Smiling broadly, Brother Jobe raised his whip and sort of dusted both horses over the hindquarters.

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In the late Jurassic period, this fleet-footed plant eater, known as Dryosaurus altus, needed those powerful hindquarters to scurry away from its many predators.

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Or, more probably, every time a certain breed of bigot and xenophobe gets a good, sharp, intellectually obstreperous and historically intractable burr up its collective hindquarters.

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Then, to prove the point, one of the sea lions raises herself on her hindquarters, approaches Mr Walker and plants a firm kiss on his lips.

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There is also an irascible, motoring Jack Russell terrier, whose arthritic hindquarters are mounted on wheels, and a variety of predatory mastiffs with an eye for porkers.

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