basilisk

How To Use basilisk In A Sentence

• Quite a few disconsolate men complained that the ballot should have been secret, but they did so while lacerated by basilisk stares from the suspicious harridans they had brought with them.
• Otherwise, we have more of the lumbering and vaguely stegosaur-like "stegodons" seen elsewhere in Azeroth and a bizarre mutation of basilisk that they're calling "Diemetradon" (clearly loosely inspired by the Permian-aged Dimetrodon, which, you'll note, isn't a dinosaur, but, rather, a pelycosaurian synapsid). Howard Hughes Looks the Other Way
• This combined pressure allows the basilisk to run on water with a speed of 8 to 10 km an hour.
• Two generations back they still stood dark and empty; people avoided them as they passed by; the boldest schoolboy only shouted through the key-hole and made off; for within, it was supposed, the plague lay ambushed like a basilisk, ready to flow forth and spread blain and pustule through the city. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
• 1921-1964 OsW Marine beasties supply ten animalines: cyprine carp 1828 O octopine octopus 1914 delphine dolphin 1828 OsW OW ostracine oyster 1890 delphinine dolphin O OW homarine lobster 1880 phocaenine porpoise OW 1890 OW manatine manatee OW phocine seal 1846 OW megapterine hump - back whale W Finally, beasts of the mind occupy the last three places in my extended corpus: basilicine basilisk 1855 sphinxine sphinx 1845 VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
• For over all this ground lay extended, then, in watchful strength all safe and unespied, the basilisk of whom the The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
• In heraldry the basilisk is represented as an animal with the head, torso and legs of a cock, the tongue of a snake and the wings of a bat.
• And as they watched in amazement, Lanyon's skin started taking on a greyish tint, and her hands, raised to ward off the basilisk, froze in place.
• `Abasio," the other rumbled, giving him a basilisk stare, cold as the walkers ' glance but more personal. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• Nowadays, the poet would call a basilisk bonny rather than miss his alliteration. Without Prejudice