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...end Ivan Matveitch, who is a colleague in the same department, and may be said to be a distant relation of mine, too, expressed the desire to see the crocodile now on view at a fixed charge in the Arcade. As Ivan Matveitch had already in his pocket his ticket for a tour abroad (not so much for the sake of his health as for the improvement of his mind), and was consequently...

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...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. “The Crocodile” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylva... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. The Crocodile An Extraordinary Incident A true story of how a gentleman o... ... of a certain age and of respect able appearance was swallowed alive by the crocodile in the Ar cade, and of the consequences that followed. Ohe La... ...aid to be a distant relation of mine, too, ex pressed the desire to see the crocodile now on view at a fixed charge in the Arcade. As Ivan Matveitch... ...ital idea!” he said, with the utmost satisfaction. “We’ll have a look at the crocodile! On the eve of visiting Europe it is as well to acquaint oursel... ...at awaits us! On entering the Arcade he was at once full 3 Dostoevsky’s “The Crocodile” of admiration for the splendours of the building and, when we... ... was being exhibited, he volunteered to pay the quarter rouble for me to the crocodile owner — a thing which had never hap pened before. Walking into... ...ap pened before. Walking into a little room, we observed that be sides the crocodile there were in it parrots of the species known as cockatoo, and ... ... with water to the depth of two inches. In this shallow pool was kept a huge crocodile, which lay like a log absolutely motionless and apparently depr...

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...duction The Temple of Rats Jivaro Head Shrinkers Cargo Cults Self-Flagellation The Black Stone of Mecca Hungry Ghosts Witch Smellers Egyptian Crocodile Worship Christian Snake Handlers The Rope to Heaven The Scapegoat Gods in Human Form Devil Worship The Sex Slaves of Paradise Animal Sacrifice Human Sacrifice Self Mummification Zombies Incorruptible Bodi...

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...n Anomie Me Anon Poem91 If You Were asked To Give Your Life (2) Poem92 Abyss 2. Poem93 My Crocodile Poem94 Fragility Of Innocence Poem95 I Carry Paradise Poem96 Without ‘I’, Fear Is Worse Than Pain Poem97 Vulnerability Of Mindfulness ...

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...Agnes as they stood on deck, ‘those dangerous looking reptiles basking on the banks are the river crocodiles. The snub- nosed, flesh eating ones are ... ...t down the river from Benares.’ THE CURSE OF KALI 37 Helen shivered with distaste as a sleepy crocodile opened its reptilian eyes and slid down ...

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...mit that some of her judgements were just. Mark Twain, for instance, while chiding Trollope for falling for American tall tales (see the story of the crocodile's -- or alligator's -- destruction of a family in Chapter III), also remarked that the reason Domestic Manners was so hated by patriotic Americans was because it was so true. In any case, it is offered by the reader...

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...el 102- 117 CHAPTER IX. In the land of Gold and ugly beasts. -- Polo confounds crocodiles with serpents -- Descriptions which he gives of the creature... ... natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for Ameri... ...e which we gain from his descriptions they were quite barbaric. POLO CONFOUNDS CROCODILES WITH SERPENTS. Polo speaks of the country being infested wit... ...ine, though the description is inexact, that the creatures thus described were crocodiles such as infest all the rivers of the lower countries of Asia... ... with spears and strong bows, and protected with an armor made of the hides of crocodiles and buffaloes, they were enabled to overcome any small party... ...s of scurvy, which had reduced his men to an intolerable condition. SNAKES AND CROCODILES. At the town of Cajeli, on Ceram, Bougainville made a consid... ...assenger who happens to look up, and the bite of this animal is certain death. Crocodiles of an astonishing size reside on the banks of the rivers, de... ...n are only protected from their fury by carrying torches in their hands. These crocodiles, which roam for prey in the night, have been even known to s... ...to these people is that the women not infrequently give birth to a child and a crocodile simultaneously, so that a large portion of the natives believ...

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...id spells luck. He went on talking of a trip upriver, jungle river, heat, crocodiles, green birds, monkeys with beards, butterflies, solid white but... ...cloak and hurry, Hall. There’s someone sicker than I who needs you. Eat a crocodile. I’ll be going home soon. I should be there now, going over my a...

