| 单词 | pterodactyl |
| 例句 | “Did we not talk about Mrs. Curie’s element? Mrs. Maxwell’s screech owl? Miss Anning’s pterodactyl? Her ichthyosaur?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But in this game, there was nothing except the two other pterodactyls, the ocean, and the distant volcano. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Since today is all about flights of fancy and fancy flights, our next contest is to see which of you would make the paleontologically perfect prehistoric pterodactyl.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “He was smart, the way he recharged his pterodactyl’s battery.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She could make out tiny little microdactyls, medium-sized minidactyls, and then the fully grown pterodactyls, all sailing back and forth, snapping at each other or whatever prey they could find, dancing across the darkness. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A blue heron stood perched on an old bleached tire, and when she saw us she spread her wings and flew away, more pterodactyl than bird. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Eight of those screeching, short-armed monsters had appeared to snap at the eight flying pterodactyls. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Harper screamed right before his pterodactyl plummeted to its watery grave. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It was four times as wide as the other fliers and shrieked at the runts in the pterodactyl pack. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “To accelerate, simply flap your arms faster. However, be advised: The faster you fly, the more energy your pterodactyl will consume. Your winged avatar will have a ‘life battery’ icon glowing on its back. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z When he did, the battery icon on the back of his pterodactyl dipped down to three-quarters. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z There’s also a winged pterodactyl that appears once in a while to wreak havoc. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When Kyle’s pterodactyl reached the volcano, a hot-air balloon rose from the smoldering basin. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The pterodactyl bobbed and scooped up a mouthful of fish. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He pulled back on his speed, wishing this flying pterodactyl game came with power pellets of some kind. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Affixed to poles were a bunch of colorful kites shaped like pterodactyls, each gently rising and falling in the breeze. From pterodactyls to flying fighters, kites are more fun than ever 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Theo got busy inventing prehistoric scenarios — “This cave is where the pterodactyl kept her babies safe” — as Jack leapt from the plateaus like a gazelle in the Serengeti. On a dino crusade in Utah, tracks don’t always follow the map 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “Everyone knows what a pterodactyl is,” he said. ArtsBeat Blog: Five Minutes at CMJ With Pterodactyl 2011-10-21T17:15:46Z Prevents that cute little butterfly from metamorphosing into an attacking pterodactyl. Style Invitational Week 1087: The core ridiculum — courses you’d like to see Rich folks, we figured, had big, walk-in ovens in which you could roast a pterodactyl and needed an extra-large pan for something called soirees. Perspective | One thing made the difference for Momma’s turkey: Her magic pan 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z For all its flying machines, which navigate the air like magical pterodactyl skeletons on a crazy chase-race, the movie has trouble soaring. John Carter: Andrew Stanton's Martian Mission Impossible 2012-03-08T16:11:02Z Mallard ducks swim between our boats, but pterodactyls seem more suited to the scenery. Circumnavigating Italy’s storied Lake Como by paddle and pedal 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z "He and I made a pact to grow old but never grow up - to keep the pterodactyl and the tyrannosaurus forever in our hearts," Bradbury said. Special effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:34:11Z But then one of the characters unearths what looks like a wizened pterodactyl claw. 'Hard Labor' serves up Brazil sans bikinis 2011-05-13T17:36:12Z In one screen sequence, angular shapes like faceless pterodactyls winged over receding orange discs. Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Lassoing together a plot that involves freak tennis accidents, a pterodactyl on the loose and affable resurrected mummies forced Besson to crank up the kind of daffy humour that made The Fifth Element sparkle. Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z We were as one, though, on words beginning with p we’d been asked to list: “Did my sister say pterodactyl?” she’d asked, and yes, I had. A letter to … Identical twins, who truly know what it’s like to be one of a pair 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z What do you get when you cross a shark with an octopus and a pterodactyl with a barracuda? TV This Week July 27 - Aug. 2: 'The Honorable Woman' on Sundance 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z We did have to witness Mr. Cumming’s mussed hair forming what looked like pterodactyl wings. ArtsBeat: 'Good Wife' Watch: Moments Savored, Loose Ends Tied Up 2012-01-30T06:00:19Z They fight for their lives with pterodactyls, see iguanodons at play and watch the tragedies of life among the gigantic dinosaurs. Review: ‘The Lost World,’ by Arthur Conan Doyle 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He is adopted by a baby pterodactyl who feeds him and teaches him to fly. | 'Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling': ?Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling? at Classic Stage - Review 2011-10-04T02:01:04Z CJ even established the laughable code word "pterodactyl" as a cry for immediate help from her two dating colleagues. How does a show called “FBoy Island” get made? The show's creator spills the tea 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z A "broken-winged pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state," to quote one federal judge. A tour of what may be the nation’s most bizarrely gerrymandered district 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z A pair of newlyweds launch a dove into the air, and it’s quickly gobbled up by a pterodactyl. How a thrilling eight minute short might save the Jurassic franchise 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z If Miami is a flamingo city, this tends more in the pterodactyl direction. 1111 Lincoln Road 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z His pterodactyls and his dinosaurs and even his missing links are, indeed, rather more real and convincing than his two scientists, who are portrayed with broad and humorous caricature. Review: ‘The Lost World,’ by Arthur Conan Doyle 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Scores of glossy, black-green birds with bright-green eyes were standing guard over broods of what appeared to be fluffy little pterodactyls. Cruising the North Sea’s wild — and sometimes vanishing — Farne Islands 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But when he takes wood, bones, fabrics and stuffing, the resulting figures do look as if they’d be equally comfortable scaring a pterodactyl or schmoozing with Fozzie Bear. A Diverse Selection at Frieze London 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z An op-ed in Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper, described it as “a dying mantis or a poorly formed pterodactyl.” Columbia Students Protest a Henry Moore Sculpture 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Both silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe was a trippy place, populated by things such as a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl. Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z This pterodactyl sculpture mailbox is representative of art as healing modality and posits the pterodactyl as alternative to the rising phoenix — like, when a phoenix isn’t nearly gnarly enough to symbolize hardships overcome. The fabulously creative (and personal) mailboxes of Bainbridge Island 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Pterosaurs like the iconic pterodactyl are closely related to birds and other dinosaurs, and as such new discoveries about them regularly excited fans of science. The oldest pterosaur ever was just discovered; it's 107 million years old 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z “There’s nothing like seeing your bird fly out of sight into the Los Angeles metropolis … but returning, screaming like a pterodactyl dinosaur — to find me,” says Quach. He wants L.A. to love macaws as much as it loves dogs. Will free flying do the trick? 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public. Hollywood sex symbol Raquel Welch dies at 82 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Clearly, this poor pterodactyl has been through a lot. Never-before-seen jurassic mix between flamingo and whale unearthed 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Refocusing his anger in fashioning the pterodactyl was a therapeutic process of transference through which he allows the sculpture to own the anger instead of the anger owning him. The fabulously creative (and personal) mailboxes of Bainbridge Island 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Pterosaurs, more commonly called pterodactyls, were the first animals with bones to start flying, more than 200 million years ago, long before birds and bats took to the skies. Scottish fossil revealed to be pterodactyl ancestor 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z A single asteroid robbed us of the chance to see pterodactyls soar across the sky, or to have them use us for food, depending on which way you look at it. Opinion | Three cheers for NASA’s asteroid smasher 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z In June and early July, the rookery would typically resemble a nursery overrun with featherless black-skinned newborns with pterodactyl features or weeks-old hatchlings with heart-shaped brown patches on their backs. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z A pterodactyl with some especially weird teeth was recently discovered in Southern Germany, shedding new light on the behaviors and diet of these ancient flying reptiles. Never-before-seen jurassic mix between flamingo and whale unearthed 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Amid rows of leafy green corn, a long center-pivot irrigation system is perched like a giant skeletal pterodactyl with its wings outstretched. As Russia Chokes Ukraine’s Grain Exports, Romania Tries to Fill In 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z This small, scampering Triassic reptile is, scientists say, the ancestor of the great, winged pterodactyl. Scottish fossil revealed to be pterodactyl ancestor 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z This means that a wide range of iconic dinosaurs were warm-blooded: Velociraptors and tyrannosaurus rexes were theropods, pterodactyls and so-called "monkeydactyls" were pterosaurs, triceratopses and stegosauruses were ornithischia, and brontosauruses and brachiosauruses were sauropods. Were dinosaurs warm- or cold-blooded? New study settles an old debate 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Also in 2021, scientists cracked the mystery of how pterodactyls were