The fact that he was fifty quid in the red and expecting Civilisation to take a toss at any moment had caused Uncle Tom, who always looked a bit like a pterodactyl with a secret sorrow, to take on a deeper melancholy.
You can't say too much for the picturesqueness of the pterodactyl --he was the triumph of his period.
Then came the pterodactyl, who thought all that preparation all those millions of years had been intended to produce him, for there wasn't anything too foolish for a pterodactyl to imagine.
In Pterodactyl and bat the wing is a web-wing or patagium, and a small web is to be seen on the front side of the bird's wing.
Thus the long-fingered Pterodactyl wing was a parachute wing, while the secret of the bird's wing has its centre in the feathers.
Whether I go to the ant as sluggard, or myrmocologist, or accidentally, via Pterodactyl Pups, a day spent with them invariably leaves me with my whole being concentrated on this mysterious Atta Ego.
But for a very few seconds these Pterodactyl Pups, as I nicknamed them, gave me all the thrill of a sudden glimpse into the life of past ages.
The pyramidal rock upon which I saw and shot the pterodactyl was more accessible.
You may remember that day we found the pterodactyl rookery in the swamp--what?
If its homing instinct led it upon the right line, there can be no doubt that somewhere out in the wastes of the Atlantic the last European pterodactyl found its end.
You will observe that both thepterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life.
As Challenger spoke of his pterodactyl I glanced at Professor Summerlee, and for the first time I seemed to see some signs of a dawning credulity and repentance.
It was on that," said Professor Challenger, pointing to this tree, "that thepterodactyl was perched.
The Pterodactyl also, a flying reptile, is met with in the same strata, and many remains of Chelonians of the genera Trionyx and Emys, now confined to tropical regions.
The Pterodactyl of the Kentish chalk, above alluded to, was of gigantic dimensions, measuring 16 feet 6 inches from tip to tip of its outstretched wings.
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It would seem therefore that the meeting in Agamemnon's tent was only a copy or adaptation of the true constitutional "council of elders," which indeed was essentially unfitted for the purposes of military service.
It was a long-billed Pterodactylfrom the famous lithographic stone of Solenhofen in Bavaria.
But, in spite of this great authority, who has defended his opinion somewhat strongly, there are others who argue that the amount of work involved in sustaining a Pterodactyl in the air make it highly probable that it was warm-blooded.
It is probable that this Pterodactyl could walk on the ground with its wings folded, and perhaps it was also capable of perching on trees, by clinging on to their branches with its feet and toes.
But if we compare the skeleton of a Pterodactyl (such as the P.
Twice in succession he refused a second help ofpterodactyl at the tribal luncheon table.
I knew that the thing that had attacked me was some sort of pterodactyl which should have been extinct millions of years ago.
My effort to dodge the tree and the pterodactyl at the same time resulted disastrously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pterodactyl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; dinosaur; mammoth
