From under our forefoot the flying fish sped, the monsters pursued them.

The elephant's trunk accounts for his superior sagacity, and the horse suffers by his hoof-enclosed forefoot.

He was coal-black, this Diablo, except for the white stocking of his off forefoot; he was night-black, and so silken sleek that, as he turned and pranced, flashes of light glimmered from shoulders to flanks.

A down-sweep of a forefoot gashed Bull's shoulder and tore his shirt to shreds.

for just ahead there is a treacherous pitfall which neither Tam nor his mistress sees,a hollow that some little animal has burrowed out, and into this Tam plunges a forefoot, stumbles, and falls! CHAPTER III.

The first group (Perissodactyla) has always one or three toes functionally developed, either the third, or third, second and fourth, the two others having entirely disappeared, except for a remnant of the fifth in the forefoot of tapirs.

She is a sister ship of the Antinous, and was in with damage to her forefoot, which had been ripped up when she ran down that big German submarine north of the OrkneysYes, I know; she was due to go out some time to-day.

To begin with, the Antinous was in for repairs to her geared turbines, and the Antigone for damage to her forefoot.

"It is a very small she spaniel," added Zadig; "she has lately whelped; she limps on the left forefoot, and has very long ears."

The horse stuck his right forefoot into a hole.

[they are] in height, from the toe of the forefoot to the pitch of the shoulder, twelve foot, both which hath been taken by some of my sceptique readers to be monstrous lies"; and he adds,"There are certain transcendentia in every creature, which are the indelible character of God, and which discover God."

Going into Long Harbour, 23rd July, the Grenville ran on a rock and remained so fast that she had to be unloaded before she could be floated off the next day, when she was found to have suffered considerable damage to her forefoot.

The Reindeer leaped up in the air, pointing her nose to the sky till they could see her whole churning forefoot; then she plunged downward till her for'ard deck was flush with the foam, and with a dizzying rush she drove past them, her main-boom missing the Dazzler's rigging by scarcely a foot.

Twice he heard the waves buffeted back from some flying forefoot, and once he saw a sail to leeward on the opposite tack, which luffed sharply and came about at sight of him.

They picked themselves up, and saw the little carriage standing at the side of the road, the horses perfectly motionless, each with a forefoot raised in the air, the coachman stiff and still upon his box, gazing straight in front of him.

He turned, at that instant, and galloped a short distance along the crest, neighing again, and then paused like an expectant dog, with one forefoot raised, a white-stockinged forefoot.

He turned, at that instant, and galloped a short distance along the crest, neighing again, and then paused like an expectant dog, with one forefoot raised, a white-stockinged forefoot.

By the liquid smoothness of that gallop, by the white-stockinged forefoot, by something about his head, and above all by what she knew of his cunning, she had recognized Alcatraz.

The step for which he raised his forefoot was not completed for down the hollow behind him he saw a grey skulker slinking with its belly close to the ground.

The far bank seemed a mighty distance as he soared highthe water rushed broad and swift beneath him, no swimming if he struck that bubbling currentand then, a last pitch forwards in mid-air; a forefoot struck ground, the bank crushed in beneath his weight, and then he was scrambling to the safety beyond and reeling into a new gallop.

He took me up in his right forefoot, and held me, just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a kitten in Europe; and when I offered to struggle he squeezed me so hard that I thought it more prudent to submit.

Their prows when not hidden were expelling cascades of foam, sometimes even showing the dripping forefoot of the keel.

An old custom practiced to prevent the separation of a husband and wife was to wrap a rabbit's forefoot, a piece of loadstone, and 9 hairs from the top of the head in red flannel, and bury it under the front door steps.

It was only as she sank into the water, in stemming a swell, that anything like foam could be seen under her forefoot.

The boor laughs, when told that the forefoot of his horse and his own hand are essentially the same member.