As against the historical traditions of man's mastery, she does well to urge that creation is progressive, and that the megalosaurus was master even before man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

And this is the London to which Marx moved in 1849, the London of Dickens and the London of pea soup of fogs and mud and chaos and in which you might find a megalosaurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karl Marx: A Life] Reference

Sir, -- show me any other place that is, or was since the megalosaurus has died out, where wealth and social influence are so fairly divided between the stationary and the progressive classes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

Get through that London, Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord's Chancellor sitting in the mud on the streets with a megalosaurus creeping up on him or something and see how far I get with this year's Dickens of a Read.    From Wordnik.com.  [44 entries from December 2007] Reference

He has this wonderful picture of London in the fog and the mud and the wet and everything, and he says, you know, ` So much fog and there's so much appearing that it would not be a wonder if a megalosaurus were seen walking along Hobin Hill because it seemed almost primeval, the swamplike nature of London. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karl Marx: A Life] Reference

Where float the mighty ichthyosaurus, the megalosaurus, in company with the gigantic plesiosaurus!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost City] Reference

Talk about your megatherium and your megalosaurus, -- what are these to the bacterium and the vibrio?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

What humble lizard gave birth to those monsters of the fossil world, the plesiosaurus and megalosaurus, thirty or forty feet in length?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'] Reference

'I beg her pardon; but I can't construct a whole child from an inch of mottled leg -- as Professor Owen would a megalosaurus from a tooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference

Of these the most remarkable are the plesiosaurus, the megalosaurus, the iguanodon, and the crocodile of Maestricht, all belonging to extinct species.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

No, Sir, -- show me any other place that is, or was since the megalosaurus has died out, where wealth and social influence are so fairly divided between the stationary and the progressive classes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

Again I ventured a question: "I have always thought the Pterodactyl, megalosaurus and those other gigantic animals roamed the earth monarch of all they surveyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man from Atlantis] Reference

"But, my dear Pamela, do you think it worth while keeping a pair of ponies because they are pretty, and because Colonel Carteret, who knows about as much of a horse as I do of a megalosaurus says they have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume II.] Reference

While the mighty megalosaurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons] Reference

"Or megalosaurus," said Summerlee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost World] Reference

February 04, 2006 10: 09 AM bibliobibuli said ... glad to hear you're a bookaholic too! yes, a tale of two cities has a great opening ... love the opening to dicken's 'bleak house' too ... the bit about the megalosaurus paddling up holborn hill in the fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great First Lines] Reference

Its wonderful whales, not however, as now, of the mammalian, but of the reptilian class, — ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and cetosaurs, must have tempested the deep; its creeping lizards and crocodiles, such as the teliosaurns, megalosaurus, and iguanodon — creatures, some of which more than rivalled the existing elephant in height, and greatly more than rivalled him in bulk — must have crowded the plains, or haunted by myriads the rivers of the period; and we know that the foot-prints of at least one of its many birds are of fully twice the size of those made by the horse or camel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference

Then, by slow degrees, the mountains of Brazil, with their mines of glittering gems, appeared above the surface of the waters, amid which huge reptile-like whales, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and cetiosaurs buffeted the billows, and vast saurians, lizards, and alligators, rivalling the elephant in bulk, and twice his length -- such as the megalosaurus, the iguanodon, and teleosaurus -- crawled along the slimy shores; while giant birds, with wide-spreading feet, stalked across the newly-formed plains, or flew shrieking, with wings of prodigious expanse skimming the glittering sea, -- the lords paramount of this lower world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference