The stroke was repeated, scraping, but in nowise hurting his matted coat, as he rose on his hindlegs and threw himself upon the striker.
His forelegs and his shoulders crouched, but his hindlegs and his back were held at their highest, and his tail began to lash behind.
The queen came to rest on a bare patch of ground an front of a hole, and a black and hairy spider, with two hindlegs missing on the offside, spun round in the entrance of that hole to face her.
The hindlegs are muscular enough to propel the body on proportionally longer jumps than even the kangaroo.
The wing membrane stretched across the "fingers" is attached to the side of the body and to the hindlegs as far as the ankle.
The tadpole grows fast now, and soon two little hindlegs sprout out, and the forelegs follow them, and the little creature looks like a frog with a tail, and a very big tail at that.
The thing swims to a flat stone in the middle of the stream that makes a kind of island, and suddenly we see it fling itself up out of the water and sit on its hindlegs on the stone, briskly washing its nose with its fore-paws.
Its method is to take a stand in a water-hole or with its back to a tree, standing on its hindlegs and balanced on its tail.
The kangaroo's forelegs are very small; its hindlegs and its tail are immensely powerful, and these it uses for progression, rushing with huge hops over the country.
As she jerked, she crossed her hindlegs and caught a small bubble of air between them and her body.
Tadpole, and everybody knew that he meant "No," even if they hadn't seen him wave his hindlegs sidewise.
One lesson was enough; the sensation of the sinking of the horse's hindlegs in quicksands is not to be forgotten.
We had encountered quicksands together in the bed of a Virginia stream, and both horse and rider were recalling the fearful sensation when the animal's hindlegs sank, leaving his body engulfed in the soil.
I was certainly not a cruel urchin, and I can recall none but cordial sentiments towards Hindlegs on my part.
I remember no details of the murder, if murder were done; but I do remember feeling no surprise when, one morning, Hindlegs was found dead.
After so many years, I will not bring against the owner of Hindlegs a verdict of positive guilt; but I suspect him.
He paused a moment, for David was moving his hands over the hindlegs and lingering long at the hocks.
Their high croups and comparatively low withers, their long hindlegs and the shorter forelegs, gave them a waddling motion with the hind quarters apparently huddling the forehand along.
Fore set straight from shoulder, with plenty of bone and muscle; hindlegs very muscular and well bent, with the hocks well let down.
Quite straight, well covered with hair of a rich golden tan, a few shades lighter at the ends than at the roots, not extending higher on the forelegs than the elbow, nor on the hindlegs than the stifle.
Inside the hindlegs tanned, but divided with black at the hock joint, and under the tail also tanned, and so is the vent, but only sufficiently to be easily covered by the tail; also slightly tanned on each side of chest.
The hedgehog, with the merriest twinkle in his eyes, would take the worms out of my hand; and when I dangled them five or six inches off the ground, he would rear up on his hindlegs and snatch and grab until he secured them.
We skin 'em by cutting loose around the feet and then cutting down the back of the hindlegs to and around the vent and then skin the hindlegs carefully, and also the tail.
The easiest way is to hang the critter up by the hindlegs after skinning out these and the tail.
Then Sparrer saw him gather his muscularhindlegs under him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hindlegs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
