"Saurian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... small, saurian eyes held Blagden with their strange brilliance. The rest of his face was like a ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... own early margins chiefly served to note, cite, and illustrate the habits of crocodiles. Along the lower or "tail'' edge, the saurian, splendidly serrated as to his back, arose out of old Nile; up one side negroes, swart as sucked lead-pencil could limn them, let fall their nerveless spears; up the other, monkeys, gibbering with terror, swarmed hastily up palm-trees — a plant to the untutored hand of easier outline than ...
— Pagan Papers • Kenneth Grahame |
