An alligator-like reptile has been found in the Patapsco River, just south of Baltimore. From Wordnik.com. [Unusual reptile found in Md. river] Reference
I loved the Twist and the little Charleston kicks, and his alligator-like crawl toward her at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood] Reference
This lets the gar move its head in an alligator-like fashion, violently nodding and thrashing to help it devour prey. From Wordnik.com. [Fun Facts About Alligator Gar] Reference
Two demons were approaching: a Ravener, with its alligator-like body and serrated teeth, its scorpion tail curling forward over its back, and a Drevak, its pale white maggot-flesh gleaming in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [City of Ashes] Reference
Here you can find everything from the alligator-like caiman to the anaconda, one of the biggest snakes in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference
Duke as he stands next to the panel's long, beige desk and whacks him on the arm with her large, brown purse made of an alligator-like material. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
· Having Laura come back from a night walk (looking for alligator-like caimans) with Kevin, and seeing how excited she was to have finally seen a tree frog like the one in her study guide. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Thus there were many Fish Lizards paddling in the seas, many types of terrestrial dragons stalking about on land, many swiftly gliding alligator-like forms, and the Flying Dragons which began in the Triassic attained to remarkable success and variety. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
And when the immigrant settler takes axe amid the deep backwoods, to lay open for the first time what he deems a new country, the great trees that fall before him, -- the brushwood that he lops away with a sweep of his tool, -- the unfamiliar herbs which he tramples under foot, -- the lazy fish-like reptile that scarce stirs out of his path as he descends to the neighboring creek to drink, -- the fierce alligator-like tortoise, with the large limbs and small carpace, that he sees watching among the reeds for fish and frogs, just as he reaches the water, -- and the little hare-like rodent, without a tail, that he startles by the way, -- all attest, by the antiqueness of the mould in which they are cast, how old. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
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