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  • How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
    To have a thankless child.†   (source)
  • Her hair was moving, writhing like serpents.†   (source)
  • Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number.†   (source)
  • Each hedge was a different kind of serpent, some long, some short, some with their tongues out and some with their mouths open, showing green, fearsome teeth.†   (source)
  • Her long spear was a steel-headed serpent, flashing out at his chest, once, twice, three times, but Robb parried every thrust with his longsword, turning the point aside.†   (source)
  • The Illuminati, like a serpent from the forgotten depths of history, had risen and wrapped themselves around an ancient foe.†   (source)
  • It was a great sea serpent of a line and it would be an ordeal to saw through, even with the sharpest of knives.†   (source)
  • A thin, gold, serpent-headed bangle glowed like a circle of orange light around her wrist.†   (source)
  • Somehow I'd gone right through the Italian masterworks (crucified Christs and astonished saints, serpents and embattled angels) ending up in England, eighteenth century, a part of the museum I had seldom been in before and did not know at all.†   (source)
  • I hold the box with its narrow mouth over the water, and immediately, a hundred shiny arched backs roll toward me, a mob of serpents, the tails cutting across the surface furiously, and then the mouths are below me, the fish roiling over each other to swallow the pellets and then, like trained pets, aiming their faces up toward me for more.†   (source)
  • Each water spout was a snarling gargoyle, and every window and door was framed by carvings of serpents, harts, ravens, and knotted vines.†   (source)
  • Only A Picture For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him.†   (source)
  • Puppet's forearms were a canvas of extremely elaborate, interwoven and delicately-pinned tattoos that danced on skin with cholo images, skulls, serpents and women's faces.†   (source)
  • They were like gigantic black serpents, peering out from their caves.†   (source)
  • "And there are the grass serpents," said Kassad, lowering the glasses.†   (source)
  • I know perfectly well how Hatsumomo treats you: about like a serpent treats its next meal, I should think.†   (source)
  • "You must not see every man as a potential serpent," he warned me.†   (source)
  • The forest encroached on both sides, leaving the road ahead only discernible for a few meters as it twisted, serpentlike, around the ancient trees.†   (source)
  • That may explain all those gardens, serpents, tongues of flame, and voices from whirlwinds.†   (source)
  • And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season...And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.†   (source)
  • Then they will become the new serpent.†   (source)
  • Tendrils and wisps of green mist gathered in Fleming's palms, then curled in ornate patterns and drifted onto the floor, where they writhed like serpents.†   (source)
  • We would conduct Operation Gothic Serpent in three phases: First, deploy to Mogadishu and set up a base; Second, go after Aidid; and Third, if we didn't succeed in apprehending Aidid, go after his lieutenants.†   (source)
  • Book Four — BEL AND THE SERPENT†   (source)
  • A thankless child is sharper than a serpent's tooth," Grady said, handing him his drink.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, from now on I intend to ignore all extraordinary phenomena such as sea serpents and the like.†   (source)
  • They walk like cats and spring with the swiftness of serpents.†   (source)
  • Associated with serpents.†   (source)
  • While she was demonstrating her skill at making the serpent wiggle, she told me the story of her life.†   (source)
  • The serpent in the Garden of Eden [our minds] represents our subconscious and our conscious talking to each other.†   (source)
  • He looked straight at her and tried with all his senses to fix her in his memory as she was at that moment: she seemed like a river idol, undaunted in her black dress, with her serpent's eyes and the rose behind her ear.†   (source)
