Before entering General's Cut, mistaking a large, half submerged alligator for a log on a mud bank, the canoe nearly touched the saurian before he was roused from his nap to retire into the water.
A saurian of some sort, with squat legs and long, fanged mouth, had died there.
The flesh of this animal of the saurian family appeared to us to have an agreeable taste in every country where the climate is very dry; we even found it so at periods when we were not in want of other food.
And znidd you, too," he added, recovering and slamming the ball-head down on the narrow saurian skull.
They walked back from the door, whence they had escorted the delegation, and stood looking down at the saurian heads on the rug.
During the interval between the deposition of the coal measures, which seem to belong to the third, and the Saurian remains which mark the fifth day, we have the Permian and Triassic Rocks, of which the Magnesian.
These words clearly indicate the Saurian and allied tribes of reptiles; and when we turn to the rocks we find the remains of these creatures occurring in great numbers, precisely at the point which Moses assigns to them.
In the same huge cage with the eagles were certain crocodiles, or alligators, or whatever name you may choose to call the Floridian saurian by.
By this time the saurian was fairly awake, and began to provide for his immediate future by opening his mouth.
High the silver ibis flies-- Silver wings in silver skies; In the sun the Saurian lies: Comes the mockingbird and prates To the boatman at the gates Of the Ocklawaha.
Most modern naturalists who use the term saurian still make it an equivalent of lizard, or an animal of the lizard kind.
But the term saurian is no longer in favour, and has faded from science, and is interesting only in ancient history of progress.
Footnote 9: A few miles from the Pacific Ocean, and at the foot of a mountain called by the Shoshones the Dwelling of the Monster, were found the remains of an immense lizard belonging to an extinct family of the saurian species.
The fauna is richest in Saurian reptiles, and of these one might make a very good collection.
I was much interested with some quotations from Lyell's Elements in a late Calcutta Courier, especially about the Marine Saurian from the Gallepagos.
What further proof can be wanted of the maritime and insular nature of the world during the reigns of the Saurian reptiles?
Crocodiles and turtles existed, and amongst the fishes were some of a saurian character.
It seems as if the saurian tribe make special use of their tails for offence and defence.
Surely you had adventures enough, finding pearl-oysters and pearls, eating green cocoanuts off the trees, fishing, and finishing off with an interview with a gigantic saurian and a sail back here.
Yorkshire delivered up to the museum a vast saurian and other creatures of the past of whom we hear in the "Anthem of Earth.
The tongue of a saurian is not free, but the skin may be removed from its upper surface, the flesh replaced with clay, and the skin sewed down again.
It is best that all saurian skeletons, even the largest, should be scraped and mounted without maceration, on account of the elaborate cartilaginous sternum and false ribs.
After a saurian has dried properly, and has been "mached," it should be varnished all over with a coat of white varnish and turpentine, to bring out the colors.
The shrinking power of a big saurian is something fearful to behold, therefore prepare your seams accordingly.
The color of the tongue and roof of the mouth of a saurian is pale yellow, a little lighter than Naples yellow, but never pink.
It is quite a task to skin a ten-foot saurian properly, and to preserve the skin so successfully that none of the scales will slip off when the time comes for the skin to be softened and stuffed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saurian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
