Some beasts eat the eggs, or else there would be too many crocodiles.

There are such a many crocodiles on the banks of that river that the people are afraid to go alone.

Q. What have crocodiles on their backs?

He generally falls a prey to crocodiles.

These little animals, rather larger than a weasel, live, as is known, upon serpents and the eggs of crocodiles.

Here, according to tradition, unfaithful inmates of the harem were hanged, and when life was extinct the cord was cut and the body fell into the pit, striking the keen edge of knives at frequent intervals, so that it finally reached the river in small fragments, which were devoured by fishes or crocodiles, or if they escaped them, floated down to the sea.

CROCODILES, in the spiritual world, represent the deceit and cunning of the inhabitants, 79.

In the swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata are both alligators and crocodiles, some of them of quite imposing dimensions.

Food of a sort may often be had for the plucking, and raiment is needless; but aside from the menace of the elements human life is endangered by beasts and reptiles in the forest, crocodiles and hippopotami in the rivers, and sharks in the sea, and existence is made a burden to all but the happy-hearted by plagues of insects and parasites.

[North Africa.]The ancient Egyptians had a positive passion for tamed animals, such as antelopes, monkeys, crocodiles, panthers, and hyenas.

Even crocodiles sometimes speak the truth unwittingly.

The numerous teeth of crocodiles have this peculiarity of structure, that in order to facilitate their change, there are always two, (or sometimes three,) of which one is contained within the other.

Men unused to the South American wilderness speak with awe of the danger therein from jaguars, crocodiles, and poisonous snakes.

Little Black Sambo and the crocodiles.

SEE Cooper, Lenna F. BARBOUR, THOMAS. Alligators and crocodiles.

Snakes, lizards, birds, crocodiles newly hatched, and especially the eggs of crocodiles, constitute its food.

Snakes, lizards, birds, crocodiles newly hatched, and especially the eggs of crocodiles, constitute its food.

Fighting crocodiles for the sake of the sweet lotos is a characteristic of primitive "love" in all its various strata.

The Jackal and the Crocodiles CXVIII.

I shall fill the jungles with animated lifeelephants, lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, giraffes, zebras, crocodiles, boa constrictors, and other specimens of natural history indigenous to that delightful region.

your lions fighting your tigers or your rhinoceroses; your hippopotamuses engaged in death struggles with your crocodiles; and your boa constrictors gobbling down your nativesor, if that is objectionable on the score of humanity, your monkeys.

I shall have two small lakes (they are scarce in Africa) for my hippopotamuses and crocodiles.

The heads of crocodiles are thrust up here and there.

They want any quantity of sunsets, crocodiles, lions, and other objects of interest.

The Toradjas of Central Celebes stand in very great fear of werewolves, that is of men and women, who have the power of transforming their spirits into animals such as cats, crocodiles, wild pigs, apes, deer, and buffaloes, which roam about battening on human flesh, and especially on human livers, while the men and women in their own proper human form are sleeping quietly in their beds at home.