  • For there, on the back of the small boy's hand, on the fingers, and up along the wrist scrambled blue serpents, blue-venomed snake eyes, blue scorpions scuttling about blue shark maws which gaped eternally hungry to feed upon all the freaks crammed and stung-sewn cheek by jowl, skin to skin, flesh to flesh all up and down the chest, the tiny torso, and tucked in the secret gathering places on this small small very small body, this cold and now shocked and trembling body.†   (source)
  • The gut that has slithered past my fingers like this in the African night would by now reach the Cape of Good Hope, and I have yet to see the serpent's head.†   (source)
  • The street we lived on, Serpent Street, was in the first ghetto.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a thing he didn't know about the serpent kingdom.†   (source)
  • The rope seemed almost alive, the greatest of all water serpents heading at last for home.†   (source)
  • His tattoo represented two dragons whose bodies, serpent-like, wrapped down over his jaw line.†   (source)
  • Nothing could have been more disinterested: serpent to the core.†   (source)
  • They were studying the Creation and the Fall of Man, lesson five in the Baltimore Catechism, and Sister pointed to a picture in the book of a man and woman standing more or less undressed beneath an apple tree with a serpent coiled on a limb and she called on Michael Kalenka and asked him to identify the man and woman, the easiest question she'd ever asked, and Michael Kalenka stood up and looked at the picture, and he thought and looked and thought, and Sister said, "The original parents of us all," and Michael Kalenka thought and grinned and said, "Tarzan and Jane."†   (source)
  • Cool to the touch, all its venom coiled inside, deadly, like a steel-scaled serpent.†   (source)
  • Ann says, examining a rough outline of a serpent.†   (source)
  • The demon's presence was immensely powerful; Mr. McDaniels trembled like a baby bird held in thrall by a serpent.†   (source)
  • I thought that when I saw him and spoke to him I would be wise as serpents, harmless as doves.†   (source)
  • For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold.†   (source)
  • As Abigail would later tell Jefferson bluntly, it was as though the serpent he had "cherished and warmed" had turned and "bit the hand that nourished him."†   (source)
  • And then he would truly have been the Serpent in the Garden, waiting to strike.†   (source)
  • It was in the figure that we call a serpent, a star which shone green and which I knew.†   (source)
  • She hissed then and flew at me with the serpent in her hand.†   (source)
  • —DOC BRADLEY IT HULKED ABOVE THEM STILL, before daybreak on the fifth morning, this primitive serpent's head that had struck them down in swaths.†   (source)
  • The warriors rode hooded and cloaked, grasping tall sicldes that rose nearly as high as their serpent.†   (source)
  • Snarling through a catacomb of sculpted black and brown boulders, down in the dank recesses where sunlight rarely reached, the mud-brown Braldu looked like a writhing serpent.†   (source)
  • Every button of her ebony shirt gleams with the shimmer of a serpent's eyes.†   (source)
  • Now please ask your serpent to back away, lest he crinkle the pages.†   (source)
  • It writhes, and I tighten the grip, as one holds a serpent.†   (source)
  • There is a Snake Lady and she instills extraordinary devotion and fear in high places-which means that female serpent is not without power.†   (source)
  • The procession of lights and circles danced across the snow like a glowing serpent, its many bright segments continually trembling.†   (source)
  • Loki threw out a hand, pointing at a tapestry embroidered with the red serpent picture we'd seen earlier.†   (source)
  • His smooth pink face and choirboy eyes gave him an innocent demeanor that was belied by a disquietingly eager smile that came and went like the flickering of a serpent's tongue.†   (source)
  • The abolition movement, in Booth's mind, is the real cause of the Civil War, a serpent that must be crushed.†   (source)
  • She had not mentioned the threat of serpents to Oz, because she figured if he knew, she'd end up carrying her brother on her back.†   (source)
  • He wondered whether the dead rev liked to play with slimy serpents.†   (source)
  • My hands recoiled from the coldness of serpent flesh, my nails clawed at my palms, the leaves I had parted moved back to cover it.†   (source)
