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Sentences ending with tail

I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail. [9]
And then the wind changed, went back round the circle, reversing everything, like dragging a cat by its tail. [4]
But I will take a more favourable case, namely the length of the tail. [1]
They were a sorry rabble, for they rushed on La Prairie, that meagre place,--massacred and turned tail. [11]
Looking more closely Pierre recognized the blue-gray dog, sitting beside the soldier, wagging its tail. [2]
It was a particularly rich, furry pelt with a beautiful white tail. [13]
In a moment more, with a rush of water, the boat was on her, and the man at the oars had leaned over and caught her by the tail. [4]
She herself a mere nothing; but then her tail! [10]
But he merely looked around at me, at distant intervals, something as I have seen a benignant old cat look around to see which kitten was meddling with her tail. [5]
By and by I closed up abreast of his tail. [5]

Short sentences using tail

It has no tail yet. [5]
L. Tail or os coccyx. [1]
Estates tail are not devisable. [9]
My tail hangs low. [5]

Sentences containing tail two or more times

Feathers of this kind occur in the tail of a motmot (Eumomota superciliaris), of a king-fisher, finch, humming-bird, parrot, several Indian drongos (Dicrurus and Edolius, in one of which the disc stands vertically), and in the tail of certain birds of paradise. [1]
If it gets a mouthful of teeth, it will be time for it to go, tail or no tail, for a bear does not need a tail in order to be dangerous. [5]
If it gets a mouthful of teeth it will be time for it to go, tail or no tail, for a bear does not need a tail in order to be dangerous. [5]
If I had a horse with a tail not able to sit up, I should feed the horse, and curry him into good spirits, and let him set up his own tail. [4]