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...i hic nitet aurea Corcopitheci. Juven. Sat. xv. 2. This Country doth the Crocodile adore, That feares the Storks glutted with Serpents gore, The s... ...were wont to bury their Wolves, their Dogs, their Cats, their Beares, and Crocodiles in holy places, embalming their carcasses, and at their deaths, ... ...he wilde boare whets his tusks; when the Ichneumon is to grapple with the crocodile, he walloweth his body in the mire, then lets the same drie and ... ... many wrongs and injuries as man: we need not a whale, an elephant, nor a crocodile, nor any such other wilde beast, of which one alone is of power ...

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...complained endlessly that trying to educate her was like trying to kiss a crocodile. Over the last year, Kelly had persisted, her mother’s attitude ... ...ff limits and she’s definitely one of them. I’d get further approaching a crocodile. Last night was enough for me, I value my body parts.” “Yeah, I’...

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... by the aspis, and the Tentyrites among the Egyptians are not harmed by the crocodiles around them; those also of the 83 Ethiopians who live on the H...

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...arzan has satisfied his needs for food and water he may build a tree house for his safety. However, if he is very hungry he may swim across a crocod...

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...icans and writing as if one has all concern for the Untouchables and shedding crocodile tears is only an atrocious act. It is not an act with any co... ...r mind while the Congressmen speak of South Africa. We ask why do they shed crocodile tears over what happens in distant South Africa while they d...

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... ofJapanese tourists. He wrestled the suitcase from the carousel like it was a crocodile, all the while apologizing to the angry people he had disp...

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...new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, ‘What does the Crocodile have for dinner?’ Then ev- erybody said, ‘Hush!’ in a loud and dr... ... spanked me for my ‘satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!’ Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, ‘G... ...greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.’ And they all spanked him once more for luck, tho... ...ay, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. It was all his ‘satiable cur... ...ld most politely, ‘but have you seen such a thing as a 23 Rudyard Kipling Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’ ‘Have I seen a Crocodile?’ said the ... ...reasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees. But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Be- loved, and the Crocodile winked one eye—like this! ‘’... ...said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’ Then the Crocodile winked the other ... ...e he did not wish to be spanked again. ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile. ‘Why do you ask such things?’ ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s C... ... I don’t want to be spanked any more.’ ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile- tears to show i...

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... infirmities he had; and one particularly in which he too much resembled a crocodile. This lay in a monstrous inaptitude for turning round. The crocod... ...ombined, possibly, with some growing stiffness in his legs. Now, upon this crocodile infir- mity of his I planted a human advantage for tendering my h... ...are not visibly improving; and the Bath road is notoriously superannuated. Crocodiles, you will say, are stationary. Mr. Waterton tells me that the cr... ...e was in the time of the Pharaohs. That may be; but the reason is that the crocodile does not live fast—he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally ... ...w coach. I believe it is generally understood among natu- ralists that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impres- sion that the Pharaohs were ... ... sion that the Pharaohs were also blockheads. Now, as the Pharaohs and the crocodile domineered over Egyptian soci- ety , this accounts for a singular... ...ar mistake that prevailed through innumerable generations on the Nile. The crocodile made the ridiculous blunder of supposing man to be meant chiefly ... ...had the honour of being admitted in my younger days. 29 Thomas De Quincey crocodile as a thing sometimes to worship, but always to run away from. And... ... and spurred. The two animals had misunderstood each other. The use of the crocodile has now been cleared up—viz., to be ridden; and the final cause o...

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...t all mean?” he kept repeating to himself, as, 97 CHAPTER 16 . A CHANGED CROCODILE. 102 CHAPTER 17. THE THREE BADGERS. 111 CHAPTER 18. QUEER... ...Only this once, dear!” But Bruno wouldn’t try it again. CHAPTER 16 A CHANGED CROCODILE The Marvellous—the Mysterious—had quite passed out of my life f... ...t of it had got to. But the eye that could see wherever—” “How short was the crocodile?” I asked, as the story was getting a little complicated. “Half... ...hough!” Bruno put in eagerly. “It were proud of its new tail! Oo never saw a Crocodile so proud! Why, it could go round and walk on the top of its tai... ...se than the last puzzle. Please, dear Child, help again! “I don’t believe no Crocodile never walked along its own forehead!” Sylvie cried, too much ex... ...ess vanished, and he began his Story merrily. “Once there were a Mouse and a Crocodile and a Man and a Goat and a Lion.” I had never heard the ‘dramat... ...the Song, it ran away—for to get along to look for the Man, oo know. And the Crocodile Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 163 got along after it—for t... ...ot along after it—for to bite it, oo know. And the Mouse got along after the Crocodile.” “Wasn’t the Crocodile running?” Sylvie enquired. She ap peal... ...le.” “Wasn’t the Crocodile running?” Sylvie enquired. She ap pealed to me. “Crocodiles do run, don’t they?” I suggested “crawling” as the proper word...

