Miss Darling was head mistress of the Diocesan School at Amherst near Rangoon, and her pupils were bathing in the sea when one of them was bitten in the leg by a shark or alligator.

As for Mr. Steadfast Dodge, sir, I say nothing, unless it be to add that he was nowhere near me in that transaction; and if any man felt like an alligator in Lent, on that occasion, it was your humble servant.

This picturesque object is an alligator basking in the sun.

I guess it was just kind of caught in the mud and weeds for after I pulled some of these away a lot of bubbles came up, and then I got hold of one end of the thing and it stuck up slantingways out of the water like an alligator's mouth.

On we rowed, looking out sharply right and left for an alligator basking on the mud among the mangrove roots.

For shape and colour, few plants would look more lovely in a hothouse; but it would soon need to be confined in a den by itself, like a jaguar or an alligator.

The alligator, however, does not come up the mountain streams; and the boa-constrictors are rare, save on the east coast: but it is as well, ere you jump into a pool, to look whether there be not a snake in it, of any length from three to twenty feet.

Depending solely upon her imagination, her conception of that animal is a cross between an alligator and a jaguar.

Catching an alligator with a hook.

Shooting an alligator.

He got eaten up by an alligator in the 'Dhans,' a sluggish stream in Bhaugulpore.

Catching an alligator with a hook.

Shooting an alligator.

I must try to describe one day's alligator fishing.

I reached their tents late at night, found them both in high spirits after a good day's execution among the ducks and teal, and preparations being made for catching an alligator next day.

This charm is an alligator's tooth, stuffed with herbs, compounded and muttered over by some old woman.

The Indians on the banks of the Oronoko assert, that previously to an alligator going in search of prey, it always swallows a large stone, that it may acquire additional weight to aid it in diving and dragging its victims under water.

A dapper commercial salesman with an imitation alligator grip descended first, looked about him apprehensively, and disappeared with speed.

Between the alligator edgings, facing each other obliquely, but with the greatest amity, were Mr. Thomas Denby in the fashion of ten years before, very handsome, very well-groomed, with the startled expression which any definite withdrawal from his potational pursuits was likely to produce upon his countenance, and her uncle-in-law, Mr. Henry McCain, also in the fashion of ten years back.

Mrs. Brewster knew about Dunsany and Georgette and alligator pears; and Hosea Brewster was in the habit of dropping around to the Elks' Club, up above Schirmer's furniture store on Elm Street, at about five in the afternoon on his way home from the cold-storage plant.

" The horses reared and plunged, snorting in terror probably at the near approach of some water snake or alligator.

Once I saw a terrific contest between one of these long-legged, long-nosed porkers and the lone, pet alligator of our lake.

His pig-ship was enjoying a drink when Mr. 'Gator seized him by the snout, the porcine braced and yelled; the 'gator let go in amazement; the pig turned to run; 'gator seized him by the leg, then Greek met Greek, teeth met teeth, till' the saurian struck him with his mighty tail, and all was over; the alligator and the porker lay down in peace together with the pig inside the 'gator.

[Note 18: There were no lions nor large beasts of prey in the island; it has been suggested that these tracks may have been footprints of an alligator.]

The alligator leaves his muddy bed, and encamps upon the hot sand; the turtle and lizard are enticed from their damp and shady retreats; and serpents of every colour crawl along the warm and sunny footpaths.

Only two suppositions seem to be open to usEither each species of crocodile has been specially created, or it has arisen out of some pre-existing form by the operation of natural causes.

The crocodile tears which Elizabeth is said to have shed when the death of her sister Mary was announced to her at Hatfield were soon wiped away in the pomps and enthusiasms which hailed her accession to the throne.

[reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur (extinct); snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick^. [amphibians] frog, toad.

The crocodile, I presume, owes that inaptitude to the absurd length of his back; but in our grandpapa it arose rather from the absurd breadth of his back, combined, probably, with some growing stiffness in his legs.

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

Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not changethat a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharaohs.

That may be; but the reason is, that the crocodile does not live fasthe is a slow coach.

I believe it is generally understood amongst naturalists, that the crocodile is a blockhead.

The crocodile made the ridiculous blunder of supposing man to be meant chiefly for his own eating.

The use of the crocodile has now been cleared upit is to be ridden; and the use of man is, that he may improve the health of the crocodile by riding him a fox-hunting before breakfast.

The use of the crocodile has now been cleared upit is to be ridden; and the use of man is, that he may improve the health of the crocodile by riding him a fox-hunting before breakfast.

And it is pretty certain that any crocodile, who has been regularly hunted through the season, and is master of the weight he carries, will take a six-barred gate now as well as ever he would have done in the infancy of the pyramids.

Then comes a venerable crocodile, in a royal livery of scarlet and gold, or in a coat with sixteen capes; and the crocodile is driving four-in-hand from the box of the Bath mail.

" Arthemedorus the grammarian lost his wits by the unexpected sight of a crocodile, Laurentius 7. de melan.

Perhaps the crocodile or alligator.

He himself, indeed, he had said, ere now, had been probably a pterodactyle of the Lias, neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, but crocodile and bat in one, able alike to swim, or run, or fly, eat anything, and live in any element.

She married don Clavijo, but the giant Malambru'no, by enchantment, changed the bride into a brass monkey, and her spouse into a crocodile of some unknown metal.

On the sugar plantations of Louisiana it was not a question between the white man and the negro, but between the negro and the crocodile.

He would say that between the negro and the crocodile, he took the side of the negro; but between the negro and the white man, he would go for the white man.

JOHNSON, FREDERICK G., joint author. Stage guide for Crocodile Island.

FREDERICK G. Stage guide for Crocodile Island.

SEE Morgan, Geoffrey F. JOHNSON, FREDERICK G. JR. Stage guide for Crocodile Island.

Some Creatures cast their Eggs as Chance directs them, and think of them no farther, as Insects and several Kinds of Fish: Others, of a nicer Frame, find out proper Beds to [deposite ] them in, and there leave them; as the Serpent, the Crocodile, and Ostrich: Others hatch their Eggs and tend the Birth, 'till it is able to shift for it self.

I remember to have read in Diodorus Siculus an Account of a very active little Animal, which I think he calls the Ichneumon, that makes it the whole Business of his Life to break the Eggs of the Crocodile, which he is always in search after.

The natives who live along the banks of the Nile relate the same fact concerning the female of the crocodile, whose belly exhales the perfumes of Araby.