More example sentences with the word tail in them

The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage. [6]
Doesn't he remind you of the zebra, where the wild Hottentots come from--smart and handsome, but that showy, all stripes and tail and fetlock! [11]
Harris will be with you, head up and tail up, for Nebraska. [7]
He built it with a tail, teeth, fourteen legs, and a snout, and said it ate grass, cattle, pebbles, and dirt with equal enthusiasm. [5]
Then, as if with a great effort, and after the manner of one who has learned a part, he went on: "As the French ran away mad, paw of one on tail of other, they found him trying to drag himself along. [11]
Now spreading its wings, throwing up its head, or opening its tail like a fan; now strutting about with a hopping gait until tired, when it gabbled some kind of note, and was relieved by another. [1]
The tail and wing-feathers of this bird are ornamented with beautiful ocelli, like those on the peacock's train. [1]
But come, now, why should not a giant have a tail as well as a dragon? [6]
The fact is, where you strike one man in the English settlements that you can understand, you wade through awful swarms that talk something you can't make head nor tail of. [5]
And that is what I want to do now--for until you set that matter right it was nothing but just a confusion in my mind, without head or tail to it. [5]
But what are we to say about the rudimentary and variable vertebrae of the terminal portion of the tail, forming the os coccyx? [1]
That Commander's remark was, that the Boers "would turn tail at the first beat of the big drum. [5]
I do not understand, by the way, the pleasure of the jockey in setting up the tail of the horse artificially. [4]
There must be two kinds of hair on his tail, and on his tongue an excrescence in the form of the sacred beetle Scarabaeus. [10]
The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood. [2]
She had begun to rise immediately, with the kite-like adaptability of the American woman for high altitudes, and the leaden weight of the husband at the end of the tail was as nothing to her. [9]
It was astonishing to observe how suddenly the boat would spin around and turn tail the moment she emerged from the eddy and the current struck her nose. [5]
Burke instantly arose to his feet, seized the tail, and exclaimed joyfully, "I claim the re--" but got no further, for a single blow of the huge trunk laid the brave fellow's fragments low in death. [5]
He kept looking to either side of the road for familiar faces, but only saw everywhere the unfamiliar faces of various military men of different branches of the service, who all looked with astonishment at his white hat and green tail coat. [2]
We are led to a nearly similar conclusion with respect to the length of the tail in the various species of pheasants. [1]
Thus in time the tail becomes quite askew, and is a tolerable guide to the length of time the bird has been sitting. [1]
This bird, during the pairing-season, flies to "perhaps a thousand feet in height," and after zig-zagging about for a time descends to the earth in a curved line, with outspread tail and quivering pinions, and surprising velocity. [1]
Think that by the neck and the tail, and the divil absolve ye. [11]
The lion beat the floor with his tail with pleasure at recognizing her. [10]
I have forgotten the famous bears, and all else.--I remember the Percy lion on the bridge over the little river at Alnwick,--the leaden lion with his tail stretched out straight like a pump-handle,--and why? [6]
The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of Bashi-Bazouk like silk. [11]
In other cases the barbs disappear, leaving the shafts bare from end to end; and these in the tail of the Paradisea apoda attain a length of thirty-four inches (71. [1]
And Calvin, aware that the summer is past and the harvest is ended, and that a mouse in the kitchen is worth two birds gone south, scampers away to the house with his tail in the air. [4]
Then it seemed that the herd moved in a great curve, a huge half-moon with the points of head and tail almost opposite, and a mile apart But Lassiter relentlessly crowded the leaders, sheering them to the left, turning them little by little. [13]
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. [6]
In Pierre, however, that comet with its long luminous tail aroused no feeling of fear. [2]
She clicked her teeth (Karay no longer had her by the throat), leaped with a movement of her hind legs out of the gully, and having disengaged herself from the dogs, with tail tucked in again, went forward. [2]
We both turned tail and ran out of the house as fast as we could, and stood in the wet grass, panting. [9]
We encountered terrific storms at sea, and could not have escaped with our lives, if the big-bellied Samian galley, with her Ibis beak and fish's tail had not been so splendidly timbered and manned. [10]
At an early stage of development the tail was closely coiled round the head of the larva. [1]
And also in spite of the fact that the commander of the 94th regiment--already on the march to suppress this rebellion--had been heard to say that "the Boers would turn tail at the first beat of the big drum. [5]
This imitation of speech, taken together with general absence of fur and entire absence of tail, sufficiently indicates that this is a new kind of bear. [5]
The idea that she, the humble artist's daughter, could harbor the soul of a Persian princess, amused her; and when the lion lifted his head and lashed the floor with his tail at her approach, she felt that she had won his approbation. [10]
To whichever side she may turn, the expanded wings and the obliquely-held tail are turned towards her. [1]
She had never seen such a bird before, and thought it could not possibly be a usual one, for a little gold chain was fastened to its foot, and its tail seemed made of sunbeams instead of feathers. [10]
I would rather see him and shake him by the tail than any other member of the European Concert. [5]
At the head rode a grey-headed old man; his robes were brown, and rent, in token of mourning, the mane and tail of his horse had been shorn off and the creature colored blue.--It was Hystaspes, coming to entreat mercy for his son. [10]
Other mansions--like the Rockingham House in Portsmouth (look at the white horse's tail before you mount the broad staircase)--show that there was not only wealth, but style and state, in these quiet old towns during the last century. [6]
A long stranger recognized his ulster as soon as he saw the tail of it following me in, but nobody claimed my shirt or my drawers, though I described them as well as I was able. [5]
According to a popular impression, the absence of a tail is eminently distinctive of man; but as those apes which come nearest to him are destitute of this organ, its disappearance does not relate exclusively to man. [1]
Here was a piece of river which was all down in my book, but I could make neither head nor tail of it: you understand, it was turned around. [5]
Norway Rat was perched upon the summit engaged in thrusting his tail into the cylindrical projection, drawing it out dripping, permitting the struggling multitude of laborers to suck the end of it, then straightway reinserting it and delivering the fluid to the mob as before. [5]
Nay, some of our best citizens came to Kentucky swinging to the tail of a patient animal. [9]
