How To Use Basilisk In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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This combined pressure allows the basilisk to run on water with a speed of 8 to 10 km an hour.
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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`Abasio," the other rumbled, giving him a basilisk stare, cold as the walkers ' glance but more personal.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Nowadays, the poet would call a basilisk bonny rather than miss his alliteration.
Without Prejudice
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There was the completion of the circle: the basilisk was a small lizard, but its glance could stun or kill other creatures.
Robot Adept
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The basilisk is the enemy of the yale, and if it finds the yale asleep it stings it between the eyes, causing its eyes to swell until they burst.
Archive 2007-12-01
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When we'd walked on he'd said: `You must have heard of the basilisk.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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The best representation of the basilisk is found in the decorative field of heraldry where the basilisk had the head and legs of a cock, a snake-like tail, and a body like a birds.
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Also known as a cockatrice, the basilisk is generally a variety of cock with a serpent’s tail and eight legs, and sometimes bearing scales instead of feathers.
Eaters Of The Dead
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The basilisk was the Phoenix of the serpent-tribe; and the vase or urn was probably the vessel, shaped like a cucumber, with a projecting spout, out of which, on the monuments of Egypt, the priests are represented pouring streams of the _cruz ansata_ or Tau Cross, and of _sceptres_, over the kings.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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I need my little musical rhythm to wrap me up and shush me tenderly as I wonder about the black-haired girl, and the basilisks in the hotel lobby.
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Basilisk lizards are unique in their ability to run across water from the time they hatch to adulthood.
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But the grass lights up, and, in the twistings of the flames, stands erect the Basilisk, a huge, violet serpent, with a trilobate crest and two teeth -- one above, the other below:
Tentation de saint Antoine. English
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The computer programs tell us all about snakes and lizards and birds and mammals, about atoms and planets and plants, but not dragons or basilisks or cyclopsi.
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Streep has the basilisk stare; the tilted, faintly predatory posture.
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It follows the ecotopian revision of Isaiah 11 in canto viii, where babies sport with basilisks and lions lie mutated into lambs, and 'no longer now/He slays the lamb that looks him in the face/And horribly devours his mangled flesh' (211).
_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
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Two generations back they still stood dark and empty; people avoided them as they passed by; the boldest schoolboy only shouted through the keyhole 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.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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The basilisk is a fabulous conglomerate, a winged animal formed with the three-crested head of a cock and the body of a lizardlike serpent with a three-pointed tail.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
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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
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They also investigate the origins of various heraldic monsters, such as the basilisk (based on the hooded cobra).
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To find answers, Hsieh and Lauder turned to the basilisk lizard, a skittish tree-dwelling species found in Central America.
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Let us imagine him to be gifted with the powers of the fabled basilisk, "to monarchise, be feared, and kill with looks.
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
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Stone curlews - now called thick-knees - glare at you in basilisk manner, spurt stiffly a few yards and then glare at you again, surprised that you're still there.
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Her eye was like that of the fabled serpent, called the basilisk, and in her anger she ever struck terror.
Roger Trewinion
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They had been on the Foundation's floating headquarters when a supervillain called Basilisk had attacked.
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As he spoke he realized something that had not quite surfaced before: the basilisk was a magical creature that could do magic.
A Spell For Chameleon
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A cockatrice is a serpent, often identified with the basilisk; it is said to be able to kill by its glance alone and to be hatched from a cock's egg.
Annotations
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The lone unicorn, basilisk and banshee wandered as they pleased.
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The Pascalian principle that wagering on a notional truth is as good as treating it as a certainty holds for the determination we have at Cannes to outstare a basilisk movie, or to die in the attempt.
GreenCine Daily: Weekend fests and events.
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A lot of the artists who designed the knights coat of arms often used imaginary animals like the basilisk, dragon, unicorn, etc.
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Often considered to be one of the most spectacular lizard species, sometimes called the "Jesus lizard", the green basilisk is a striking addition to any reptile collection.
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The demo includes greatly modelled troglodytes, skeleton warriors, dragonflies, basilisks, evil eyes, terror eyes, lizardmen and lizardmen warriors.
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So in the dragon books I have faeries and giants and basilisks which kill by a glance but bear no physical resemblance to the mythological cockatrice.
Archive 2010-04-01
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The wood of this cartouche is the same as that of the basilisks upon the arms, being very hard and close-grained, and of a tawny, yellow hue, like boxwood.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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A cockatrice is a serpent, often identified with the basilisk; it is said to be able to kill by its glance alone and to be hatched from a cock's egg.
Annotations
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Leaning on her cane, Lady O fixed Stokes with her best basilisk stare.
THE PERFECT LOVER
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The Basilisk had indeed been spied from the Spanish Admiral's ship before the fog closed down.
Sir Nigel
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Isidore of Seville tells us: The basilisk is six inches in length and has white spots; it is the king regulus of snakes.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Like a basilisk or cockatrice it is, speaking of magical, wonderful animals.
Magical wonderful animal | clusterflock
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For I say, fear the fire of dragons and the eye of the basilisk.
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I am the founder of Basilisk Games and the lead developer, programmer and artist on the Eschalon series.
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A basilisk lizard, or Jesus lizard, runs across water during an experiment.