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  • The second is Solomon Crocodile's amazing similarity to any number of overly exuberant small children who, when they feel like frisking, are told off for being "a nuisance" or "a pest" or "nothing but trouble"—epithets that Solomon hears from the frogs, dragonflies, storks and hippos who occupy his world.

    Prince Charming Among the Cyborgs Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • Earth, Animals, Agriculture: It's the Crocodile's turn!

    It's the Crocodile's turn! Jax 2009

  • All of the other menus are available on Au Crocodile's website if you want to get an idea of the "normal" prices, which would start at roughly double of what we paid.

    Au Crocodile Etienne 2007

  • All of the other menus are available on Au Crocodile's website if you want to get an idea of the "normal" prices, which would start at roughly double of what we paid.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Etienne 2007

  • Crocodile's tears are never true save when he is forced where

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The Alligator's head is broad and blunt; the Crocodile's is narrow and sharp.

    Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas

  • Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose, which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger than a boot, though much more useful.

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • But any animal or even a man-swimmer had best be careful how he ventures into the water near the Crocodile's haunts.

    The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

  • And when he is smacking his great jaws over his food he makes such a greedy, terrible noise that the other animals steal away nervously and hide until it shall be Master Crocodile's sleepy-time.

    The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

  • Now in the same old spot he found the Hen, who had been improving his absence by greedily stuffing herself on beetle-bugs, flies, and mosquitoes until she was so fat that she could not run away at the Crocodile's approach.

    The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

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