In man, the os coccyx, together with certain other vertebrae hereafter to be described, though functionless as a tail, plainly represent this part in other vertebrate animals. [1]
A little behind, on a poor, small, lean Kirghiz mount with an enormous tail and mane and a bleeding mouth, rode a young officer in a blue French overcoat. [2]
The tail end of this procession was climbing the market house stairs when the twins arrived in its neighborhood; when they reached the hall, it was full of people, torches, smoke, noise, and enthusiasm. [5]
The free part of the tail, only a little above an inch in length, includes only four more small vertebrae. [1]
The last tip of the last joint of the old serpent's tail was just drawing out of view. [7]
In the bottom of the boat was one poor little trout, his tail curled up and his spots faded. [4]
He had times of relaxation into utter playfulness, delighting in a ball of yarn, catching sportively at stray ribbons when his mistress was at her toilet, and pursuing his own tail, with hilarity, for lack of anything better. [4]
If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank-road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere; could you not break him? [7]
Like a horde of hungry ticks you have stuck to the tail of the Hermitage Lion to the end of his life; and you are still sticking to it, and drawing a loathsome sustenance from it, after he is dead. [7]
As if aware of her danger, the wolf turned her eyes on Karay, tucked her tail yet further between her legs, and increased her speed. [2]
Nearer and nearer... now she was ahead of it; but the wolf turned its head to face her, and instead of putting on speed as she usually did Milka suddenly raised her tail and stiffened her forelegs. [2]
Hence there is not the least a priori improbability in the development of her tail having been checked through natural selection. [1]
A tail, though not externally visible, is really present in man and the anthropomorphous apes, and is constructed on exactly the same pattern in both. [1]
This dragon did not bellow and roar and lash his tail when he was roused, but he stood up, and there seemed to emanate from him a fire which frightened poor Milly Skinner, upset though she was by the news of Cynthia's dismissal. [9]
This brought his nose near the ground, while his tail pointed up toward the sky somewhere, and gave him the appearance of preparing to stand on his head. [5]
I says to myself, spos'n he can't fix that leg just in three shakes of a sheep's tail, as the saying is? [5]
It's all a muddle; I can't make head or tail of it; it never happened before; they always knocked under and never said a word, and so I never saw how ridiculous that stupid order with no penalty is. [5]
But he couldn't make head or tail of the situation. [5]
She could not make head or tail of her thoughts now, nor see an inch before her nose; all she could feel was an aching heart for Guida. [11]
But if your Majesty's divine goodness did not sometimes pay my debts, which are now a part of me as the tail belongs to the comet--" "Oho! [10]
And as he looked, his excited imagination showed him Melissa stroking the noble brute, and the lion lashing the ground with his tail when he heard the light step of her little feet. [10]
There'd be a little corner sticking out, up at Maine and away up northwest, and Florida sticking out like a turtle's tail, and that's all. [5]
Nothingness--well, you have learnt to think; are you capable of defining the meaning of the word--a monster that has neither head nor tail, neither front nor back--can you, I say, define the idea of nothingness? [10]
You see a lean horse, neck and tail, flash by you, with a jockey in colors on his back; and that is the whole of it. [4]
I can see its tail flying now! [10]
The tail, whether it be long or short, almost always tapers towards the end; and this, I presume, results from the atrophy of the terminal muscles, together with their arteries and nerves, through disuse, leading to the atrophy of the terminal bones. [1]
Yes, a tree is an underground creature, with its tail in the air. [6]
A Prince-Rupert's-drop, which is a tear of unannealed glass, lasts indefinitely, if you keep it from meddling hands; but break its tail off, and it explodes and resolves itself into powder. [6]
This would have interested the citizens but it was too many on one to amount to anything as a fight, and so they commanded the peace and the foreign dog coiled his tail and took sanctuary under the wagon. [5]
The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch, and so I went again to have the thing repaired. [5]
In the afternoon I brought the creature into the plaza, and certain citizens held him by the head, and others by the tail, while I mounted him. [5]
A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him. [2]
He then erects his tail, and expands his wing-feathers into a great, almost upright, circular fan or shield, which is carried in front of the body. [1]
Karay finished scratching his hindquarters and, cocking his ears, got up with quivering tail from which tufts of matted hair hung down. [2]
I can see him now walk in at the study door, sit down by my chair, bring his tail artistically about his feet, and look up at me with unspeakable happiness in his handsome face. [4]
I never saw him exactly angry, though I have seen his tail grow to an enormous size when a strange cat appeared upon his lawn. [4]
Ring crouched beside her, and the patting of his tail on the stone assured Venters that the dog was awake and faithful to his duty. [13]
For instance, the heart at first exists as a simple pulsating vessel; the excreta are voided through a cloacal passage; and the os coccyx projects like a true tail, "extending considerably beyond the rudimentary legs. [1]
Already he could hear in the distance the picks, whose heads were shaped like a swallow's tail, bite the hard rock. [10]
I made slow headway at first, but I began to get dissatisfied at the idea of paying my minion five francs to hold my mule back by the tail and keep him from going up the hill, and so I discharged him. [5]
You can't make head or tail of the talk, because you never hear anything that the person at the other end of the wire says. [5]
I can't make head or tail of it. [2]
I don't doubt he would cut his kitten's tail off, if he caught her playing with it. [6]
I dodged as he whisked by with a vicious slap of his bifurcated tail, and nearly upset the boat. [4]
He ate when he was hungry, slept when he was sleepy, and enjoyed existence to the very tips of his toes and the end of his expressive and slow-moving tail. [4]
The tail moved; he stamped upon the head with almost frenzied violence, out of keeping with his sluggishness. [11]
Whilst courting her he rapidly vibrates the end of his tail. [1]
After a while he brought a basin, some soap, and something that seemed to be the tail of a horse. [5]
A notion which has often been, and will no doubt again be ridiculed, namely, that friction has had something to do with the disappearance of the external portion of the tail, is not so ridiculous as it at first appears. [1]
The sorrel mare had her nose high, her tail twitching, but there was no other sound in the leafy wilderness. [9]
He used to go with me about the coops, pricking up his ears in an intelligent manner, and with a demure eye and the most virtuous droop of the tail. [4]
Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its drooping tail. [2]

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