But that ould Crundall said he wouldn't have a hooked 'gator at any price," replied Terry, puzzled.
Peter tells me the big 'gator I've got in the pond has bust the netting and crawled out and gone.
Sure pop, and it wasn't the flap of a 'gator dropping in from a bank, or the sportive play of a muskrat, either.
The ’gator nearest Tom Halstead kept straight on, coming slowly, jaws moving and eyes blinking, as though the great reptile were figuring out the chances of successful attack.
Hardly had the flash left the muzzle when the huge ’gator thrashed, a red spot showing back of the fore shoulder.
In its death agonies, yet possessing prodigious strength still, the ’gator flopped off into deeper water, diving.
I don’t believe I ever heard of a ’gator being shot out here in the lake before.
Illustration: The ’Gator Started Up the Rise Toward Them.
See,” whispered Halstead, “the other ’gator is moving a bit east along the shore.
Johnny grunted again, and the big mouth opened wide to take in the baby 'gator which the reptile thought he heard.
He held the jaws of the 'gator shut while Dick seized the hind legs of the reptile, and together they carried the creature ashore.
There may be a big 'gator in there who wouldn't be satisfied with a toe.
Billy stopped beside one of the ponds and grunted, as he had been taught by Johnny, until a little 'gator showed his head.
I'll stop down the harpoon so you can't drive it more than an inch beyond the hide, and the 'gator will never know he's hurt.
See the baby 'gator sit up, Ned," said Dick one day, after he had been training it for some time.
Illustration: "SEE THE BABY 'GATOR SIT UP, NED!
The 'gator was less than five feet long and quite babyish in its ways, but it gave Dick a lot of trouble as he was leading it toward their camp.
Only two weeks ago Johnny killed a ten-foot 'gator right in front of my house and within a hundred feet of it.
The 'gator was soon brought out on the prairie and its jaws tied.
Dick was disposed to wade in the pond and catch the little 'gator, but Ned coaxed him out of the notion and proposed that they find a cave and rope another 'gator to cheer up Dick's pet, which he said was getting lonesome.
Climb on 'gator back while Injun boy thar, push him off, an' keep up game.
And that professor he tell me 'gator that big more'n two hundred years old, much more!
Ain't used to be chased by a moss-back 'gator every day.
Possibly he remembered that bull 'gator with the hoarse bellow; or bethought him of certain yellow moccasin snakes Larry had noticed in the water of the stream, coming from the swamp, no doubt.
Faster and faster he ran, carrying the bag of meal for the Johnny cake, but still the 'gator came after him and almost had him.
And then they were all right, for on dry land they could run faster than the 'gator could.
Uncle Wiggily, as the 'gator was hopping toward them.
They reached the bank in time, and, leaving the dead 'gator in the shallow water, they staggered up in the woods to a place of safety.
Their corner in alligators was over with, and ever afterward they took good care to see that they were not cornered before they counted their gains in cornering the market in 'gator skins.
Gator skins are selling high now," added Stam, opening his eyes, "and we know where we can get some big ones.
That's our game, Jed, and we'll make enough in 'gator hunting to get that pony.
That darned 'gator has got my jaguar safe down there in the mud, and we shall never see him again.
My first jaguar, too, and a fine one at that; and a beastly 'gator has stolen him from almost under my nose.
I no know wut me gwan fer tell da ole 'Gator wun 'e is come bahck.
E stan' by dem lilly 'Gator tel dey no mo' fer stan' by.
E go bahck wey da turrer lil 'Gator bin huddle up in da bed.
Dey's de first thing I grabbed when dat ol' 'gator come up underneath de boat and turn us over.
The way you and Bill were holding pleasant conversation out yonder was a temptation to any 'gator or his friends.
She gave Mrs. 'Gator twenty beautiful white eggs, and Mrs. 'Gator was perfectly happy.
It didn't take Mr. and Mrs. 'Gator long to discover that their legs were not of much use in the water, for they used their powerful tails for swimming.
All this time Mr. 'Gator was a great deal more interested in making himself comfortable than he was in those eggs.
When Mr. 'Gator came crawling out of the water to spend the day in that comfortable bed he had dug, she chased him away and was so cross that he went off grumbling and dug another bed.
Mrs. 'Gator waited until Mr. Sun had made the sand very warm indeed, and then she made a great mound of it, and in the middle of it were her precious eggs.
First she sent Mr. 'Gator into the water to get his supper.
At that Peter's eyes threatened to pop right out of his head and every time he visited that little pond he pestered Mrs. Quack with questions about Old Ally the 'Gator and Mrs. 'Gator.
Then one day Mrs. 'Gator crawled out on land and right away discovered what those legs were for.
JIM I'd make a panther wash yo' dishes and a 'gator chop yo' wood for you.
She puts the palms of her hands together and holding the heels together, flaps the fore part of her hands like a gator opening and shutting its mouth.
Then, as she acknowledged, she was not sure the 'gator had eaten Fritz.
The feeling grew with Beth that the 'gator really had made way with her pet.
Well, you see, I used to watch that 'gator in the river; then began bringing food for it.
The conviction grew with Beth that Harvey Baker's 'gator had eaten Fritz.
What would I do if that 'gator has eaten my Fritz!
O Beth, only like me again, and I'll promise never to feed the 'gator as long as I live.
Luckily Roland was on the beach, and just as a huge 'gator came ploughing up behind poor Dick, with head and awful jaws above water, Roland took steady aim and fired.
I tie dat savage to one biggee stake all by de ribber, den watch de 'gator come, chumpee, chumpee he.
The home par excellence of the dreaded 'gator was this dark and sombre sheet of water, for to it almost nightly came the tapirs to quench their thirst and to bathe.
No 'gator can move among the reeds without bending them, move he never so warily.
I say, what chance would the biggest 'gator that ever crawled have with Betsy here.
I’ve heard that a ’gator has four or five sets of teeth during a lifetime.
After a while the heat of the sun hatches out the eggs, and then the mother ’gator takes charge of the little fellows and protects them until they’re big enough to take care of themselves.
There," said he, "now you see that if the 'gator swallows that fish he swallows the stick too.
I yelled as loud as I could all the time, while the 'gator pulled.
I suppose the 'gator found it warm enough that day to come out of the mud, where he had been asleep all winter.
Again it sounds, clear and distinct, and the sly old 'gator comes on a little farther, alert and watchful, but without making so much as a ripple to betray his presence.
The minute the 'gator swallows it, do you give the line a jerk as hard as you can, so as to fix the stick crosswise in his gullet.
He swallows it lengthwise, but a strain on the line fixes it crosswise, and it won't come out unless Mr. 'Gator comes with it.
A strange fascination seemed to force him to look into the big, bulging eyes of the 'gator patiently waiting for him down in the black pool.
Especially when a 'gator is chasing you," reminded Ned Rector.
He had not been at this long before a loud splash below told him that his bait had been seized, and a moment later the bulging eyes of a 'gator slowly protruded from the water, the eyes gazing up at the boy perched above them.
That 'gator won't have any further appetite for fat boys.
It was just in time to stop a 'gator whose snout was suddenly thrust above the water a few feet behind Ned.
I can see myself waking up to find a bobtailed cat cuddling up under my blanket with me; or a ten-foot 'gator sprawled out across Will, here, asking to have his picture taken.
There was a big 'gator after you, and he'd got you, too, only for that shot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