  • And among the books I had brought along, I saw a well-remembered cover and brought it out to the sunlight—a golden hand holding at once a serpent and a mirror with wings, and below in scriptlike letters "The Spectator, Edited by Henry Morley."†   (source)
  • So they had gone at their subjects with metronomes, serpents, Brechtian vignettes at midnight, surgical removal of certain glands, magic-lantern hallucinations, new drugs, threats recited over hidden loudspeakers, hypnotism, clocks that ran backward, and faces.†   (source)
  • When he stopped in the door of the ceremonial house and looked beyond the dirt floor to the carved posts and the two-headed serpent painted on the rear wall, old Peter, the carver, who was working on a canoe, answered his questions.†   (source)
  • There came then a flashing of lights along the lengths of the Nagas, the two holy serpents who twisted about the transparent face of the machine.†   (source)
  • On one of her mother's fingers was a slender golden band in the entwined form of a cobra, the eye of the serpent made of a tiny ruby.†   (source)
  • I'm not the serpent, Little Eva.†   (source)
  • The young man, sitting now on a mat with his girl, asked, "Do you know the symbolism of the serpent on the President's stick?†   (source)
  • Did the strangers know how to make it: high off the ground: so that the serpent that slept in the bowels of the earth couldn't creep out and molest his body ?†   (source)
  • This uniqueness endowed it with an awesome quality; it was like a living and conscious creature, a local dragon or winged serpent who levied tribute and preyed upon the countryside.†   (source)
  • "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is — " EDMUND "To have a thankless child."†   (source)
  • I returned to the serpent mythology on numerous occasions during the year, exhorting the students to look truth in the eye and to understand that the things we learn in our youth are not always literally correct.†   (source)
  • Near the window, a stain on the wallpaper, pale brown, a serpent shape.†   (source)
  • Nelson, composing his expression under the shadow of his hat brim, watched him with a mixture of fatigue and suspicion, but as the train glided past them and disappeared like a frightened serpent into the woods, even his face lightened and he muttered, "I'm glad I've went once, but I'll never go back agdn!"†   (source)
  • Even now he saw a serpent crossing the Trace, giving out knowing glances.†   (source)
  • Or maybe the three-headed serpent men of the Lesser Magellanic Cloud have landed and have the situation well in hand— for them.†   (source)
  • Aunt Florence moved to the mantelpiece and put her handbag down near the metal serpent.†   (source)
  • Five serpent's teeth to give to Gus.†   (source)
  • The wildly streaming locks represent the long-untended hair of the Indian yogi, now flying in the dance of life; for the presence known in the joys and sorrows of life, and that found through withdrawn meditation, are but two aspects of the same, universal, non-dual, Being-Consciousness-Bliss. Siva's bracelets, arm bands, ankle rings, and brahminical thread, are living serpents.   (source)
    serpents = snakes
  • He told them many things that they had not known before — as, for instance, that the things that hook carriages together are called couplings, and that the pipes like great serpents that hang over the couplings are meant to stop the train with.   (source)
  • But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.   (source)
    serpent = snake
  • Trianna drew back slightly, then lifted her wrist so the serpent bracelet was at eye level.†   (source)
  • On his head was a Frisbee-shaped crown—a sun disk, braided with serpents.†   (source)
  • He was on a quest with Hercules to kill the monstrous Hydra, an enormous serpent with nine heads.†   (source)
  • Blue fire coiled from her fingers curling like serpents around Annabeth.†   (source)
  • 'Talk about the wolves and serpents and ancient killing machines.†   (source)
  • A huge sea serpent appeared from above us and spiraled down toward the roof.†   (source)
  • Two dracaenae slithered in-snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs.†   (source)
  • Both the chandelier and the candelabra on a rickety table nearby were shaped like serpents.†   (source)
