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Naturally she made some queer mistakes, and because a rather beastly world was slow to understand perfect innocence the pre-serpentine innocence of Eve, so to speak a lot of injustice was done to the poor little statue come alive. Some of the people wouldn't believe that she'd ever been a statue at all." "I see!" exclaimed Mary, sharply.
A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson - The Guests Of Hercules

I asked, trying to look more good and innocent than Eve could possibly have been even in pre-serpentine days. "A-u-d-r-i-e," he answered, and I trusted that Dick was too far behind to hear what we were saying. "That was the favourite name for girls in the Doone family," Sir Lionel went on.
A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson - Set in Silver

'What are you thinking of? asked Logotheti. But she did not answer for nearly half a minute. She was reflecting on a singular little fact which made itself clear to her just then. She was certainly not a child; she was not even a very young girl, at twenty-four; she had never been prudish, and she did not affect the pre-Serpentine innocence of Eve before the fall.
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford - The Primadonna
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