Amy had once said that if Jessie went to her mother and asked if she could have a pet plesiosaurus, Mrs. Norwood would say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference

“The other is a plesiosaurus (almost lizard), a serpent, armoured with the carapace and the paddles of a turtle; he is the dreadful enemy of the other.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

Mary Anning 1799-1847, the great West Country palaeontologist, struggled for years to have her discoveries – such as the plesiosaurus – recognised as her own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Society's lost women scientists] Reference

But before he could turn to remonstrate she was volubly bidding him not to go off into a brown study over some plesiosaurus, and forget all about his charge, or make a mistake and introduce her to the dinotherium, instead of Professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sara, a Princess] Reference

All at once an enormous head is darted up, the head of the plesiosaurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

The first plesiosaurus fossil was found 35 years ago by a high-schooler! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN Complete] Reference

"How can we find a way that will enable us to dodge the mastodon and the plesiosaurus?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference

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

Suddenly the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus disappear below, leaving a whirlpool eddying in the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

The plesiosaurus, a serpent with a cylindrical body and a short tail, has four flappers or paddles to act like oars.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

I would back our modern carcharodon, who grows to forty feet, against any plesiosaurus that ever swam the Jurassic sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

These diagrams of the plesiosaurus, the ichthyosaurus, the pterodactyle, give you a notion of some of these extinct reptiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

The plesiosaurus was an extraordinary reptile, of gigantic size, the length of whose neck exceeded that of its body and tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Thus terminated the great plesiosaurus hunt, after nearly three hours of the most exciting work that Escombe had ever enjoyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru] Reference

She unearthed a plesiosaurus in 1823, a pterodactyl in 1828 and a squaloraja (a transition fish, between sharks and rays) in 1829.    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] 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

Wales, -- fortunately Scotland was not yet annexed, or the poem would have been even longer, and already it is the plesiosaurus of verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

We have no tornados, our floods only flood our cellars, our earthquakes are a jest, and our volcanoes are as extinct as the plesiosaurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Landscape and Personality] Reference

Of course you have seen pictures of reconstructed creatures such as the ichthyosaurus, the plesiosaurus, the anthracosaurus, and the thermosaurus? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Unknown] 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

"The other is a plesiosaurus (almost lizard), a serpent, armoured with the carapace and the paddles of a turtle; he is the dreadful enemy of the other.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

And here is a cast of the pterodactyle and bones of the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus, just as fresh as if it had been recently dug up in a churchyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

It resembled a span-long plesiosaurus, afflicted with elephantiasis, and a forked, lolling, tongue extruded from a head that swayed ominously right and left.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

And here is a cast of the pterodactyle and bones of the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus, just as fresh-looking as if it had been recently dug up in a churchyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference

Bouilhet, made a inartful attempt to tune the stubborn lyre to music of the birthday of the world, to battles of the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus, to loves of the mammoth and the mastodon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossip in a Library] Reference

True, it would need a very big hook and a very strong line to capture a creature of the size and strength of a plesiosaurus; but to manufacture them was surely not beyond the resources of the inhabitants of the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru] Reference

He is a plesiosaurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

"That's a plesiosaurus!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Don't Dream]

A fresh-water plesiosaurus! "cried Summerlee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost World] Reference