I am very careful when I handle reptiles and take all the precautions that I have been taught

He foamed with indignation against the laws of the universe, that did not permit him to crush such reptiles at a blow, as we would crush so many noxious insects.

If he has seen some dark, dense, inaccessible forests, entangled in the thousand arms of interwoven vines, he has not discovered a single reptile.

" Just at that moment, the mother, to her horror, saw a deadly reptile coiled in the very path along which the child was rolling his "bushee," and with true frontier woman's pluck, ran and snatched up the bare-footed Fernando, when only within two feet of the deadly serpent, carried him to the house, and with the stout staff assailed and killed the rattlesnake.

There it lay, and bred reptiles and miasmas to sting and poison the guilty inhabitants of this great land; and never since have we been permitted to reach an enthusiasm in favor of any great principle; for history has no record of a great act so thoroughly divested of all greatness by the meanness of the motive, as is our "Act of Emancipation.

They carry the reptiles from house to house in a small round basket, from which they issue at the sound of a sort of flute, and execute certain movements in cadence with the music.

We next saw the Museum of Zoology: this contains reptiles and fish, innumerable, and of which I can only say, how wonderful are their varieties!

They came across a number of snakes, and decapitated the reptiles with their hoes, and afterwards hung them all uptied together by the tailto a bough.

I yelled, and father came to my rescue, despatching the reptile with his stock-whip.

Every possible resource was applied which could remedy the evil; a hard frost providentially set in and destroyed the formidable reptiles; and the country was thus saved from a danger tenfold greater than that involved in a dozen wars.

There must be beasts in that sunken valley, and doubtless many poisonous reptiles.

So, when the snake raised its head, shot out its tongue and hissed at him, he thought he had encountered an awfully dangerous reptile.

From every chink And secret corner, where they slept away The wintry storms; by myriads forth at once, Swarming they pour. Go where you will, it is not possible to escape these "winged reptiles.

Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have expressed, A cherub's facea reptile all the rest.

These facts indicate the difficulties the government officials meet in their endeavors to exterminate reptiles.

That there were flying reptiles in the fossil ages we know, and there are flying beasts in our own.

In my nature I am not born to be a spy, but I believe we deserve your thanks if we condescend to follow malignant reptiles into their cave to observe their actions.

He knows by painful experience that they deserve no quarter; that there is no use giving them any; to spare them is to make them insolent; to fondle the reptile is to be bitten by it.

"Hang the reptile!" cried one.

It even appears as though the greater the number of bites, the more delighted are the participants, who hold the reptiles in the most careless manner and allow them to strike where they will, and to plant their horrible fangs into the most vulnerable parts with impunity.

It is also narcotic and very poisonous, one drop killing reptiles, as if by an electric shock: in this mode of action it is like prussic acid.

She believed she knew this reptile.

She laid the poisonous reptile on her naked arm, and died immediately of the bite which it inflicted.

Very careless of St. Patrick to leave these ornithophagous reptiles at large.

But there between them lay the quivering reptile, its speckled scales catching the light.