How To Use Serpent In A Sentence

The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation. Habitat fragmentation
It looked like it was made of plaques of imperial jade, not softer serpentine. JADE ISLAND
The griffin is also used by Saab, and other mythical beasts goaded into service on motor cars must include Alfa Romeo's serpent, Talbot's hunting dog and the Gilbern's Welsh dragon. Badge Engineering
The bladelike projections behaved like serpents, attacking and recoiling repeatedly. Reap the Whirlwind
I then knew, by the black cross which I observed on its neck, that it was of the species called aquis, one of the boldest and most venomous of the serpents of that region. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots

Hiding out in or near steamy rivers and swamps in South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Paraguay and also on the island of Trinidad, these semiaquatic serpents are the largest snakes in the world.
The volume expansion provides an excellent mechanism to expel and propel fluid products – including hydrocarbons – from the area of serpentinization to seep sites at the crust hydrosphere/atmosphere interface. At it Again
You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.
How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area.
It flew in search of waterfalls that fell off the hills and flowed in serpentine paths on the plains.
The opening theme is based on the ancient myth that the River Lee was formed by the gorging tail of a giant serpent defeated in battle by St Finbarr.
Several blooded animals take this sleep, such as the pholidotes or tessellates, namely, the serpent, the lizard, the gecko, and the river. crocodile, all of which go into hiding for four months in the depth of winter, and during that time eat nothing. The History of Animals
Of exceptionally fine quality, it is pyramid-shaped and inset with beaded gold wiring in the shape of a serpent.
One other slant on this whole thing is that some Gnostic sects believed the Serpent not to be a tempter, but to be a Redeemer.
Arctic Village is an assembly of 40-odd spruce-log cabins that overlook the serpentine bends, oxbows, and channels of the East Fork.
Then the sound of rotors is heard, and they look up, only to see the two Serpent helicopters hovering above them.
Not an imaginary scene, but a view of Philip's serpentine garden at Greystones, winding into the distance. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
An unusual pairing during Art Basel Miami Beach was the jointly held event between Pringle of Scotland, the design house for Scottish woolies, and Serpentine Gallery, one of the most respected galleries in London. Kiša Lala: ART AND FASHION: Pringle Of Scotland And London's Serpentine Gallery Collaborate To Promote Scottish Artists
This hierogram is the symbol of the serpent, a circle with a snake passing through it, like a needle and thread.
To this fusion are added Gothic style elements in the legs (a rounded arch above and a trefoil below each), colorful French ceramics with a Moorish flavor, and exotic serpents on either side of the ceramic cylinder.
As soon as he was quiet the legserpent began to untwist and retwist, to uncoil and recoil himself, swinging and swaying, knotting and relaxing himself with strangest curves and convolutions, always, however, leaving at least one coil around his victim. The Princess and Curdie
He that has [hath] been bitten by a serpent, is afraid of a rope.
Orders were passed on the other side of the hall, the hissing language of the serpent priests impossible to understand. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
Yet we have a variety of Krishna scenes—here he tackles a demon serpent, there he fights a demon crane, and in a grouping demarcated by darker walls he romances milkmaids, multiplying himself to dance with each individually. From Stillness, Cosmic Action
Saddlebag and Dot islands are bedrock features consisting of serpentinite rock that is over 200 million years old. Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington
Sluggish, heavily polluted and evil smelling, it snaked through the borough like a poisonous serpent.
The ophiolite contains a complete igneous stratigraphy of serpentinized ultramafics, gabbro, sheeted dykes and pillow lavas, as described by Moores.
A malignant tongue makes men like the old serpent; and poison in the lips is a certain sign of poison in the heart. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Jean made two deep bows, the Americans two little ones, after which they foraged in their bags, from which each drew a 'rouleau' of 1,000 francs, daintily inclosed in green sheaths of serpent-skin, clasped with gold. The French Immortals Series — Complete
She had put serpent-shaped silver barrettes in her hair, and she played with fearful but clear conviction.
Then breaking the surface, one by one, the swimmers form a new line, a line that charges ahead like an angry serpent.
These giant serpents originated the widely spread notions which typified the deluge and all destructive agents under the form of a dragon or monster serpent; hence, the dragon temples always near water, in Asia, Africa, and Britain; for example, at Abury, in Wiltshire; a symbol of the ark is often associated with the dragon as the preserver from the waters Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She says her illustration of a frenzied cat with a serpentine body always provoked immense laughter from children.
Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
I get lost among the cornucopias of chotkies and tat, and am somehow spilled back out to the main Jemaa El F'na Square, where one charmeurs de serpent pulls me under his black umbrella and wags his head at his Egyptian Cobra actually, Naja haje legionis, a sub-species found in southern Morocco as his associate blows his bagpipe-like melody in his ghaita. Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
Check out my website at www.martinhovland.com, and also the paper in EOS, of 2005 where we describe how supercritical water actually originating from serpentinization not only brings salt to the surface, but also molten asphalt. At it Again
I will wander down it and pick flowers, green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured May, wild roses and ivy serpentine. The Waves
Yvette Gilbert, the songstress of the vile, the recitationist of the vulgar, and Le Loie Fuller, the dancer of the serpentine, live off the fat of the land every day. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Then the scorpion changed to a vulture and the serpent became an eagle which set upon the vulture, and hunted him for an hour's time, till he became a black tom cat, which miauled and grinned and spat. Arabian nights. English
He rode snakes, one foot each on a huge cobra's back, and jewelsnakes and small constrictors and other serpents adorned his body.
Some edaphic associations are Chamise series on shallow soils, Leather oak series on shallow serpentinitic soils, Needlegrass grasslands on Vertisols, and Manzanita shrublands on silicic sandstones. South Coastal Santa Lucia Range (Bailey)
Her eye was like that of the fabled serpent, called the basilisk, and in her anger she ever struck terror. Roger Trewinion
The theme of dematerialisation is reprised at the top of the block, which is crowned with a glass belvedere (for meetings-with-a-view), connected to the lower floors by a serpentine spiral staircase.
When one hears the rattle of a serpent's tail, they flee the area from which it came.
Snakebite Orks always carry a selection of venomous serpents with them when they migrate to new planets, just in case the indigenous lifeforms prove to be unsuitably inoffensive .
When the infant Heracles caught Hera"s two serpents in its hands, it was Tiresias who cast the child"s fortune and revealed the divine origin and destiny of the boy .
Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
I watched her serpentine through the doors and carry the tray directly to a table of people who had just sat down—she was a pickle passer.
The first cipher broken was Serpent: the cipher universally considered to be the safest, most conservative choice.
There aren't really any sea serpent accounts that describe oarfish to my knowledge, plus it now turns out that oarfishes hold their bodies VERTICALLY when swimming. Oarfish
And Antonio spent one portion of his life transforming a rocky hillside in Barcelona into a labyrinth of walkways, serpentine retaining walls, small ovalesque grottoes, a typography of earth and mind, a physical rendering of flamenco patterns, flying lines, and planes kerned in kinetic chthonic exclamations! The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
And just as the serpent had promised, good fortune smiled upon the woodcutter and his wife.
Were there any truth in the tale as regards the mongoos, it would be difficult to understand, why other creatures, such as the secretary bird and the falcon, which equally destroy serpents, should be left defenceless, and the ichneumon alone provided with a prophylactic. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
As one looks upward at the wall, one can find the serpentine road clinging to the mountain just like a snake with numerous whirls.
Limestone, serpentine, and acidic rock types are extensive in western Newfoundland; peatlands, fens, and forest cover large areas.
Blaze formed a fireball in his hand and launched it at the giant serpent, but it was simply eaten by its right head.
The doors to the club were made of smooth dark wood with two silver door handles shaped like serpents.
The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a gigantic and powerful serpent or other reptile with magical or spiritual qualities.
The flower stalks do coil suggestively like serpents.
The road through this landscape moves with serpentine indecision: it rises, curves and double backs, hesitates, sinks, then curves back on itself once more.
There were more twists and turns in the BMW International Open over the flatlands of Nord-Eichenried than on the most serpentine of mountain passes.
“Thou keenest a cure right well; the remedy of his sickness is the Queen of the Serpents, and thou knowest her abiding-place and hast been with her.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The serpentine robots could also be used to disarm explosives while minimizing the danger to humans.
However, no one had yet been bitten by a venomous serpent, a scorpion, or a centiped, although we had killed all of the three within camp limits. IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest
In the myth of the Orpheus / Eurydice saga, Orpheus was given a dispensation by Pluto to return his wife from the underworld (she had been bitten by a poisonous serpent and died).
This reptilian monster has various forms in its plastic representations, according to the style of each region; it can appear as a bicephalous dragon or a 2-headed plumed serpent; and also as a bird with serpent features.
