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  • Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number.†   (source)
  • Her hair was moving, writhing like serpents.†   (source)
  • The Illuminati, like a serpent from the forgotten depths of history, had risen and wrapped themselves around an ancient foe.†   (source)
  • The serpent relaxed immediately.†   (source)
  • The serpent in the Garden of Eden [our minds] represents our subconscious and our conscious talking to each other.†   (source)
  • Each hedge was a different kind of serpent, some long, some short, some with their tongues out and some with their mouths open, showing green, fearsome teeth.†   (source)
  • Her long spear was a steel-headed serpent, flashing out at his chest, once, twice, three times, but Robb parried every thrust with his longsword, turning the point aside.†   (source)
  • He was on a quest with Hercules to kill the monstrous Hydra, an enormous serpent with nine heads.†   (source)
  • The small rug before the fire unraveled itself into a long, slender serpent with wicked teeth.†   (source)
  • Somehow I'd gone right through the Italian masterworks (crucified Christs and astonished saints, serpents and embattled angels) ending up in England, eighteenth century, a part of the museum I had seldom been in before and did not know at all.†   (source)
  • A thankless child is sharper than a serpent's tooth," Grady said, handing him his drink.†   (source)
  • Each water spout was a snarling gargoyle, and every window and door was framed by carvings of serpents, harts, ravens, and knotted vines.†   (source)
  • BEL AND THE SERPENT Do you not think that Bel is a living God?†   (source)
  • It was a great sea serpent of a line and it would be an ordeal to saw through, even with the sharpest of knives.†   (source)
  • "And there are the grass serpents," said Kassad, lowering the glasses.†   (source)
  • The forest encroached on both sides, leaving the road ahead only discernible for a few meters as it twisted, serpentlike, around the ancient trees.†   (source)
  • Then they will become the new serpent.†   (source)
  • That may explain all those gardens, serpents, tongues of flame, and voices from whirlwinds.†   (source)
  • Associated with serpents.†   (source)
  • Puppet's forearms were a canvas of extremely elaborate, interwoven and delicately-pinned tattoos that danced on skin with cholo images, skulls, serpents and women's faces.†   (source)
  • Only A Picture For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him.†   (source)
  • A thin, gold, serpent-headed bangle glowed like a circle of orange light around her wrist.†   (source)
  • Tendrils and wisps of green mist gathered in Fleming's palms, then curled in ornate patterns and drifted onto the floor, where they writhed like serpents.†   (source)
  • They walk like cats and spring with the swiftness of serpents.†   (source)
  • I hold the box with its narrow mouth over the water, and immediately, a hundred shiny arched backs roll toward me, a mob of serpents, the tails cutting across the surface furiously, and then the mouths are below me, the fish roiling over each other to swallow the pellets and then, like trained pets, aiming their faces up toward me for more.†   (source)
  • He looked straight at her and tried with all his senses to fix her in his memory as she was at that moment: she seemed like a river idol, undaunted in her black dress, with her serpent's eyes and the rose behind her ear.†   (source)
  • It writhes, and I tighten the grip, as one holds a serpent.†   (source)
  • And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season…… And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of…†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, from now on I intend to ignore all extraordinary phenomena such as sea serpents and the like.†   (source)
  • I know perfectly well how Hatsumomo treats you: about like a serpent treats its next meal, I should think.†   (source)
  • "You must not see every man as a potential serpent," he warned me.†   (source)
  • The rope seemed almost alive, the greatest of all water serpents heading at last for home.†   (source)
  • For there, on the back of the small boy's hand, on the fingers, and up along the wrist scrambled blue serpents, blue-venomed snake eyes, blue scorpions scuttling about blue shark maws which gaped eternally hungry to feed upon all the freaks crammed and stung-sewn cheek by jowl, skin to skin, flesh to flesh all up and down the chest, the tiny torso, and tucked in the secret gathering places on this small small very small body, this cold and now shocked and trembling body.†   (source)
