1 In an instant it reared up upon its hind legs with a snort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that would have unseated any but a most skilful rider.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 2 But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion.
3 There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs.
4 His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg.
5 It was a pig walking on his hind legs.
6 And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs.
7 You see that it is no less than fifteen inches from fore-foot to hind.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 8 The more deeply sunk impression is, of course, the hind wheel, upon which the weight rests.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 9 Holmes raised the hind leg of one of them and laughed aloud.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 10 I walked into the doctor's yard this morning, and shot my syringe full of aniseed over the hind wheel.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 11 Indeed, one dog was moved with such friendliness that, standing on its hind legs, it licked him on the lips, and so forced him to spit.
12 Only a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse's hind hoofs.
13 Old Karay had turned his head and was angrily searching for fleas, baring his yellow teeth and snapping at his hind legs.
14 Again the beautiful Erza reached him, but when close to the hare's scut paused as if measuring the distance, so as not to make a mistake this time but seize his hind leg.
15 The driver in his bast shoes ran panting up to it, placed a stone under one of its tireless hind wheels, and began arranging the breech-band on his little horse.