They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I tell you, my little reptiles, I am born to be served. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Hair was evidently the earliest distinction of the mammals from the rest of the reptiles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Amidst this spreading vegetation of the lower plains the reptiles were increasing mightily in multitude and variety. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Must man, the heaven-climber, be for ever the victim of the crawling reptiles of his species! 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Darwin found the reptiles the most striking feature of the zo?logy of the islands. 李贝.西洋科学史.
In fishes and reptiles, as Owen has remarked, The range of gradation of dioptric structures is very great. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Some reptiles, some vipers for example, are viviparous, but none stand by their young as the real mammals do. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
With frogs and amphibious reptiles the dormant state is very common, and if the temperature is kept low by artificial means they may remain dormant for years. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
On such expeditions rubber gatherers usually go armed with rifles to protect themselves against wild animals, reptiles and savage Indians. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
It is doubtful if the particular Theriodont reptiles who were developing hair in the early Mesozoic were viviparous. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
These were at first--by all the standards of classification--Reptiles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
There were amphibia like gigantic newts and salamanders, and even primitive reptiles in these swamps. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Yet that prepared the conquest of the dry land for the triumphant multitude of the Mesozoic reptiles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
VI THE AGE OF REPTILES § 1. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The Semitic languages may have arisen as some specialized proto-Hamitic group, just as the birds arose from a special group of reptiles (Chap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
He found another vent for his rage by snatching up Rosamond's words again, as if they were reptiles to be throttled and flung off. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
And so they held out through the age of hardship between the Mesozoic and Cainozoic ages, to which most of the true reptiles succumbed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.