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Halfway to the trap, she stops, sits back on her hind legs and warily eyes the bowl of food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s version of the Trojan Horse—35 feet tall and rearing on hind legs—was half buried in sand on the Atlantic coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The animal was a feathered relative of Velociraptor with long feathers on both its forelimbs and hind limbs.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Another of his horses was named in the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest 10-metre dash while on hind legs -- a sprightly 4.19 seconds.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Their squawking carried through Deadwood, across the busy road, and into the forest beyond, causing scampering critters and lumbering mammals to rise to their hind legs.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"I'd like to issue former condolences to oliver stark, aisha hinds, angela bassett, and the rest of the 911 cast for having to work with ryan guzman," said another.
From Fox News ● Jun. 1, 2020
Indeed, it was all around him here in the west Highlands, with herds of hinds and stags roaming the hills, and deer-stalkers in bloodstained tweeds riding by on their quad bikes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2018
But fewer dream of shooting the hinds – the most effective way of arresting population growth – and so the responsibility falls to the owners.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2018
The annual cull of red deer hinds ends on Monday but several estates stopped shooting weeks ago, when it became clear that large numbers of deer were starving to death.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2010
By the look of them it was a single deer, probably a buck: they don’t pick up their feet as high as hinds do, and Torak saw drag marks in the snow.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
