They were partly terrestrial and partly aquatic; but it is not easy to say whether their limbs had been converted into true paddles or not.
It is often no easy matter to form conclusions with regard to the habits of extinct animals; and too much reliance must not be placed on arguments derived from the habits of their living descendants or their near relations.
By a free blending together of ideas culled from living types of animals it would be very easy to construct no small variety of dragons; and so we may believe this is what the ancients did.
It is very easy to see that in this way large quantities of sand, gravel, and mud are continually supplied to our seas.
The problem of the extinction of the Mammoth is not an easyone to solve.
Opium," said Peterson, "is the one sure way of making easy money.
But with the smuggling theory in the back of one's head, it was easy to conceive that these superfluous Mongolians were waiting an opportunity to be shuttled into the United States.
Thus was it easy to trace the flight of the shot through the room.
Your lead sounds ominous," said the young special agent, who had a free and easy way with him even at the Washington headquarters.
The individual who makes illicit money usually spends it lavishly and it should therefore be easy to determine if the samplers were being paid to be crooked.
In Royerton it was easy to find many intimates of the insurance man.
The special agent found his task comparatively easy here, and merely had to wait for events to take their normal course.
One day the supposed retired glass manufacturer confessed to the smuggler that he had once made some easy money by backing some men who had a system of beating the poolrooms.
Billy Gard found the whole case easy to clear up with the exception of the apprehension of the two men who had been the instruments in wrecking the bank.
This was easy of accomplishment during the hour of the afternoon stroll of the mistress of the house.
This was easy because there was but a front entrance and apartments opposite looked out upon the street.
They afterward used that influence and put theireasy money back of it.
It was easy enough to say which of the twain was the more beautiful.
It was easy to discover, it had been so minutely described, broke it open and descended into it myself, and at once discovered the two hostile skulls, just as they had been placed, turned back to back.
It was easy to divine that the Nazarene was not among those three, for two had the insolent faces of thieves.
Between them the deep blue of the sky was still visible, but it was easy to foresee that they would soon pack together and conceal the whole round of the sky.
It costs money to dig up oil and gold, but it is easy to write a play.
And we can easy get by on the two fifty until October, especially with the garden I am going to raise.
As he set the car at an easy pace he turned and looked down at the lovely face so near his shoulder with a great and extremely boyish enthusiasm, which was very delightful and very irritating to the Violet.
Good date for costuming," the artist interrupted the author to say, with the easy assurance of a person fully informed.
The boys all took off their shoes--an easy matter for an Oriental--and piled them in a heap.
The first idea was that Perronel should join her husband at York, but safe modes of travelling were not easy to be found, and before any satisfactory escort offered, there were rumours that made it prudent to delay.
It was not easy to tell when they were really beyond it, for the ground was much of the same kind.
When thou hast cut thy wisdom teeth, thou'lt know old fathers be not so easy found.
He was in a mood not easy to understand, he would hardly speak, and never noticed the marks of the fray on Stephen's temple--only half hidden by the dark curly hair.
Loutherbourg's landscapes and buildings were plain drawings, and easy to understand, and the king expressed himself greatly pleased with them.
There is generally so much coarseness in them that it is not easy to select a portion for translation, and in fact their point consists in going on through the length of a poem of this kind without imparting a single clear idea.
Abdalasis had fixed his seat of government at Seville, as permitting easy and frequent communications with the coast of Africa.
The new emir was of a cruel and suspicious nature, and commenced his sway with a stern severity that soon made those under his command look back with regret to the easy rule of Abdalasis.
Abdalasis was well pleased to get so powerful a place upon such easy terms, but stipulated that the garrison should lay down their arms.
And suddenly he was struck by a thought which appeared great to him: "And hard work is cheaper than easy work!
When I was of your age I had an easy life, while you are only taking aim.
She felt that he was turning her aside from what had seemed so simple and so easy in her dreams.
Smolin, warding off the old man's words with an easy wave of the hand.
But the very thought of how easy it was for him to get married made him ill at ease, and even ridiculous in his own eyes.
They had looked about them in bewilderment, half alarmed, before they saw him; and then his face was radiant in their sight, and it was easy to see that all their troubles were ended and over.
The use of white line not only affected the art by making it more easy to practise, but also involved a change in the mode of drawing.
In both methods color depends, of course, upon the relative quantity of black and white in the prints; the new method merely arranges color differently, so that it can be obtained by an easy mechanical process instead of by a difficult one.
