lizard

Among the few animals which are to be met with in Typee, there was none which I looked upon with more interest than a beautiful golden-hued species of lizard. It measured perhaps five inches from head to tail, and was most gracefully proportioned.

Serpents' filth and evil odour, the distance concealed from me: and that a lizard's craft prowled thereabouts lasciviously.

The giant lizard's progress could be traced by the disturbance of the leaves and underbrush, and the professor was following as closely as possible.

wan light of the horned moon, The swift and silent lizard of the stones!

"Why is he weeping?" asked a little Green Lizard, as he ran past him with his tail in the air.

"That tall, harsh-looking man is very learned, he discovered, in the neighborhood of Rome, a kind of lizard with a vertebra more than lizards usually have, and he immediately laid his discovery before the Institute.

The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.

She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate.

Among the lizard kind was one about nine or ten inches in length, exclusive of the tall, and three inches in circumference.

Of lizards there were many kinds, but only one (Proctotretus multimaculatus) remarkable from its habits.

"Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves."

The woman now raised her arms, even as the man-bear had done, and in a twinkling the wolves became crawling lizards, while she herself changed into a huge butterfly.