  • The street where we lived, Serpent Street, was inside the first ghetto.†   (source)
  • Every button of her ebony shirt gleams with the shimmer of a serpent's eyes.†   (source)
  • His tattoo represented two dragons whose bodies, serpent-like, wrapped down over his jaw line.†   (source)
  • Cool to the touch, all its venom coiled inside, deadly, like a steel-scaled serpent.†   (source)
  • They were studying the Creation and the Fall of Man, lesson five in the Baltimore Catechism, and Sister pointed to a picture in the book of a man and woman standing more or less undressed beneath an apple tree with a serpent coiled on a limb and she called on Michael Kalenka and asked him to identify the man and woman, the easiest question she'd ever asked, and Michael Kalenka stood up and looked at the picture, and he thought and looked and thought, and Sister said, "The original…†   (source)
  • We would conduct Operation Gothic Serpent in three phases: First, deploy to Mogadishu and set up a base; Second, go after Aidid; and Third, if we didn't succeed in apprehending Aidid, go after his lieutenants.†   (source)
  • Ann says, examining a rough outline of a serpent.†   (source)
  • Snarling through a catacomb of sculpted black and brown boulders, down in the dank recesses where sunlight rarely reached, the mud-brown Braldu looked like a writhing serpent.†   (source)
  • —DOC BRADLEY IT HULKED ABOVE THEM STILL, before daybreak on the fifth morning, this primitive serpent's head that had struck them down in swaths.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a thing he didn't know about the serpent kingdom.†   (source)
  • For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold.†   (source)
  • And then he would truly have been the Serpent in the Garden, waiting to strike.†   (source)
  • While she was demonstrating her skill at making the serpent wiggle, she told me the story of her life.†   (source)
  • It was in the figure that we call a serpent, a star which shone green and which I knew.†   (source)
  • Now please ask your serpent to back away, lest he crinkle the pages.†   (source)
  • The gut that has slithered past my fingers like this in the African night would by now reach the Cape of Good Hope, and I have yet to see the serpent's head.†   (source)
  • The serpent in the desert with the power to heal.†   (source)
  • There is a Snake Lady and she instills extraordinary devotion and fear in high places-which means that female serpent is not without power.†   (source)
  • As Abigail would later tell Jefferson bluntly, it was as though the serpent he had "cherished and warmed" had turned and "bit the hand that nourished him."†   (source)
  • She hissed then and flew at me with the serpent in her hand.†   (source)
  • His smooth pink face and choirboy eyes gave him an innocent demeanor that was belied by a disquietingly eager smile that came and went like the flickering of a serpent's tongue.†   (source)
  • Nothing could have been more disinterested: serpent to the core.†   (source)
  • The curtains remained closed, but a voice issued out—a seductive tenor that flicked and probed at one's ears like a serpent's tongue.†   (source)
  • The procession of lights and circles danced across the snow like a glowing serpent, its many bright segments continually trembling.†   (source)
  • Loki threw out a hand, pointing at a tapestry embroidered with the red serpent picture we'd seen earlier.†   (source)
  • The abolition movement, in Booth's mind, is the real cause of the Civil War, a serpent that must be crushed.†   (source)
  • He wondered whether the dead rev liked to play with slimy serpents.†   (source)
  • She had not mentioned the threat of serpents to Oz, because she figured if he knew, she'd end up carrying her brother on her back.†   (source)
  • I thought that when I saw him and spoke to him I would be wise as serpents, harmless as doves.†   (source)
  • When he stopped in the door of the ceremonial house and looked beyond the dirt floor to the carved posts and the two-headed serpent painted on the rear wall, old Peter, the carver, who was working on a canoe, answered his questions.†   (source)
