And like the aforesaid respectable quadruped or biped (it has always puzzled me which to call it), is he never to drink any thing stronger than water?
The third keeper of the lighthouse is a quadruped called Tricky.
A quadruped means something with four feet; and a religion means something that commits a man to some doctrine about the universe.
It is like saying, "I look forward to that largerquadruped who shall have no feet.
Some naturalists believe that beetles make this noise to frighten away their enemies; but I cannot think that a quadruped or bird, able to devour a large beetle, would be frightened by so slight a sound.
If we could develop the different parts of the brain of the inferior classes, we should make, in succession, a reptile out of a fish, a bird out of a reptile, and a mammiferous quadruped out of a bird.
A fossil extinctquadruped belonging to the order Pachydermata, resembling a pig.
A colored figure of this small and elegant quadruped is given in the Trans.
A quadrupedresembling the chamois or mountain goat, from which the perfume musk is obtained.
The only exception consists of a small insectivorous quadruped (Centetes), found also in the Mauritius, to which place it is supposed to have been taken in ships.
The interesting quadruped appears to be getting his hand in.
That estimable quadruped had at one time been addicted to "sticking," an inconvenient vice of which his present owner had thoroughly cured him.
The only quadruped that we are acquainted with to which these marks will apply is the buffalo, well known in Egypt and in various parts of Western Asia.
An intelligent American, sitting at the feet of a quadruped Gamaliel, humbly learning from his instincts, should teach the bigots of every class and clime to let their prejudices hang more loosely upon them.
In quadruped life, it reminds me of a poodle closely shaved all over, except a little tuft at the end of his tail, the sword and the tuft recalling to mind the fact that the respective possessors have been shorn of something.
Immediately that uncertain quadruped wheeled and kicked at him.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary intelligence which this quadruped exhibits upon some occasions, upon others he shows himself to be one of the most stupid brutes imaginable.
In this place we saw no quadruped except seals, sea-lions, and dogs; of the dogs it is remarkable that they bark, which those that are originally bred in America do not.
The Glutton (Gulo Arcticus) is a carnivorous quadrupedof a very voracious nature, about the size of a large badger, between which and the polecat he appears to form a link.
The huge quadruped falls immediately, and becomes an easy prey to his aggressors.
In all Southern and Western Africa this huge ungainly quadruped is found.
Such a lower jaw could hardly have been otherwise than cumbrous and inconvenient to the quadruped if he lived on land.
Biped and quadruped come to blows, and the effect of excitement on the dormant functions of infant life is such that it is the child who succeeds in worsting the pig.
This love of the mother in quadrupeds to the offspring, whom she licks and cleans, is so allied to the pleasure of the taste or palate, that nature seems to have had a great escape in the parent quadruped not devouring her offspring.
For how could a man or quadruped have carried on his head or back a forest of leaves, or have had long branching lacteal or absorbent vessels terminating in the earth?
The age of thequadruped is to go out,--the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in.
We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
The titanothere is traceable back to a hornless animal the size of a sheep, and it ended in a horned quadruped nearly as large as an elephant.
I think of his physical evolution as completed when he assumed the upright attitude or passed from a quadruped to a biped, which must of itself have been a long, slow process.
