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Like the others, it had a frame of poles covered with tanned skins; but it was distinguished from them by a singular "totem," an otter in the coils of a water-snake. Its interior was furnished with a sort of rude splendor.
Look! are the southern curtains drawn? Fetch me a fan, and so begone! Not that, the palm-tree's rustling leaf Brought from a parching coral-reef! Its breath is heated; I would swing The broad gray plumes, the eagle's wing. I hate these roses' feverish blood! Pluck me a half-blown lily-bud, A long-stemmed lily from the lake, Cold as a coiling water-snake.
But to know them, you must hunt for them, tramp off to the distant stream, and then, not stand on the bank and wish and sigh, but off hose and shoon, and, careless of water-snake and snapping-turtle, wade in up to their virgin bower, and bear off the dripping, fragrant prize. None but the brave deserve lady or lily.
The balza had been brought to the bank, and they were just mooring it, when something out on the water attracted the attention of Leon and Leona. It was a small, darkish object, and would not have been observed but for the ripple that it made on the smooth surface of the river, and by this they could tell that it was in motion. "A water-snake!" said Leon.
His people will hang the chief of the Salt Lake by the neck to a tree. See, father, thy daughter delivered him from the jaws of the great water-snake, and he was already nearly dead. He has returned to his brothers, to lift the hatchet against your foes. He is no spy; his hands are soft and he was weak." "Has Canondah more lies to tell her father?" said the old man, in a milder tone.
Deblois stated something that I never heard before as a fact in natural history, that the pickerel wages war upon all fish, except the trout, who is too active for him; that he is a piscatorial cannibal; but that under all circumstances and in all places, he lives on good terms with the water-snake. "We saw a great many ducks, but they seemed to know that Mr.
If a sleek and venomous water-snake for there were thousands of them hereabout had coiled in the channel, I would still have sucked the draught, bending down as I did. Then I bethought me of my pony. He had neither been fed nor watered for twenty hours, and I hastened to obtain him from his place along the woodside. To my terror, he was gone.
Youth is confused; yet never So dull was I but, when that spirit passed, I turned to him, scarce consciously, as turns A water-snake when fairies cross his sleep." BROWNING: Paracelsus. This was the letter which Sir Hugo put into Deronda's hands: My good friend and yours, Sir Hugo Mallinger, will have told you that I wish to see you.
Phallic worship would seem to have been always confined to these temples, with ophiolatry the nagas or water-snake deities being accommodated in sacred tanks, in the midst of which the early Kashmir temples were usually placed.
"What on earth have you got there, young one?" asked Dr. Phil; for Adolphus Farrar was bareheaded, and carried his hat very gingerly, with its corners clutched together to form a bag. "The big sea-serpent himself," answered Dol mysteriously. Of a sudden he opened his dripping hat, and spilled out a small water-snake, about ten inches long, upon the doctor's lap.
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