The thickness of his coat must therefore change with the seasons 188 Rabbits seem to have a well-devised system in their road-building, running their paths in and out of underbrush in a truly ingenious manner 189 The mongoose, a scavenger of the worst type, feeding on rats and mice and snakes, and even poultry 202 diplodocus.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
Argumentum ad feminam, as we said in old Rome and ancient Greece in the consulship of diplodocus and Ichthyosauros.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
This may, perhaps, be better appreciated by saying that to clean a single vertebra of such a huge Dinosaur as diplodocus may require a month of continuous labor, and that a score of these big and complicated bones, besides others of simpler structure, are included in the backbone.
"Animals of the Past"
Frederic A. Lucas