Use reptile in a sentence
Sentences ending with reptile
- I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile. [5]
- What is a reptile? [5]
- He was a poor reptile. [5]
- I have two brothers: Arthur, my elder, with a soul like to his father's; and Hugh, younger than I, a mean spirit, covetous, treacherous, vicious, underhanded--a reptile. [5]
- Would it have been moral parricide for a son of the great divine to have repudiated the doctrine which degraded his blameless infancy to the condition and below the condition of the reptile? [6]
- If it is a reptile, and I suppose it is; for it has frowzy hair and blue eyes, and looks like a reptile. [5]
- She's more than a brick, more than a thousand bricks--she's a reptile! [5]
More example sentences with the word reptile in them
- Something's needed that will play our game and turn the tables on the reptile too. [11]
- They change color when a person comes along and hangs up an immortelle; but that is nothing: any right-feeling reptile would do that. [5]
- Do you believe what this reptile has said? [5]
- Was that reptile Tremouille busy at the King's ear? [5]
- There is one thing that always puzzles me: as inheritors of the mentality of our reptile ancestors we have improved the inheritance by a thousand grades; but in the matter of the morals which they left us we have gone backward as many grades. [5]
- He paused in the door, with his red handkerchief half raised to his sweating face, and contemplated the daring reptile in the corner. [5]
- They had better, swallow this lie if they want to save their abandoned reptile carcasses the cowhiding they so richly deserve. [5]
- Being the whole Seventh Cavalry's reptile, he doesn't belong to anybody in particular, and hasn't any military duties; so he comes and goes as he pleases, and is popular with all the house cats and other authentic sources of private information. [5]
- Our ship and passengers lay under expense and in humiliating captivity all night, under the very nose of the little official reptile who is supposed to protect New York from pestilence by his vigilant "inspections. [5]
- The swift power of the reptile over life and death, was an emblem to the votaries of the power of the god to postpone the death of man or to shorten his days. [10]
- I mean I, not we, for I can see that the reptile cares nothing for such things. [5]
- It is much more distinguished and honorable to be a reptile than a dog, don't you think, Soldier? [5]
- I destroyed the mongrel reptile on the spot, but I smiled and smiled all the time I was detaching his scalp, for the remark he made was good for an "Injun. [5]
- It has no hips; it tapers like a carrot; when it stands, it spreads itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture. [5]
- In his dreams he was pursued by the glare of cold glittering eyes, whether they were in the head of a woman or of a reptile he could not always tell, the images had so run together. [6]
- No other explanation has ever been given of the marvellous fact that the embryos of a man, dog, seal, bat, reptile, etc., can at first hardly be distinguished from each other. [1]
- He took me for a reptile, and it troubled me, because I didn't know whether it was a compliment or not. [5]
- The short, telescoped fishing rod she carried swung round her head and completed its next half-circle at the head of the reptile, even as it was about to strike. [11]
- Newspapers and everybody else called him a pious hypocrite, a sleek, oily fraud, a reptile who manipulated temperance movements, prayer meetings, Sunday schools, public charities, missionary enterprises, all for his private benefit. [5]
- Every foul bird comes abroad, and every dirty reptile rises up. [7]
- Instead of the claw-feet common in furniture of a later date, each of its legs rested on a misshapen reptile, which it seemed to flatten by its weight, as if it were squeezing the breath out of the ugly creature. [6]
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