98 examples of fore-leg in sentences

His feet are thrust into a pair of botas de potro, or colt's-foot boots, manufactured from the hide of a colt's fore-leg, which he strips off whole, chafes in his hand until it becomes pliable and soft, sews up at the lower extremity,and puts on, the best riding-boot that the habitable world can show.

and I jumped to save myself; but he was wonderfully quick, and chased me up, striking furiously at me with his cane, I dodging this way and that, in terror, and at last a strong blow fell upon my left fore-leg, which made me shriek and fall, for the moment, helpless; the cane went up for another blow, but never descended, for the nurse's voice rang wildly out, "The nursery's on fire!"

Blackie got up, tottering, with one quivering fore-leg lifted.

But he kept his back to her as he lifted the horse's fore-leg and felt tenderly at the wrenched muscle.

"Try him!" Thompson lifted his rifle and with steady nerve aimed at a point back of the fore-leg.

To my astonishment, he lifted a fore-leg out of the abyss of mud, put it between the logs, where I expected to hear it snap; clawed in front, and shuffled behind; put the other over the second log, the mud and water splashing into my face, and then brought the first freely out from between the logs, andhorrible to seeput a hind one in.

When they had nearly satisfied their appetites, Hal fished up from the depths of the mess the fore-leg and foot of a dog.

In order to ascertain whether a rabbit is young, Strabo tells us we should feel the first joint of the fore-leg, when we shall find a small bone free and movable.

Then they tried him with a hare whose fore-leg was broken in order to ensure his being quickly caught.

The height of the fore-leg should not exceed the distance from the elbow to the centre of the back, between the shoulder blades.

The old school of breeders had evidently determined upon great speed and the ability to stay, through the medium of deep ribs, heart room, wide loins, length of quarter, quality of bone, straightness of fore-leg, and round strong feet; the slack loined, loosely built, and splayfooted hound of former generations had been left behind.

The elbow should be close in to the body both when moving or standing, thus causing the fore-leg to be well placed in under the shoulder.

'Figs. 150 and 151 represent the phalangeal bones of the off fore-leg of a thoroughbred horse named Osman, who was well known as a hunt steeplechaser of considerable merit in the Midland counties some twenty years ago.

I went over to see him, and found that he was unmistakably lame on the off fore-leg.

For about two months the mare was lame on the off fore-leg, and in spite of treatment the condition became steadily worse.

'On examination I found the horse unable to place any weight on the off fore-leg, the pastern was swollen and painful, the hollow of the heel was also swollen, and there was marked constitutional disturbance.

On the near fore-leg there were extensive wounds in the region of the knee, and great laceration of the tissues.

Trying to avoid collision with a conveyance coming towards him, the animal slipped on a wooden pavement, sliding along until his near fore-leg came in contact with the wheel of a standing cab.

The accident caused great lameness in the near fore-leg, and the horse had to be led the remainder of that day's march.

He was riding a big black horse with one white stocking on his near fore-leg.

My eyes had hardly rested upon it, when I recognized the great black limbs and the white near fore-leg.

Holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, I saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore-leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breast-plate was apparently too thick for him to pierce; and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer's eyes shone with ferocity such as war only could excite.

What, would you have me sit still, and look upon you, like a little puppy-dog, that's taught to beg with his fore-leg up?

In the phrase, "How are you, etc.," my reason dictated this triple, parallel movement: Advancing the head, and the arms, with the torso on the fore-leg.

The admiral therefore gave orders that the hog and the cat should be placed close together; the cat immediately wound her tail around the snout of the hog, and with its remaining fore-leg fastened on the pole of the hog, which grunted the while most fearfully.

98 examples of  fore-leg  in sentences