able to swoop down and scoop up large prey without breaking their necks. Pterosaurs had brightly colored feathers like toucans, according to a new study 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z A federal judge famously remarked that the 2011 maps’ 3rd Congressional District resembled a “broken-winged pterodactyl lying prostrate across the state.” Judge throws out Maryland congressional map over ‘extreme’ gerrymandering 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z On the train from Paris to Arbois, it’s easy to imagine Tyrannosaurus rex and pterodactyls in place of cows and sheep. In France’s Jura region, dinosaur fossils have left a footprint on the wine industry 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The National Museum of Scotland said the fossil of the pterosaur, more popularly known as pterodactyls, is the largest of its kind ever discovered from the Jurassic period. ‘Superbly preserved’ pterosaur fossil unearthed in Scotland 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The state’s current map includes serpentine districts that have been likened to blood spatter, a “broken-winged pterodactyl” and, on Monday, a “salamander having seizures.” Maryland lawmakers take up gerrymandering, veto overrides 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Paragon also wrote many of the show’s episodes and voiced Pterri, the talking pterodactyl. Actor John Paragon, Jambi the Genie on 'Pee-Wee's Playhouse,' dies at 66 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z I thought back to her newborn sonic effusions as a chirruping cherub on my chest who let forth ribbits during hiccups and sounded at times like a soprano cartoon pterodactyl. Marching to the Beat of the 17-Year Cicada Clock 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The main culprits are marine reptiles like mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs; flying reptiles like pterodactyls; and the sail-backed dimetrodon, which is actually more closely related to humans than dinosaurs. A Paleontologist’s Guide to Playing with Your Dinosaur-Obsessed Kid 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The ninth floor is a museum, where a possessed T. rex tries to chomp down Luigi, and we fight back with pterodactyl eggs, which can materialize despite the creature being dead. Review: In ‘Luigi's Mansion 3,’ Nintendo hides a character study in an adventure game 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z A bug-eating pterodactyl flies out of a coal mine and wrecks Japan with sonic booms. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z He said he kept the bird on a line to prevent it from escaping and frightening Chicagoans who might mistake the bird for “a pterodactyl.” Jim Fowler, intrepid host of ‘Wild Kingdom’ nature series, dies at 89 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z There’s also a giraffe, a woolly mammoth, Bigfoot, several dozen concrete mushrooms, a handful of ornamental pigs, and a pair of expectant pterodactyls keeping watch over some dinosaur eggs nesting in a juniper bush. 'I see any dinosaur, I buy it': at home with the embattled owner of the Flintstone house 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District is so convoluted that it looks like a broken-winged pterodactyl or blood spatter at a crime scene, depending on whom you ask. Opinion | Take it from us: Politicians can’t be trusted to draw electoral maps 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z A federal judge described it as “reminiscent of a broken-wing pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the state.” Opinion | Maryland, the court and partisan redistricting 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Blessed with a spectacular talent, a 7-foot-3 hybrid of a shooting guard and a pterodactyl defender, most teams would craft a team and organizational philosophy around him. David Fizdale Is Totally Going to Save the Knicks 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In the resulting map, the Democratic Third District was so laughably contorted that a federal judge compared it to a “broken-winged pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state.” Like Abstract Expressionists, They Draw the Free-Form Political Maps Now Under Scrutiny 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z She continues to hover above the party like some giant pterodactyl of Christmas Past. Opinion | My Brother Kevin’s Not Tired of Winning 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z After 500 points, pterodactyls enter the game, and you must press the Down arrow key to avoid them. When Dinosaurs Roam in Chrome 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z She has a streak of pinkish-purple hair, a tattoo of a pterodactyl with a cheeseburger in its beak, and a reputation as a formidable MMA fighter worthy of her nickname, Gina Danger. Will Studies of 700 Pro Fighters Help Predict Future Brain Damage? 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z There is also a “hatchery” full of baby T. rexes and close by is a watchful pterodactyl. Jurassic Allouez: Wisconsin man creates backyard theme park 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z A federal judge once described the 3rd Congressional District as a “broken-winged pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state.” Martin O’Malley and Larry Hogan are both pushing to end gerrymandering 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Of the numerous future NFL players who will be on the field at Raymond James Stadium, none might be as league-ready as Williams, who is 6 feet 3 with a pterodactyl wingspan. Clemson receiver Mike Williams is focused on the opportunity gained, not the one lost 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Our reptilian brains evolved to be hyper-alert to dangers, which was lifesaving in an age of pterodactyls. 5 reasons to vote Trump 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Before long the world was full of trilobites and anemones, then fish, ferns, pterodactyls, tyrannosaurs, bees, whales, cacti, kangaroos, not to mention us. This gene helps prevent cancer. Did it also give rise to all complex life? 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z He achieved that with velociraptors, T. rexes, and pterodactyls. Jurassic Allouez: Wisconsin man creates backyard theme park 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z More than four decades later, 1,200 Columbia students are fighting a different sort of battle: one against the placement of a “hideous” Henry Moore sculpture that they say looks like “a poorly formed pterodactyl”. Columbia students oppose installation of 'hideous' Henry Moore sculpture 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z One of the most egregious examples is Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, which one judge likened to a “broken-winged pterodactyl” because of how it stretches across narrow parts of four counties. In Md. and Va., efforts to end gerrymandering face major obstacles: Lawmakers 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z As a child, you were fascinated by pterodactyls. Wind back the clock and explain how this childhood obsession got you interested in movement. Why You Move the Way You Do A federal judge once referred to the 3rd Congressional District, which meanders through four counties, as “a broken-winged pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state.” Panel calls for independent process to tame Maryland gerrymandering 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Some claim the image is that of a dragon or pterodactyl, but researchers have long maintained that it’s something far more mundane. ‘Winged monster’ on ancient rock art debunked by scientists 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z A federal judge once described the same district as “reminiscent of a broken-winged pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state.” Larry Hogan, Maryland governor, forms redistricting reform panel 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But like so many misconceptions about middle and post-middle age, the idea is slowly going the way of the pterodactyl. Health Clubs and Resorts Catch On With Older Adults 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Talking from his home in England, the Cambridge evolutionary biologist recalls what pterodactyls taught him about movement, how getting lost is important, and why our feet are, in his words, squidgy. Why You Move the Way You Do I watched a hamerkop staring at its own reflection and wondered if it, too, thought the crown on its head was derivative of a pterodactyl. Into Canoeing? Try It on an African River Safari 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Later, Trevorrow stages a large-scale homage to Alfred Hitchcock when the park is attacked by swarming pterodactyls. Review: ‘Jurassic World’ ups the ante, with mixed success 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z One judge compared the 3rd Congressional District to a “broken-winged pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state.” Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to San Francisco gun law 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z All the newest toys, including magnetic sand, remote-controlled pterodactyls, stuffed-animal Grumpy Cats and endless construction sets, are not only on display throughout three massive floors—they’re unboxed. 6 of the Coolest Science Toys Coming Out in 2015 [Slide Show] 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z That means it would only be a second out if it had started keeping time back in the peak of the Jurassic Period when diplodocus were lumbering around and pterodactyls wheeling in the sky. The element that redefined time 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z These are the pterodactyls of the microbial world — except that they are still very much with us. A Tiny Emissary From the Ancient Past 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The two-minute clip is rife with bizarre situations and questionably written dialogue, including a brief glimpse of Tyson riding a purple pterodactyl with a rocket launcher in hand. 'Mike Tyson Mysteries' looks like Scooby-Doo on hallucinogens 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Gone were the placoderm fish, the Ice Age mammals, the hollow-boned pterodactyls. The right’s dinosaur fetish: Why the Koch brothers are obsessed with paleontology 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s a massive thing, reminiscent of a pterodactyl. Backyard bird feeders: Free seed inspires an entertaining battle of the beaks Search engine optimization is always changing, whether Google calls the latest edition a penguin, a panda, or a pterodactyl. What Every Leader Needs to Know about SEO 2013-04-09T14:23:55Z Sportswriters, struggling to describe him, have compared him to capellini and a pterodactyl. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Fairy-Tale Rise 2012-11-08T22:22:55Z Nevertheless, Inman has decided to fight FunnyJunk on his own terms, drafting a hilarious letter of defiance, which can be viewed, pterodactyls and all on his blog. How The Oatmeal made FunnyJunk's legal threats a laughing matter 2012-06-13T12:00:01Z Now, in northern New Jersey a live sheep is well nigh as rare as a pterodactyl. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z And there was one play when Hanie threw a screen to Forte, completely oblivious to the Raider already covering the Bears running back like a pterodactyl. Bears' Hanie must wise up or sit down 2011-11-29T15:34:00Z It has also been thought that birds and those flying reptiles, the pterodactyls, have had a common ancestry, and the possibility of this is still entertained. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z The 50s was chocked with mutants — giant bugs and amphibians, revived dinosaurs and pterodactyls, men who grew to Colossi or incredibly shrank to nothing — but what if the monsters looked just like us? Happy Halloween: TIME's 25 Scariest Horror Movies 2011-10-31T21:35:13Z Unknown pre-dawn pranksters on Saturday constructed an elaborate scene of a pterodactyl seemingly about to pluck the sculpture of a young surfer off his board. Latest San Diego statue prank shows fake pterodactyl swooping down on bronze surfer 2011-08-14T04:41:07Z A pterodactyl in my life and soul: Had wings, could fly, but slumbered in the mud. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z The whole idea of dragons may have originated from traditions about the pterodactyls which lived in the Mesozoic period. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Pterosaurs, also sometimes referred to as pterodactyls, dominated the skies in the Mesozoic Era, 220-65 million years ago. 160m-year-old pterosaur fossil found 2011-01-21T01:58:05Z They shuffled and cut, imitated pterodactyls and pummeled foam dummies with a manic verve. Teaching Safer Way to Tackle 2010-12-25T19:54:25Z He is listed at 6 feet 11 inches, with an elongated Plastic Man torso, a pterodactyl wingspan and a knack for spawning YouTube clips. Tantalizing Talent Is Stuck on the Bench 2010-11-21T06:30:00Z Haplocheirus sollers may not be as charismatic as T. rex or as agile as a pterodactyl but it's thought to solve a long standing puzzle. 2010-01-28T19:29:00Z How many thousand years had it been sweeping across the earth without gilding other heads than those of gigantic saurians, pterodactyls, megalosauruses, and other fearful monsters? Maximina There were iguanodons walking on the land, pterodactyls winging their way through the air, monitors and crocodiles in the rivers, and ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs in the ocean. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology There was also a basilisk, a pterodactyl, a vampire bat with a five-foot wingspread, an old-fashioned red spade-tailed demon and other assorted horrors. Subjectivity We saw hornéd monsters become gentle ruminants, and heard the scream of the pterodactyl on the tree-tops dwindle to child's laughter. Melomaniacs Why, you look like—you look like—you look—” “He looks like an intoxicated pterodactyl,” said Mr. Lonergan, who had some knowledge of prehistoric animals,—“only hairier.” Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective They cast doubt, that is, on the theory that the horse is descended from the pterodactyl. War Letters of a Public-School Boy This is Arizona now—since the pterodactyls have gone. Red Men and White Mantises, fifteen feet in height, winged things like pterodactyls, longer than bombing airplanes, followed, preying on the stragglers. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Then we spoke of the amusing world-wide rumor, which had started no one knows how, that I had recently discovered a pterodactyl. Edge of the Jungle Thousands of tiny, flitting bat-like creatures—miniature pterodactyls of the terrestrial Age of Reptiles—hovered over a swamp, where millions of insects hung like motes in the light of the low sun. The Planet Strappers The gigantic ichthyosaurs, mesosaurs, and dinosaurs held dominion over the sea and land, and the monster flying reptile, the pterodactyl, over the air. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The eye was camouflaged to look like a flying lizard, sort of a cardboard pterodactyl, and the slowly flapping wings obviously had nothing to do with our flight. The Repairman The original I regret to say was lost through the careless act of one of my cousins, who flung it at a pterodactyl as it winged its flight across our meadows some years after. The Autobiography of Methuselah I went back into the house, and voiced a toast to tolerance, to temperance, and—to pterodactyls—and drank my cocktail. Edge of the Jungle A much larger pterodactyl, far above, glided gracefully over a cliff, and out to sea, its long, beaked head turning watchfully. The Planet Strappers "I have been reading up a lot on the pterodactyl and ichthyosaurus and other small, playful animals of the beginning of the world variety," she confided to Miriam. Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College Before they could get any more bright ideas, I threw the switch and my plastic pterodactyl sailed in through the door. The Repairman He was seated on a woody knoll skinning a pterodactyl for our supper. The Autobiography of Methuselah It is asserted by evolutionists that wings as organs of flight have been independently evolved in at least four different lines—namely, in insects, the fossil pterodactyls, birds and bats. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique I never much relished being patronized as "little Peggy" by my would-be stepmother, but she might safely have called me anything from a pterodactyl to a hippopotamus just then. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley The trouble was a harpy—a thing about the size and general design of a Terran Jurassic pterodactyl, big enough to take a Little Fuzzy at one mouthful. Little Fuzzy Anyhow you'll be learned in isms, And talk pterodactyls in French, And know polyhedrons from prisms,-- Though you may not know how to retrench. More Songs From Vagabondia The fish-like saurians and flying pterodactyls of the secondary period have come into existence and gone out of it gracefully again. