hindlegged

Updated: May 27, 2025

At a passage in the rocks, where the brutes upreared hindlegged and stretched their forelegs upward like cats to clear the wall, the way was piled with carcasses where they had toppled back. And here he stood, in the stench of hell, with a cheery word and a hand on the rump at the right time, till the string passed by.

Jack London - The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke