Conan saw that the 'forelegs' were a pair of grappling devices, held up by cables over the water in front of the bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

As you says, the 'orse is dicky on' is forelegs, that is the reason of all the walking exercise. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Esther Waters] Reference

It was poked down right behind the calf's forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference

She covered her arms with the skin of the forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Later Cave-Men] Reference

It has two forelegs near the head, armed with claws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference

A plump-looking muskrat was caught by both forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

And one of his forelegs was caught between two rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

The animal was heavy-bodied, with rather short forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Made Plans] Reference

He raised on his forelegs, and the hair of his head and neck bristled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

He forgot about everything else until he had lamed one of the forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Later Cave-Men] Reference

The lamb had tried to scramble up, but one of its forelegs certainly was broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference

The forelegs are almost stubby, and the shoulders look less muscular than the haunches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Thylacine] Reference

Meanwhile the forelegs are budding forth, and in time would assume their distinct forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

Rosebud bent his forelegs and bowed his head between them as if he were saying his prayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference

Naturally, the reins were entangled in his forelegs, but I soon got them clear and mounted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

The slants he slid down on his haunches with his forelegs stiff and the iron shoes scraping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Catch hold on the back and pull the skin first from the hind legs and then from the forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference

~ -- The disappearance of the gills, the budding out of the hind legs and, later, the forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

It stretched out short forelegs in seeming supplication, then batted futilely at the punching staff end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Made Plans] Reference

It fits over the dog's chest and around its forelegs and back, with reins extending rearward from the sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albertine Takes A Tumble] Reference

As for Alligator, he stood with his short forelegs resting on the chimney top, the picture of disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference

Mizolwat - That may be so, but none the less, I should prefer my unwashed andantes to your buffoonish forelegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)] Reference

The forelegs pawed slightly at the grass and the flat, wide head probed out, extending toward the approaching man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Made Plans] Reference

The horse rises upon its forelegs before raising the rear of its body, while the cow raises its hindquarters first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

The legs are kicked in the same way and there is the same motion of the arms of one as of the forelegs of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

Notwithstanding Big Turtle clung to the ground with his forelegs, they held his tail, and reached the water with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of the Great Plains] Reference

The tyrannosaurus roared with anger and turned toward the boys, head down and the claws of its short forelegs extended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolt on Venus] Reference

Instead it sank in behind the dog's forelegs, the beast's own weight tearing a deadly gaping wound the length of its body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

Then, as Alligator put his forelegs against the chimney and began to lift his horrible head, Jeremiah shut his eyes and jumped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference

The clutching forelegs tightened terribly, then began to loosen, quivering spasmodically as they slowly relinquished their grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

But there was little need of urging; Star's forelegs were reaching out mechanically for the road, clipping it off in huge sections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

It has received its name from the fact that it rests in a sort of kneeling position, holding its forelegs in a devotional attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

In the meanwhile the rest of our body had dismounted, and had buckled the forelegs of each horse so that it might not unduly wander.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891] Reference

Joined forelegs and antennae, bent all their thought toward Simin, so that now he probed the memory not with one mind but with many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference

Its tail and hindquarters were exactly like those of a panther, its chest and forelegs were like a hawk's, and it had pointed wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [David and the Phoenix] Reference

Some pulled at the head and the forelegs of the mare and others pushed from behind, and at last they got her upstairs and into the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference