Literally Rickety hurled himself at the sun and landed alternately on one stiffened foreleg and then the other.
Up in the air went the chestnut--down on one stiff foreleg and with a great swelling of the heart he felt the rider slump far to one side, clinging with one leg from the saddle, one hand wrapped in the flying mane.
Down the long muscles of his shoulder and upper foreleg went curious and gently prying finger-tips, and where they passed a tingling sensation followed, not altogether unpleasant.
Then again driven into the air by the impulse of those powerful hind legs, he landed on the alternate foreleg and snapped his rider in the opposite direction--a blow on the base of the brain and another immediately following on the side.
Besides, the blood was pouring from the gash in his shoulder and that foreleg was growing weak; it was well that the battle had ended at this point.
When his left foreleg is lifted off the ground, his right hind leg is also lifted off the ground; then in the next step, when his right foreleg is lifted off the ground, his left hind leg is also lifted off the ground.
The acid had found the joint of that foreleg and had eaten through it as hot iron sinks through butter!
A massive foreleg dropped from one of the guards, to crash to the floor.
Pass the end of each foreleg wire through the ring, and let them cross again, with the wire of the left leg underneath the other.
Unless the specimen is a seal, or something else with short, close hair, part the hair carefully and make a long, perpendicular slit in the skin behind each foreleg and in each flank, as shown in Plate III.
In short, place the foreleg and foot exactly as they would be were the animal alive and standing, with its weight resting upon it, and measure from the bottom of the heel in a straight line to the perpendicular at the shoulders.
Since our squirrel is to be holding a nut, we will cut off the foreleg wires, all but half an inch, and bring the paws close together at the proper elevation.
As the animal lies upon its side, hold the foreleg the same as when you measured the height at the shoulders.
The lower joints of the forelegmust be channelled out in the same way.
Bend the inner ends of the foreleg wires back from the head of the humerus at an obtuse angle, and let them cross each other like the limbs of an X, as seen in the accompanying figure.
The rod for the foreleg may project above the upper end of the humerus one-third to one-half the length of that bone, but the rod for the hind leg must not be the least bit longer than the upper end of the femur.
After starting at the abdomen, we come very soon to where the forelegjoins the body at the shoulder, and the hind leg at the hip.
Then hold the foreleg perfectly straight, at a right angle to the axis of the body, and bend up the foot into the position it would assume if the animal were standing upon it.
Hawksworth noticed that a long chain, called the lor langar, was secured to the left foreleg of each elephant and circled over its back, where it was attached to a heavy log held by the second rider.
Then it rose and limped painfully toward the edge of the field, its left foreleg dangling shattered and useless.
Gray)] Coming off the femoral are the deep femoral and the anastomotica magna arteries, which anastomose and form collateral circulation to the foreleg by means of the recurrent anterior and posterior tibial arteries.
The peroneal, a branch of the posterior tibial, passes down the forelegbetween the outside ankle and the heel.
By some miracle none of them harmed Lad; although one bullet scratched hisforeleg on its way to the black giant's brain.
The light bullet-scratch on his forelegdid not lame or annoy him.
They are rather soft animals, and succumb to wounds that most deer would travel miles with; the writer once broke the foreleg of a buck who after going about half a mile lay down with his nose on the ground, and let himself be caught.
Next, make a cut from the hoof of each foreleg to the upper end of cut 1, making the incision down the hind part of each foreleg.
This last is a curious example, inasmuch as, without being so specified in the blazon, the gambs are represented in the position occupied by the sinister foreleg of a lion passant.
Of course, the Hunter thought I was going to run for it, so when I jinked short about and ripped his Pony's foreleg the full length of my nose, he was taken quite off his guard.
And then the Burra-Sahib, Huzoor the Governor, was taken with it; so said one of the Sahibs who came to Dera Khan just as he was tying a rope about my foreleg so that I could not rise and wander in the night.
Each foreleg is brought forward and the humerus points nearly straight ahead when the foot touches the ground.
The antebrachium has large imbricated scales and is distinctly set off from the proximal part of the foreleg which is covered with granular skin.
Kneeling down again he examined the broken forelegmore carefully.
The brute was huddled in a crumpled heap, with one foreleg stuck awkwardly out in front of him at an impossible angle.
For a bulldog would have gained this foreleg grip and would have hung onto it, heedless of the fact that his own spine and the back of his neck were within easy reach of the foe.
In the anguish of choking, the bulldog let go Buff's foreleg and shook himself furiously to get free of that encumbering hold.
The runaway, conquered and shivering, lashed out with one foreleg in a last hopeless display of terrified anger.
It was not fully adult, yet the band was plain to see on the foreleg now stretched to its full length as the sun bored down to supply the heavy heat the snake-devils relished next to food.
And the sun caught on a glistening band about its short foreleg just beneath the joint of the taloned pawhands.
But, as I have mentioned, during the last two days the period has been so prolonged that Oates has had to hasten matters by tying a short line to the other foreleg and throwing the beast when he lashes out.
Thus carefully packed, one of the foreleg ligatures was untied, and the whole skin was inflated by blowing through the tube formed by the skin of the limb; the inflation completed, this was suddenly twisted round and tied.
In a few weeks, the plaster cast on the convalescent's broken foreleg had been replaced by a bandage.
The dog, through habit, still held the mended foreleg off the ground, even after the bandage was removed.
Bruce, his left foreleg broken and a nasty assortment of glass-cuts marring the fluffiness of his fur, was skillfully patched up by the vet' and carried back that night to The Place.
The remaining foreleg was strong and thick and, from redistribution of balance, slanted inward from the massive shoulder, which was developed out of all proportion to its mate, giving the great white brute a repulsive, lopsided appearance.
In the sand we found his unmistakable track with the uselessforeleg dragging helplessly over the ground.
The head is placed in front of her with the right foreleg in the mouth, and a lamp, lighted eight days previously, is placed on top.
The blood is caught in a vessel, and sprinkled over some boiled rice, and then the head, with the right foreleg in the mouth, is placed before the shrine on a flat wicker basket, with the rice and blood on another basket just below it.
To canter with the right foreleg leading, make an extra bearing on the right rein, and a strong pressure with the left leg, heel, or spur; at the same time bring the whip across the near forehand of the horse.
Never permit the horse to choose which foreleg shall lead; make him subject to your will and hand; and it is a good plan to change the leading leg when in a canter.
To canter with the left foreleg leading, the extra bearing must be made on the left rein, by turning up the little finger toward the right shoulder, and using the whip on the right shoulder or flank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreleg" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ankle; calf; drumstick; gambrel; ham; hock; jamb; knee; leg; limb; pin; shank; shin; stem; stumps; thigh; trotter
