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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an…
— Buddy Hackett
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
— Bob Hope
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet;…
— George Foreman
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It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
— Ronald Reagan
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Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to…
— Charlie Daniels
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It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last…
— Ric Flair
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
— Homer
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Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was…
— Homer
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The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
— Mike Pence
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First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's ten feet…
— Unknown Author
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It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed…
— Kelly Brook
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What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a…
— S.A. Bodeen
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