quadruped

• The germinal vesicles of a tree and a quadruped are somewhat alike, outwardly; so, to the hen's eyes, there is no difference between her own eggs and the duck's eggs which the farmer's wife has put into her nest. —  A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
• Everybody has seen either a living individual in a menagerie, or a stuffed skin of one in a museum; and the long, low, tail-less body--with outstretched neck and sharp projecting snout--covered with a thick coat of white hair, renders it impossible to mistake the Polar bear for any other animal This quadruped is more of a sea than land animal. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• "If I had seen him for the first time, I should have taken him to be a fledged centaur--a mixture of man, quadruped, and bird Donald was inclined to claim the feathers I had appropriated; but Senhor Silva coming to my support, it was agreed that they were mine by right of conquest; and I had the satisfaction of presenting them to my fair cousins--the first trophies of the chase which I had deemed worthy of their acceptance We obtained, during the following days, a further supply of ostrich eggs, which, with the birds we had killed, gave us as much food as we required. —  In the Wilds of Africa
• At other times he gets near enough in the disguise of a deer or other quadruped--for the swan, like most wild birds, is less afraid of the lower animals than of man During the spring migration, when the swan is moving northward, the hunter, hidden under some rock, bank, or tree, frequently lures him from his high flight by the imitation of his well-known "hoop." —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• I had but the one bullet to give them, and with that I could not shoot both; but I knew that the quadruped was eatable, and, as I was not sure about the bird, I very easily made choice, and shot the lynx. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

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