  • So they had gone at their subjects with metronomes, serpents, Brechtian vignettes at midnight, surgical removal of certain glands, magic-lantern hallucinations, new drugs, threats recited over hidden loudspeakers, hypnotism, clocks that ran backward, and faces.†   (source)
  • On one of her mother's fingers was a slender golden band in the entwined form of a cobra, the eye of the serpent made of a tiny ruby.†   (source)
  • And among the books I had brought along, I saw a well-remembered cover and brought it out to the sunlight—a golden hand holding at once a serpent and a mirror with wings, and below in scriptlike letters "The Spectator, Edited by Henry Morley."†   (source)
  • Did the strangers know how to make it: high off the ground: so that the serpent that slept in the bowels of the earth couldn't creep out and molest his body ?†   (source)
  • I'm not the serpent, Little Eva.†   (source)
  • These summers Uncle Harold stuffed Doris with ice cream and watermelon, rode the Ferris wheel with her at street carnivals, and entertained her with stories of gigantic serpents he'd fought in tropical jungles and cars he'd rolled over at a hundred miles an hour on the highway without denting a fender or ruffling a hair on his head.†   (source)
  • I returned to the serpent mythology on numerous occasions during the year, exhorting the students to look truth in the eye and to understand that the things we learn in our youth are not always literally correct.†   (source)
  • The young man, sitting now on a mat with his girl, asked, "Do you know the symbolism of the serpent on the President's stick?†   (source)
  • There came then a flashing of lights along the lengths of the Nagas, the two holy serpents who twisted about the transparent face of the machine.†   (source)
  • Nelson, composing his expression under the shadow of his hat brim, watched him with a mixture of fatigue and suspicion, but as the train glided past them and disappeared like a frightened serpent into the woods, even his face lightened and he muttered, "I'm glad I've went once, but I'll never go back agdn!"†   (source)
  • This uniqueness endowed it with an awesome quality; it was like a living and conscious creature, a local dragon or winged serpent who levied tribute and preyed upon the countryside.†   (source)
  • Near the window, a stain on the wallpaper, pale brown, a serpent shape.†   (source)
  • My hands recoiled from the coldness of serpent flesh, my nails clawed at my palms, the leaves I had parted moved back to cover it.†   (source)
  • "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is — " EDMUND "To have a thankless child."†   (source)
  • Aunt Florence moved to the mantelpiece and put her handbag down near the metal serpent.†   (source)
  • Even now he saw a serpent crossing the Trace, giving out knowing glances.†   (source)
  • Or maybe the three-headed serpent men of the Lesser Magellanic Cloud have landed and have the situation well in hand— for them.†   (source)
  • Five serpent's teeth to give to Gus.†   (source)
  • The wildly streaming locks represent the long-untended hair of the Indian yogi, now flying in the dance of life; for the presence known in the joys and sorrows of life, and that found through withdrawn meditation, are but two aspects of the same, universal, non-dual, Being-Consciousness-Bliss. Siva's bracelets, arm bands, ankle rings, and brahminical thread, are living serpents.   (source)
    serpents = snakes
  • He told them many things that they had not known before — as, for instance, that the things that hook carriages together are called couplings, and that the pipes like great serpents that hang over the couplings are meant to stop the train with.   (source)
  • But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.   (source)
    serpent = snake
  • Two dracaenae slithered in-snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs.†   (source)
  • It lunged at the fiery man, who effortlessly grabbed the serpent by its neck.†   (source)
  • They were like gigantic black serpents, peering out from their caves.†   (source)
  • Blue fire coiled from her fingers curling like serpents around Annabeth.†   (source)
  • Both the chandelier and the candelabra on a rickety table nearby were shaped like serpents.†   (source)
  • 'Talk about the wolves and serpents and ancient killing machines.†   (source)
  • Her robes puddled blue at her feet, and around her neck was wrapped a water-serpent like a scarf.†   (source)
