How To Use amphisbaena In A Sentence
- Leonardo Da Vinci wrote accounts about the amphisbaena as a living creature, giving details on how the serpent caught rodents as prey by confusing it with its two heads.
- Walking the debauched Jahilian streets, his heart full of bile, Hamza has seen men and women in the guise of eagles, jackals, horses, gryphons, salamanders, wart -- hogs, rocs; welling up from the murk of the alleys have come two-headed amphisbaenae and the winged bulls known as Assyrian sphinxes. The Satanic Verses
- As bestiary.ca notes, the term "amphisbaena" is now applied to a group of reptiles, the so-called "worm lizards". The Return of Weird Medieval Animal Monday (WMAM)
- They have here also the amphisbaena, or two-headed snake, of a grey colour, mixed with blackish stripes, whose bite is reckoned to be incurable. A Voyage to New Holland
- The amphisbaena is supposed to be scary because it can bite you from both ends.
- The Chichester Cathedral misericord of the amphisbaena is shown to be a memento mori by the surrounding carvings.
- Adventurers fighting an amphisbaena need to be doubly careful, since both heads are capable of attacking and even swallowing assailants with ease.
- Pliny the Elder was clearly terrified of it, stating, "The amphisbaena has a twin head, that is one at the tail-end as well, as though it were not enough for poison to be poured out of one mouth. Archive 2007-10-01
- A curious snake, with something the character of the English slow-worm, the amphisbaena -- called by the natives Mai das Saubas, or the mother of the saubas -- is frequently found in these mounds. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
- -. (building) with columns at each end but not at sides. amphisbaena Xml's Blinklist.com
