This the doctor took and rinsed in the clear river, starting back on the instant, and only just in time for, attracted by the motion of the white handkerchief in the water, a small crocodile of some six feet long partially threw itself out of the stream; but falling short of its prey, the reptile shuffled back and was gone.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
"Hilton, old man," said Chumbley, solemnly, "do you think there is a crocodile in the river big enough to receive this huge carcase of mine?"
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
For in the bowl there was no bread and milk-nothing but a crumpled red glazed paper with a hateful picture of a smiling crocodile, something pink and green, a tiny paper ball of printed paper, and a stiff thing sticking up-easily guessed at, but now blurred and indistinct to Hilda's tearful view.
"The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy"
Mabel Henriette Spielmann