The weakling is he in whose forceless nature one serpent after another writhes its head up, dominant for a moment only, doomed to be thrust down by another fancy as fickle. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
Their oldest literature shows how large a part the serpent played in the so-called divine age, how it acted as progenitress of the Mikado's ancestry, and how it afforded means of incarnation for the kami or gods. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
Ibi habetur in leui precio copia rerum omnium, et præcipuè victualium: vnum genus est ibi serpentum in abundantia quod manducant ad omne conuiuium, et nisi pro finali ferculo ministraretur de illis serpentibus, conuiuium quàm modicum diceretur. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Many of the participants painted wine glass in flames and a serpent coming out of a liquor bottle, throwing light on the evil effects of drinking.
I looked up and saw a serpent eagle gliding smoothly in the air.
This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression. PodCastle » 2010 » February
The great age of exploration in the 1500s witnessed the creation of its own folklore: sea serpents, unicorns and unipeds, the Fountain of Youth and the Seven Cities of Cibola.
Proteins are notorious shape-shifters, curling and uncurling like serpents as they go about their work in and around living cells.
To quilt the sashing and borders, set the machine for a serpentine stitch and stitch parallel rows down the strips.
It is an easy drive on two lane roads that serpentine through the Laurel Mountains.
Hess's hypothesis on the serpentinite composition of the lower oceanic crust was confirmed by serpentinite and gabbroid fragments dredged from some fracture zones.
Serpentinite barrens are visible on both sides of the Staten Island Expressway where bedrock was exposed when new roads were cut during the mid-1960s.
When Phoebus lived on this earth, he was a lusty bachelor and a fine archer, slaying serpents and singing with great musical harmony.
The image here comes from Norse mythology, in which the Midgard serpent is “of such an enormous size that holding his tail in his mouth he encircles the whole earth” (Bulfinch [1855] 2003: 333). Archive 2007-05-01
Now, the company cherished for its bold use of colored stones, cabochon cuts and serpentine coils is making its brashest move yet: a merger with French luxury giant LVMH. 20 Odd Questions: Nicola Bulgari
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.
The basement is mainly composed of quartz biotite norite and minor serpentinite which belong to the Ordovician Boganclough intrusion.
The show on the second floor of the multi-storeyed Customs House, attracted hundreds of excited buyers who stood in serpentine queues clutching bulging purses.
In aliit: Idem calathus in bigis boum vel serpentum. Doctrina numorum veterum
There are serpentine mahogany bureaux and marquetry tables à écrire.
The story of Adam and Eve and the Serpent seemed a naïve myth.
Because there, on the floor, like a coiled serpent, lies the cause of the problem.
Stopping in his tracks, Kaylun Looked around, and, out of the shadows, stepped a long, serpentine, dragon.
That's all fine and good, but to a group of yahoos serpentining around a grassy knoll taking pots at each other, it maybe seems like too much, you know?
_ I heard Uncle Sam read the first three chapters of Genesis, which he translated into his own lingo as he went along, calling the subtile serpent the most "amiable" of beasts, and ignoring gender, person, and number in an astonishing manner. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
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
Join us each day for stories about serpents, from flying snakes to Vietnamese cobras and North American copperheads.
Through him, as we have shown and as so many texts have indicated, God has destroyed the serpent and the angels and human beings who have grown like it.
Animals that are coated with tessellates-such as the lizard and the other quadrupeds, and the serpents-are omnivorous: at all events they are carnivorous and graminivorous; and serpents, by the way, are of all animals the greatest gluttons. The History of Animals
There were a record number of entries from yellow submarines, tall ships, small ships, rafts, sea serpents, to shipwrecks and fishing boats and lots more besides.
Nothing could have been more heart-warming than the sight of people standing patiently in a serpentine queue at the auditorium to buy the commemorative stamp!
It is underlain by schist, phyllite, and quartzite, although outcrops of serpentine are common in the area.
Further legends state that the omphalos at Delphi stands upon the spot where Apollo killed the serpent Python, or upon the chasm through which the waters of Deucalion's flood drained away.
You can meander along the serpentine paths that lead into the forests and soak in some wilderness.
I was commended on one fine piece of unusual serpentine that I'd found, and felt very pleased with myself indeed, until I remembered that I had, after all, found it, and had had no idea in the world how rare it was until that moment.
