For the first few days the hindlegs are too weak to support the body weight, and whatever movements appear are the result of the use of the fore legs.
I discovered that under certain rather simple experimental conditions the green frog would regularly respond to a touch on the back by drawing its hind leg up toward the body.
One horse, rearing and leaping on his hind legs, came down across the back of another, and the two fell heavily in a rolling, convulsive heap.
Curly came running from the little hind room with our guns, while McCalmont rushed me to the kitchen.
The town men howled for their blood, young Ryan offered plenty wealth for their raw scalps, the law claimed them for meat--and every plainsman on the range got right up on his hind legs for war.
That family had a string round my hind leg which ain't broken yet.
You, Chalkeye," says young Monte in his thoughtful way, "you can talk the hindleg off a mule.
Hats are still worn hind part before and veils are put on to stay with no visible opening.
Dear Kate: Put one sleeve in hind part before and then get a Teddy Bear or a plush monkey matching your coat as near as possible or in pleasing contrast to it if you can't get it to match, and tack it under your arm.
The man caught hold of her by the hind legs and the old bear was so frightened that she at once climbed out again, dragging the man, who thus got out of the stump, when the bear ran away.
His shell was so hard that the heaviest blows could not hurt him, and he kept rising up on his hindlegs and dropping heavily again to the ground, bragging that this was the way he would crush any bird that tried to take the ball from him.
The other knew his thoughts, and sitting up on his hind legs he rubbed his stomach with his forepaws--so--and at once he had both paws full of chestnuts and gave them to the man.
Then the Rabbit struck again with his hind foot, so hard that it was caught in the gum and he could not move, and there he stuck until the animals came for water in the morning.
On killing a deer the hunter always cuts out the hamstring from the hind quarter and throws it away, for fear that if he ate it he would thereafter tire easily in traveling.
This was not hard for him, as his eyes were nearly on top of his head, but Sammie had to get on his hind legs to peer upward properly.
So he sat upon his hind legs, and Papa Littletail sat up on his hind legs, and they both made their noses twinkle like stars on a very frosty night.
But can you walk on your front legs, with your hind ones up in the air?
Of course I will," answered the muskrat, so she stood up on her hind legs, and gnawed a little hole in the tree.
While Uncle Wiggily Longears and Papa Littletail were on their way, poor Sammie, left all alone in the woods, with his left hind foot caught in a cruel trap, felt very lonely indeed.
Best of all, Sammie and Susie liked the baby deer, who stood up on his hind legs and danced, while a crow whistled.
Place me on the ground in front of you, stand on your hind legs, wiggle your left ear, and see what happens.
But Sammie did not know that the cabbage stalk was part of a trap, put there to catch animals, and, no sooner had he taken a bite, than there came a click, and Sammie felt a terrible pain in his left hind leg.
So the little black doggie walked on his hind legs, and then he walked on his front legs.
Rheumatism," answered Uncle Wiggily Longears, and he put his left front paw on his left hind leg.
They could not smell any traps, and they could not see any with their pink eyes, so they went quite close to Sammie, who was held fast by his left hind leg.
We'll soon have you out," said Uncle Wiggily Longears, and then with his strong hind feet he kicked away the snow and dried leaves from the trap.
At the beginning there is resemblance to 'Tam Lin' and to 'Hind Etin.
The bridegroom he had wedded the bride, But young Hind Horn he took her to bed.
The Bonny Hind Squire,' by Dixon, in Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, p.
Ye lie, ye lie, ye jollyhind squire, So loud's I hear you lie!
There are beautiful repetitions of the story in the ballads of other nations, and it has secondary affinities with the extensive cycle of 'Hind Horn,' the parts of the principal actors in the one being inverted in the other.
Hind Horn; 'No news, no news,' said the old beggar man.
No date is given and a date can only be guessed, and Hind guessed that the eclipse of 1133 was the one referred to.
For a position on the central line near Stafford, Hind found that the totality began at 2h.
Hind mentions that “the aspect of Nature during the total eclipse was grand beyond description.
It should be stated, however, that Hind assigns the account by Josephus to the eclipse which occurred on January 9, 1 B.
Hind found that the eclipse was annular on the central line.
Since the time when Airy and Hind examined this question, all the known facts have been again reviewed by Mr. W.
In consequence of this statement of Halley’s, Hind carefully investigated the circumstances of this eclipse, and found that it had not been total at London.
Hind suggests that in the clear skies of that part of the world such a degree of eclipse might be sufficient to bring out the brighter planets or stars.
The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.
The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb.
Standing bolt upright on their hind legs, by the side of a clump of juniper-spruce bushes and intently watching my movements, are a pair of full-grown cinnamon bears.
One is a man carelessly sitting sidewise on his donkey; the meek-eyed jackass suddenly makes a pivot of his hind feet and wheels round, and the rider's legs as suddenly shoot upward.
Before reaching camp that night my horse was taken with a peculiar lameness in one of his hind legs.
Gradually this wheel kept sliding until the other hind wheel was off.
Leaving the last macaroon untouched, he came and stood close by her side, looking up into her face with a puzzled, wistful expression, and presently he stood up on his hind legs and licked her face solemnly with his warm red tongue.
Eviction becomes tedious when the intruder's teeth are always meeting in the hind quarters of the ejecting party; and the latter can neither get his antagonist in front of him, nor haul off to investigate damage.
And did you see a dark chestnut horse; bang tail; star and snip; white hind feet; saddle and bridle on?
When he had gone twenty yards, he pulled steadily on one rein and, so to speak, wore his ship of the plains round till we faced the cattle again--for I had simultaneously pirouetted Cleopatra on one hind foot.
With them exceptions, and a few hairs on the forehead and a tuft on the hind leg, that critter was perfectly white.
Hold this rabbit by thehind legs and I'll skin it in a jiffy.
He stood up now, with the kicking rabbit held by the hind legs.
It doesn't bite with itshind legs," said Rowdy with scorn.
As for the Commandments," observed Lansing, "any ass can shatter them with his hind heels, so why should he?
The head was bent far over, the nose extending between the hind legs.
In eating he sat up on the hind feet and handled the food with the fore feet.
I've already trained one of the little pigs to walk on its hind legs," said Ham.
And then he stood up on top of the bale on his hind legs just as they do in the circus.
He is not a train at all, but an old caboose on the hind end of day before yesterday.
Every time he shoves his hind feet between the front ones he throws hisself.
I can lick anything that ever walked on hind legs, I can!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
