1 I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries.
2 I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.
3 That tall, harsh-looking man is very learned, he discovered, in the neighborhood of Rome, a kind of lizard with a vertebra more than lizards usually have, and he immediately laid his discovery before the Institute.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 70. The Ball. 4 You'd expect her to learn by and by that I won't be a parlor lizard.
5 The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard is a pocket crocodile.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 6 At every step that Edmond took he disturbed the lizards glittering with the hues of the emerald; afar off he saw the wild goats bounding from crag to crag.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 7 This guide was our friend Peppino, who dashed into the thicket of high weeds, through a path which none but lizards or polecats could have imagined to be an open road.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 8 When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come thither.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES