Examples from literature

• He was thin and exhausted, was blind of one eye, had a bad sore back, and one of his forelegs was very much swollen. 
• In the brook lay Sally, with a broken foreleg. 
• It was so much taller on its haunches than its shoulders, its forelegs were so disproportionately small, that, in walking, its hind-feet invariably took precedence. 
• One of the bullets hit his foreleg paw. 
• Valiantly the horse reared his shoulders up, but when he strove to rise the right foreleg dangled helplessly.