How To Use Crocodile In A Sentence
-
We know now they were crocodile tears.
The Sun
-
He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
-
She did not know that this Congo River was the home of the Crocodile, the biggest, fiercest, scaliest, hungriest Crocodile in all Africa.
The Curious Book of Birds
-
For as long as they were there, no crocodile or armored herbivorous or general carnivorous dinosaur could grow very big.
-
Several blooded animals take this sleep, such as the pholidotes or tessellates, namely, the serpent, the lizard, the gecko, and the river. crocodile, all of which go into hiding for four months in the depth of winter, and during that time eat nothing.
The History of Animals
-
A fourth person was mauled to death by a crocodile, the paper reported.
-
Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.
-
They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet.
The Sun
-
It is actually the possession and retreat of a thundering absolute crocodile.
-
The fishermen assured us that a small crocodile, the bava, * which often approached us when we were bathing, contributes also to the destruction of the fish.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
-
I gorged myself on yummy dulce de leche desserts, tried crocodile (see above picture), ate steak, sampled every type of empanadas, found the best alfajores, fell in love with croissants filled with melted cheese and ham … everything was excellent …
2009 January archive at
-
South American Miocene Charactosuchus, while gharial-like, has been regarded as a highly unusual crocodylid of uncertain affinities (Langston 1965, Langston & Gasparini 1997), while Euthecodon – a uniquely African taxon, some species of which approached 10 m in length – is also a crocodylid, and perhaps a close relative of the living dwarf crocodiles (and we’ll discuss those more in a moment).
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians
-
The Indochinese tiger, Asian elephant and endemic species like the saola, Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and Siamese crocodile are on the verge of extinction in the country.
Javan rhino driven to extinction in Vietnam, conservationists say
-
But Rames also wore a sword, that sword hafted with the golden crocodile which Pharaoh had given him long ago -- that sword which Asti the foresighted had seen red with royal blood.
Morning Star
-
He used the corset look to great effect, particularly when he paired a white crocodile bustier with a black silk chiffon petal skirt and a rose silk faille bustier with a black silk chiffon lace inset skirt.
-
Alongside the enormous snakes, which were so wide it would have been a squeeze for them to get through a doorway, were fossils of turtles and giant crocodile-like dyrosaurs.
-
However, recently he was censured for dangling his baby son Bob near the open jaws of a crocodile and forced to make an apology to his millions of fans.
-
I have tried to befriend the two resident crocodiles, whom I have named "Smiles" and "Blur.
Animal Planet: July 2008
-
On the fringes of this retinue, lions and crocodiles pounce on their victims while an elephant runs amok, and at the centre is the Navab, enlarged as befits his status, bending from his richly caparisoned mount to slash at a lion.
-
They knew there might be the occasional saltie as well as the smaller and more benign freshwater crocodiles, but had ancient knowledge to deal with them.
-
Under threat are the turtle, fresh water prawn and crocodiles in the nearby sanctuary.
-
In fact, there are 23 species of alligators, crocodiles, and their kin, the caiman and gharials, and they are collectively all known as crocodilians.
-
They weep crocodile tears for the poor and disadvantaged but are basically happy with things as they are.
-
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
-
Kangaroo was on the menu in one restaurant, ostrich in another and, wait for it, another was serving cutlets of crocodile.
-
From flying foxes to laughing kookaburras and live crocodiles, they'll meet elements of nature that, for many people, are worlds away from Baltimore.
-
It also has hybrids of the two, as well as the indigenous false gavial (Tomistoma schlegelii) and five exotic species: South American caiman (Caiman crocodilus), New Guinea freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae), Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis), broad-spouted caiman
Chapter 7
-
A cloud like a fluffy white crocodile basked at the bottom of the vast open fan of fading turquoise sky.
-
However, to keep these teeth pearly white, the crocodiles employ the services of spur winged plovers that pick the pieces of meat left between the crocodile's teeth after a large meal.
-
Battle Beasts and Villains - Compete in aerial 'dogfights', evade man-eating plants and battle exotic animals, such as giant anacondas and ferocious crocodiles.
PSP World
-
Just after 10, the crocodile began moving across the loop of snares set to trap her by government workers and as she gradually became entangled the snare tightened so that by 10.15 am she was unable to move.
-
The featurette is mostly clips from the movie, with a few interviews and an ever-so-slight look at the animatronic crocodile.
-
Attacks usually happen in the evening, when the humans aren't looking for half submerged crocodiles, but the crocs are on the lookout for a meal.
-
Over and over again he regales the reader with proof that snakes, spiders, crocodiles and creepy-crawlies have acquired a taste for tourist blood.
-
They are crying crocodile tears.
The Sun
-
There are other most beautiful horses, particularly a dappled jennet, which is ridden by a figure that has all the body covered with scales after the manner of a fish; which is copied from the Column of Trajan, wherein the figures have armour of that kind; and it is thought that such armour is made from the skins of crocodiles.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
-
So the cassowaries, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and wallabies that one goes to Australia in the hope of seeing are all there.
-
In these papyri, artists have great fun imagining the Devourer – part crocodile, part lion, part hippopotamus.
-
Mauki's three tambos were as follows: First, he must never shake hands with a woman, nor have a woman's hand touch him or any of his personal belongings; secondly, he must never eat clams nor any food from a fire in which clams had been cooked; thirdly, he must never touch a crocodile, nor travel in a canoe that carried any part of a crocodile even if as large as a tooth.
MAUKI
-
They want customised hardware and rare skins, such as ostrich or crocodile.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos.
-
They may soon be looking for some sporting-types to cull their booming population of man-eating crocodiles.
-
We find unicorns, mermaids, and mermen; geese developed from the shell-fish known as "barnacles"; we are told that crocodiles may weep, and that sirens can sing -- in short, there is nothing so wonderful to be told of animals that people will not believe the tale.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
-
A conservation success story is crawling through the swamplands of South Florida, northernmost home of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus.
-
You can deny it all you want and put on your somber face and cry your crocodile tears when decrying the results you have invoked and "preyed" for; but, your only regret is that the the real target was not hit.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
-
The winged crocodile was kicked into the closet, after it were hurled the thunder machine and the lightning torch, and after them clattered the cups and the silver rundlet.
The Dragon of Wantley His Tale
-
For media owners around the globe, China must seem like a golden castle, surrounded by a deep moat full of crocodiles.
-
For these animals, as well as another 45 moon bears and 14 sun bears, 50 macaques, 30 gibbons, 10 crocodiles, 4 binturongs, and 200 dogs, Banglamung Wildlife Breeding Center is essentially a well-appointed refugee center.
-
The zoo here is now playing host to a pair each of seamy crocodiles, alligators and caimans, giving the city dwellers a glimpse of some rare species.
-
The owner of one stall enthused about the rich tradition of cheesemaking he'd inherited, along with his flock of sheep, to a crocodile of rapt schoolchildren.
-
I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently.
Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
-
He was very shocked to learn that no, NZ was not part of Australia, and no, we did not have dingoes or kangaroos or snakes or crocodiles.
Land Of My Bones.
-
the secretaries wept crocodile tears over the manager's dilemma
-
Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there.
-
Some fine examples of this included her cherry blossom jersey gown with appliquéd ribbon straps and a burnt sienna crocodile top with a tulip print evening skirt.
-
Nor did the ancient crocodiles have tooth serrations of correct size and spacing to have made drag marks observed on some of the best-preserved bones.
-
They flayed the heretic, the back-talker, the smartmouth, and stretched his still-living flesh to crack and writhe in the hot African wind, till the hyena or the crocodile came along to finish him.
The best way to understand government « Isegoria
-
During the festival, South African cuisine, such as boerewors, ostrich, crocodile steaks, snoek, etcetera, will be served, whilst guests will be entertained by the South African song and dance group
ANC Daily News Briefing
-
Sadly, you will be in the sort of snappy crocodile that the ancients did not worship.
Times, Sunday Times
-
And we handle alligator, large gators, crocodiles every day, catching them, moving them, doing things with them.
-
Past sand-colored mosques and beneath the mullioned windows I comb the streets looking for any evidence of a crocodile, but come up with nothing, save a popular extract of crocodile, a philter ointment whose label says, "For you and your happiness.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
-
Inside, each suite has a carved crocodile figure on the table and a marbled bathroom with a huge mirror beside the tub.
The Sun
-
Crocodile is huge for autumn.
-
Adult turtles have relatively few natural predators, although sharks and saltwater crocodiles are known to consume adults, and nesting females are preyed upon by coyotes and other canids.
-
It is thought that in other parts of the world competition from crocodiles wiped out most labyrinthodont species.
-
Swimming is strictly prohibited in the lake as it holds mugger or marsh crocodiles.
-
The use of extraordinary precious materials make each piece unique: matte alligator, de-stressed crocodile, mink or lapin with snakeskin and anaconda.
-
Does this mean that all the moral high dudgeon from the media last year was crocodile tears and that they never really cared about children?
-
Chromoviral distribution has been analyzed in 15 reptilian species, including representatives of crocodiles, turtles, and squamates.
-
So the cassowaries, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and wallabies that one goes to Australia in the hope of seeing are all there.
-
Conditions were primitive and patients arrived suffering from malaria, crocodile or snake bites, or burns from open cooking fires.
-
Accessories include wedged shoes in crocodile, aged leather belts cinched around jackets and blazers recalling Dr. Zhivago.
-
A crocodile's sense of smell is very acute, and its hearing is also excellent.
-
I've seen this before and it's a crocodile from a South African National Park.
Reader Shots: New Photos of the Week
-
Potential alligators should form an orderly crocodile line and apply quickly to avoid tears.
-
Otherwise he is all red and black - red shirt, black strides, black jacket with rhinestone trim, and an astonishing pair of lace-ups in red crocodile skin.
-
The sandbags have been filled, the drawbridge raised and the moat replenished with hungry crocodiles.
-
Alligators and crocodiles have dots on their skin that scientists have long suspected to be sense organs.
-
As per the Central Zoo Authority instructions, the mugger crocodiles were shifted to the Tirupati zoo, which is crippled by poor turnout of visitors.
-
Clockwise from top left: IWC Portofino chronograph in stainless steel on crocodile strap $5,500 IWC.com; Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso $6,950 Jaeger-lecoultre.comc ; Montblanc Nicolas Rieussec chronograph anniversary edition in 18k white gold with sapphire crystals and alligator-skin strap $40,940 Montblanc.com .
Perpetual Motion
-
They slept on board to avoid crocodiles and spent long days scrub-bashing through vines and thickets.
-
Caiman belong to the group known as crocodilians, which also includes alligators and crocodiles.
-
As I looked, a small crocodile rose, splashed, and sank, sending terror among the gallinules, but arousing the spur-wing jacana to a high pitch of anger.
Edge of the Jungle
-
And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution.
-
They warned off the crocodiles with no more than an irritated flick of their tail.
-
Some apes were killed by predators such as crocodiles when they went to drink out of the lake.
-
The temnospondyl was crocodile-like, " Kriwet said. "The temnospondyls in the gut of the shark were larvae.
-
Hopefully we won't be maimed by saltwater crocodiles, eaten by sharks, or stung by poisonous jellyfish.
-
It turns out that there were crocodiles with multiple cusped teeth.
-
Our streams and rivers teem with crocodiles, gharials and a large variety of fish, turtles and dolphins.
-
Crocodiles are cold-blooded creatures, and they keep their temperature constant by basking in the sun and staying in the water at night.
-
Sadly, you will be in the sort of snappy crocodile that the ancients did not worship.
Times, Sunday Times
-
This smart picture book about animal symbiosis features five illustrations on its opening spread, each paired up with a question such as "Why does a giraffe let an oxpecker climb into its ear?" or "Why does a plover stroll into a crocodile's mouth?
For young readers: ÂHow to Clean a Hippopotamus'
-
The crocodile launched itself at me, mouth wide open.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It probably lived in a shallow lake populated by dinosaurs, crocodiles, turtles, and numerous types of fish.
-
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. Ronald Reagan
-
In the reptiles (tortoises and crocodiles) a later dorsal part is joined to this earlier ventral part of the rudimentary diaphragm, a pair of subvertebral muscles rising from the vertebral column and being added as "columns" to the transverse partition.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
-
Crocodiles and hippopotami — Reach Faraba – Loss of one of the soldiers —
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
-
Snakes, crocodiles, and crabs scurry and swim about the forest floor.
-
The trochilus gets his food thereby, and the crocodile gets ease and comfort; it makes no attempt to injure its little friend, but, when it wants it to go, it shakes its neck in warning, lest it should accidentally bite the bird.
The History of Animals
-
I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently.
Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
-
While in India the number of muggers and gharials are growing in large numbers, salt-water crocodiles are rare as they generally grow in estuarine areas.
-
The winner, Chana Suksabai, shown here looking as if he is about to barf, managed to woof down 10 crocodile eggs in 4 minutes.
-
It is an incredibly ugly gruesome-looking animal, rather like a baby crocodile but with a shorter head.
-
And let's not forget the oversized crocodile leather messenger bags, worn strapped across the body.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Blue skinks, bearded dragons, crocodiles, alien-looking veiled chameleons, reticulated pythons, leopard tortoises, and tiny glistening frogs and toads of every color.
-
Jim believes that this site was raided by mesosuchian crocodiles, which would eat the eggs/hatchlings and yearlings known from this site*.
Fieldwork Friday #9
-
_ -- 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.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832
-
A runaway crocodile that has eluded capture in suburban Hong Kong for five months was spotted ‘sunbathing’ on traps laid out for it before being scared off by a boatload of photographers, reports said yesterday.
-
I evaluated the adhesives based on working properties (especially penetration, as the consolidant needed to flow into networks of very fine cracks), join strength, and visual criteria (changes to the appearance of the black coating and crocodile skin).
Museum Blogs
-
Typical species are considered the yellow warbler (Dendroica petechia), the bicolored conebill (Conirostrum bicolor), the clapper rail (Rallus longirostris), the great-tailed grackle (Cassidix mexicanus), the spotted tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), the rufous crab-hawk (Buteogallus aequinoctialis), the crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and the arboreal snake (Corallus hortulanus).
Coastal Venezuelan mangroves
-
The Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary is a haven for crocodiles.
-
On either side of the altar are oven-like compartments, niches where sacred crocodiles, mummified with the use of natron, were placed on biers.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III
-
Two very early forms of this tale are the "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, which tells how the crocodile lay on a rock to catch the monkey, and how the latter outwitted the crocodile; and the "Sumsumara-jataka," No. 208, in which a crocodile wanted the heart of a monkey, and the monkey pretended that it was hanging on a fig-tree.
Filipino Popular Tales
-
The lots include two 19th century Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats (£1,500-£2,000); an ornate giltwood overmantel mirror from the late 19th century (£1,000-£1,500); a pair of French faux-crocodile-skin binoculars (£500-£800); and a late 18th century English stained and painted model of a 62-gun ship (yours for £2,000-£4,000).
Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies
-
The Siamese crocodile, the banteng, a species of wild cattle, and a wild ox known as the kouprey are each Critically Endangered.
Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
-
The water had become fetid, he explained, and he'd lost two crocodiles in as many years.
-
But before the crocodile eats us all, let's help Iranian PMOI to stablish a peaceful and democratic government in Iran and send these mullahs to where they belon to.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
-
The crocodile is a strange-looking creature.
-
In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid).
Family Winter Preview
-
Many of the children were surprised at the texture of the crocodile's skin.
-
But they were crocodile tears and he showed no emotion when his lies were finally exposed.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Most of us aren't going to see a crocodile or an alligator in the wild.
-
This benefits the crocodile, who is pleased, and takes care not to hurt the trochilus.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
-
We turn next to crocodiles and alligators, in which the heart has two anatomically separate ventricles.
-
Shoes are pointed and classic in crocodile and patterned leather with a lace or side buckle.
-
Homing behavior is known to occur in other reptiles, such as crocodiles and sea turtles.
-
The name ‘bird crocodile’ seems to nicely describe all the great archosaurs of Mesozoic, combining as they did features of both crocodiles and birds.
-
Because two days ago at the Crocodile Bank not far from Mahabalipuram, along with hundreds of fascinating crocs and tortoises and snakes, I saw this sign.
-
Karl Lagerfeld, dressed in knee-high crocodile boots and a leather choker, was one of the speakers.
-
Fat of lion, fat of hippo, fat of cat, fat of crocodile, fat of ibex, fat of serpent, are mixed together and the head of the bald person is anointed with them.
-
They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet.
The Sun
-
These creatures include fish, crocodiles, turtles, hippopotamuses, monkeys, rodents, and antelopes.
-
Our streams and rivers teem with crocodiles, gharials and a large variety of fish, turtles and dolphins.
-
Did he spill his mint juleppe and break down in crocodile tears?
Think Progress » Weiner Offends The GOP On House Floor: You’re All ‘Owned’ By The ‘Insurance Industry’!
-
(for otherwise it seems unaccountable) why Moses there so particularly mentions the creation of the whales, because God had so lately insisted upon the bulk and strength of that creature than of any other, as the proof of his power; and the leviathan is here spoken of as an inhabitant of the sea (v. 31), which the crocodile is not; and Ps. civ.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
-
Police warned residents to be alert for crocodiles in suburban areas after a car hit a large crocodile on a busy road in Darwin.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Are his tips on how to deal with snapping crocodiles and charging hippos or on how to swallow fire reliable?
The Times Literary Supplement
-
Nineteen other species of invertebrates are known: three species of early sirenian (sea cow), one partial skeleton of the primitive proboscidian Moeritherium, early mammals, sharks, crocodiles, three kinds of sawfish, rays, cartilaginous and bony fishes, several kinds of turtles, including a sea turtle and a sea snake.
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
-
Also part of this cycle is L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) (published by Strange Horizons - go now!), Ang Dalaga at Ang Buaia (The Maiden and the Crocodile) (published in Ab Ovo#1 by Kestrel Studios), and a few others.
Archive 2003-01-01
-
There is ambivalence about the shallows, the intermediary space between water and land, abode of pythons, crocodiles, crawdads, and mudfish, anomalous creatures that are as good for thought as they are to eat.
-
Yeah, enough with the crocodile tears from the Bush crime enabling undynamic duo of Feinstein and Rockefeller.
Matthew Yglesias » Holt on Panetta
-
I think one of the reasons Street of Crocodiles is so successful (aside from the wonderful thread mechanics that run through it, the dust, the glass, the ...! the ...!) is the way the main character, and the minor ones too, possess this kind of eery homunculus quality, as if they were born from some disturbing ritual.
Archive 2007-08-01
-
Suddenly, Peter Pan sees the bug mouth of the crocodile, waiting for Hook to fall.
-
On many occasions, Karen has observed a female hippo grooming a crocodile basking in the sun, licking the reptile's hide for up to 15 minutes, then ending the session with a huge open-mouth gape.
-
A crocodile was lurking just below the surface.
-
To celebrate he decided to take Lawton on the skiff, go out past Crocodile Dragover to McCormick Creek, check some snook holes he knew.
OFF THE CHART
-
A negative relationship between body size and rate of molecular evolution was found for phylogenetically independent pairs of reptile species spanning turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodile, and tuatara.
-
The temnospondyl was crocodile-like, " Kriwet said. "The temnospondyls in the gut of the shark were larvae.
-
The tusks stuck out above and below the jaw like a modern warthog, said Larsson. "This has never been seen before on any crocodile.
-
Saltwater crocodiles living in river estuaries are generally bigger and tend to more aggressive towards people.
-
He wrestles crocodiles and captures all breeds of dangerous animals for a living.
-
Nine of the critically endangered species targeted by the grants are reptiles, including the Siamese crocodile, Antiguan racer, and river terrapin; seven are birds, including the Siberian crane, Polynesian ground-dove, and Madagascar pochard; and five are mammals, including the giant sable and the duiker, in addition to the Ethiopian wolf.
Salazar Announces Nearly $650 Thousand in Grants to Conserve Critically Endangered Wildlife Around the Globe
-
An unnamed woman was attacked and killed by a crocodile while crossing the Enseleni River north of Empangeni early yesterday morning.
-
The new king crocodile tears on hearing of his father's death.
-
Snakes are prey to many animals, including large birds, foxes, raccoons and crocodiles.
-
The water is too muddy for filming, and, worse, crocodiles lurk in the mangroves of Missionary Bay and the nearby Cardwell River.
-
Crocodiles and alligators have changed very little since their beginning.
-
Herzog's parade of oddball commentators and his own inimitably dry delivery of such coincidences as the close proximity to this cave of albino crocodiles make this, too, a beguiling experience of wonderment.
Berlin film festival – review
-
Other than possums we were surrounded by weird, long legged, fat squawky birds, and the odd giant cockroach and killer crocodile.
-
The heavens added to the noise with a fanfaronade of thunder, which inspired the crocodile to bellow in response.
The Golden Torc
-
The zip gaped open an inch at his waist, which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt.
-
The skin of the saltwater crocodile produces the highest quality leather of the world's crocodilian species.
-
He used the corset look to great effect, particularly when he paired a white crocodile bustier with a black silk chiffon petal skirt and a rose silk faille bustier with a black silk chiffon lace inset skirt.
-
I've swum with crocodiles, followed the migration of the wildebeest and lived on a fishing trawler for two weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
-
politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed
-
Past sand-colored mosques and beneath the mullioned windows I comb the streets looking for any evidence of a crocodile, but come up with nothing, save a popular extract of crocodile, a philter ointment whose label says, "For you and your happiness.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
-
Walking into a little room, we observed that besides the crocodile there were in it parrots of the species known as cockatoo, and also a group of monkeys in a special case in a recess.
The Crocodile
-
Other activities include boat cruise, bush dinners, lion walks and encounter, crocodile farm tours and horseback safaris.
-
Another trap has been placed in the neighbouring suburb of Humpty Doo after some yabbie pots were taken and some crocodile sightings in the area.
Undefined
-
Like the elephant calf in Africa that decided to play football with a crocodile, little realising the danger till the mother elephant shooed it away.
-
Stay tuned for more about Argentina … including recipes … Also, crocodile is yummy!
2009 January archive at
-
An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.
-
Their descendants still survive in the form of crocodiles and alligators.
Times, Sunday Times
-
In the raging currents we hold on tightly; you do not want to fall out in these crocodile-infested waters.
Times, Sunday Times
-
So much for the exiles' crocodile tears over Elian's removal.
-
OW 1959 OOsW cricetine hamster W hyenine hyaena (1884 - crocodiline crocodile 5) OW
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
-
He offers perhaps the widest range of exotic leathers, from crocodile to shark.
-
Guys with painted shirts and vests underneath, big turn-up jeans and crocodile shoes.
-
I'd rather be exposed to Glenn Beck after a full-blown Healthcare-Is-Fascism hissy fit, eyes streaming crocodile tears, rocking back and forth in the fetal position with his thumb in his mouth and a pool of drool dripping down his moisturized chinny chin-chin (actually high-fructose corn syrup, but it works for the camera) than this former second-string Miss Alaska smarmily playing pretend at punditry.
Fox's Barracuda Jumps the Shark
-
Two species of crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus and C. palustris), the Gangetic gavial (Gavialis gangeticus), and the water monitor lizard (Varanus salvator) use both land and water to hunt and bask in.
Sundarbans mangroves
-
Her crocodile skin clutch bag matched her shoes.
-
VAUSE (voice-over): Those who know him best, the man who turned "crikey" into a catchphrase and spent a lifetime trying to make crocodiles, snakes and sharks loveable, died doing what he loved most of all.
CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2006
-
Reptiles occurring in the river include Geochelone sulcta, Trionys triungis, Varanus niloticus, Python sebae, Python regius, Bitis arietus and Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus (V).
'W' National Park, Niger
-
And those who know him best say the man who turned "crikey" into a catchphrase, who spent a lifetime trying to make crocodiles, snakes and sharks loveable, died doing what he loved most of all -- John.
CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2006
-
On mud banks we saw the crocodile, "cayman" they call it.
1492,
-
Reptiles are cold blooded scaly creatures like snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles, who are all descendants of the primitive reptile.
-
Nineteen other species of invertebrates are known: three species of early sirenian (sea cow), one partial skeleton of the primitive proboscidian Moeritherium, early mammals, sharks, crocodiles, three kinds of sawfish, rays, cartilaginous and bony fishes, several kinds of turtles, including a sea turtle and a sea snake.
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
-
And, golf courses boast the greenest greens, sandiest traps, chirpiest exotic birds, and live water hazards, crocodiles!
Puerto Vallarta: where the art of life thrives!
-
A change of vowels or a doubling of a consonant is also not infrequent, thus giving English kunkur ` variety of limestone 'in lieu of kankar, mulmul ` muslin' in lieu of malmal, muggar ` kind of crocodile 'in lieu of magar.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
-
We stayed in small apartments, with an outdoor pool a few hundred yards from the crocodile-infested river.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Her main aim, she said, was some high-end shopping, including a crocodile handbag from a Bangkok store, a pastime once limited to monied Hong Kong businessmen.
-
They attempt to kill the bigger crocodiles for their skins, but this is a dangerous profession; it's difficult to bag a full grown male.
-
They should not just be harvesting the man-eating crocodiles without sensitizing communities on their potential to contribute positively to tourism.
-
Big pods of roosterfish and Jacks, joined by snook from the lagoons where the crocodiles live, all join forces to slay the vast schools of anchovies which gather here at this time.
-
In deeper, murkier pools, such as that where I overturn and become marooned with a seven foot freshy, dwell crocodiles awaiting their next meal.
-
‘Ostrich hide is tougher than calfskin and only crocodile skin is more attractive and beautiful than it,’ Atanassov said.
-
At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals
-
They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet.
The Sun
-
It is waterfalls at midday, billabongs at burning dusk, galleries of rock art five times older than the Egyptian Pharaohs, and two million magpie geese - and crocodiles in the river any time you're silly enough to risk swimming.
