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Dr. Seuss' Roscoe the many-footed lion 2008

So, many-footed creatures of the sea will make their lairs in me and black seals their dwellings undisturbed, because I lack people.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

And we know that Ephebus, with whom we lodged at Athens, threw out, together with a great deal of seed, a little hairy, many-footed, nimble animal.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

And we know that Ephebus, with whom we lodged at Athens, threw out, together with a great deal of seed, a little hairy, many-footed, nimble animal.

Symposiacs 2004

No birds were to be heard; everything seemed asleep, the espalier covered with straw, and the vine, like a great sick serpent under the coping of the wall, along which, on drawing hear, one saw the many-footed woodlice crawling.

Madame Bovary 2003

Insects that are long in shape and many-footed can live for a long while after being cut in twain, and the severed portions can move in either direction, backwards or forwards; thus, the hinder portion, if cut off, can crawl either in the direction of the section or in the direction of the tail, as is observed in the scolopendra.

The History of Animals 2002

Animals which have the superior and the front parts identically situated are four-footed, many-footed, or footless

On the Gait of Animals 2002

Animals which have the superior and the front parts identically situated are four-footed, many-footed, or footless

On the Gait of Animals 2002

All animals move alike, four-footed and many-footed; in other words, they all move cross-corner-wise.

The History of Animals 2002

When she glanced around, she heard the murmur of many-footed rumors running.

The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999