hindquarters

• “There were sores all over his body, but his hindquarters were the worst.”

  Favourite Dog Stories

• “The mare I saw was three hands shorter than this stud of yours, bred to carry a small horse-archer, not anyone in heavy plate; she was short-backed, deep-chested, and her hindquarters were a little higher than her forequarters.”

  Magic's Promise

• “Mars, slow-moving below Leo's hindquarters, doubles in brightness from mag 0.2 to -0.6 as its distance plummets from 156 million to 119 million km and its diameter swells to 12 arcsec.”

  The Guardian: Starwatch: The January night sky

• “And, as the captain blasted "We Are Family" from the speakers in his hindquarters while all of Union Square looked on and felt sorry for us, I smiled and waved like I was on the Popemobile.”

  The Huffington Post: Julie Gerstenblatt: I Quack for Groupon

• “He sat on his hindquarters less than a foot from Tara, looking up his long, pale nose at her.”

  Simon & Schuster: Rogue Oracle

• “I reached out to touch Secretariat's on his hindquarters, and just as I did, he wheeled his head around as if to bite me.”

  The Huffington Post: Jim Calio: Secretariat's hair

• “It hits my hindquarters with the flat edge and I run forward past the dark man to the end of the grass.”

  Fictionaut: Mad Dog

• “It does look like its hindquarters may be missing a bit, maybe had its gut opened up.”

  Field & Stream

• “He claimed that the best practice passed down from his ancestors was to shoot them in the hindquarters and run them down quickly.”

  In 1986, Al Hodacker, a respected deer researcher, published a Deer & Deer Hunting magazine article, "The Philosophy of Waiting.

• “Not that all football fans are bloodthirsty hounds feeding off the crippled hindquarters of the dying animal of empire.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Lipsyte: You Must Watch the Empire Bowl: It's Our Last Super Thing

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