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    reptile


    1. In the confusion that survivalist reptile brain stem ensures that Bex slips her sachet of powder into Leona’s bag


    2. The club is strangely silent, as if the scaffolding and the industrial ephemera that make up its skin are being sloughed-off by the reptile within


    3. ‘I wouldn't count on that,’ the reptile said


    4. And our arrested reptile? Well he walked into the charge office to lay a complaint against his treatment and apparently the charge office emptied within seconds with policemen standing on desks and the counter shouting for someone to shoot the beast and at the same time look around for a camera for their lieutenant isn’t going to believe this tomorrow


    5. Any mamba is a really a nasty reptile to be avoided at all costs


    6. After all, our planet has witnessed the extinction of a variety of species over the centuries whether insect, reptile or mammal replaced by others through the processes of Biological Evolution and Natural Selection


    7. This whole area (Black Hills) is a bit of a Disneyland tourist place, with reptile gardens, mystery spots, caves, and 5,342 gift shops


    8. When Molo woke up, it was to the recently-made familiar smell of cooked reptile meat


    9. The thought of actually beginning to enjoy desert-hunted reptile wildlife made him shiver with disgust at himself for even thinking of abasing himself in such a barbaric way


    10. Some amongst the assembled soldiers wondered if he was indeed human or possibly part reptile beneath the dark hood

    11. move the drapes where I’d find a reptile as startled as I am


    12. Flaming bits of reptile flew everywhere


    13. Then, I thought it might be a reptile and fear started to take shape in my mind


    14. While reptile pollination is practically unheard- of in temperate climates, many fascinating examples of such interactions are being discovered in the tropics! Dr


    15. Ashamed, he silently asked the reptile for forgiveness and buried it


    16. The tar-black skull was a freakish hybrid of man and reptile without eyes or nostrils


    17. Blood drenched the rails as the dying monster swayed far out, still gripping its victim, and sank into the river, coil by coil, lashing the water to bloody foam, in which man and reptile vanished together


    18. As he impatiently scanned the grass for the reptile, the giant blacks braced their feet, grunted and heaved with their huge muscles coiling and straining under their ebon skin


    19. Eyes glued on the sleeping reptile he reached the dais and mounted the glass steps


    20. A knife-thrust he did not dread, but he feared Khemsa as a man fears a poisonous reptile

    21. The girl moved around the image, making toward the back wall, and when her sleek flank brushed against a carven knee, she shrank aside and shuddered as if a reptile had touched her


    22. Neither man nor any beast that he had ever seen could have left that strange, monstrous three-toed print, that was curiously combined of the bird and the reptile, yet a true type of neither


    23. The forest beyond the river might seem desolate and vacant of life to the ignorant eye, but life teemed there, not alone of bird and beast and reptile, but also of men, the fiercest of all the hunting beasts


    24. And then something that glinted in the firelight streaked from the shadows of the huts, and the great reptile whipped about and went into instant convulsions


    25. The great brute squatted below, watching the crag with the frightful patience of the reptile folk


    26. Surely this reptile was one born and grown in darkness, yet its eyes were full of evil and sure sight


    27. But this reptile was venomous; he saw the great fangs, a foot long, curved like scimitars


    28. There was a large reptile in the lagoon although not an alligator


    29. The native alligator was not the only reptile to increase in population since gator poaching had been curtailed some years before


    30. The forgotten reptile, the Florida crocodile, also benefitted from this protection and had slowly, insidiously, increased in numbers without the fanfare accorded the alligator

    31. The full moon was shining in all its glory as it dawned on the man that the huge reptile facing him wasn‘t a gator but, by God, a crocodile


    32. Giving a low command to the fired up canine Sam backed slowly away from the huge reptile


    33. Johanna shrinks back and looks at the reptile less slobbery than when she looked at Noël


    34. Lezura leaned in close to Joey, patted Redbolt on his snout, and said, “A racusha is an armor-plated, four legged predator somewhere between a mammal and a reptile, known as a therapsid


    35. As her father picked up the leaf, holding it in front of her, she saw that the reptile, string, and leaf, were indeed all one


    36. The reptile simply stared back


    37. reptile reign created opportunity for mammalian expansion and ascension


    38. The face of a reptile with fake tan looks at me with familiar light blue eyes


    39. ”88 It’s the reptile brain that politicians speak to when they


    40. so, of course, because it works: our reptile brains are deep-seated

    41. staring up at the swaying reptile, wondering whether he might have been able to turn himself into


    42. He had to find the reptile quickly, grab it, and bash the


    43. But then the huge reptile had materialised in his lap, and started to


    44. “But, it probably wasn’t alone; probably more snakes hatched over the years,” my son said, remembering his reptile studies in science class


    45. It slid quickly across the dirt, moving faster than any reptile Lov had ever seen


    46. A serpent is a second form belonging to the same reptile in image and reality, but much simpler than a dragon


    47. He acquired control over the reptile by taking hold of the mane on its scaly neck and using it to steer the lizard in whichever direction he desired


    48. They learned this from the root's digestion of the tunneling bug; the bird's ingestion of the strawberry's fruit; the lizard's good fortune in the unguarded nest; the cat's playful snack on a clawed reptile shish kabob; and their thankfulness for the curiosity of their dinner, who had wandered quite wondrously into the path of their hungrily tossed net


    49. Reptile fossils from this time, such as fossils of pythons and


    50. The reptile helps dispose of heads and












































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    Synonyms for "reptile"

    reptile reptilian beast savage monster fiend animal

    "reptile" definitions

    any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms