21 Words to use with reptiles

I have an especial regard for the giant toad in one of the cases against the inner wall of the reptile-house lobby.

and then I may dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men!" He spake: his eye in lightning rolls!

29. 'The sun comes forth, and many reptiles spawn: He sets, and each ephemeral insect then Is gathered into death without a dawn, And the immortal stars awake again.

'Know,' says the man, 'though proud in place, All courtiers are of reptile race.

The supplies in the boat, her father's desperate attempt to rescue her, even at the risk of her own life and the cost of Ben's, this white, exultant face before her, more terrible than that of the wolf between, the cold reptile eyes so full of some unhallowed emotion,at last she saw their meaning and relation.

On the other side stood the discreet friends of the country, the republicans by compulsion, who denounced terrorism, and had sworn fidelity to the republic, only because it was under this reptile disguise alone that they could escape the threatening knife of the guillotine.

The haughty child of a human king Threw a sidelong glance at the humble thing, That received with a silent gratitude From the mulberry-leaf her simple food; And shrunk, half scorn, and half disgust, Away from her sister child of the dust; Declaring she never yet could see Why a reptile form like this should be; And that she was not made with nerves so firm, As calmly to stand by a crawling worm!

invalid, just in time to see the reptile glide past within three inches of my mother's feet, while the men assailed the spot it had left with whips, missiles, and whatever would help along the commotion.

Of the reptile kind, venomous spiders, scorpions, vipers, and enormously large serpents, are common in Barbary.

No venomous reptiles lurk in these fragrant places: the seed-tick, mosquito, and a spiteful little fly are the greatest annoyances.

" Shall we advise the Tadpole to get his tail cut off, as a badge of the reptile nature in him, and to achieve the higher sphere of the Croakers at a single hop?

The greater degree of surprise must be attributed to the case itself, that a child so young should have the courage to approach an animal of the reptile order; but it serves only to corroborate the statement previously made:children are destitute of fear, and consequently have no dread of danger.

SERPENT, m., reptile sans pieds.

A lady of the party was skeptical on the subject, dwelling especially upon the impossibility of any person swallowing a reptile unawares.

Still, his love for the reptile world and his enthusiasm for snakes has not diminished one bit.

If he was indeed the author of the Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, and of some other anonymous satires which have been imputed to him, he must have felt Hayley's intended compliment as a severe reproach: Sublimer Mason! not to thee belong The reptile beauties of invenom'd song.

Suffice it to say, then, for the present, that on the leaves of this small sprig culled by me at random from the cluster, are to be detected the germs of the trigonocephalus contortrix, than which, when fully developed, no more deadly reptile wriggles upon earth.

Whatever inferences may, or may not, be drawn from the fact, it is now an established truth that, in many of these Ornithoscelida, the hind limbs and the pelvis are much more similar to those of Birds than they are to those of Reptiles, and that these Bird-reptiles, or Reptile-birds, were more or less completely bipedal.

These lists sometimes begin with the lowest order, nearest to the crawling, reptile brethren,the least interesting, far-away birds that have no song and cannot fly well, but swim and dive in the water,and end with the beautiful singing birds that live in our gardens.

Here snakes and all vile reptiles crawl around you as you walk, But these you never hear about in Mr. Jordan’s talk; Mosquitoes, too, and sandflies, they will tease you all the night, And until you get quite colonised you’ll be a pretty sight.

At length it rises within a few yards of the duck; then there is a mighty rush, two huge jaws open and shut with a snap like factory shears, and amid a whirl of foam and water and surging mud the poor duck and the hideous reptile disappear, and but for the eddying swirl and dense volumes of mud that rise from the bottom, nothing gives evidence of the tragedy that has been enacted.

21 Words to use with  reptiles