The thin one, and the one with the splayfooted walk, who were they?'

Everyone else rode the splayfooted dieren, if they rode anything.

I sank into a splayfooted chair and accepted the crystal goblet Angus Mhor held out to me.

Gringers took up the trail of the splayfooted creatures with an urgency they all shared, and they moved as quickly as they could.

From the belly up they were described to me as much like the Minotaur; from there down they were splayfooted satyrs.

Innumerable reddish blotchy patterns repeated symmetrically across the smooth vertical surface, like footprints left by an army of splayfooted monsters.

They had been tagging me - the woman herself and the two men, the thin one and the one with the splayfooted walk - and no one else.

He was the one with the splayfooted walk and I'd seen him opposite the Pakchong just after she'd driven away: although she had been with me it was his shift and they weren't taking any chances.

I heard the now-familiar footfalls in the corridor outside: the steps of a splayfooted person in soft buckskin boots; and the powerfully heavy, silky quiet and blurred double steps of a barefoot being.

There were the - now somewhat troubled - two sets of footfalls in the outer corridor: those of a splayfooted person in soft buckskin boots and also the blurred double footfalls of a barefoot person.

Sitting on six splayfooted aluminum legs, it was little more than an open-grillwork platform with a T-shaped control console up front where two space-suited people could stand, and a trio of bulky cargo 192 BEN BOVA containers, their gold anodized finishes pitted and faded.

It was splayfooted with broad, webbed feet, and its body was colored in various shades of brown as if streaked by dirt.

From the belly up they were described to me as much like the Minotaur; from there down they were splayfooted satyrs.