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  • Though they walked upright and had hands like men, their ankles, or tarsal joints, were the hocks of quadru - ped animals with cloven hooves.

    Stalling 2010

  • Though they walked upright and had hands like men, their ankles, or tarsal joints, were the hocks of quadru - ped animals with cloven hooves.

    Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

  • Chamberlain, and will shortly open with a company selected from Ducrow's late establishment; but whether the _peds_ are _bi_ or _quadru_, rumour sayeth not.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

  • Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced an initial $100 million for Haiti earthquake relief, U.S. government spending on the disaster has nearly quadru ...

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Quadruplum autem non to - tum pcena est, siciit in actione furti xnanifesti diximus; fted in quadru - plo inest et rei penecutio; ut poe - na tripli sit, sive comprehendatur raptor in ipso delicto, sive non.

    The Institutes of Justinian 1812

  • Ipfum, hac iii re, ut antea indicavi, fequi non audeo, ne - que his generibus tanquam fubdivifionibus facile uti posfum, cum primum genus folum, feu Staphylini ejus proprie fic difti, quadru - plo fere niajorem contineant numerum ipeci - ei; um, quam reliqua duo genera, feu Oxypo - rorum & Paederorum fimui fumta.

    Monographia Staphylinorum sveciae Gustaf von Paykull 1789

  • Hinc oriuntur fales triplices, quadruplices, ceteri, quos in lucem extrahet longioris avi diligentia, En falis triplicis et quadru« plicis nativi exempla prascipua mihi jan | nota, - '

    Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti Torbern Bergman 1783

  • Chap. 296. 275 tration fee hereinafter specified and the furnishing of an affidavit by any person who desires to be classified under clauses one, two or three of section five, register such person and issue to him a certificate in the form prescribed and upon a blank to be furnished by the commissioners, which certificate shall bear the name, age, occupation, place of residence, signature and identifying description of the reg - istrant, and shall authorize him to hunt birds and quadru - peds and to fish, subject to such conditions as are provided by law.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • 'Sed quamvis non repugnet noftrae anertioni y fi4imiae iftae natura effent bipede») pauois tsunen demonftrare ticeat,' nec Simias nec Satyros natura magis bipcdes quam quadru - pedes efTe, et majori jurc. ad quadrupeda referri debere ani -,

    Collectio epistolarvm quas ad viros illustres et clarissimos scriptsit Carolus a Linné. Accedunt opuscula pro et contra virum immortalem scripta, extra sueciam rarissima 1792

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