How To Use Amphisbaena In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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The amphisbaena is supposed to be scary because it can bite you from both ends.
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The Chichester Cathedral misericord of the amphisbaena is shown to be a memento mori by the surrounding carvings.
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Adventurers fighting an amphisbaena need to be doubly careful, since both heads are capable of attacking and even swallowing assailants with ease.
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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.
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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
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The amphisbaena is a two-headed lizard or serpent.
The Return of Weird Medieval Animal Monday (WMAM)
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It is probable, however, that the amphisbaena takes up its abode in the nest for the convenience of devouring the inhabitants, whenever unable to procure other food.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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He slew 27 dragons, 15 amphisbaenas, and 3 sorceresses in whose invisible dungeons many knights errant were kept prisoner.