And she that rode on the serpent signifieth the old law, and that serpent betokeneth a fiend. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Afternoons are a nightmare for commuters standing in serpentine queues at the rear entrance of the City Railway Station.
Basanti queen of the Hijdas beauty beyond compare zeenath in serpentine snare sohel on the balls of his toes leaps in middair his entire body in prayer kaajal her bodily muskish odour attired emotions in good care babita, priya from singapore samba footed on the holy square The Hijdas of Moti Katra « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
That's all fine and good, but to a group of yahoos serpentining around a grassy knoll taking pots shots at each other, it maybe seems like too much, you know?
But you can still retire and move to the semitropics and wind up on the board of a Serpentarium.
The knotted serpent and the stag trippant in are derived from the crests respectively of the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Buccleuch, who are the principal landowners - the latter also being Lord of the Manor of Plain Furness.
Desert_, p. 550.] [Footnote 272: Disciples of Seedy ben Isa, whose sanctuary is at Fas, and who possess the art of fascinating serpents.] [Footnote 273: N.B. This is a misinterpretation of the Arabic words here used, which, literally translated, signify, _God alone, is great! An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury, making his way toward the land.
The bars represent lines of print on a page, and the caduceus was the winged wand entwined with serpents carried by Mercury, the messenger of the gods. The World of 1975
A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a lion's claws, the tail of a serpent, wings, and a scaly skin.
Pipelines stretch through the brush like giant serpents.
The kundalini is symbolised by a serpent, which is often depicted turning three and half times.
The intellectual and creative processes by which we improve infrastructural code are no less natural than the geological forces that turn granite into gneiss, limestone into marble and peridotite into serpentine.
this strikes me as patently false! known direct samples of the mantle at or near the moho are at slow spreading ridges (where both serpentinite and unhydrous mantle rocks are found) and by xenolith (to my knowledge, no serpentinite xenolith has ever been described). At it Again
Her hands gripped his hair, her legs sliding in serpentine coils to lock behind his knees. Busy Weekend - much accomplished...
The stand, with its baluster legs and serpentine stretcher, is also japanned and similar to other European designs of this period.
The cerastes is the most flexible of all serpents, so flexible that is seems to have no spine.
We followed the serpentine course of the river.
In the field, the boundary between crustal units and mantle units is marked by a zone of sheared serpentinite, which overlies more massive largely serpentinized, harzburgite and dunite.
Faced with few alternatives to reduce the oppressive debt burden incurred through the 2008 Fording Coal acquisition, Teck continues to slough off gold assets like some kind of molting serpent. Fool.com: The Motley Fool
He has four feet so he is not a serpent type, although his tail seems serpentine.
For centuries this staff, known also as the caduceus, the winged staff of Hermes-Mercury, the messenger of the gods, is depicted with two entwining serpents and has been the symbol of the medical profession.
Compositionally, the turbidites are mostly feldspathic litharenites with trace amounts of serpentinite, anorthosite and mafic volcanic clasts.
To return to the marks of glaciation: in the moraine at Mazze there are many large blocks of protogine and large and small ones of limestone and serpentine which have been brought down from Monte The Antiquity of Man
Well, then, I will be as plain as ever I can be, only premising that what you call the cunning of the serpent -- The Seaboard Parish Volume 1
Patriots frequently described their troops as Christian soldiers battling “all the powers of Hell,” “the prince of darkness,” “the serpent,” “the dragon,” and “the antichristian beast.” The Chosen Peoples
The shelled serpentine walks were bordered with low, closely clipped cassina hedges; clusters of white and rose oleander, scarlet geraniums, roses of countless variety, beds of verbena of every hue, and patches of brilliant annuals, all looked up smilingly at him. Beulah
KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court today once again deferred its verdict on alleged international serial killer Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj's case, further prolonging the dubbed serpentine's seven-year battle against the three-decade old murder charge. The Himalayan Times RSS
Then they told him that somewhere, a long way off, there dwelt three dreadful sisters, monstrous ogrish women, with golden wings and claws of brass, and with serpents growing on their heads instead of hair. The Blue Fairy Book
They consist of talcose-schiste, bluish-grey limestone, talc in beds, serpentine, black marble similar to the oldest in the Alps, quartz, feldspar, and porphyries. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
These rocks are ultramafic and include serpentinite, harzburgite, diallage, and rodingite.
