bone-awaiting

Updated: June 28, 2025

Running in and out among the children, sometimes pummeled by them, were a score or two of gray, four-footed, bone-awaiting creatures, who, though as yet uncounted in such relation, were destined to furnish a factor in man's advancement. They were wolves and yet no longer wolves. They had learned to cling to man, but were not yet intelligent enough or taught enough to aid him in his hunting.

Stanley Waterloo - The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man