All 43 Uses

serpent
in
The Deerslayer
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She knew that wild beasts roamed through all the adjacent forest, but animals that preyed on the human species were rare, and of dangerous serpents there were literally none.†
Chpt 10

serpents = snakes
He is now in the Ark, with Judith and a Delaware who is called the Big Serpent.†
Chpt 10 *

serpent = snake
A bold and handsome warrior is this Serpent, too!†
Chpt 10
You know Serpent?†
Chpt 10
I tell you, Serpent brave; he go home, this time, with four,—yes—two scalp.†
Chpt 10
"But you are not half-witted," said Hetty, "and there's no reason why the Serpent should not marry you."†
Chpt 10
I know—Deerslayer and the Serpent mean to get you away from the Iroquois, and you wish me not to tell the secret.†
Chpt 10
Chingachgook, or the Serpent, eyed the vestments with strong disgust; but he saw the usefulness of the disguise, if not its absolute necessity.†
Chpt 12
"Child gun," said the Serpent, smiling, while he handled one of the instruments as if it had been a toy.†
Chpt 13
"You are Chingachgook, the Great Serpent of the Delawares, ar'n't you?" the girl at length commenced, in her own simple way losing her self-command in the desire to proceed, but anxious first to make sure of the individual.†
Chpt 13
Deerslayer, and father, and Judith, and I, and poor Hurry Harry—do you know Henry March, Great Serpent?†
Chpt 13
But, never mind, I did hear the bird you speak of sing, Great Serpent.†
Chpt 13
I hope these logs haven't ears, Serpent!†
Chpt 13
I understand you, Serpent, and I understood Hist.†
Chpt 13
And now, Serpent, since I have told you so much from your betrothed," continued Hetty, unconsciously taking one of the Indian's hands, and playing with the fingers, as a child is often seen to play with those of a parent, "you must let me tell you something from myself.†
Chpt 13
And then, Serpent, you mustn't make her carry burthens and hoe corn, as so many Indians do; but treat her more as the pale-faces treat their wives.†
Chpt 13
At this summons the Serpent arose to obey, and Hetty joined her sister.†
Chpt 13
'A stranger animal,' cries one, 'Sure never liv'd beneath the sun; A lizard's body lean and long, A fish's head, a serpent's tongue, Its foot, with triple claw disjoined; And what a length of tail behind!'†
Chpt 14
The Serpent and the girls retired into the building, where the former stood near the door, well provided with rifles, while Judith watched the proceedings without through a loop.†
Chpt 14
Hurry soon reached the spot where the canoe was fastened, but not before Deerslayer had spoken in a quick, earnest voice to the Serpent, in Delaware.†
Chpt 15
The great Serpent of the Mohicans must be worthy to go on the war-path with Hawkeye.†
Chpt 15
No sound was audible, and this human Serpent thrust his head in at the door, or opening, as another serpent would have peered in on the nest.†
Chpt 15
No sound was audible, and this human Serpent thrust his head in at the door, or opening, as another serpent would have peered in on the nest.†
Chpt 15
The Serpent passed his arm round the waist of his mistress and dashed through the bushes with her, on the north side of the point.†
Chpt 16
The Great Serpent, being strongest, pulled the hardest, and Hist was forced to leave us.†
Chpt 17
The Serpent of the Delawares is a dog—he is a poor bull trout that keeps in the water; he is afraid to stand on the hard earth, like a brave Indian!†
Chpt 17
"Judith told me to come this time, Deerslayer," Hetty replied, "she paddled me ashore herself, in a canoe, as soon as the Serpent had shown her Hist and told his story.†
Chpt 17
Both are asleep, and Judith and the Serpent thought it best they should not be woke, lest they might want to come again after scalps, when Hist had told them how few warriors, and how many women and children there were in the camp.†
Chpt 17
In this mood Hutter took a seat in the head of the scow, where he was quickly joined by Hurry, leaving the Serpent and Hist in quiet possession of the other extremity of the vessel.†
Chpt 19
As Hutter laid down the glass, still drawn to its focus, the Serpent raised it to his eye and turned it towards the canoe.†
Chpt 19
It is scarcely possible to conceive of a service more dangerous, and had the Serpent been fortified by the experience of ten more years, or had his friend the Deerslayer been present, it would never have been attempted; the advantages in no degree compensating for the risk.†
Chpt 19
No tender wife, reared in the refinements of the highest civilization, ever met a husband on his return from the field with more of sensibility in her countenance than Hist discovered, as she saw the Great Serpent of the Delawares step, unharmed, into the Ark.†
Chpt 19
Unlike the Serpent, whose imagination had acted through his traditions until he was ready to perceive an artificial, in a natural stillness, the others saw nothing to apprehend in a tranquility that, in truth, merely denoted the repose of inanimate objects.†
Chpt 19
It is too soon, however, to ask my answer; the Great Serpent has not yet spoken.†
Chpt 23
Hear what the Great Serpent of the Delawares has to say to the pretended wolves from the great lakes, that are howling through our woods.†
Chpt 23
She pressed the hand she held between both her own, and answered— "Wah-ta-Wah says that neither she nor the Great Serpent could ever laugh again, or ever sleep without dreaming of the Hurons, should the Deerslayer die under a Mingo tomahawk, and they do nothing to save him.†
Chpt 25
Chingachgook will be with his friend Deerslayer—if he be in the land of spirits, the Great Serpent will crawl at his side; if beneath yonder sun, its warmth and light shall fall on both.†
Chpt 25
Sallying forward, as the serpent darts at its enemy even while receiving its own death wound, this man of powerful frame fell his length into the open area formed by the circle, quivering in death.†
Chpt 27
"Hurons, this is your mortal enemy, the Great Serpent of them you hate!" cried Briarthorn.†
Chpt 30
At the next instant, a similar weapon glanced from the hand of the Serpent, and quivered in the recreant's heart.†
Chpt 30
This drew a general fire from the Hurons, and the rifle and war cry of the Serpent were heard in the clamor.†
Chpt 30
The Serpent was in the background of the picture, erect, and motionless as a statue; but so observant that not a look of the eye escaped his own keen glances.†
Chpt 31
Where's the Serpent?†
Chpt 31

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(1) (serpent)
a snake
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
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serpent
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The Deerslayer
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