It was a single arch of gray stone, and lying flat upon the bridge was a scarlet alligator , seemingly fast asleep.

A NEGRO in a boat, gathering driftwood, saw a sleeping Alligator , and, thinking it was a log, fell to estimating the number of shingles it would make for his new cabin.

I will no longer be housekeeper for you if you don't send away that alligator ."

There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.

In the interior was displayed a stuffed alligator , a rattlesnake's skin, a bundle of Indian arrows, an old-fashioned matchlock gun, a walking-stick of Governor Winthrop's, a wig of old Cotton Mather's, and a colored print of the Boston massacre.

"I've just composed a tune called 'The Speckled Alligator .' It's in patch-time, which is much superior to rag-time, and I've composed it in honor of the Patchwork Girl, who has just arrived."

Frequently, too, the villages on its shores are half submerged, as was the case with Ngornou in 1856, and now the hippopotamus and the alligator frisk and dive where the dwellings of Bornou once stood.

But I understand there are deep pools of water in the land where we are going, and in them lives a fish that has a hide like an alligator and a jaw like a shark.

Through the windows of their carriage the travellers had glimpses of the diversified landscape of Behar, with its mountains clothed in verdure, its fields of barley, wheat, and corn, its jungles peopled with green alligators , its neat villages, and its still thickly-leaved forests.

They hastened onward, therefore, and were compelled to ford several rivers, not without danger, for they were infested with huge alligators from fifteen to eighteen feet long.

Not to mention all the people alive who have made inventions that won't act, and all the jobbers who job in all the jobberies jobbed; though these may be regarded as the Alligators of the Dismal Swamp, and are always lying by to drag the Golden Dustman under.