  • And then, just ahead, there she was: the hideous serpent.†   (source)
  • I raised my spear and thrust it into the Serpent's eye.†   (source)
  • The return of the old Mexican blood religion in The Plumed Serpent (1926).†   (source)
  • I'd pulled the World Serpent out of Massachusetts Bay and defeated Fenris Wolf with a ball of yarn.†   (source)
  • Bel and the Serpent wasn't so frightening, as it mainly featured the quick wits of Daniel.†   (source)
  • Then at a short command, the serpent stiffened and resumed its former position.†   (source)
  • Eragon felt as if he were riding a sea serpent of legend.†   (source)
  • "They have serpent tattoos," I noted, "like those street thugs you sent to attack me."†   (source)
  • Once, a thin black serpent wriggled over the yellow soil in front of them.†   (source)
  • His dark eyes were still fixed upon the coiling serpent in its protective sphere.†   (source)
  • She leaped onto the serpent's head and scratched and growled like a really angry black wig.†   (source)
  • The serpent hilt came to life and hissed at her.†   (source)
  • The serpent's body was as thick as a booster rocket, glinting with coppery scales.†   (source)
  • They just went inside the major's cabin because you started teasing them with a sea serpent.†   (source)
  • He looked beneath him again, to the sinuous serpent of black.†   (source)
  • He looked where I was pointing, saw the serpent women, and immediately understood.†   (source)
  • Remember?" she replied with a final flip of her serpent.†   (source)
  • Maybe if we sacrifice someone to a grass serpent the transportation gods will smile on as.†   (source)
  • Her symbol is a serpent coiling about a tree or staff—the caduceus.†   (source)
  • The silver doorknocker was in the form of a twisted serpent.†   (source)
  • —May this serpent have life's movement.†   (source)
  • Thalia stared at the cow serpent with wonder.†   (source)
  • Then that so-called sea serpent began to flap about in the water.†   (source)
  • Adam and Eve, the garden, the serpent, the forbidden fruit.†   (source)
  • I showed him the serpent mark on the piece of pottery.†   (source)
  • I tried to trace the serpent's path with my finger, but it slipped away from me, zigzagging.†   (source)
  • The avatar's limbs shrank, the hawk's head slowly changing into the head of a serpent.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER NINETEEN — The Lion and the Serpent†   (source)
  • I ran to help her, but the serpent had already zeroed in on the new threat.†   (source)
  • On the equinox, the bonds will weaken enough for the Serpent to break free at last.†   (source)
  • Evil has had to do with sex since the serpent seduced Eve.†   (source)
  • Then she stood up straight and her eyes glowed serpent green.†   (source)
  • 'I wanted to have it chewing up a serpent to represent Slytherm, you know, but there wasn't time.†   (source)
  • "It means serpent bull in Greek," Thalia said.†   (source)
  • I looked down, and there was my friend the cow serpent, swimming next to the dock.†   (source)
  • The drakon tried to bite Mrs. O'Leary, but she was too close to the serpent's mouth.†   (source)
  • What was left of the serpent's body dissolved into sand.†   (source)
  • The serpent reared back and managed to throw off Mrs. O'Leary.†   (source)
  • Your friend Menshikov is there right now, loosening the Serpent's bonds.†   (source)
  • But the cow serpent thrashed around and got even more tangled.†   (source)
  • I dragged her out of the way as the serpent rolled, crushing a lamppost right where she'd been.†   (source)
  • Yes, I was there when Ra cast the Serpent into that prison of scarabs.†   (source)
  • The cow serpent nuzzled me and gave me the big brown eyes.†   (source)
  • At the end of my dad's line, a huge green sea serpent erupted from the water.†   (source)
  • You think Apophis was speaking to you through this serpent?†   (source)
  • The cow serpent freaked out and started struggling against the net, its eyes full of terror.†   (source)
  • It flailed awkwardly and crashed to the sidewalk, hellhound and serpent twisting and thrashing.†   (source)
  • I doubted the cow serpent understood what I was saying, but it responded to the tone of my voice.†   (source)
  • The serpent coiled to strike, crushing dead beetle shells under its body.†   (source)
