When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. From LearnThat.org. [Abraham Lincoln]
Back (or hind) legs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
So in hind sight, I have had an extra ¼ of play in the left knee which made me over compensate my right side. From Wordnik.com. [MY KNEES -- PART THREE, AFTER THE SURGERY] Reference
This ballot was defeated, and in hind sight, it appears one of the most effective advocates against the measure was the police. From Wordnik.com. [Wine In Grocery Stores: Coercion? Boycotts? Intimidation?] Reference
That’s why, in hind sight, it was a mistake for Gore to make the movie. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » After hottest decade in history, senators attempt to outlaw science of global warming.] Reference
The stag, or hart, is the male of the red deer, and the hind is the female. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
'The hind is the daughter of the emperor of Rome, who fled away with yonder knight dressed in a hart skin!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Romance Book] Reference
I guess in hind site I should have wrote a disclaimer about it later, and because I didn’t I claim stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Barkett] Reference
A dark, melancholy man, clad in homespun, whose peculiar mission was to turn his name hind part before and use as few words as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
Now that's what I call a hind leg. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
I think in hind sight I was being petty. From Wordnik.com. [Garth Turner Ignores First Rule of Holes « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
The "hind" side of hounds and hinds was supposed to be the weaker, which was why the better player took it. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Price]
Anyhow, she laid him out with a kind of hind-leg upper-cut. From Wordnik.com. [Sundown Slim] Reference
The "hind," famed for her affection to her young, abandons them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The tail and hind parts are usually soiled with it. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The fear of falling had my hind legs kicking wildly. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference
I injected her on her side right next to her hind leg. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering a Life] Reference
With a roar he was on his hind legs, head darting around. From Wordnik.com. [Begonia {part seven}] Reference
The strange animal here kicked out one of his hind legs so wildly that. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
"If you would change the right hind-foot, Herr Grupello," said a third. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
He grabbed Cash by the hind legs, pulled him to the river, and dumped him in. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Grass] Reference
This is an inflammation of the lymphatic vessels of one or both hind limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
When I encounter a goat, the same sequence recurs: hind legs, dancing, explosion. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors] Reference
He forgot his mother's warning, and sat up on his hind paws; the sound stopped then. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Barbaro (up) Kentucky Derby winner shatters hind leg at the Preakness but won't be put down. From Wordnik.com. [2006 Edition] Reference
In the poster, an elephant with a jeweled headdress stood on its hind legs warily eyeing the ringmaster. From Wordnik.com. [‘A Handbook to Luck’] Reference
My tiny heart beating, I called on one last effort and pushed out my hind legs, propelling myself up and onto the sink. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference
I crouched, the muscles in my hind legs coiled and I jumped with outstretched arms ready to embrace my first feline leap. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference
A girl wearing a flimsy negligee, stockings and stiletto heels crushes a rabbit, who screams as his hind legs are crushed. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Pacelle: Animal Crush Videos Make Comeback; Senate Must Act] Reference
It's almost as if the Fed is subsidizing government debt and leaving a big chunk of the private sector with the hind most. From Wordnik.com. [Why Banks Don't Really Like Low Interest Rates] Reference
Albert Haynesworth, dared by Mike Shanahan to meet him behind the cafeteria before school, got his be-hind kicked royally Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [On first day of Redskins training camp, Albert Haynesworth learns who is boss] Reference
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