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Definition of Forepaws
1. forepaw [n] - See also: forepaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forepaws
Literary usage of Forepaws
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1894)
"... his head on one side and a great wonder growing in his eyes, then he rose,
put his forepaws across my knees, laid his dear head close on my breast, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"These it eats, either sitting on its haunches or suspended by ite hind feet, and
holding them between its forepaws like • squirrel. ..."
3. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"So the kangaroo broke off a piece of each of his forepaws and threw the pieces away,
... I still have long forepaws, but you have only short ones. ..."
4. Oceanic [mythology] by Roland Burrage Dixon (1916)
"So the kangaroo broke off a piece of each of his forepaws and threw the pieces away,
... I still have long forepaws, but you have only short ones. ..."
5. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"The rabbit in a quarter of an hour began to lick its forepaws, as though there
... After three-quarters of an hour it was seen again to lick its forepaws, ..."
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