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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both animals had huge shrapnel wounds on their hindquarters .
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Gentle pressure over the hindquarters as shown may first be necessary to evoke the required response.
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In a trot the forequarters and hindquarters are mutually co-ordinated while the back remains level, firm and relatively motionless.
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Instead of scraping away at its hindquarters it can now kill the rabbit.
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Larger animals with the speed and power to escape are grappled by the hindquarters until the leopard can seize the throat.
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The poor creature lifted itself up on its wobbly front legs and then dragged its hindquarters behind it.
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The Rat's eyes had grown redder, and its hindquarters were bunching.
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Then Herb, Junior, had taken his bow and arrow and wounded one of the beasts in the hindquarters .