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science There are old Chinese drawings of pterodactyls, and suchlike unchancey antediluvian wild fowl. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 When brought down with my electric rifle and properly roasted, the pterodactyl proved very good eating, particularly the pads of the toes. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Then the candidate was badgered about the pterodactyl, and concerning the difference in anatomy between a bat and a bird, and about the lamprey, and the cartilaginous fishes, and the amphioxus. The Firm of Girdlestone Through such a country as this, scarcely belonging to our era any more than the mammoth or the pterodactyl, scarcely belonging to time at all, does the Colorado approach and enter its culminating marvel. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico Twice in succession he refused a second help of pterodactyl at the tribal luncheon table. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 7, 1914 By day the pterodactyls swooped from the skies to take their toll. The Tarn of Eternity My effort to dodge the tree and the pterodactyl at the same time resulted disastrously. The People That Time Forgot The thing appeared to be some variety of pterodactyl, and what with its enormous size and ferocious aspect was most awe-inspiring. The Land That Time Forgot So much we have gained by this clear vision of our first pterodactyl. The Lost World We may take it for granted that the pterodactyl and the trachodon had none of the foreboding based on experience which destroys the peace of man. The Conquest of Fear In bats and in pterodactyls also the sternum is produced into a carina along the median line. Hormones and Heredity I knew that the thing that had attacked me was some sort of pterodactyl which should have been extinct millions of years ago. The People That Time Forgot That Apollyonic monster of the prime, the pterodactyl, did even better. Concerning Animals and Other Matters "To the best of my belief, a pterodactyl." The Lost World Bit him good and hard, so that Agesilaus ever afterwards had a distaste for pterodactyls. Psmith in the City The figure of the pterodactyl represents pretty closely that which is given to the dragons. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder It was thought at one time that man had made the flying-dragon out of his own imagination; but we now know that the image of the pterodactyl had simply descended from generation to generation. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel As remote from him, however, as the age of the pterodactyl. Born in Exile As Challenger spoke of his pterodactyl I glanced at Professor Summerlee, and for the first time I seemed to see some signs of a dawning credulity and repentance. The Lost World Now I'll bet there isn't a man here who can spell "pterodactyl," not even the prisoner at the bar. Mark Twain's Speeches Your friends the pterodactyls probably lingered longest among the Troglodytes, who, seeing that they were rapidly dying out, concluded to depart to another and a better world. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Why it was like the bottom bird in the menagerie putting on airs because its head ancestor was a pterodactyl. The American Claimant You can't say too much for the picturesqueness of the pterodactyl—he was the triumph of his period. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete That morning we mapped out a small portion of the plateau, avoiding the swamp of the pterodactyls, and keeping to the east of our brook instead of to the west. The Lost World You can't say too much for the picturesqueness of the pterodactyl —he was the triumph of his period. Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Small as these are they have accomplished infinitely more than all that ever was done by the ichthyosaurus, the plesiosaurus, the pterodactyl, and the whole tribe of monsters that once filled the earth. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder There was the swamp of the pterodactyls upon my left; there in front of me was the glade of the iguanodons. The Lost World One word as to the fate of the London pterodactyl. The Lost World "We are exceptionally well informed, Summerlee, as to the habits of the enraged pterodactyl." The Lost World Twice we found pits of blue clay, such as we had already seen in the swamp of the pterodactyls. The Lost World Well," resumed the doctor, "as I was saying, it must be undoubtedly the pterodactyl. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder You may remember that day we found the pterodactyl rookery in the swamp—what? The Lost World I was returning along the well-remembered route, and had reached a spot within a mile or so of the marsh of the pterodactyls, when I saw an extraordinary object approaching me. The Lost World It was on that," said Professor Challenger, pointing to this tree, "that the pterodactyl was perched. The Lost World I could see at my very feet the glade of the iguanodons, and farther off was a round opening in the trees which marked the swamp of the pterodactyls. The Lost World If its homing instinct led it upon the right line, there can be no doubt that somewhere out in the wastes of the Atlantic the last European pterodactyl found its end. The Lost World Here," said he, pointing to the picture of an extraordinary flying monster, "is an excellent reproduction of the dimorphodon, or pterodactyl, a flying reptile of the Jurassic period. The Lost World The pyramidal rock upon which I saw and shot the pterodactyl was more accessible. The Lost World He described also the iguanodon and the pterodactyl—two of the first of the wonders which they had encountered. The Lost World You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life. The Lost World |
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