What is "goatlike"

Usage examples of "goatlike".

Poet presumed they could strike with their horns, and leap goatlike on their forked hoofs, but every question concerning this race received only evasive answers.

Niketas, I tore off her robe, and I saw: from the belly down, Hypatia had goatlike forms, and her legs ended in a pair of ivory-colored hoofs.

Both Byrne and Plume believed it beset with peril, watched from ambush by invisible foes who could be relied upon to lurk in hiding until the train was within easy range, then, with sudden volley, to pick off the officers and prominent sergeants and, in the inevitable confusion, aided by their goatlike agility, to make good their escape.

Then from behind their curtaining rocks half a dozen dusky forms, their dirty white breechclouts streaming behind them, sprang suddenly into view and darted, with goatlike ease and agility, zigzagging up the eastward wall.

In the spring, though it was inundated with heavier runoff and icy patches which threatened footing, the Sharamudoi -- both the chamois-hunting Shamudoi, and the river-dwelling Ramudoi, who formed their opposite half -- scampered up and down like the agile goatlike antelope that inhabited the steep terrain.

Two small horns rose straight up from the forehead of the goatlike antelope, curving back only at the tips.

At that moment the long goatlike head of Elder Vare broke the surface, mouth open in a strangled yelp for aid.

His eyes were as cold and dead as ever, the wisps of hair pasted to the goatlike skull.

The umlaut made two beady red eyes, the bottom prong of the star made a sharp muzzle, the top prongs a pair of horns, and the two side prongs a pair of goatlike ears.

His rifle was still in the war wag, but his pistol flowed into his fingers without any conscious thought, only to be bolstered again when he recognized the white blur as one of the hardy mountain goatlike creatures that thrived near the tree line in the Darks.

Someone began capering, goatlike, and the others joined him, and the mob snake-danced down the street.

Alice Thomas, the African American woman who seemed to be developing less a goatlike and more a catlike lower half, but she was also finding him, and maybe not just him, very attractive.

Because your people have four arms and are striped, and others have goatlike hindquarters, and others are hermaphroditic pastel-colored female shapes with tails, or half cat, or snake, or hairy ape, or so on.

Jondalar said, pointing to a nimble and beautiful goatlike animal with long curved horns.

Both species preferred the open, windy, dry land, but the rhinos liked grass and sedge, and musk-oxen, true to the goatlike creatures they were, browsed on woodier brush.