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...upon Isis and Osiris: I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thou- sand years in stone coffins... ... at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, con- founded with all unutterable slimy things, among... ...spiritual terrors. But here the main agents were ugly birds, or snakes, or crocodiles; especially the last. The cursed crocodile became to me the obje... ...es, sofas, &c., soon became instinct with life: the abominable head of the crocodile, and his leering eyes, looked out at me, multi- plied into a thou... ... for going out. I protest that so awful was the transition from the damned crocodile, and the other unutterable monsters and abortions of my dreams, t...

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... question, but that at the South the question is between the negro and the crocodile, that is all, it is a mere matter of policy, there is a perfect r... ...ey are taking him down and placing him, when spoken of, among reptiles and crocodiles, as Judge Douglas himself expresses it. Is not this change wroug... ...e; that the Declaration has nothing to do with him; that he ranks with the crocodile and the reptile; that man, with body and soul, is a matter of dol... ...was for the white man, but that in all questions between the negro and the crocodile he was for the negro. He did not make that declara- tion accident... ... The other branch of it is, that in the struggle between the negro and the crocodile; he is for the negro. Well, I don’t know that there is any strugg... ...o. Well, I don’t know that there is any struggle between the negro and the crocodile, either. I suppose that if a crocodile (or, as we old Ohio River ... ...on, which may be stated thus: “As the negro is to the white man, so is the crocodile to the negro; and as the negro may rightfully treat the crocodile... ...nd the negro, I am for the white man; when it is between the negro and the crocodile, I am for the negro.” Its central idea is indifference. It holds... ... the other off. So that saying, “In the struggle between the negro and the crocodile,” etc., is made up from the idea that down where the crocodile in...

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...ns, pro- digious strength. The saurians of our day, the alligators and the crocodiles, are but feeble reproductions of their forefa- thers of primitiv... ... deep marks of conical teeth upon the iron pick are certainly those of the crocodile. My eyes are fearfully bent upon the sea. I dread to see one of t... ...cle, “and there is a sea lizard of vast size.” “And farther on a monstrous crocodile. Look at its vast jaws and its rows of teeth! It is diving down!”... ...ere clad? We stood dumb with fear. They approach us close: on one side the crocodile, on the other the serpent. The remainder of the sea monsters have... ...No: the first of those monsters has a porpoise’s snout, a lizard’s head, a crocodile’s teeth; and hence our mistake. It is the ichthyosaurus (the fish...

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...one night by the parlour fire, alone. I had been reading to Peggotty about crocodiles. I must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have... ...nd why Peggotty looked so queer, or why she was so ready to go back to the crocodiles. However, we returned to those monsters, with fresh wakefulness ... ...t sharp pieces of timber down their throats; and in short we ran the whole crocodile gauntlet. I did, at least; but I had my doubts of Peggotty, who w... ...nto various parts of her face and arms, all the time. We had exhausted the crocodiles, and begun with the alligators, when the garden-bell rang. We we... ...asure, and the bit of wax, and the box with St. Paul s on the lid, and the crocodile book, when Peggotty, after look- ing at me several times, and ope... ... the contrary, I seem to have walked along a path of flowers as far as the crocodile-book, and 67 David Copperfield Vol. I to have been cheered by ... ...e thrown up, and the candles snuffed, I read Peggotty a chapter out of the Crocodile Book, in remembrance of old times she took it out of her pocket: ... ...and passed the night at Peggotty s, in a little room in the roof (with the Crocodile Book on a shelf by the bed s head) which was to be always mine, P... ... when I went to my neat room at night; and, turning over the leaves of the crocodile-book (which was always there, upon a little table), remembered wi...