AMPHISBÆNA, a genus of limbless lizards; a serpent fabled to have two heads and to be able to move backward or forward.

And the cheerfulness of the limbless men in blue is something wonderful.

The remaining two hundred and thirty-seven species comprise samples of every size and pattern of limbless reptile found on this globe, from the gigantic python, which crushes a jackal and swallows it whole, to the little burrowing Typhlops, whose proportions are those of an earthworm and its food white ants.

A few gaunt, almost limbless trees rose up spectrally on the ridge, offering the compact masses neither shelter from the sun nor security from the enemyif there were an enemy near.

There was a bit of it left at the end, but not more than would offer protection from a rifle bullet, and the one tree left standing was a limbless trunk.