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Examples
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Biddy, wise with previous bitter bereavements, had sat down on the edge of the sand, her fore-feet in the water, and was mouthing her woe.
Chapter 1 2010
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He was catching the little mite by the hind-legs and tossing it up in the air, where, making a half-flip and descending head first, it was supposed to alight with its fore-feet on his hand and there balance itself, its hind feet and body above it in the air.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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He sprang at the horse's head as it came down with fore-feet to earth, and as he sprang he barked.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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Always, to starboard or to port, at the bow or over the stern, when he stood up resting his fore-feet on the six-inch rail and gazing, he saw only the ocean, broken-faced and turbulent, yet orderly marching its white-crested seas before the drive of the trade.
CHAPTER III 2010
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The predator whirled in the clearing, reaching up to beat futilely at the air with its short fore-feet.
Cattle Town 2010
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For there appeared to them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, adorned with a very rich covering: and he ran fiercely and struck Heliodorus with his fore-feet, and he that sat upon him seemed to have armor of gold.
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I will fasten a wolf skin about my back, and o'er my head put the brute's gaping jaws; then fitting its fore-feet to my hands and its hind-feet to my legs I will go on all-fours in imitation of its gait to puzzle the enemy when I approach their trenches and barriers round the ships.
Rhesus 2008
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I will fasten a wolf skin about my back, and o'er my head put the brute's gaping jaws; then fitting its fore-feet to my hands and its hind-feet to my legs I will go on all-fours in imitation of its gait to puzzle the enemy when I approach their trenches and barriers round the ships.
Rhesus 2008
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What it does is to place the hind-feet in front of the fore-feet and outside them, and so to run, if running one can call it.
On Hunting 2007
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Should the deer have been caught by one of its fore-feet it will soon be taken, because in the act of running it will beat and batter its own face and body; if by the hind-leg, the clog comes trailing along and must needs impede the action of every limb.
On Hunting 2007
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