What is "four-legged"

Usage examples of "four-legged".

The large carnivores played host with their leavings to a great variety of secondary carnivores and scavengers, both four-legged and flying: foxes, hyenas, brown bears, civets, small steppe cats, wolverines, weasels, ravens, kites, hawks, and many more.

Late on the afternoon of the first day, as the long purple shadows were beginning to fall across the land, the front line of marchers came upon three large four-legged beasts with great scarlet pronglike horns sprouting in triple pairs from their snouts.

Then, first out its portal, emerged the bronze figure of the He-Ape, knuckle-walking above the onlookers, carrying a twitching four-legged animal under one arm and a sharpened stone in its mouth.

Clarity watched intently as the four-legged thranx ambled around the ruined end of the kitchen counter and advanced on the limp, ragdoll body of Serale.

Besides his whip, every man carried rifle and pistol to take care of any two-legged or four-legged varmints we might have to deal with.

I belong a hundred years into the future to some unknown man who wears three-piece suits instead of riding britches and boots, and drives a car home each night, not a huge four-legged animal.

GLOSSARY Amir prince, ruler of Chammur belbun Chammuran term for four-legged rat bindi paint, metal, or jewel placed between the eyebrows bunjingi miniature tree form in which trunk is long, with a few branches balanced at the upper end cham large sum coin in Chammur.

Four-legged and camellike, the Imperial walkers--All Terrain Armored Transports--strode from their smoldering landing sites and marched in hulking formation across the savanna.

The progenitor of this invaluable beast was a curious little creature, a four-legged mammal, for the age of reptiles was past, and he stood only seven or eight inches high at the shoulder.

He could have stepped onto the bumper and swung over the gate, but his four-legged friend wouldn't have been able to climb after him.

But with the addition of the second basket, she began to perceive some of the advantages of harnessing the strength of her four-legged friend.

Adam dropped his hand to receive a lick from his four-legged friend.

Though one might suppose that a man who could speak to animals could arrange to have his four-legged friend kick up a little trouble for his ulterior purposes….

From the way her goat, Betty, had always cocked her head and stilled her little upright tail as Jennsen confided her innermost fears, she had firmly believed that her hairy four-legged friend could understand every word.

But Samm had been as thoroughly immobilized as his four-legged friends.