half-alligator

Crockett's brags were legendary, but they were a comic art form practiced throughout the frontier, and so tongue-in-cheek as to be a form of modesty in themselves, as in the much-reported: "I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning."

An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011

Annette Mandeville, fragile blossom of the Old South, half-woman, half-alligator,. who wore spurred riding boots to bed and whose diminutive charms I must have explored a dozen times - and now I'd just spent an hour in her company, conversing, kissing, caressing, carrying her bodily up five flights of stairs, rattling her six ways from Sunday - and never for a moment suspecting who she was!

THE NUMBERS 2010

Even better: Let's bring back Stephen Colbert's stories about Florida's "half-alligator" extremist GOP Congressman, Bill Posey, one of the nut jobs who've kept the Birther nonsense alive.

Bill Mann: CNN, Others Using "Fig Leaf" to Justify Whack-Job Coverage 2009

Half-horse, half-alligator, with a little touch of the snapping turtle thrown in.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

In February, The Transom learned that the saleswoman had on hand four BKC bags, ranging in price from $800 apiece (for two matching woven purses with alligator skin closes) to $3,000, for a half-alligator skin, half-linen trophy bag.

Selling by the Cord ��� Thus Spake Dana Delany ��� Hayes Can Keep the Money, For Now 1998

In February, The Transom learned that the saleswoman had on hand four BKC bags, ranging in price from $800 apiece (for two matching woven purses with alligator skin closes) to $3,000, for a half-alligator skin, half-linen trophy bag.

Selling by the Cord ��� Thus Spake Dana Delany ��� Hayes Can Keep the Money, For Now 1998

Annette Mandeville, fragile blossom of the Old South, half-woman, half-alligator,. who wore spurred riding boots to bed and whose diminutive charms I must have explored a dozen times - and now I'd just spent an hour in her company, conversing, kissing, caressing, carrying her bodily up five flights of stairs, rattling her six ways from Sunday - and never for a moment suspecting who she was!

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Annette Mandeville, fragile blossom of the Old South, half-woman, half-alligator,. who wore spurred riding boots to bed and whose diminutive charms I must have explored a dozen times - and now I'd just spent an hour in her company, conversing, kissing, caressing, carrying her bodily up five flights of stairs, rattling her six ways from Sunday - and never for a moment suspecting who she was!

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Between Pittsburgh and Shawneetown, whilst "gliding merrily down the Ohio" in a _keel-boat_, "navigated by eight or ten of those half-horse and half-alligator gentry commonly called Ohio boatmen," Judge Hall was lulled to sweet sleep, as the rowers were "tugging at the oar," timing their strokes to the cadence: --

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829 Various

Richards stepped smartly up to the table, then turned round, and confronted the group of half-horse, half-alligator visages there assembled.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various