Forepaws

Finally, above the forepaws was a yard-long lipless gash of a mouth, half-hidden by hair, curved very slightly upward at the corners. ❋ Niven, Larry (1969)

A deer mouse stands with forepaws clasped, a soulful-looking grizzly peers across a stream, and a gray jay picks at a half-eaten salmon lying in the snow, one perhaps caught by the same grizzly we see elsewhere loping after spawning chum, its fur shagged with ice. ❋ Unknown (2012)

When I am cooking she is next to me with the forepaws on the counter supervising my cooking. ❋ Anjali (2009)

We passed one of the elaborate clan houses, this one festooned with magnificent raccoon carvings; one was seated atop the ridgepole over the doorway, his forepaws dangling. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

The beavers seemed quite at home, collecting snow between their forepaws and their chin and half push, half carry it along. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Next, something brushed past him, and he encountered it with a snarl and a splashing of his forepaws. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When it saw them, it would put up its forepaws on the knee, and when taken up would sleep in the lap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The wolf stood on her hind legs, her forepaws draped over the edge so that she could see beyond Orgrimmar. ❋ Richard A. Knaak (2010)

Emeriss appeared to be fixated upon something on the ground near her forepaws…very likely the fabled ax. ❋ Richard A. Knaak (2010)

A bear shooting out the sky, forepaws in the shape of pistols. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No action hero to the rescue, no love story subplot, no whimsical shots of the family dog putting its forepaws over its face in seeming dismay. ❋ Unknown (2010)