In Virginia, the Botrychium Lunaria is called the Rattle-snake Fern, because that reptile shelters itself beneath its fronds.
The reptile came regularly every morning, and the child, pleased with the beauty of his companion, encouraged the visits.
A reptileof the snake species fastened itself on her wrist.
He strode out of the house, Bray following in his wake, to look for the reptilewhich had caused the alarm.
Entwined round her left wrist was a small snake, or reptile of the species, more than a foot long.
Then it flew down again, and brought the reptile back to the bough, and dropped it once more--and this it did many times.
Then Dot saw him hold the reptile on the branch with his foot, whilst he took its tail into his beak, and proceeded to swallow it in a leisurely way.
Dot felt quite sick, as she saw the reptile begin to uncoil itself, as it lay upon her.
The lowest reptile at your feet, When power is not abused, May prove the fruit of mercy sweet, By being kindly used!
And yet it is only fair to say that this terrible, beautiful reptile showed no disposition to hurt us until we threw clods at him and tried to head him off from a log fence into which he was trying to escape.
Having no rattles, no warning of danger is given to the unwary traveller until the snake darts from its ambush and inflicts a fatal wound; hence the name given to this dangerous reptile is the LANCE DE FER.
Then fear must have inspired the reptile Nelson bestrode, for it put on a sudden desperate burst of speed which carried it past the next two lancers.
It was the work of a moment for Nelson to wrench his reptile around, for already Alden and the Atlantean cavalrymen were speeding across the wide paved court, their lance pennons fluttering bravely in the orange-hued glare.
Becoming irritated at the sturdiness of the barrier, the mountainous reptiletugged harder and hissed, filling the cell with a foul exhalation that stank like the reeks of smoldering rags.
Her courage strained beyond endurance, Altara screamed shrilly in fear as Alden guided the huge reptile to the summit and forced it to light.
With a convulsive shudder and a whistling scream, the hideous reptile commenced to flap its gigantic wings faster, and, slowly but surely, began to rise over the yellow temples and towers of the barbarous city of Jezreel.
I'm not sure, Vic, but I think it was a kind of flying reptile related to the pterodactyl group.
You, I know, will forgive me for this liberty of speech sooner than I can forgive myself: Yet how can one be such a reptile as not to turn when trampled upon!
But the remarkable class of the birds has also been evolved directly from a branch of the reptile group, as is now established beyond question.
The rise of the earliest Amniotes, among which must have been the common ancestor of the reptiles, birds, and mammals, is put back towards the close of the paleozoic age by the discovery of these reptile remains.
Even the reptiles show their greatest growth at this time, so that it is called "the reptile age.
Their common stem-form is an extinct lizard-like reptile of the order of the Rhyncocephalia.
It is connected at its deepest roots with thereptile line, but it then diverges completely from it and follows a distinctive development.
The extinct Protamniote, the ancestor of the whole group, belongs in its whole organisation to the reptile class.
I had hardly time to look at the reptile before it was in the water.
I had not to wait long before he appeared, when I fired the load of small shot, broke his back, and the reptile sank to the bottom.
Raising my stick, I let it fall heavily upon its spine, breaking it and thus preventing the ugly reptile from turning upon me and from retreating or advancing.
Frequently the husband or wife takes beast or reptile shape, as in the grand old romance of Melusine, to which Partenopex bears a strong resemblance, and by which I think it has certainly been sophisticated.
His friendship for the inebriate was of the most sincere kind.
The sight was like electricity on my feelings; a transport of joy bore away my thoughts.
I struggled to live for six months; but my prospects, my hopes of gaining an honest living, were gone.
I was not long in becoming an efficient in the arts these men practiced on the unwary.
Tom opened his heart to me, said foul means had been resorted to, and the girl had thrown herself away, because, while he was held in close confinement, falsehoods had been used to make her believe he had abandoned her.
And as such people were reckoned nothing in Charleston, his mother locked him up in jail, and she was got out of the way.
At times her manner towards me was cold, and I sought to change it with money.
To have her an outcast on his account, to have her leading the life of an abandoned woman, and that with the more galling belief that he had forsaken her, was more than he could bear, and he was sinking under the burden.
