In architectural decoration the griffin is usually represented as a four-footed beast with wings and the head of an eagle with horns, or with the head and beak of an eagle.

In the vision, Simon Peter sees all manner of four-footed beasts and birds of the air being lowered from Heaven in a sheet.

It sang through the air and a brown-coated, four-footed beast yelped, leaped pawing in the air, to crash back into the grass.

The air being cleared, the stars began to appear, fishes took possession of the sea, birds of the air, and four-footed beasts of the land.

An old Irish superstition holds that it is unlucky to accept a lock of hair (or a four-footed beast) from a lover.

I could hear various four-footed beasts scurry deeper into the woods at the sound of my footsteps on the forest floor.

"Here is a four-footed beast with a serpent's tail, there a fish with a beast's head," he wrote.

The four-footed beasts often traveled alone, almost never in packs, and preferred to avoid him unless they were close to starving.

In vain she looked around for the four-footed beast.

But it was no terrified four-footed beast.