"Caudal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... homeward-bound school children's heads; she had even smilingly held her peace when laughingly assured that a troop of dogs and cats had gone madly wailing and howling through the streets, a miniature world flaming with fire attached by means of wires to each caudal appendage—even that was too much decidedly. But this tampering with the meeting-house! Mrs. Selby consulted first her husband, as in duty bound; that is, she called him aside, told him the latest pranks of their protege, and emphatically added that ...
— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee
... solamente su apodo, sino tambien su mucha hacienda, por el adquirida a fuerza de buenas o malas artes, y representada en las mejores suertes de tierra de aquella jurisdiccion, tomo a censo enfiteutico[77-3] del caudal de Propios, 10 [77-4] y casi de balde, mediante algunas gallinas no ponedoras que regalo al secretario del Ayuntamiento, unos secanos situados a las inmediaciones de la villa, en medio de los cuales veianse los restos y escombros de un antiguo castillejo,[77-5] morabito o atalaya arabe, ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... "Dear, dear me! Four well-developed limbs; a long caudal appendage; five toes, unequal in lengths, almost like one of the Lacertidae, yet there are traces of wings." The creature under his eye wriggled a little in the castor oil, and he went on: "Yes; a batlike wing. A new specimen, undoubtedly. Effie, run round to the ...
— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit
... shore ran pretty regularly north and south, broken at two-thirds of its perimeter by a narrow creek, from which it ended in a long tail, similar to the caudal appendage of a ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne |
