19 Words to use with crocodile

Germany could do likewisebut without that odious pretence of morality, and those crocodile tears over the unfortunates whom she devoured.

Claire Boyle Bracken (A); 17Dec69; R474427. BRACKER, CHARLES E. Zic-Zac, the crocodile bird.

We smile at the barbaric imagination that placed here, at the door of hell, the head of a vast and hideous monster of the crocodile family, into whose gaping jaws the damned are being thrust by a pantomime devil; but eight centuries ago Christian people had too lively a faith in the materialistic horrors of the infernal kingdom to perceive anything extravagant in this idea of stuffing a scaly monster with condemned sinners.

Crocodile crew.

They seize the former so dexterously by the neck that they always master them; the crocodile eggs they suck.

"You put your crocodile foot in here, and I'll hit the hot water over the both of you!"

Crocodiles glide between the parts of the bridge.

When a baby crocodile hatches, it is just about three quarters of a foot (25-30 cms) in length.

Now upon this crocodile infirmity of his I planted an easy opportunity for tendering my homage to Miss Fanny.

Presently, a dog came to drink; afterwards a goose; also a man; but, the crocodile keeping at his work, the serpent exulted in having intimidated his adversary, and said, 'There's nothing so strong, then, as I am."

It is akin to the crocodile lament of the publisher that good modern literature is neglected by the public, or the impressionist's lament about the great unpaid greatness of the great unknownthe exclusively literary view of literary rewards.

The cavity containing the brain of a crocodile measuring thirteen or fourteen feet, will hardly admit the thumb; and the brain of the chamelion is not, according to the description of the Paris dissectors, larger than a pea.

Most of the crocodile pits were bare, but the monitor lizard pits were usually filled with trees which they could climb to the highest branches.

That sullen face, with the eyes that would never brighten at a tale of daring, or dim from a story of pathos, belonged to a man who would imitate crocodile tactics by lying quiet till his prey was within striking distance.

My life would have been safer in the hands of one I had never seen than in yours, whose mouth and whose eyes for ever ran over with crocodile affection!

Hauing eaten the body of a man, it will weepe ouer the head, but in fine eate the head also: thence came the Prouerb, he shed Crocodile teares, viz., fayned teares.

Went to sleep for an hour in the Red Sea, smoking one of 's Anti-alligator cigarettes, which are a real preventive against crocodile annoyance.

" In vain he spoke; and hark, what meets the ear, The raging flood is now approaching near; Onward it rolls, o'erwhelming Raschid's plains, All things it sweeps, and not a tree remains, His flocks, his herds, the mighty stream o'erpours, Himself (rash man) a crocodile devours.

#Translation of a Malagassy Fable, accounting for the enmity between the Crocodile and the Dog.# "A serpent and a young crocodile dwelt in the same part of the country.

19 Words to use with  crocodile