Lemminkainen looked into the pitchers of beer, and saw snakes and worms and lizards floating about in them.
But there he found the great wall of iron and the fence of spears and the horrible snakes and lizards that his mother had told him of.
Mangoes falling with a thump to the ground outside, and lizards and all sorts of harmless creatures crawling or flying about the house, helped to carry out the tropical effect.
I am really friendly with only one of the smaller lizards here--and he is a large one; the big monitor at the corner.
We passed through it, single file, by the narrow footpath, where the ling rises knee-high on either side, and the little brown lizards dart wildly to their holes at first sound of a footfall.
And, indeed, there are dozens of lizards to the square yard in England, though I never before knew one of them to assail me of its own accord.
This common fondness for lizards is a point in favour of a connection between the Gujarat Vaghris and the Punjab Bawarias.
This is also the case with the Bawarias of the Punjab, who go out hunting lizards in the rains and may be seen returning with baskets full of live lizards, which exist for days without food and are killed and eaten fresh by degrees.
She picked the wild flowers and made them into wreaths; she softly sang sweet songs to herself, and she watched the squirrels and lizards as they played about among the trees.
There must be hundreds of lizards singing up there among the bushes, too, and I don't know what else.
The Gowaris eat pork, fowls, rats, lizards and peacocks, and abstain only from beef and the flesh of monkeys, crocodiles and jackals.
I am trying experiments on transportation of all organic beings that I can; and lizards are found on every island, and therefore I am very anxious to see whether their eggs stand sea-water.
Ivy hangs over, grass and flowers spring from the ancient stones, and lizards run about.
How many beautiful villas in which one could be happy sunning oneself among the lizards lie between this point and Florence!
North Africa, indeed, is the classic land of beetles; also a few snakes and manylizards were observed.
I believe lizards abound in every part of The Sahara, but the cold now keeps them in their holes.
Lizards I saw in plenty, but their shy, quick way of darting out of sight reminded me more of the bashful little squirrels at home than anything else.
The lizards were silent friends of one poet, and golden oranges gleamed over the walls to the unaccustomed eyes of the other like sunshine gathered into globes.
She could lure the butterflies in the garden to her," which reminds us of Browning's whistling for lizards at Asolo.
Major Moor and Captain Green observed similar lizards in India, that ran up the walls and over the ceilings after the mosquitos.
These lizards are sometimes so tame that they will feed out of the hand.
Some of the tropical lizards are of very considerable size, attaining a length of as much as six feet, as in the iguanas of America, some of which are esteemed as food.
Newts= are separated from the lizards on account of their changes while young.
These are Diurnal Snakes, which live entirely upon trees, where they prey chiefly on arboreal lizards and frogs.
By some of the natives this Iguana is said to eat Lizards and insects; but I have opened several, and I have never succeeded in finding any but vegetable matter in the stomach.
In the Crocodiles and Monitor Lizards, however, a mutilated part is not renewed, and the renovated tails of other Lizards do not develop bone.
This group of Lizards has no representative in America or (so far as known) in Australia.
In general these are Lizards which correspond with the ordinary Lacertidae of the Old World.
With others these Lizardsconstitute the sub-family Tropidolepinae of Dr.
Lizards chiefly of Southern Africa, several species of which have been figured by Sir Andrew Smith.
Many Serpents and Lizards glitter with radiant metallic reflections, and some of them present extremely varied combinations of colour.
As most of them are remarkable for their rapid changes of colouring, the name of Chameleon is often misapplied to them, in the supposition that the Chameleons are the only Lizards in which that curious phenomenon is observable.
Lizards do not renew the tail, or a portion of it, after mutilation.
Grey Lizards are easily tamed, and appear happy in captivity.
Yet the greater affinity of these reptiles to the ordinary Lizards is indicated by another character, which is in intimate connection with their mode of life.
A few lizards now and then glanced over the path, and at every thirty or forty yards rose a busy ant-hill.
Well, one day we'd been out collecting grasshoppers andlizards and all that kind of beastliness which those fellows eat, and stayed out too late.
Even the very lizards peering forth from the cracks and crannies of the walls, or basking on the clay summit of old Kaatje's outdoor oven, seemed gasping for air, for moisture.
Lizards of all sizes, shapes and dispositions managed to take passage on the Rambler, much to the disgust of the boys and the anger of Captain Joe, who attacked them relentlessly but could not keep the boat free of them.
But if the lizards and snakes and ants were unwelcome guests on the boat and at the little camps, there were plenty of other visitors who more than compensated for them.
Townsend believes that lizards constitute the natural reservoir of verruga; and it seems probable that field mice harbor the organism of tsutsugamushi disease.
Lizards inhabit the same places, and the flies, always ready to suck blood in the absence of light and wind, have been found more prone to suck reptilian than mammalian blood.
Townsend believes that in nature, lizards constitute the reservoir of the disease and that it is from them that the Phlebotomus flies receive the infection.
In fact, hardly any animal is needlessly cruel, as some men and naughty boys are--for instance, naughty boys who torture frogs and lizards and then kill them.
These Permian lizards differ astonishingly little from the lizards which exist at the present day.
The majority resembled lizards and crocodiles in their general form, and many of them were, like crocodiles, protected by an armour of heavy bony plates.
He spoke to empty air: there was no one to hear him but the little green lizards who had slid out of their holes in the stone under the window-step.
The crickets were chirping, the lizards were gliding, the butterflies were flying above the ripe corn, the reapers were out among the wheat, and the tall stalks were swaying and falling under the sickle.
The remains of fish-lizards have attracted the attention of collectors and describers of fossils for nearly two centuries past.
More than twenty species of long-necked sea-lizards are known to geologists.
The Monitors are a family of large lizards inhabiting the warmer parts of Africa and Asia.
It might, perhaps, be asked whether the fish-lizards breathed, like fishes, by means of gills.
But the fish-lizards had two pairs of these appendages, and the hinder or pelvic pair no doubt were of great service in helping the creatures to come up to the surface when necessary.
At any rate, there is every reason to believe that the long-necked sea-lizards were descended from an earlier form of land reptile.
Some species of fish-lizards had as many as over a hundred separate little bones in the fore-paddle.
I turned my head suddenly to look at two queer butterflies; and all the lizards hid themselves again.
So motionless we remained that the green and gray lizards were putting out their heads from behind the columns of the veranda to stare at us,--as if wondering whether we were really alive.
Notes on some salamanders and lizardsof North Georgia.
As compared with other North American lizards in general, Eumeces fasciatus is notable for the relatively exposed and superficial situations chosen as nesting sites.
A taxonomic study of the cosmopolitan scincoid lizards of the genus Eumeces with an account of the distribution and relationships of its species.
Taylor revealed that the lizards previously referred to in the literature as Eumeces fasciatus, actually were three closely related and similar, partly sympatric species.
Sudden violent twisting and thrashing alternated with quiet periods of a few seconds duration, in which the lizards scarcely moved except for heavy panting and twitching of their tails.
Small vertebrates such as young lizards and mice are sometimes eaten.
On several occasions small nematodes and flukes were seen in feces voided by lizards which were handled.
Hibernation site of the lizards Eumeces and Anolis in Louisiana.
Such secretive lizards as skinks (principally Eumeces in North America) with low body temperature preferences approximating 30 deg.
Insect food of Kansas lizards with notes on feeding habits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lizards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
