Thus we have abundant evidence of the double function by which frogs are maintained, from the action of the air on the skin and the lungs; and this appears to be the means of existence among amphibious animals generally.
A small hut of the most temporary character, made of boards, and sometimes the bottom of an old yawl turned up, is all the covering these amphibious and nondescript watermen have.
In ancient times the inhabitants were either amphibious or lived at great sufferance from the floods.
But on 17 September, neither the division nor III Amphibious Corps had reserves.
A large number of amphibious trailers were incorporated into the logistic plan, to be towed behind landing craft, and later, at reef’s edge they would be taken in tow by amphibian tractors.
First was the lack of additional maneuver regiments from III Amphibious Corps’ reserve.
Grimes, we repeat, was of thatamphibious class, common upon every coast, combining the occupations incident to land and water in his own proper person.
The only amphibious animals are seals: These are to be found in great numbers about this bay on the small rocks and isles near the sea coast.
A large portion of the amphibious quadrupeds and reptiles prey partly on aquatic plants and animals, and in part on terrestrial; and a deficiency of one kind of prey causes them to have immediate recourse to the other.
A fossil extinct amphibious animal, resembling the saurian, or lizard and crocodile tribe.
The amphibious genera Siren and Menopoma belong to North America, possessing both lungs and gills, and respiring at pleasure either air or water.
Occasionally lacustrine and fluviatile shells, insects, or the bones of amphibious or land reptiles, point to the same conclusion.
A fossil gigantic amphibious animal of the saurian or lizard and crocodile tribe.
Beginning in the early 1930s, he became increasingly focused on the development of amphibious warfare concepts.
Admiral Turner was in command over theamphibious task force, while Marine Lieutenant General Holland M.
The great tank has again a tenant, and the great public have huge amphibious matter for their wonderment.
When the rapid passes into a cataract, when the wall of rock across the stream is impregnable in front, it can be taken in the flank by an amphibious birch.
The Buccaneers, hunting in couples, called each other matelot, or shipmate: the word expresses their amphibious capacity.
He and his amphibious canoe had just made the trip we proposed, with a flotilla.
Amphibious tastes suggest picturesque traditions of prolonged voyaging in search of fresh fishing grounds to supply the needs of a rapidly multiplying population.
There is an indescribable air of coziness and safety about the amphibious life one leads on such a canal.
There has been talk of a tunnel here, as under broader channels; but the amphibious folk of this port are still content with their ferry.
The coast folk carry on amphibious business, from oyster beds to ship-chandling.
Socrates understands that he is an amphibious animal, half philosopher, half politician; one of a class who have the highest opinion of themselves and a spite against philosophers, whom they imagine to be their rivals.
I never witnessed any one staying under water so long as these boys did, they seemed to be quite at home paddling on their side around the ship, in fact they appeared to have quite an amphibious nature.
We found the river abounded with gigantic amphibious reptiles--crocodiles.
Many, amphibious still, to their great inconvenience, have the heavy tail of the Whale.
Let us add that stuffed amphibious creatures, to give us a real idea of them, should be so placed as to exhibit these monsters in the attitudes of their actual life.
And this latter, in one species, at least, conceals in its tail the rude outlines and distinct commencements of the two hind feet of the highest of the amphibious creatures.
Steller and Hartwig mention a strange, an almost human scene enacted in the family of the Otarie, another amphibious creature.
Here, then, are two things which may enable these amphibious creatures to make great progress.
But all this was unfitted for the amphibious creature, grovelling in shallow waters, or crawling on the rocks.
The amphibiouslive frankly and honestly in the face of day.
At the outset, the parentage of the amphibious race is evident.
A great contrast between that man and the somnolent, amphibious creatures, that, even in that climate, can live without any very severe suffering!
The developedamphibious creatures, according to those traditions, approached nearer and nearer to the human form and became Tritons and Syrens, men and women of the Sea.
Fish, too, and all cold-blooded amphibious animals are gifted with the same power.
That night the amphibious task force experienced the only significant air attack of the battle.
Here the V Amphibious Corps would land on D-day, the 4th Marine Division on the right, the 5th on the left, the 3d in reserve.
Communications, often maligned in earlier amphibious assaults, were never better than at Iwo Jima.
The troops assaulting Iwo Jima were arguably the most proficient amphibiousforces the world had seen.
The amphibious task force appeared from over the horizon, the rails of the troopships crowded with combat-equipped Marines watching the spectacular fireworks.
Megee, USMC, had the distinction of commanding the first Landing Force Air Support Control Unit, a milestone in the evolution of amphibious command and control of supporting arms.
Clearly, no other element of the emerging art of amphibious warfare had improved so greatly by the winter of 1945.
Exactly half of the awards issued to Marines and corpsmen of the V Amphibious Corps were posthumous.
Unavoidably, Iwo Jima’s biggest cost to the V Amphibious Corps was the loss of so many combat veterans in taking the island.
The 5th Marine Division and the 21st Marines wasted no time in backloading on board amphibious ships.
Iwo Jima would represent the pinnacle of forcibleamphibious assault against a heavily fortified shore, a complex art mastered painstakingly by the Fifth Fleet over many campaigns.
There are many Shore Crabs, however, which lead a more or less amphibious existence without showing any marked modifications of structure as compared with their more purely aquatic relatives.
Some of these belong to the category of amphibious forms, to be mentioned presently; but there are others which live in deeper water, and of which the habits are less open to observation.
Many species found in foreign countries are still more trulyamphibious in their habits.
Many of the River Crabs are amphibious in habits, and may be found burrowing in marshy ground or in damp forests.
As already mentioned, a considerable number, both of marine and of fresh-water species, are more or less amphibious in their habits.
Chief among these amphibious forms in the warmer seas are the Crabs of the genera Ocypode and Gelasimus and some of their allies.
Had those two amphibious craft been present at the battle, the issue might have been something very different.
Not wishing to appear eccentric, which, in this amphibious picture any one is who walks about the parade without a glass of scalding hot water in his hand, I purchased a goblet, and the first dip it got cracked it from top to bottom.
At Baltimore our amphibious carriages excited great attention, and I may add, our whole company was an object of no small curiosity and respect.
The first stage of our reflection began at St. Louis, when we parted with our amphibious wagons, in which we all more or less took a pride.
We had already sacrificed our amphibious wagons, the result of so much pains and cost.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amphibious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
