The motorcar speeds through a region where the giant hog, the three-toed horse, and the saber-toothed tiger roamed among lofty trees.
The Prophylatic Treatment+ consists in wearing a broad-toed, though not necessarily a square-toed shoe.
In mild cases, the stocking should be split to allow a separate stall for the great toe, and broad toed boots should be worn.
May tip-toed down the dark stairs, her small hand sliding along the cold mysterious rail.
When May had reassured herself of this unchanged world she tip-toed up to her room.
When he tip-toed across the room he made the floor shake.
Slipping off the snow-shoes, I rose and tip-toed over the snow with the full intention of silencing the dog with my pole; but I was suddenly arrested by the distinct sound of pain-racked groaning.
And Louis Laplante rose and tip-toed after me with a tigerish malice that recalled the surly squaw.
So she tip-toed quietly out of the room, having drawn the coverlet well over her mistress' form.
So it took time to get square-toed justice ready and arm the sheriff with the proper documents.
He walked like a frozen-toed hen, and stood first on one foot and then on the other, with almost human intelligence.
But on Earth we have weather, and it happened a long, long time ago, back in the days of three-toed horses and ganoid fish.
They were made when there were three-toed horses and many ganoid fishes on the earth.
But when the Giant had been snoring some time, the boy carefully opened the door of the closet and tip-toed over to the table.
He almost tip-toed into this room, he was so curious; but he went through the same performance.
Walking on the fins would strengthen the main stem, the broad paddle would become useless, and we should get in time the bony five-toed limb.
Amongst the Odd-toed Ungulates, the living family of the Tapirs (Tapirdoe) is represented by the genus Coryphodon of Owen.
The only other Odd-toed Ungulate which needs notice is the so-called Equus fossilis of the Post-Pliocene of Europe.
The great class of the Birds, as we have seen, is represented in rocks earlier than the Oolites simply by the not absolutely certain evidence of the three-toed footprints of the Connecticut Trias.
This conjecture is further supported by the occurrence in the strata which contain the bones of the Iguanodon of gigantic three-toed foot-prints, disposed singly in a double track.
Amongst the Odd-toed Ungulates the most important are the Rhinoceroses, of which three species are known to have existed in Europe during the Post-Pliocene period.
The hind-feet are five-toed with the same greater development of the two middle toes.
Right scapula and clavicle of Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni).
The skull and body are heavy, but the two-toed limbs are slender.
This connexion occurs in both the Two-toed and the Three-toed species.
Phascologale in its five-toed hind-feet and slender build.
Dichobune has four-toed extremities, of which the lateral ones are more slender and shorter than the two middle ones.
The Litopterna on the other hand, which possess even one-toed members like Equus, are believed to represent a case of parallelism in development.
The Ungulata or hoofed quadrupeds are now divided into the even-toed or odd-toed divisions; but the Macrauchenia of South America connects to a certain extent these two grand divisions.
For instance, he supposes that the differences between the extinct three-toed Hipparion and the horse arose suddenly.
Nothing loath, Moreas toed the line, and, when he had examined the revolver to make sure that it was in working order, fired.
One of the new links was indeed discovered before his lecture had passed through the press, and he was able to add in a footnote some details of the structure of the four-toed Eohippus from the lower Eocene beds.
A faint gleam of the old humor lighted up her face when Fat Ed Meyers painfully tip-toed in, brown derby in hand, his red face properly doleful, brown shoes squeaking.
So she tip-toed in, found a chair in a corner, and noiselessly slipped into it.
In other words, when a man turns out his toes he places all his weight on a single joint; when he walks parrot-toed it is distributed among five joints.
The parrot-toed man sets his heel down in advance of the other's heel, and gains a further advantage by the greater reach of his toe at every step.
The gain of the parrot-toed man is thus shown to be constant when both parties use the same exertion, and must always give him the race, other things being equal.
Such is, in brief, a general outline of the more marked changes that seemed to have produced in America the highly specialized modern Equus from his diminutive four-toed predecessor, the eocene Orohippus.
It is, of course, impossible to say with certainty through which of the three-toed genera of the pliocene that lived together the succession came.
On the other hand, there are numerous matings of 2 extracted normal-toed parents that have produced only normal-toed offspring (families Nos.
The simple double-toed condition, as found commonly in Houdans, may be called the duplex type (D).
Unfortunately these birds did not survive, so it is not known whether they would have thrown as large a proportion of extra-toed offspring as 5-toed Houdans.
It seems fair to conclude, consequently, that Mendel's law does hold here, and that the 4-toed individuals of F1 are heterozygotes with imperfect dominance.
This result is not to be explained as due to a regression towards the 4-4-toed condition, but rather as due to the intermediate condition of the heterozygote.
First let us consider the result of mating extra-toed individuals belonging to "pure" extra-toed races.
Do the 4-toed heterozygotes produce a larger proportion of imperfect dominants in F2 than the 5-toed heterozygotes?
Distribution of toe-numbers in the offspring of 4-toed heterozygotes.
On the other hand, extracted 4-toed recessives are obtained, as table 17 shows.
Comparing tables 10 and 11, it is at once clear that in the second hybrid generation the proportion of extra-toed offspring has decreased.
Distribution of toe-numbers in the offspring of extracted 4-toed parents.
Nearly all of them have the five-toed foot of the reptile ancestor; and the flat nails on their toes are the common material out of which the hoof of the ungulate and the claw of the carnivore will be presently fashioned.
They are massive, sluggish, small-brained animals, their strong stumpy limbs terminating in broad five-toed feet.
Hardened by the sun, and then covered with a fresh deposit when it sank beneath the waters, it remains to-day to witness the arrival of the five-toed quadruped who was to rule the earth.
In other words, it has the shoulder-girdle and four-toed foot, as well as the feathers, of a bird.
Walking on its three-toed hind limbs, its head would be fourteen or fifteen feet from the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
