This love of the mother in quadrupeds to the offspring, whom she licks and cleans, is so allied to the pleasure of the taste or palate, that nature seems to have had ❋ Unknown (1803)
All the anthropoid apes dwell to some extent upon the ground, but these can neither be called quadrupeds nor bipeds, their usual mode of progression being an awkward compromise between the two. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
Near the eastern side we started up a fox in a hollow, the only kind of wild quadruped, if I except a skunk in a salt-marsh, that we saw in all our walk (unless painted and box tortoises may be called quadrupeds). ❋ Unknown (1865)
Yet of all living beings after man, the quadrupeds are the ones whose nature is most fixed and form most constant: birds and fishes vary much more easily; insects still more again than these, and if we descend to plants, which certainly cannot be excluded from animated nature, we shall be surprised at the readiness with which species are seen to vary, and at the ease with which they change their forms and adopt new natures. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
Thus, only the best kind of hunting is allowed at all — that of quadrupeds, which is carried on with horses and dogs and men’s own persons, and they get the victory over the animals by running them down and striking them and hurling at them, those who have a care of godlike manhood taking them with their own hands. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"quadrupeds" find their way from the village church to our opera theatres. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)
"But if we carefully attend to the kind of quadrupeds that have been recently discovered, and to the circumstances of their discovery, we shall easily perceive that there is very little chance indeed of our ever finding alive those which have only been seen in a fossil state. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Believing that natural-history books often provided inaccurate drawings of large quadrupeds like zebras, the self-taught artist devoted his leisure time to making portraits of his own. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number." ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)
A few sections were merely stalls where quadrupeds could stand. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)
Your allowance for suspension of disbelief is severely, severely limited by the fact that your leads are primitive quadrupeds. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Surprisingly, elephants use their forelimbs and hindlimbs in similar braking and propulsive roles, not dividing these functions among limbs as was previously assumed or as in other quadrupeds. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There is no shame in the defeat however, as Ouest France noted: "duels between professional cyclists and horses are not rare and generally turn to the advantage of the quadrupeds." ❋ Unknown (2011)
One of the few quadrupeds of Pandora, the Thanator more than makes up for it's missing set of limbs with it's dominant, territorial attitude and ferocious capability as a hunter. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But all quadrupeds share an elemental understanding, which is communicated through the orientation of the ears, through the display of teeth, through tension, stance, and gaze. ❋ Unknown (2010)
God the father, God [the son], God the mother, and God [the Holy Spirit] is more commonly known as the HoLy [QuAdRuPiTy]. ❋ Eemm4848 (2019)
Bruh I just [tripped] on a banana [peel] and [quadruped] ❋ 2biffsbangin (2022)
Thomas: "Beatrice, might we try [quadruped position] for our intercourse tonight?"
Beatrice: "Yes Thomas, I believe the modification may be [invigorating]"
Thomas: "Wonderful Beatrice! Might I suggest [Gautier] Cognac to mark the occasion?" ❋ Rizzey (2023)
