Word: hinde
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...perusal of huge stretches in the works of John Dryden. Were it not for the fact that Congreve and to turn to the opposite pole, Bunyan are also included in the reading list the course would be just what one would expect from the author of "The Hind and the Panther." Few undergraduates have reached that precious stage where Dryden delights rather than bores...
...white cuffs above its paws. Its front paws resembled human hands, Mr Miller said, except that the hairy black fingers reminded him of a tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp white teeth, the creature tore only vegetables, no flesh. What, asked Mr. Miller of scientists, is it? Pending further...
Spectators cheered each, loudly, impartially-smiled sympathetically at Pinegrade Perfection whose hind legs were properly too long for his front ones. Judges conferred, pronounced Pinegrade Perfection best dog of the show. More cheers were heard. The selection had been popular. Sealyham pups are cute, correct, expensive, said to be in favor with the Prince of Wales at the moment...
...humming it, whistling it, beating time to it. At the end of the second act you will hardly be able to wait until you reach the lobby to give your own special version of it. And when you go home (the play has threoacts), the left hind wheel of the trolley, which will be flat, will rhythmically impress that tune on your soul, if you have one, for ever and ever...
...scolded only because his mother and father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street, in the final stiffening of rabies, given him by one of the town hounds or by some coyote bum. Four of the children he had bitten were rushed to Austin, for treatment...