  • Eragon felt as if he were riding a sea serpent of legend.†   (source)
  • Bel and the Serpent wasn't so frightening, as it mainly featured the quick wits of Daniel.†   (source)
  • Once, a thin black serpent wriggled over the yellow soil in front of them.†   (source)
  • The return of the old Mexican blood religion in The Plumed Serpent (1926).†   (source)
  • Carter's mouth fell open as the serpent writhed in the air above Washington, slowly losing power.†   (source)
  • His dark eyes were still fixed upon the coiling serpent in its protective sphere.†   (source)
  • I looked down, and there was my friend the cow serpent, swimming next to the dock.†   (source)
  • Maybe if we sacrifice someone to a grass serpent the transportation gods will smile on as.†   (source)
  • As always the serpent waited in the tower room, unraveling itself from the rug on the floor.†   (source)
  • Her symbol is a serpent coiling about a tree or staff--the caduceus.†   (source)
  • He looked beneath him again, to the sinuous serpent of black.†   (source)
  • He looked where I was pointing, saw the serpent women, and immediately understood.†   (source)
  • "They have serpent tattoos," I noted, "like those street thugs you sent to attack me."†   (source)
  • And then, just ahead, there she was: the hideous serpent.†   (source)
  • The serpent hilt came to life and hissed at her.†   (source)
  • They just went inside the major's cabin because you started teasing them with a sea serpent.†   (source)
  • The silver doorknocker was in the form of a twisted serpent.†   (source)
  • Adam and Eve, the garden, the serpent, the forbidden fruit.†   (source)
  • I did not call dragons, or summon serpents.†   (source)
  • Seated pharaohs were chiseled into the walls, and the doorway was shaped like a coiled serpent.†   (source)
  • The serpent's body was as thick as a booster rocket, glinting with coppery scales.†   (source)
  • Then that so-called sea serpent began to flap about in the water.†   (source)
  • 'I wanted to have it chewing up a serpent to represent Slytherm, you know, but there wasn't time.†   (source)
  • The Serpent and I would rip each other to nothingness, and the world would be safe.†   (source)
  • Evil has had to do with sex since the serpent seduced Eve.†   (source)
  • "It means serpent bull in Greek," Thalia said.†   (source)
  • There should've been no way for the Serpent to break through that kind of seal.†   (source)
  • But the cow serpent thrashed around and got even more tangled.†   (source)
  • The cow serpent nuzzled me and gave me the big brown eyes.†   (source)
  • He bound me to the Serpent with his last spell.†   (source)
  • Thalia stared at the cow serpent with wonder.†   (source)
  • "Don't say the Serpent's name," Bast warned.†   (source)
  • I tried to imagine the serpent, Apophis—a creature of chaos even worse than Set.†   (source)
  • The cow serpent freaked out and started struggling against the net, its eyes full of terror.†   (source)
  • Chaos will overcome Ma'at, and the Serpent will reign forever.†   (source)
  • I doubted the cow serpent understood what I was saying, but it responded to the tone of my voice.†   (source)
  • That night, the serpent slipped into Ra's bedroom and bit him on the ankle.†   (source)
  • Ra couldn't have defeated the Serpent without you.†   (source)
  • "KILL HIM!" The blinded serpent swayed, confused, still deadly.†   (source)
  • He protected the sun god's boat from the serpent Apophis.†   (source)
  • I looked up once more at the giant red serpent slowly dissolving in the sky.†   (source)
  • He cast us both into that abyss, where I was charged to fight the Serpent and keep it down forever.†   (source)
  • Your father told me that your mother had foreseen … horrible things if the Serpent overcame me.†   (source)
  • "You both saw the serpent in the clouds," I said.†   (source)
  • I showed him the serpent mark on the piece of pottery.†   (source)
  • Roots coiled around his legs like wooden serpents.†   (source)
  • Speaking of Snakes I think it's best for Ian to leave before my personal serpent slithers home.†   (source)
  • Trianna drew back slightly, then lifted her wrist so the serpent bracelet was at eye level.†   (source)
  • A dozen serpents swam free—each one lime green with a frilled crown around its head.†   (source)
