeet behind them and pushing forward.
At last from the banks of Sitnitza, he beheld a spacious green tent upon the pole of which a golden apple shone; before the entrance stood an Arab steed stamping sharply with his forefeet upon the ground.
When my horse's forefeet were almost touching him he suddenly rolled on his back and my horse jumped over him.
All these wounds were so low down that they must have been inflicted when the lion's forefeet were on the ground.
It comes along close to the ground like a great dog and bites, often so low that its forefeet can hardly be off the ground.
This hobbling is merely the tying of the forefeet loosely together with soft leather thongs so that the animal in moving has to lift up both forefeet at once.
The dog, with his forefeet on Barstow's knee, was stretching his neck towards his master's hand.
The dog rolled over to its back and held up its trembling forefeet on guard, studying Donaldson through half closed eyes with its head turned sideways.
Michael, his forefeet on the gunwale, barked to him in a puzzled, questioning sort of way, and Jerry whimpered back incommunicable understanding.
His forefeet missed the rail by a yard, and he plunged down into the sea.
A temporary easement of the Arangi's rolling gave him his opportunity, so that his forefeet were over the high combing of the companion when the next big roll came.
The second horse in line, losing footing as the river bed fell away beneath him, reared in fright, caught his forefeet over the rope linking him to his fellow, and so jerked his head underwater by his own frenzied struggles.
One of the troopers in the rear shouted, grabbing at a point high on his shoulder, the other one was thrown as his horse reared, its upraisedforefeet striking another man from the saddle as he endeavored to turn his mount.
If both forefeet are diseased, the animal steps shorter and more quickly than common.
Both presentation and position are normal, the forefeet and head having entered the pelvic cavity, but the shoulders and chest are jammed tightly in the inlet, and the progress of the foetus along the maternal passages is retarded.
If the drench is bulky and the hog difficult to hold, it may be necessary to elevate the head and raise the forefeet from the ground.
In most cases the horse stands with the forefeet well forward and the hind feet in front of their normal position and under the body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forefeet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
