For example, Plato once defined man as " a featherless biped.". From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The only reason we know human beings are a special kind of biped is by studying human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Back] Reference
But when the negative proposition being particular is necessary, take the terms 'biped', 'moving', 'animal'. From Wordnik.com. [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference
A large biped had found the opening from the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Mouse] Reference
“I hope we can meet like this again,” he told the biped. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
Soon, however, the biped hounds were on their track, in hot pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
How they managed to live at all is a mystery to the twentieth century biped. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
Was a "man" a biped with certain easily recognized physical characteristics?. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
He is the mere outline of a man -- the "featherless biped" of the philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
I was weaponed with a staff, should brute or biped uncourteous dispute our way. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
"Oh, yes, and I want to be something better than a mere biped without feathers.". From Wordnik.com. [Medoline Selwyn's Work] Reference
Another picture indeed — a biped — humanoid in outline — but somehow all wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Star Flight]
This might be one of those cases where even the talented alien biped could do nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
Now and then he awoke with a start, and looked up at the obstinate biped above his head. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
They both have the ability to climb giddy heights, inaccessible to any other wingless biped. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870] Reference
And there are scarescrows, the harmlessness of which the human biped learns not in a a lifetime. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He ran on like a biped to the manner born, and at a pace which no Terran bear could have duplicated. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
The movement startled this former wild animal, who promptly ditched the biped on his back, and left. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The fourth pervaded the whole of England in 1125, and was equally fatal to the biped and the quadruped. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Whether it's through the forest, across the savanna, it doesn't matter you're a biped when you're moving. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Steps: Learning To Walk, The Hominid Way] Reference
I first learned of her presence in the biped roll call as I stood in line for lettuce at the sandwich bar. From Wordnik.com. [Lettuce] Reference
Don't know if it was the combination of the canids with a biped, or if it was the jingle from the heelers 'collars. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The cloud was clearing again, revealing the outlines of a biped standing down the hallway, maybe ten meters from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Came within 150 meters trying to figure out what those two coyotes with the jingly collars were doing with the biped. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The grazing animals had quit chewing and were watching the strange biped carefully now, but they did not seem alarmed. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Whatever the reason, the survivors quickly diversified into giant four-legged sauropods, biped carnivores and iguanodons. From Wordnik.com. [New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur] Reference
Witweet was an erect biped; but his tubby frame reached to barely a meter, from the padded feet to the big, scalloped ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
In nearby strata, he uncovered nests, eggs and unhatched babies of smaller, graceful biped dinosaurs called hypsilophodonts. From Wordnik.com. [New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur] Reference
He knew that Those Others were biped, quasi-human in form, closer in physical appearance to the colonists than to the mermen. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
And I began to repeat the note to myself again, when, on a crossing, I was accosted by a biped, commonly known as a small boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
As the human appeared to be awaiting a response, Reldmuurtinjak supplied the one he thought the biped might be waiting to hear. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Thus begins the sad history in this country of the rise and annual fall on Thanksgiving days of that exalted biped -- the American turkey. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
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