To hear the noise of serpent's hiss, that is thy harmony. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
The stream slid down the hillside, a silver serpent that briefly showed its back to him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
A serpentine flow meanders through formations of smooth pahoehoe lava and rough aa lava, the same forms common in basalt lavas.
'Euphotide' and serpentine, containing sometimes crystald of augite and uralite instead of diallage, are thus nearly allied to another more frequent, and I might almost say, more 'energetic' eruptive rock -- augitic porphyry. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
Sleepless, I carved on the walls fantastic figures in mazy bewildering lines-winged horses, flowers with human faces, women with limbs like serpents.
As a child, he had shrunk from visiting the serpent house at the Zoo; and, later, when he had come to man's estate and had put off childish things, and settled down in real earnest to his self-appointed mission of drinking up all the alcoholic fluid in England, the distaste for Ophidia had lingered. Indiscretions of Archie
The fancier ones run about $100, with considerable tooling, and the really ornate ones, with dead serpents, reptiles, aardvark, cota-mundi, or poodle skin can go over that. Why Good Knives Need Good Sheaths
The Israelites must look upon the bronze serpent lifted on the pole, to be healed from the poison of the snakes (cf. Numbers 21, 4b-9). Mauro Gagliardi on the Centrality of the Crucified Christ in the Liturgical Celebration
Twice smaller anacondas had attacked his dogs; one was carried under waterfor the anaconda is a water-loving serpentbut he rescued it. II. Up the Paraguay
A hen I call him, as well for his cackling, ready and smooth tongue, wherein he giveth place to none, as for his deep and subtle art in hiding his serpentine eggs from common men's sight: chiefly for his hennish heart and courage, which twice already hath been well proved to be as base and deject at the sight of any storm of adverse fortune, as ever was hen's heart at the sight of a fox. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
It was fascinating, as lanky and serpentine as a snake, but with humanoid characteristics.
The number of rare species includes the serpentine thrift (Armeria vulgaris serpentini), the pannonian thyme, the prostrated speedwell, the English galingale and the mudwort.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Finish with a 12-mile mountain-bike ride on the serpentine Forest Service roads of the Chugach National Forest, near Girdwood.
It was also termed Epidaurus, or the feast of the Serpent of Epidaurus. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
A number of people refused to hunt with me when I showed up with that gun, bit it took game as diversified as caribou, nilgai, whitetails, mule deer, and I believe, a serpent or two. Better Shooting with Oxygen and Water
They are cut in the rock _in situ_, hard, blackish serpentine, which is a soft grey colour on the exposed surfaces. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
The intellectual and creative processes by which we improve infrastructural code are no less natural than the geological forces that turn granite into gneiss, limestone into marble and peridotite into serpentine.
Fat of lion, fat of hippo, fat of cat, fat of crocodile, fat of ibex, fat of serpent, are mixed together and the head of the bald person is anointed with them.
This story airs in the United States tonight on the National Geographic Channel's Five Days of Snakes - a series of programs about serpents, and the scientists and others who work with them.
Proving very popular are the new serpentine bedside cabinets in real satinwood handpainted with classical motifs, at about ￡600.
We had visited the asbestos claims, where the edge of a blanket formation of the rock known as serpentine, containing the asbestos, lay exposed to view, twisting around the head of narrow canyons, and under beetling cliffs. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
Serpents, bass horns, and keyed bugles were used until valved brass instruments arrived on the scene.
He was watching her with the paralytic fascination a rodent has for a poisonous serpent. FLOATING CITY
Others extracted from the sayings of Michael Angelo the precept that serpentine undulating lines were the true _lines of beauty_. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Phylogeographic uniformity in mitochondrial DNA of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Archive 2006-02-01
Effortlessly sidestepping a wayward javelin, the Grand Master leapt into the fray, landing with such force that several Serpent-Men were sent sprawling backwards.
Nasidius by a prester which caused his form to swell to an unrecognisable size, and so on through the list of serpents, each episode closing with a brilliant epigram which clenches the effect. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard.
It told the story of the Christian saint who not only fought off a fire-breathing serpent but also a Turkish knight.
The peccary, which is the true representative of the wild hog in America -- has the very same habit, and is well-known to be one of the most fatal enemies of the serpent tribe to be found among American animals. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
Ancient Greek religion, what we call mythology, tells the same story as the Book of Genesis,(sentence dictionary) except that the serpent is the enlightener of mankind rather than our deceiver.
There is an inlaid Victorian display cabinet, an inlaid serpentine chest and an Edwardian chiffonier.
