But when vertebrates were aquatic creatures, two limbs fore and two limbs hind was of great value for moving upward and downward in water.
I noticed that two limbs of a Bartlett tree bore fruits with russeted skins, bronzed like Bosc pears.
"It's like having one body with two limbs missing," Mr. Benson said over a lobster lunch last month in a downtown Detroit restaurant.
A 10-year-old boy whose home was destroyed by American bombs describing pain in two limbs he no longer had.
Grade IV: Riders with impaired range of motion or muscle strength, deficiency on one limb or mild deficiency on two limbs.
"I come from a very conservative background, where being born a woman is like being born a man with two limbs missing.
The three tables in his Resting Branches Collection — Two Limbs, Three Limbs and Cross Brace — all have glass tops, acrylic sides and white birch limbs suspended underneath.
"They are pushing forward with the front two limbs, like a turtle," said Henry Astley, the study's author and an evolutionary biologist at Brown University.
As I listened, it seemed to me that from the two limbs of his patient and meticulous survey of the evidence Mr. Justice Byrne was running up a string of signals that could be deciphered as counselling Caution!
Hervé Morin, the French defence minister, says Europe must have military clout, and not be "the civilian branch of NATO .NATO and the EU are, in many ways, two limbs of the same body.
When Johnston finally informed Davis that he could not realistically hope to annihilate Sherman's mighty army, the Confederate president replaced him with John B. Hood, who had already lost two limbs in the war.
