There are very few designs which cannot be traced to this origin; occasionally a crocodile or a lizard may be introduced.
The representation of a lizard on this belt is noteworthy.
In 1812 the Lizard lighthouse, certainly one of the most important in the kingdom, was maintained with coal-fires.
Supposing a line to be drawn between the Lizard and the Start points, the Eddystone rocks would be found nearly on, or a little within that line.
The animal being adapted, like the whale, for rapid movement through the water, its vertebræ had none of the invariable solidity of those of the Lizard or Crocodile, but rather the structure and lightness of those of Fishes.
The masterly memoir of Cuvier, while confirming all the views of Camper, has restored the individuality of this surprising being, which has since received the name of Mosasaurus, that is to say, Saurian or Lizard of the Meuse.
Mona marble is an example of serpentine; and the Lizard Point, Cornwall, is a mass of it.
A beetle or a toad creeping from their holes, or a lizard warming himself in the sun, are all that reward the search of the naturalist.
Along the whole of the Peruvian coast there is found a small animal of the lizard kind, of which the natives are very much afraid.
They are often found on the hair of dead mammalia, and among the feathers of birds which have been shot; even the toad, the frog, and the scaly lizard are not spared by them.
Among the lizard class of reptiles, very large bright green Iguanas are found on the south coast; for instance, in the Caletas near Merillones, &c.
Huge drops roll'd down the walls, as if they wept; And where the cricket used to chirp so shrilly The toad was squatting, and the lizard crept On that damp hearth and chilly.
Cockroaches, British Guiana (Beebe, 1925a): The above lizard is found in houses.
Pycnoscelus surinamensis is probably a staple food of the lizard in nature, as Darlington observed wild lizards catch the nymphs.
Cockroaches, British Guiana (Beebe, 1925a): This is a terrestrial lizard found near clearings.
Cockroaches, British Guiana (Beebe, 1925a): The above lizard is terrestrial and found near clearings.
I could have had a lizard fry, fixed the beacon and taken off.
I located a lizardtown about a thousand kilometers from the pyramid and dropped the eye.
The First Lizard knew I was talking sense then and immediately called a meeting of the shamans.
It has been decided," a lizard said, "that you shall remain here forever and tend the Holy Waters.
Running through the crowd, I faced up to the First Lizard in his tub.
One lizard merely turned the handle and we were inside the beacon.
I stripped off my tattered lizard suit back in the ship, very glad that it would be some other repairman who'd get the job.
While it was being opened, the First Lizard turned to me.
Upon examining it next day the lizard had disappeared, and from the appearance of the snake it was feared that it had made a meal of its companion.
On another occasion a packet containing a small snake and a lizard found its way to the Returned-letter Office.
He was watching a little brown lizard sunning itself outside the tent door, and wondering how long he could keep his disciplinary expression.
A lizard or a toad could not have been more nauseous to me than was that man at that moment.
Tim insisted on dressing his frogs, and Sambo the lizard he had caught, both declaring that they would prove more tender than the birds.
As the lizard approached, the loosened rock slid forward, and dropped squarely upon the reptile's broad back.
When the lizard was small enough the Doctor held it with the callipers and then laid it on the ring.
Behind him, outside in the gully, the lizard lay baffled.
Even if we knew the lizard got into the valley the chances of our seeing it here are one in a million.
The lizard was nearly a foot long now, and struggling violently between the Doctor's fingers.
And a moment later the Very Young Man, looking upward, saw through the magic diminishing glass of distance, a little sparrow of his own world, with a tiny, helpless lizard struggling in its grasp.
A tremendous grey body swooped past him and into the gully--a bird larger in proportion than the lizard itself.
And yet, even in that moment of horror, the Very Young Man recognized it for what it was--the tiny lizard the Chemist had sent into the valley of the scratch to test his drug!
The great lizard rose high on its forelegs to meet this enemy.
The Big Business Man handed him a napkin from the tray and the Very Young Man wrapped up the lizard and threw it into the waste-basket.
But Miguel not awaking, the lizard pressed his tail against the nose of the sleeper, and ran off as if his paws were on fire.
The lizard is a good little beast, who has good desires; he never sleeps in the sun without descending the wall to kiss the earth.
Do you deny also that the lizard is the enemy of the woman, and the friend of man?
The man turned his head quickly; the lizard dodged under the rail; and old Kate awoke with a start.
Old Kate, with head down, was dreaming of cool springs in shady dells, and a little shiny brown lizard with a bright blue tail crept from under the bottom rail of the fence to see why the man was so still.
Jackal, not observing that the Lizard Was carefully edging farther and farther away.
If a snake or a lizard be killed, and a few drops of its blood be dried upon a plate or in a gourd, the person next eating or drinking from the contaminated vessel will soon become the unwilling landlord of a reptilian tenant.
Sure enough, the lizard manifested its presence in the appointed place at the appointed time; but the patient would not permit the surgery, and at the end of three days paid with death the penalty of his obstinacy.
After it had been perceptible for three days the lizard was to be cut out with a razor, or the man would die.
Through some blunder and delay, a message from the commander of the Lizard to the lieutenant-governor had not yet been delivered, and no alarm had reached the fortress.
Washington for time-signals on theLizard Point: which in no long time I changed for the Start Point.
We visited at Pendarves and Trevince, and made the expedition to the Lizard already referred to, and saw many of the sights in the neighbourhood.
The Passing of Loku The tale of Loku is applied to a large, ugly lizard which climbs to the rafters of houses and gives the peculiar cry that suggests its name.
The royal robes lay scattered on the floor and the only living thing to be seen was an uglylizard that blinked at them from among the plans on the table.
When he awoke from this he crawled over to where the poor little child was looking out from among his wraps with wondering eyes, inserted his hands between the folds of the skin, and drew forth a lizard about four inches in length.
In the night they talked over the matter, and they determined that the child should die, so they buried the magic medicines that draw the poison-lizard to the side of the sleeper, in the floor of the hut of the child's mother.
The lizard we have described was doubtless the grey common wall lizard.
This singular animal belongs to the lizard tribe, and is found in hot climates.
This reptile belonging to the lizard class, was thin and long, its colour light grey, brown on the back, and dark yellow under the belly.
The salamander, or rather the newt that bears that name, partakes of the lizard and frog, being generally from five to six inches in length.
Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.
Mr and Mrs Tremayne and their daughter had reached the little hotel at the Lizard Head, when they heard that a small boat had been seen in a fearfully perilous position anchored at a short distance outside the breakers.
The rocks were passed; he could already distinguish over his bow the lighthouses on the summit of the Lizard Point.
And a year or so later one reads of “the Looe lugger, Morning Star, being chased off the Lizard by the Plymouth revenue cutter and lost sight of in a fog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lizard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chameleon; dinosaur; dragon; reptile; reptilian; tortoise