Try and work on his balance and collection by riding full circles, half circles (to each side), figure eights and serpentines.
Once extension of the adjacent crust ceases, fluid penetration through the crust is hindered and active serpentinization beneath the continental crust ceases.
Salammbô is as inarticulate for us as the serpent, to whose drowsy beauty, capable of such sudden awakenings, hers seems half akin; they move before us in a kind of hieratic pantomime, a coloured, expressive thing, signifying nothing. Figures of Several Centuries
Sly smirk returning, she countered readily, ‘It would be a pleasure, Serpent.’
And that is what today's post is about-the unique plants and animals that call serpentine soil home. Museum Blogs
A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.
And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock, The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
The greatest scoundrel is always captain of the band of patrols; they are the offscouring of all things, the refuse, the fag end, the ears and tails of slavery; the scales and fins of fish, the tooth and tongues of serpents; they are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of pole-cats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes; Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated
As the ethnobotanist Wade Davis explains in The Rainbow and the Serpent, his scientific exploration of zombie death in Haiti, a mind conditioned from birth to believe in curses will succumb to a “self-fulfilling prophesy” when a taboo or spiritual code is broken. Spellbound
The grunstein, which farther north was less granulous, and passed into serpentine, here assumes a very different character. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
On the heels of a serpentine bass clarinet solo, the piece ends with sax, trombone, and clarinet wailing against a massive brew of drums, congas, and bass.
In particular, the minerals concerned are: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite und actinolite, which are categorized on the basis of their chemical composition and fibrous structure as serpentine Asbestos 1. Introductory part: Asbestos - Deposits, uses, types, characteristics
Augustine did not accept the old notions, popular among gnostic sects of the second century, that the Fall consisted in the serpent's seduction of Eve or that Adam and Eve fell by having sexual union before the proper time.
Indeed, Gibson's movie begins with Jesus crushing the head of the serpent in the garden, and Adam-Christ / Eve-Mary typology is apparent throughout it.
There are also: serpentine, colubrine (if it's a cobra-like snake, can't apply to a constricter, say, or a sidewinder ...), anguine. Breakfast in Bed
A serpent has stung me in my very orchard, an incestuous, adulterate beast born of witchery!
And the serpent tempted Eve, 'Eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.'
It was decorated with serpents, identifying it as a weapon of a firedrake warrior. LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
The reigning Four Continents champions also executed a serpentine lift followed by synchronized twizzles, two curve lifts (one in combination with a rotational lift), a spirited diagonal step sequence, and a nice rotational lift.
A beautiful promenade near the Castle garden; visited the Museum; a large living serpent also an ant hedgehog; a good collection of stuffed birds besides, and also a cosmorama view of different cities, etc., in Europe. A Journey to America in 1834
It was believed that serpents, coiling together in a wriggling, writhing mass, generated these glass or paste beads from their slaver and shot them into the air from their hissing jaws.
The serpent coiled, tensing to spring forth once more.
A false-hearted rogue, a most unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers than I willa serpent when he hisses. Feh
The serpentine syntax of legal language is often used to obfuscate meaning and confuse those outside the law.
Our Sunday camp was beside what might be called a serpentine curve or series of loops in the river. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
The mystery of the mongoos and its antidote has been referred to the supposition that there may be some peculiarity in its organisation which renders it _proof against_ the poison of the serpent. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
Animals that are coated with tessellates-such as the lizard and the other quadrupeds, and the serpents-are omnivorous: at all events they are carnivorous and graminivorous; and serpents, by the way, are of all animals the greatest gluttons. The History of Animals
Clustered on hills - its houses like red-roofed barnacles - and divided by serpentine rivers, the city is a haven both for Bulgarians seeking to reclaim their past and expats seeking to escape theirs.
And from the deserts of India, too, came ancient reports of a serpent seventy cubits - that is, more than a hundred feet - long.
Beneath ocean basins and adjacent to spreading centers, oceanic Serpentosphere is continuously generated by the interactions of deep circulating marine composition water – partly in super-critical state –with harzburgitic peridotite in a process referred to as serpentinization. At it Again
Serpentine is a common name for the minerals antigorite, lizardite and chrysotile.
Its counterweight pulled Corwin up, just in time for his ankles to escape the snapping jaws of the sea serpent. WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
But the serpent was as subtle and cunning as ever, more than any other beast who dwelt within the garden which the Gods had made.

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