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Updated: June 3, 2025
We can talk without having everybody in the room hear us." "I have just heard that we are bound for the same destination and we can certainly speculate among ourselves as to the outcome of our individual and collective pilgrimages. We can talk about shipwrecks, pirates, simoons, cholera, sea serpents " "And the heathen," said Hugh maliciously, but not looking up from his plate.
My joy abounded, my fear of the serpents abated, my love to my kind and tender guide increased, and my courage and confidence were renewed, and I began to believe I was in the right way to attain my desire.
Mullioned windows, finely masoned, opened in the shattered wall, and an elaborate stone staircase, in the interstices of which stout shrubs were growing, gave, or once had given, an entrance through an arched doorway an entrance now stoutly disputed by the glistening trunk of a gum-elemi tree and endless matted rope-like roots of giant vines and creepers that writhed like serpents over the whole edifice.
The Roman naturalist Pliny thus describes him: "He does not impel his body like other serpents, by a multiplied flexion, but advances lofty and upright. He kills the shrubs, not only by contact but by breathing on them, and splits the rocks, such power of evil is there in him.
His form became more softly defined in the increasing gleam of light which shone from the hour-glass; the features, which had been awful in their sternness, wore a gentle smile; the crown of serpents became a bright palm-wreath; instead of the horse appeared a white misty cloud in the moonlight; and the bell gave forth sounds as of sweet lullabies.
The basilisks were called kings of serpents because all other serpents and snakes, behaving like good subjects, and wisely not wishing to be burned up or struck dead, fled the moment they heard the distant hiss of their king, although they might be in full feed upon the most delicious prey, leaving the sole enjoyment of the banquet to the royal monster.
A very little more, and I shall arrest her on the grave charge of conspiracy." "No, Setter, do nothing of the sort. Use no violence; utter no threats. Now, if ever here, if anywhere is a crisis, at which we must be not only 'wise as serpents, but harmless as doves, if we would gain any information from this woman," answered Salome's husband, as he walked back and rejoined Mrs. Brown.
I have no doubt you gentlemen are as wise as serpents, and I want you to be as harmless as doves. The Young Girl who sits by me has, I know, strong religious instincts. Instead of setting her out to ask all sorts of questions, I would rather, if I had my way, encourage her to form a habit of attending to religious duties, and make the most of the simple faith in which she was bred.
Again, if we consider the poisoning apparatus possessed by different animals, we find in serpents a perforated or rather very deeply channelled tooth. In wasps and bees the sting is formed of modified parts, accessory in reproduction. In the scorpion, we have the median terminal process of the body specially organized.
This he rolled before him around the log cabin and the paths made in the tall grass, frequently to the dread of his mother, who feared that he might encounter some of the deadly serpents with which the forest abounded. He remembered on one occasion, when his mother found him going too far, she called: "Come back, Fernando; mother is afraid you will step on a snake."
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