Sentences with phrase «curl his tail between»

He may drop to the ground, lower his head, or curl his tail between his legs.

Not exact matches

In fact, I would put you somewhere on the evolutionary diagram right between the fur - clad fellow with the gnarled hair and the spear and the tiny curl - tailed primate.

The white belly followed, tapering, and then, trailing behind, the fan of its tail and long parallel legs of crimson lacquer, the toes of each of them closed and streamlined, but the whole shape flattening, when the band of sunlight was crossed, into a two - dimensional shadow once more, enormously displayed across the rectangle of cloth, as distinct and nearly as immobile, so languid was its flight, as an emblematic bird on a sail; then sliding across it and along the nearly still corridor of air between the invisible eaves and the chimneys, dipping along the curl of the lane like a sigh of wonder, and, at last, a furlong away slowly pivoting, at a gradual tilt, out of sight.

He'll stick his tail between his legs or drag it on the ground, flatten his ears back towards his skull and hang his head low as he curls up on your feet.

A tail curled between the dog's two hind legs is another frequent aggressive dog signal.