For a time they lived at a respectable hotel, as husband and wife.
But her antecedents got out, and they got notice to leave.
This series is designed to sketch attractively and simply the wonders of reptile and insect existences, the changes of trees, rocks, rivers, clouds, and winds.
The socius began to bite his nails, fixing his reptile eye angrily upon Gabriel; Father d'Aigrigny grew livid, and his brow was bathed in cold sweat.
Rodin did not appear to notice it, and yet a sudden light sparkled in his small reptile eyes; while Faringhea, with his arms folded, looked at him with an expression of triumph and disdainful superiority.
The two animals, however, belong to very different branches of the reptile world, and are by no means the most formidable of the Mesozoic reptiles.
A more important difference between the bird and the reptile is that the heart of the bird is completely divided into four chambers, but, as we saw, this probably occurred also in the other flying reptiles.
And before another era of the earth's story opened, the reptile race would be dethroned, and these hunted and despised and feeble eccentricities of Mesozoic life would become the masters of the globe.
Were they a progressive offshoot from the Mesozoic Marsupials, or Monotremes, or do they represent a separate stock from the primitive half-reptile and half-mammal family?
The reptile is strictly limited to one region, the bird can pass from region to region as food becomes scarce.
Food was enormously abundant, and the insect at least had no rival in the air, for neither bird nor flying reptile had yet appeared.
In the Chalk period they form more than a third of the reptile remains in some regions.
We are still dealing with a type intermediate in some respects between the reptile and the modern bird.
The Marsupial, in fact, only rises above the reptile in hatching the egg within its own body, and then suckling the young at the breast.
It is safe to conclude that the man of that remote age will be lifted above the man of to-day as much as we transcend the reptile in intelligence and emotion.
But a long discussion of the problem has convinced scientific men that the feathers are evolved from the scales of the reptile ancestor.
We saw that a primitive bird, with very striking reptilian features, was found in the Jurassic rocks, suggesting very clearly the evolution of the bird from the reptile in the cold of the Permian or Triassic period.
One or two modern reptiles hatch the eggs, or show some concern for them, but the characteristic of the reptile is to discharge its eggs upon the warm earth and trouble no further about its young.
In grade of organisation thereptile is really nearer to the bird than it is to the salamander.
The body of the reptile was spirally entwined, and the head probably served as a handle to move it.
A religion based on the worship of the venomous reptile must have been a religion of terror; in the earliest glimpses which we have of it, the serpent is a symbol of life and of love.
It is nevertheless not impossible, on the contrary it is extremely probable, that a degree of superstitious veneration attached to the reptile itself.
It is immaterial whether we examine the germinative area of the mammal (the rabbit, for instance) or the germinal disk of a bird or a reptile (such as a lizard or tortoise).
He tells us that he killed one day a reptileof this species, which was of a deep brown colour, verging on black, and measured seven feet and a half in length.
Hogs and peccaries, however, are unaffected by this panic, and feed greedily upon the reptile which causes it, whose venomous fangs cannot penetrate their formidable hide.
No sooner does he see, from his aerial station, the scales of the reptilegliding into the herbage or glittering among the large leaves, than he can no longer control himself.
Travellers of unimpeachable authority assert that this frightfulreptile often attains the length of thirty-six to forty-five feet.
Tenderly she took the reptile in her fingers, for she loved this warted monster who seemed by the turn of his head to reciprocate in some way the devotion the girl showered upon him.
Holding the reptile in his hand, he slunk behind the willow tree and stood an instant in abstract hesitation.
As a child she had fled from this man because he tantalized her; as a woman she dreaded him more than any reptile that came from the earth.
The thought of the reptile she loved brought her quickly to her feet.
It seems that there is upon the island a species of reptile classed by the scientists as one of the family of Trigonocephalus, and known to the natives as the "Fer de Lance.
There is a tradition that there was once a disciple in Yabneh who gave a hundred and fifty reasons to prove a reptile to be clean (which the Scripture regards as unclean.
As they journeyed along, the question was proposed to them, "Whence is it proved that the blood of a reptile is unclean?
