quadruped

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Quadruped Race The first two players on each team stand back to back behind the base line, with the first player facing the distance line.

From School, Church, and Home Games by Draper, George Orrin

The Left Iliac Bone of the Human Being: External Surface, placed in the Position which it would occupy in the Skeleton of a Quadruped 79 44.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

Across the sands of Syria, Or, possibly, Algeria, Or some benighted neighbourhood of barrenness and drouth, There came the Prophet Sam-u-el Upon the Only Cam-u-el— A bumpy, grumpy Quadruped of discontented mouth.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Quadruped with short thick body of fine-grained sandstone.

From Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 by Stevenson, James

You may remember, that Leatherwing related to the squirrel the History of Minimus, or "Some Passages in the Life of the smallest Quadruped in the World."

From The Squirrels and other animals Illustrations of the habits and instincts of many of the smaller British quadrupeds by Waring, George