deerlike

Other readers had suggestions: "A dried strip from the long tendon of any deerlike animal would have been both very strong and very thin," wrote Robert Stenton.

Spielvogel: "'I rocked her, I teased her, I made her laugh, for the first time I said, 'I love you too, my baby', but of course it couldn't have been clearer to me that despite all her many qualities and charms--her devotion, her beauty, her deerlike grace, her place in American history-- there never could be any 'love' in me for The Pilgrim.

It can be derived from IE *el-, *ol- 'red, brown (in names of trees and animals)' (IEW 302^4), in Wat 23, also without a laryngeal, or rather *[h.sub.1]elu- 'dull red' (in IE also: 'yellow; white; reddish, golden' (M-A 481) with the k-formant (Wat 23: *ol-ki) (in Gottlieb 14: 'deerlike [horned] animal'), as in OHG elho 'elk', ON elgr, OEng eolh 'elk'.

Later he may return, sans goods, chattels, doors, and windows, impelled by insatiable curiosity for a "look see." But it is curiosity merely--a timid, deerlike curiosity.

Herds of stately Shorthorns and deerlike Alderneys grazed in the fertile fields.

No doubt cast partly for her fresh, open face and large, deerlike eyes, newcomer Sophie Quinton plays Isabelle, a nursing student doing residency at a modern, proper-looking hospital where her older cousin, Veronique (Catherine Jacob) works.

An alert and graceful carriage gives them a deerlike appearance.

The okapi shares the rain forest with chimpanzees, forest elephants, giant hogs, deerlike bongos, and the deadly gaboon viper.

Chapter by chapter, the author recounts how fish conquered the land, how reptiles evolved to produce birds and how fox-sized, deerlike creatures returned to the seas to become whales.

New fossils of Indohyus, a genus previously known only from some teeth and a jawbone fragment, led researchers to identify these deerlike creatures as the closest known relatives of primitive whales.

In the past decade, the Annamite area has yielded stunning finds--the deerlike giant muntjac, the bovine saola, the Vietnam warty pig--notes Joshua Ginsberg of the Asia Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo.