Reptiles

Examples

• They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I tell you, my little reptiles, I am born to be served. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Hair was evidently the earliest distinction of the mammals from the rest of the reptiles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Amidst this spreading vegetation of the lower plains the reptiles were increasing mightily in multitude and variety. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Must man, the heaven-climber, be for ever the victim of the crawling reptiles of his species! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Darwin found the reptiles the most striking feature of the zo?logy of the islands. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In fishes and reptiles, as Owen has remarked, The range of gradation of dioptric structures is very great. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Some reptiles, some vipers for example, are viviparous, but none stand by their young as the real mammals do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With frogs and amphibious reptiles the dormant state is very common, and if the temperature is kept low by artificial means they may remain dormant for years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On such expeditions rubber gatherers usually go armed with rifles to protect themselves against wild animals, reptiles and savage Indians. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is doubtful if the particular Theriodont reptiles who were developing hair in the early Mesozoic were viviparous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These were at first--by all the standards of classification--Reptiles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were amphibia like gigantic newts and salamanders, and even primitive reptiles in these swamps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yet that prepared the conquest of the dry land for the triumphant multitude of the Mesozoic reptiles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• VI THE AGE OF REPTILES § 1. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Semitic languages may have arisen as some specialized proto-Hamitic group, just as the birds arose from a special group of reptiles (Chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He found another vent for his rage by snatching up Rosamond's words again, as if they were reptiles to be throttled and flung off. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And so they held out through the age of hardship between the Mesozoic and Cainozoic ages, to which most of the true reptiles succumbed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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