The largest in captivity is about 23 feet long

Usage examples of crocodile.

At the north side, abutting from the ridge, the Crocodile reared its ungainly shape like some petrified antediluvian monster appointed to guard the valley.

I thought of the afanc, a creature which some have supposed to be the harmless and industrious beaver, others the frightful and destructive crocodile.

I wondered whether the afanc was the crocodile or the beaver, and speedily had no doubt that the name was originally applied to the crocodile.

Then I wondered whether the pool before me had been the haunt of the afanc, considered both as crocodile and beaver.

There were no crocodiles visible in the vicinity, though he and Bazil had seen quite a few just a little farther upstream.

That distinctive fifties Buick grille, which looked to me like the mouth of a chrome crocodile.

Our navigators and cosmographers have traced the outlines of Atlantis, or the New World, where have been found the crocodile that lives for a thousand years and the quail that has the falling sickness: certain provinces or domains there we have named Norumbega, Nova Francia and Mocosa, in which latter part of the world has been found the horse that weeps and sighs like a man.

See now Captain Cozenage begin a smile like that of a Congo crocodile making ready for the dental attentions of the dik-dik bird.

There are more species of true crocodilians, including one crocodile, three kinds of alligators, and one form that probably was a terrestrial predator.

Their garments, of silk and cloth of silver, of velvets cunningly embroidered, displayed the new heraldry that honored the Empress, and was therefore watery and lunar: crabs, crayfish, clamshells, lymphads, the moon in all her phases, fish, eels, crocodiles.

Commando Nek on the Little Crocodile River, where he summoned Baden-Powell to surrender, and received some chaff in reply from that light-hearted commander.

There they were, smaller by weight and length than the lone crocodile that lurked two hundred yards downstream near a watering hole, hopelessly outmatched in every physical aspect by the great tiger that sometimes came from the lower jungles to hunt the stately sambur and wiry goral, and the elusive serow.

I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations.

After the long legal process ahead, Neville Skeate was liberated, but I never heard that he returned to the Candy Crocodile.

I must inform ye that through a slicht flaw in my colculations, the crocodiles weigh nearly four hundred pounds apiece, so picking them up will be no laughing matter.