What is "saurian"

Usage examples of "saurian".

So it was with great pleasure indeed that I agreed to work with Byron Preiss and Martin Harry Greenberg on this unique collection of stories, articles, and illustrations designed to bring back to life as well as words and pictures are capable of doing the era of the mighty saurians.

The big saurian became animated in the fetid warmth and treated Quent to a harangue on phytogenetics.

These poachers have been skinning the saurians and selling their skins on the open market as luxury cloaks.

As for the huge saurians they rode, the poor reptiles scarcely had time to gulp down a few mouthfuls of meadowgrass before mentally commanded to continue the journey.

This particularized view of its miniature saurian snout and pebbly skin defanged his hatred.

Intrusted with their all for earth and heaven, By Him who chose their guardian, knowing well His fitness for the task,--this, even this, Was the true doctrine only yesterday As thoughts are reckoned,--and to-day you hear In words that sound as if from human tongues Those monstrous, uncouth horrors of the past That blot the blue of heaven and shame the earth As would the saurians of the age of slime, Awaking from their stony sepulchres And wallowing hateful in the eye of day!

But while his son was in this state, Sir Austin considered that he would hardly be brought to see the virtues of the act, and did not make the requisition of him, and heavy Benson remained drawn up solemnly expectant at doorways, and at the foot of the staircase, a Saurian Caryatid, wherever he could get a step in advance of the young man, while Richard heedlessly passed him, as he passed everybody else, his head bent to the ground, and his legs bearing him like random instruments of whose service he was unconscious.

That’s the problem, of course, she thought as she used it for the second time, and the third, and the fourth, and as Urruah got up, his jaws running with the pinkish-tinged saurian blood, and launched himself at another saurian, a deinonychus that was in the act of jumping at Saash from behind.

Track 32 had the derailed train, its sideways-skewed front splashed with lizard blood, a heap of dead saurians trapped underneath it, and the faint cries of ehhif coming from inside.

Another Ertoi was shielding my face from the brilliant sunset, his saurian face kind and compassionate as he bathed my face and hands.

What would you say to hors d'oeuvres of Fimaldian mushrooms stuffed with bleu cheese, a sea-dollop salad coated with a thick dressing of my own creation (and heavily laced with Saurian brandy vinegar), sauteed breast of eldarine with baby peas and liyaka au gratin—.

What would you say to hors d'oeuvres of Fimaldian mushrooms stuffed with bleu cheese, a sea-dollop salad coated with a thick dressing of my own creation (and heavily laced with Saurian brandy vinegar), sauteed breast of eldarine with baby peas and liyaka au gratinand for dessert, a whipped strawberry mousse?

The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.

There were faces covered with red and blue wattles, with hair, with saurian scales, with weeping scabs, with cheeselike exudate.

It rained much of the time there, and the small, nasty dinosaurlike saurians that lived there seemed formidable, perhaps even dangerous—but not unmanageable.