The latter process was as easy for the engraver as the former was difficult, because whereas in the former he had to gouge out the diamond spaces between the crossing lines, now he obtained white color by single strokes of the graver.
Everything would be so easy as Maud was not an heiress.
Of course, endurance was easy when everything went right, but the only thing worth a rag was to endure when everything went wrong!
The long shoot was there, it would have been so easy for Toney to step into it, but Aunt Dove was utterly unnerved--no one but Toney could rouse her.
It isn't easy to remember, if you are asked suddenly how old one is, is it, Mr. Waycott?
Yes--but unselfish women are not always easy to deal with.
And it would be easy for him to catch you on a clover-top, you're so fat and clumsy.
If they could have found an alarm clock somewhere it would have been easy for them to rise as early in the morning as they wished.
It waseasy work track-laying on the flat expanse, where grading for hundreds of miles at a stretch was practically unnecessary.
The suburb had been a tract of waste ground some years before, when Ralph picked it up on easy terms, as being unfit for agriculture and useless for anything else, and his scheme was to build on it a new and improved quarter of the town.
Besides, it was much more easy for her than for him to realise the fact that he was a duke.
Owing to the splendour of his imagination, which he never allowed for a moment to be dominated by facts, and to the easy and familiar way in which he spoke of the nobility, his friends had created him Duke of Long Acre.
It waseasy to ask that question, and easy to answer it.
Cheyne spoke with the easy confidence of one who knew he would be obeyed.
She waited a little while to think what she should say, and then wrote a few lines, and was surprised to find it so easy to dismiss finally all she held dear.
It was not easy to find any occupation in that room.
Well, your grace, as I said, it wasn't easy to get at.
Yes I know I know; my own mind is quite easy about it, it is true.
It would be so extremely easy for them to interpret it as meaning that neither you nor I had a proper reliance on Divine protection.
Yes, the whole lot--and everything in order; I can tell you it has been no easy matter to get them in time.
There are very few things that boys of your age can do, and it is so easy to obtain boys that people are not willing to pay much in wages.
By this time the steamboat had come to a standstill, and it was an easy matter for Randy and Jones to pull the rich youth towards the vessel.
In the meantime Jack was having no easy time of it getting the lady into the rowboat.
It was no easy matter to keep afloat with so much clothing on.
It was easy to see that Bob Bangs was not suffering physically.
And a busy day for me," answered Amos Bangs, as he passed into the sitting room and dropped into an easy chair.
This was no easy job, and the boys perspired freely, for the day was a warm one.
Mrs Hudson, you see, had an easy way of flying from one topic to another.
I heard daily and regularly from Billy all the news I could gather of my friend, but before Smith himself I endeavoured to appear cheerful and easy in mind.
Mrs Shield, my sister's nurse and friend, insists on my taking it easy another week, and then I shall come up to town, and mean to work like a nigger to make up for lost time.
Oh, how shabby I felt as I saw them there with their fine clothes and free-and-easy manners!
If only I had beeneasy in my mind about Jack Smith, I should have been positively cheerful.
We were astounded at theeasy way those fellows died.
John Craig is awake early, and can tell that all is well from the easy motion of the steamer, for her plunges are few and of small moment.
I believe I have heard it told in New York, and it is easy to realize the fact now.
She was seated in an easy attitude, from which she did not care to move, by the dinner-table, on which lay some early strawberries.
I remember the suppressed bitterness of the moment, and, conscious of my own infirmity, the envy with which I regarded the easymovements and elastic steps of my more happily formed brethren.
If people knew beforehand what it is to lose health, and all that can't survive health, they would in youth be what it is easy to preach; do you try?
Nothing so easy and good-humored as the way in which he received any hints I might offer, when he seemed to be tampering with the King's English.
It would beeasy to make one with the help of a tinsmith.
The occasion was constrained on her side, easy on his.
It is comparatively easy to ascend a thorn tree with the fear of death snapping at your heels: to descend in cold blood is another matter.
It seemed that a half-hour's easy walk should take them to the foothills.
Kingozi and M'tela circled each other warily, like two strange dogs, though all the time with an appearance of easy and intimate cordiality.
Having thus climbed byeasy steps to the superlative greeting, the minister uttered his real message.
There was some excuse for the ringers to conduct themselves in a free and easy manner in the belfry when it was shut off from the body of the church by a screen of boards against which the west gallery was erected.
