batrachian

At this Lena smiled again with that mirthless batrachian grin.

Such tales were all the more readily believed because of those batrachian features that had always been remarked in her aspect.

His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey.

Cunningham tugged the letter opener from the batrachian joker's chest, then set it aside.

Now and then we had fits of laughter, crazy, batrachian laughter which made the neighbours shudder.

He recalled the batrachian creature he had glimpsed along the baseboard of the shuttered room.

But now, as he listened, he was aware of other sounds that did not seem to emanate from either avian or batrachian throats.

"Thev were batrachian, soft-skinned amphibians that evolved considerable intelligence.

Malvern squinched his batrachian eyes.

New genera of batrachian footprints of the Carboniferous System in eastern Canada.

Aph-Lin told me this fable while I gazed on the three Batrachian portraits.

"What is 'batrachian,' sir?"

Barclay held his breath, loath to swallow any of the fetid water, then scrambled to his feet to the right of his batrachian adversary.

He reached across the desk and handed Latham the drawing of the youthful mind-control artist that had skewered Kien's batrachian watchdog.

New York Style had said nothing about Kien having a batrachian joker watchdog, Jennifer thought giddily as lights snapped on in other rooms.

Alone, above the foul waters, the magician - overlooked by my little batrachian boobies, for which they paid heavily - floated, clinging to a spar, all alone.

"You said to Mr. Rudwick: 'The course of Evolution does not conform to the batrachian sluggishness of your intellect.' "

Occurrence of the worm-like Batrachian Ichthyophis monochrous at Khandala, Poona District.

But this chilly April, we are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.

And of batrachian voices there was no dearth; they seemed to rise not only from the river but also from every pond and bog within range, a piping, ululant chorus marking the season's height.

But if you stretch the thread and press the eggs, they change their places, and you can distinctly see that they lie free in the bag, having their own membranous envelopes corresponding to those of other batrachian eggs.

I saw no other pet animals among this community except some very amusing and sportive creatures of the Batrachian species, resembling frogs, but with very intelligent countenances, which the children were fond of, and kept in their private gardens.

First the tumble of the arrogant colossus, AOL Time Warner; then the unraveling of the imperious Hollywood Svengali Michael Ovitz; finally the news that the batrachian Enron executives may do time for manipulating energy markets in California.

This book described bullywugs as "a batrachian race of bipedal monsters which inhabit wet places - rainy forests, marshes, damp caves or virtually any other place which is shady or dark and has water nearby, for bullywugs need to dampen their skins from time to time."

The folds beneath her chin swelled like the throat of some great batrachian.

The term batrachite is also used for a batrachian (or frog) fossil.

Of those, one, I believed, was insectile, at least two vaguely reptilian, one batrachian.

-Kollmann on batrachian.

There are the lizard-like Zacathans, the Trystians, who have avian ancestors, and others- batrachian, canine, and the like.

On batrachian and other footprints from the Coal Measures of Joggins, N.S. Bull.

This batrachian often may be found resting beneath leaf litter or other woodland detritus, or beneath rotting logs or rocks providing a wet environment.

They had prevented his escape, and had broughthimback to the foul creature... whether woman, batrachian, or both... who was known as The Mother of Toads.

As more fossils were uncovered in England, Owen depicted these labyrinthodonts as the "highest" form of batrachian and compared them to crocodiles, which he considered the highest form of reptiles.

Their name, in fact, was a group heading, under which fell all manner of fishlike, protoplasmic, batrachian, and semi-human beings, united together in the worship of Dagon and the anticipated resurrection of Great Cthulhu.

In their 2008 description of the fossil batrachian Gerobatrachus, Anderson and co-authors suggested that caecilians arose from the Lepospondyl group of ancestral tetrapods, and may be more closely related to amniotes than to frogs and salamanders, which arose from Temnospondyl ancestors.

It dated back 290 million years and was hailed as a missing link, a stem batrachian close to the common ancestor of frogs and salamanders, consistent with the widely accepted hypothesis that frogs and salamanders are more closely related to each other (forming a clade called Batrachia) than they are to caecilians.