Word: quadrupedal
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In Eva Is Inside Her Cat (1948), a beautiful, hypersensitive woman senses herself dissolving into death and searches the house for some creature that can contain her spirit: "No. It was impossible to incarnate herself in the cat. She was afraid of one day feeling in her palate, in her...
The dogged security man had had enough. He not only retrieved the orange post, but chased the quadruped toward the Harvard sideline. And for a few minutes, that was that. But after a couple of incomplete passes and several insignificant running plays, our creature decided the time was ripe for...
To maneuver an agile four-legged "quadruped" truck that is being developed by General Electric for travel over rough terrain, the driver controls the vehicle's front legs with hand-operated levers; the rear legs are moved by the driver's own legs, which are strapped into control...
Well-dressed but rudely shoving crowds bellied up to endless rows of benches to adore nearly 100 varieties of dog. The air bristled with ammoniac fumes. To prepare the quadruped idols for the worshiping throng, handlers laved them in exotic ceremonies. They rubbed chalk into the hides of sheep dogs...
Birds and reptiles have always abounded in the Andaman Islands, a series of lush green mountaintops dotting the Bay of Bengal. But up to 25 years ago the mammal population of the Andamans was a poor minority. The only wild four-footed friends the island Pygmies could boast were a...