  • In the crook of his arm was a long staff entwined with two living serpents.†   (source)
  • I thought about the serpent's voice—the same voice as the bau's in the Brooklyn Museum.†   (source)
  • We must divert all our power to keeping down the Serpent.†   (source)
  • The blinded serpent swayed, confused, still deadly.†   (source)
  • Amos thinks the serpent didn't have much power.†   (source)
  • The serpent hissed in three-part harmony.†   (source)
  • He wore a fresh white linen suit and carried a new serpent staff.†   (source)
  • The beach imploded around him, swallowing the serpent and sucking the red sand into the vortex.†   (source)
  • Three serpent heads rose from the center.†   (source)
  • The Serpent will not stay down for long, now that he has broken his chains.†   (source)
  • Right about then, it sucked to be the serpent.†   (source)
  • But that wouldn't explain how you did it again with the serpent.†   (source)
  • Ah, but serpents are my specialty, Carter Kane!†   (source)
  • Speaking of Snakes I think it's best for Ian to leave before my personal serpent slithers home.†   (source)
  • A dozen serpents swam free—each one lime green with a frilled crown around its head.†   (source)
  • I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs.†   (source)
  • Slimy vines slither across my bare feet like serpents come aground; I hold still, calming my breath.†   (source)
  • The serpent in the desert with the power to heal.†   (source)
  • It lunged at the fiery man, who effortlessly grabbed the serpent by its neck.†   (source)
  • Swift as a serpent, Max stabbed downward and caught the blade within his parrying guard.†   (source)
  • Roots coiled around his legs like wooden serpents.†   (source)
  • That night, the serpent slipped into Ra's bedroom and bit him on the ankle.†   (source)
  • The Demon's mouth yawned impossibly wide, like a great serpent unhinging its jaws.†   (source)
  • I remembered why Jormungand was called the World Serpent.†   (source)
  • We pass under icy stalactites as long as a sea serpent's teeth, and I recognize this place.†   (source)
  • Mars's sacred animal was the wild boar, not the serpent.†   (source)
  • Marcus, serpent that he is, darts into the forest after Zak.†   (source)
  • Have they told you that if I am released from this chair I shall kill you and become a serpent?†   (source)
  • The serpent lay dormant; the hostile fire never materialized.†   (source)
  • The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.†   (source)
  • I felt like a snake, perhaps a bit afraid of the brand-new serpent, commanding an old skin to shed.†   (source)
  • She's a lying serpent as sure as we are salamanders in her eyes!†   (source)
  • The boat turned neatly around the sea serpent prow of the ship and came for us.†   (source)
  • "He's no serpent," Ghosh said sharply, contradicting Hema.†   (source)
  • Leo jumped off and the golden serpent began shaking uncontrollably.†   (source)
  • Her head whipped from side to side, her serpent eyes quivering, as if they were searching the wind.†   (source)
  • The snake was on him, and he rolled and pitched trying to get the serpent off.†   (source)
  • I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.†   (source)
  • It had involved acid-spitting serpent heads, much screaming, and a cannon.†   (source)
  • Bronze statues of winged serpents with ruby eyes seemed to occupy every corner.†   (source)
  • Lady Merryweather may be a serpent, but she is far from stupid.†   (source)
  • The pathway flattened out and began to turn and twist like a serpent.†   (source)
  • An outstretched leg withdrew along the floor like a serpent recoiling underfoot.†   (source)
  • He was leaning wearily against the ship's serpent prow while Maya nuzzled his hand.†   (source)
  • A serpent sleeping in the sun, just waking, not dangerous quite yet.†   (source)
  • Perched atop a long, glutinous neck, the head swayed like a serpent's behind the runeglass.†   (source)
  • Sparklers blazed to life in front of the sea serpent tank.†   (source)
  • She turned and kissed the base of a tall bronze statue of Elyon-a winged serpent on a pole.†   (source)
  • The World Serpent snarled petulantly, tugging at the steel cable in his mouth.†   (source)
  • "Here is little Ormenheid—the Gleaming Serpent," he said.†   (source)
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