Seminole's rival

Usage examples of gator.

Tommy hefted the one, then the other, zipped open the gator and pulled out the bluesteel automatic Elvin recalled.

I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.

We was making a fair living, salted fish, cut buttonwood, took plumes in egret breeding season, took some gator hides, some otter, done some trading with the Indins, and eased on by.

Dimock was a pretty old feller by that time, but like most sports, he would shoot anything in sight, not only deer and birds but gators, crocs, and manatees.

Without hesitation, Gator rushed the ring of fire, leaping over the flames on the floor and through to the outside.

However, both Abner and Shelby were surprised when Gator stepped forward and posted bond, leaving Billy free to walk out of the courthouse, his court date set for the next month.

This is very entertaining, of course, but the real action at Gatorland, the event that brings even the alliGators to life, is the Assault on the Dead Chickens, which is technically known as the Gator Jumparoo.

Tant played hell with the deer and coons and gators, and he brought his venison and jokes and fleas from one Daniels hearth to the next one, all his life.

Injuns and cottonmouths and giant gators, and anyways, there was nowhere to run to, nothing but mangrove and deep-water rivers, miles from anywhere.

The greensong of the life around him, of the trees and moss, the birds and gators and fish and snakes, and the tiny lives and the momentary lives, all of them making a kind of deep harmony together that became a part of him so that he could hear himself as nothing more than a small part of that song.

He also scanned for gators, which would have no qualms about snatching any child who strayed too close to shore.

All the other gators waited in a semicircle, all about fifteen feet away, watching the struggle in the water.

The other gators leapt upon the weakened one and dragged it under the water.

Arthur Stuart had heard and felt and finally seen the heartfires of hundreds and hundreds of gators that lived in the river and its tributaries in this region.

And then the gators suddenly turned, all of them at once, and headed downstream toward the boats.