caudal appendage
Example Sentences
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So they got more tail and spliced it on to his caudal appendage.
From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure
He differentiates men into protoplasms, and integrates protoplasms into monkeys, and shows the caudal appendage to be the independent variable, a small factor in man, a large factor in monkey.
From Mr. Isaacs by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man One simious line in unbroken extendage; Development only since first it began— And chiefly in losing the caudal appendage.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
No sooner does he reach the years of discretion than he assumes a magnificent caudal appendage.
From Birds of the Indian Hills by Douglas Dewar
All the members of this tribe bear the caudal appendage, and, as Oriental imagination is given to exaggeration, I was assured that the tails sometimes attained the length of two feet.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