  • A huge sea serpent appeared from above us and spiraled down toward the roof.†   (source)
  • Slimy vines slither across my bare feet like serpents come aground; I hold still, calming my breath.†   (source)
  • Swift as a serpent, Max stabbed downward and caught the blade within his parrying guard.†   (source)
  • I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.†   (source)
  • On his head was a Frisbee-shaped crown—a sun disk, braided with serpents.†   (source)
  • -May this serpent have life's movement. skolir-shield Skolir nosu fra brisingr!†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 15 -- Crookedness of the Serpent.†   (source)
  • The demon had shed his human guise as a serpent sheds its skin.†   (source)
  • An outstretched leg withdrew along the floor like a serpent recoiling underfoot.†   (source)
  • We pass under icy stalactites as long as a sea serpent's teeth, and I recognize this place.†   (source)
  • Mars's sacred animal was the wild boar, not the serpent.†   (source)
  • She raised my old enemy Python, the great serpent, to repossess the Delphic Oracle.†   (source)
  • And when it was over, Jill said, "I bet that serpent and that woman were the same person."†   (source)
  • The pathway flattened out and began to turn and twist like a serpent.†   (source)
  • "World Serpent fishing—that's one thing.†   (source)
  • The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.†   (source)
  • I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.†   (source)
  • I'd pulled the World Serpent out of Massachusetts Bay and defeated Fenris Wolf with a ball of yarn.†   (source)
  • She turned and kissed the base of a tall bronze statue of Elyon-a winged serpent on a pole.†   (source)
  • I felt like a snake, perhaps a bit afraid of the brand-new serpent, commanding an old skin to shed.†   (source)
  • Marcus, serpent that he is, darts into the forest after Zak.†   (source)
  • A few minutes latera fully loaded train rolled past, looking like a giant serpent.†   (source)
  • The serpent lay dormant; the hostile fire never materialized.†   (source)
  • The boat turned neatly around the sea serpent prow of the ship and came for us.†   (source)
  • Lady Merryweather may be a serpent, but she is far from stupid.†   (source)
  • I raised my spear and thrust it into the Serpent's eye.†   (source)
  • A serpent sleeping in the sun, just waking, not dangerous quite yet.†   (source)
  • It flailed awkwardly and crashed to the sidewalk, hellhound and serpent twisting and thrashing.†   (source)
  • Her head whipped from side to side, her serpent eyes quivering, as if they were searching the wind.†   (source)
  • Remember?" she replied with a final flip of her serpent.†   (source)
  • The Demon's mouth yawned impossibly wide, like a great serpent unhinging its jaws.†   (source)
  • Bronze statues of winged serpents with ruby eyes seemed to occupy every corner.†   (source)
  • It had involved acid-spitting serpent heads, much screaming, and a cannon.†   (source)
  • Serpents and slimy lizards are the only living denizens….†   (source)
  • He was leaning wearily against the ship's serpent prow while Maya nuzzled his hand.†   (source)
  • As Piper ad-libbed answers, Leo jumped on the serpent's back.†   (source)
  • A serpent was in either of the man's hands, the reptiles rigid, unmoving, like bent pieces of metal.†   (source)
  • The bridge rose to meet him, sinuous as a serpent.†   (source)
  • Then at a short command, the serpent stiffened and resumed its former position.†   (source)
  • The serpent coiled to strike, crushing dead beetle shells under its body.†   (source)
  • The serpent was not completely dead after all.†   (source)
  • And that form was of a scarlet serpent that stretched the length of the cathedral.†   (source)
  • Have they told you that if I am released from this chair I shall kill you and become a serpent?†   (source)
  • I ran to help her, but the serpent had already zeroed in on the new threat.†   (source)
  • She's a lying serpent as sure as we are salamanders in her eyes!†   (source)
  • "He's no serpent," Ghosh said sharply, contradicting Hema.†   (source)
  • "Meet my older brother," Sam said, "the World Serpent."†   (source)
  • Sparklers blazed to life in front of the sea serpent tank.†   (source)
  • The two serpents checked each other out, touching noses, then turned their wheels in unison.†   (source)
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