The huge black beast wagged his hindquarters frantically and wallowed on the floor in his fawning delight at the sound of a human voice.
For the forefeet, he merely turns his hindquarters towards a thick prickly shrub, or extemporises a torchenes with a nose-bag filled with earth.
A river crossed our course, with boggy banks pitted deep with the hoof-marks of our forerunners; I suggested it to the Quaker, and discovered that Nature had not in vain endued him with the hindquarters of the hippopotamus.
His hind leg then rests over the base of her tail and the right angle formed by the laterally projecting hind leg and the tail in each lizard aids to guide their hindquarters into position so that cloacal contact is established.
Female reverses position so that hindquarters previously in shadow are now in sunshine, and forequarters are in shadow.
But the amazing little animal turned its back on him, stuck its tail straight in the air, and jerked up its hindquarterswith a derisive gesture.
The shaggy coat bequeathed to him by his sheep-dog sire gave to his legs and to his hindquarters an appearance of massiveness that was almost clumsy.
She gave a low call to the cub; but the cub was preoccupied now, sniffing at the rabbit tracks, and lifting himself on his hindquarters to stare longingly at the rabbits, who were hopping off to discreeter distance.
The second cow, a fawn-grey beast, was followed by a restless, awkward calf that mischievously nudged thehindquarters of the animal in front with its nose.
In a few seconds he was half buried, and his hindquarters and tail alone remained above ground.
Well, one day he was amusing himself in this sort of way, when just as he entered one end for the second time, what should he perceive but the hindquarters of a pure-bred Skye just disappearing at the other.
The color of the body and hindquarters of a buffalo is very peculiar, and almost baffles intelligent description.
What little hair he has is very short and thin, hishindquarters being almost naked.
The remaining portion of the hides marketed were from buffaloes killed in spring and summer, when the body and hindquarters ware almost naked.
We got the backbone apart and strung the hindquarters on a stake.
We dressed the animal and strung the hindquarters on a pole and started back, leaving a man to watch the rest until the wagon came around.
He hopped toward them, going circumspectly over the slippery surface, and sat up on his hindquarters to nibble at them.
Sitting back poised, with his immense hindquartersgathered under him, and his fore-paws uplifted, he parried the smashing strokes of his assailant with the lightning dexterity of a trained boxer.
The bull, swinging his hindquarters around without yielding his advantage for a second, lunged forward with all his force, and the deadly little plough was driven home to the bear's heart.
Slowly Sadu settled into a crouching position, head flattened, hindquarters drawn beneath his taut frame, tail twitching in jerky undulations.
It was Sadu, the lion, crouching there, massive head flattened to the ground, hindquarters beneath a taut frame, waiting for the approaching prey to move within the radius of his spring.
To our great wonder in a few seconds he crawled out from beneath the hindquarters of his enemy, and engaged him again.
We stalked him in the woods and alders, which were very thick, within 300 yards, and here I should have risked a shot at his hindquarters showing up brown against the hillside, and seemingly as large as a horse.
Karay finished scratching his hindquarters and, cocking his ears, got up with quivering tail from which tufts of matted hair hung down.
All the summits of those melancholy-looking hills, bared of their covering, resume again their brown colour and resemble hindquarters of animals couching on these plains which still remain white.
He switched his tail about his hindquarters sharply, and backed a step.
His hindquarters slipped downhill, throwing his head up to confront VB.
Without putting the gun to my shoulder, I gave him a shot, which fetched him in the hindquartersjust as he disappeared.
The steers swung their hindquarters far apart, and sagged restively on the yoke, as they came to a halt.
He cut across the intervening flat and, ears back, hindquarters scrooching far under his body as he changed his gait for the steep drop, he disappeared over the rim.
He slapped his coat pocket where the automatic rested and lifted his quirt to cut the hindquarters of the slow moving stallion.
The Indians seldom carry off more than the hindquartersof a deer, never if they think there is a chance of getting more soon.
There is a lot more flesh on thehindquarters than there is on the rest of the stag.
Of course the only thing that could be done in order to give the descending bear a fright was to fire a shot into his hindquarters at close range.
The claws are strong and sharp and the hindquarters are very strong, and are, in consequence, well fitted for leaping.
The horse rises upon its forelegs before raising the rear of its body, while the cow raises its hindquarters first.
And, dropping back, he belaboured the hindquarters of Emmie’s mule with a substantial stick.
She saw its hindquarters rise, and its laden back disappear; then there was a flash of its four feet, upturned, and the weight of the saddle and burden carried it head over heels into the void.
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