General shape of the ursine type, but more than usually ungainly and awkward.
In other words, I belong to the greatUrsine family: I am a bear.
Chateaubriand remarked it among the ursine tribes of the New World.
And when it was all over he went in his wriggling ursine gait back to the hearth-stone, and there he was sitting, demurely enough, and as if he had never moved, when his mother returned and found him.
He suddenly whisked himself over on all-fours, and with a certain ursineaspect went nimbly across the hearth, still holding up his downy yellow head, his pink face agrin, and alluringly displaying his two facetious teeth.
I regard that cache as a very impressive exhibit of ursine thought, reasoning and conclusion.
I cannot fathom the idea which possessed those two ursine minds; but I have no doubt that some of the book-making men who read the minds of wild animals as if they were open books could tell me all about it.
The black bear is the nearest approach to a general average in ursine character.
Fortunately a bush broke the violence of his fall, and, springing up with a cry of consternation, he rushed towards the tree, expecting each instant to feel the terrible hug of his ursine enemy.
Thanks to this rather dim and unsteady light, and also to the wide jacket that half enveloped the Vagre, his ursine appearance was perfect.
After her confession, Ursine rises, and bounding again like a doe, runs to rejoin her friends.
Tearing the chaplet of gladiolas from her hair, Ursine throws it on the ground, tramples upon it, and swears she will be revenged upon the shameless scamp.
The Marchioness of Ariol and the Countess Ursine will have to dispense this evening with my visit.
Ursine gives him two on the mouth and walks to the foot of the tribunal crying: "Justice!
There Dhúmra, mighty lord, the dread Of foes, his ursine legions led.
One of the most striking structural characters in which they show this resemblance is the brain; the peculiar Ursine lozenge, already treated of as so distinctive a character of the Arctoidea, is repeated in the Pinnipedia.
Mivart has described as the "ursine lozenge," a tract about the middle of the hemispheres, defined posteriorly by the crucial sulcus, and formed by the emergence on to the surface of the brain of the hippocampal gyrus.
I related the ursine incident, which amused her very much, and, as she was a wheelwoman herself, she commiserated with me sincerely on the damage to my machine.
And 'cause with beares he erst was bred, Ursine they call his name; A name which unto future times The Muses shall proclame.
To them sir Ursine did succeed, And long the scepter bare.
Then bidding king and peers adieu, Early one summer's day, With faithful Ursine by his side, From court he took his way.
The disgrace of Madame des Ursine was in fact determined on between the King and Madame de Maintenon, but in a manner a secret before and since, that I know nobody who has found out by whom or how it was carried out.
And, 'cause with bears he first was bred, Ursine they called his name-- A name which unto future times The Muses shall proclaim.
Of the philosopher he appeared extremely fond, rubbed against him, and displayed every mark of awkward partiality, and ursine kindness.
As mementoes of a fight that has become a classic in the ursineannals of California, John W.
A part of Foster's habitual attire under all circumstances in warm weather was a long linen duster, and it is a defect of ursine perception to confound a man with his clothes.
It is the tradition of the mountain that the ursine shepherd was none other than Old Clubfoot, and it is not worth while to dispute with the faith of a man who follows sheep in the solitudes.
Such the effect of a small Ear, kept about one in cotton, from ursine piety or other feelings.
The ursine seals are extremely fat and indolent, and remain, with little exercise, or even motion, for months together, upon the shore.
It may have looked like an ursine hold-up to the tourists; but old Mother Bear was quite sure she and her cubs were in man-peril.
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