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'Suffice it to say that Comrade Agesilaus interfered with the pterodactyl, which was doing him no harm; and the intelligent creature, whose motto was "Nemo me impune lacessit", turned and bit him. Bit him good and hard, so that Agesilaus ever afterwards had a distaste for pterodactyls. His reluctance to disturb them became quite a byword.
They remembered their schoolboy exercises, their spoutings on many Latins for Glorious Fourth; and felt very badly indeed. Then it was unlucky that, being too intent on realities, he could not bother to rise when those absurd old Piccadilly pterodactyls the Senators came into his presence; that he filled up their ridiculous house promiscuously with low-born soldiers and creatures of his own.
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. A much larger pterodactyl, far above, glided gracefully over a cliff, and out to sea, its long, beaked head turning watchfully. "Hey!" Nelsen said mildly, as his jaded mind responded. Lester nodded.
I can visualize the entire scene the apelike Grimaldi men huddled in their filthy caves; the huge pterodactyls soaring through the heavy air upon their bat-like wings; the mighty dinosaurs moving their clumsy hulks beneath the dark shadows of preglacial forests the dragons which we considered myths until science taught us that they were the true recollections of the first man, handed down through countless ages by word of mouth from father to son out of the unrecorded dawn of humanity."
There was once a flying animal known as the pteranodon. It has been extinct for millions of years. Belonged to the class called pterodactyls. Who knows? If you fellows could shoot for sour apples, I'd have one of 'em." Christmas and New Year's day, long since past, had been celebrated in a mild, half-hearted way on board the Doraine.
By the time the thipdars had disposed of the last of the slaves the Mahars were all asleep upon their rocks, and a moment later the great pterodactyls swung back to their posts beside the queen, and themselves dropped into slumber. "I thought the Mahars seldom, if ever, slept," I said to Ja. "They do many things in this temple which they do not do elsewhere," he replied.
Great flocks of pterodactyls, their bodies as large as those of oxen and their necks enormously long, clamored and fought in the air, the broad membranes of their wings making a singular musical humming, unlike anything that I had ever heard. Between them and the ichthyosauri there was incessant battle, and I was constantly reminded of the ancient poet's splendid and original comparison of man to
Why do they just vanish? 'Autres temps, autres moeurs, said the creature. 'Is that the Ninevite language? asked Anthea, who had learned no foreign language at school except French. 'What I mean is, the Psammead went on, 'that in the old days people wished for good solid everyday gifts Mammoths and Pterodactyls and things and those could be turned into stone as easy as not.
These insects, among which is a libellula, or dragon-fly, must have been blown out to sea, probably from the same land to which the pterodactyls, and other contemporaneous air-breathers, resorted. Tail and feather of Archaeopteryx, from Solenhofen, and tail of living bird for comparison. A. Caudal vertebrae of Archaeopteryx macrura, Owen; with impression of tail- feathers; one-fifth natural size.
It is very difficult always to remember that "what" is not polite, especially in moments of surprise or agitation. "Are Pterodactyls plentiful now?" the Sand-fairy went on. The children were unable to reply. "What do you have for breakfast?" the Fairy said impatiently, "and who gives it to you?" "Eggs and bacon, and bread and milk, and porridge and things. Mother gives it to us.
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