Fours
[fɔ:z]
Examples
- The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The reptile is on all fours with the seeding plant in its freedom from the necessity to pass any stage of its life cycle in water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some perhaps went on all fours, some chiefly went on their hind legs and clambered with their fore limbs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Now, therefore, send the Christian dog on all fours, and barefoot, into the holy place to mend the clock, and let him go as an ass! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tarzan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catlike upon all fours far outspread to take up the shock. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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