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Example sentences for "certain animals"

  • This is the taboo which rests on the eating of certain foods, particularly the flesh of certain animals, though less frequently it applies also to occasional plants.

  • The taboo concerned with the eating of certain animals, however, also remained in force for a long time.

  • The Navahos ascribe the creation of certain animals to a god Bekotsidi, whose character and rĂ´le, however, are vague.

  • In the Bismarck Archipelago every class has connected with it certain animals regarded as relatives, but in New Britain, apparently, not as ancestors.

  • The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

  • One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.

  • To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.

  • An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

  • Plumes of feathers, or the dried skins of the heads of certain animals, constituted about their only style of head-dress.

  • In quadrupeds we shall also find differences in length (see the chapter relating to the anterior limbs in certain animals), but the order of decrease is not always that which we have just mentioned.

  • Another cause of rejecting the flesh of certain animals is the idea that anybody who partook of it would at the same time acquire some undesirable quality inherent in the animal.

  • Certain animals excite a feeling of disgust by their very appearance, and are therefore abstained from.

  • In order to take these pictures the track followed by certain animals has to be detected, and then a thread is stretched "breast-high" across the track, so that the animal coming along it by night shall pull the thread.

  • Innumerable are the auguries which the remnants of ancient superstition have attached to certain animals.

  • Defn: An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

  • The Saviour compared his own earthly condition with that of certain animals: "The foxes have holes," etc.

  • Certain animals are so fastidious that they have community beauty-parlours!

  • Instead of wearing heavy coats of mail, certain animals, such as the hedgehog and porcupine, prefer to wear coats covered with needles and pins.

  • Groos believes he has found its equivalent in certain animals.

  • Certain animals, whose dwelling participates in the nature of a hollow cavern, make additions to it which claim a place among the constructions with which we are now occupied.

  • Certain animals in order to shelter themselves take advantage of natural caverns in the same way as many races of primitive men.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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