Adjective : He considers his dog to be his four-footed friend. From Dictionary.com.
So he called all the four-footed animals together. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of the Great Plains] Reference
He knew that the singer of that note was four-footed. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
With all four-footed beasts she was on the best of terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
No four-footed animals rove over it; no human beings inhabit it. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Frank and Daisy are her horses, who are really four-footed missionaries. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896] Reference
You can no more get rid of me than you can of my four-footed counterpart. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Instantly there was a movement on the far side -- a four-footed movement. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Not unlike a four-footed animal he made his way to the middle of the street. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
They are chiefly "four-footed beasts of the earth," and are covered with hair or fur. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
Some day you must come out to Severndale, Mrs. Vincent, and see my four-footed children. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
But all the birds, and the snakes, and all the four-footed animals refused to go for fire. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of the Great Plains] Reference
Was he not the intruder? and when was ever mercy accorded to such among four-footed things?. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Captain Bailey lacked, -- a dog, -- and I think he rather envied me my four-footed companion. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Buffon says the various species of four-footed animals may be reduced to two hundred and fifty. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference
All four-footed animals can swim naturally in some fashion, but leopards can swim especially well. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
He continued to watch his four-footed little sentinel perched up there in the apology for a window. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping things of the earth and fowls of the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
Of all the four-footed creatures in Great Britain and Ireland, he, and he only, has a prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Here the heat became a leaden weight and the men were panting like four-footed beasts running before hunters. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
Every creature, wild and tame, winged and four-footed, takes the most scrupulous care of its physical condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The Throg was hunched over and perhaps to Taggi presented the outline of some four-footed creature to be hunted. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Forming in column, they advance noisily, and the horse hoof shakes the crumbling plain with four-footed trampling. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
When he is almost there the three happy children go down to the barn to watch their four-footed friends come home. From Wordnik.com. [Seven O'Clock Stories] Reference
So off Joe went, and soon the frantic barking in the stable-yard showed he had begun feeding his four-footed pets. From Wordnik.com. [J. Cole] Reference
"Meggins;" all of which four-footed domestics were especial pets in their garden walks or at their quiet fire-side. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
I dare say you will think it odd, but my companions are mostly four-footed ones, though I am -- what shall I call it?. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
I fail to understand why Berliners think that they can treat their city like a public toilet for their four-footed friends. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
At dinner each person was the centre of an expectant group of the four-footed habitués of the inn, and no one seemed to object. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
If the four-footed beasts should disappear from the earth, it would be a much greater disaster than the destruction of the fishes. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
The sight of this anaconda has solved the mystery; he has depopulated it (if I may so say) of every creeping or four-footed thing. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
A gate is to be put at each end of the path which will keep those intruders, at least the four-footed ones, from the front of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
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