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Sentences ending with serpent

The first few words had little or no significance for Guida, but presently she was held as by the fascination of a serpent. [11]
One of these represented the lifting of the brazen serpent. [6]
It spread its nostrils, distended its eyes and trembled all over, just as horses customarily do in the presence of a serpent--and for aught I know it thought the crawling stream was a serpent. [5]
The mystery was in the serpent. [4]
The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. [5]
I was of course familiar with Keats's Lamia, another imaginary being, the subject of magical transformation into a serpent. [6]
It was indeed an inspiring sight, that interminable column, stretching away into the fading distances, and curving itself in and out of the crookedness of the road like a mighty serpent. [5]
Have I become a monster, a venomous serpent? [10]
Away, hateful serpent! [10]
You serpent! [2]

Short sentences using serpent

Why does the serpent delay? [10]
The serpent! [10]

Sentences containing serpent two or more times

He was a solid, slow-thinking old fellow, but he had that wisdom of the north which can turn from dove to serpent and from serpent to lion in the moment. [11]

More example sentences with the word serpent in them

And some day you will suffer as I do, so terribly that even the brazen serpent could not cure you. [11]
The under-world is yawning, and the giant serpent Apep has come forth from the realm of the dead. [10]
Yet no, I won't see that serpent again. [10]
In the Close, which is a little Garden of Eden, with no serpent in it that I could hear of, the deaths were only fourteen in a thousand. [6]
The white mounds which had risen there had been recognized as tents, even from the Serpent Island. [10]
And whether it were ingenuous, or had in it an element of the scriptural wisdom of the serpent, Langmaid could not have said. [9]
Ships of war were continually moving to and fro, and from the Serpent Island they witnessed constantly, often by starlight, the drilling of the oarsmen and of whole squadrons upon the open sea. [10]
A great serpent was stealing out of the East and moving down upon Lebanon. [11]
If they were to show you the Brazen Serpent that was elevated in the wilderness, you could depend upon it that they had on hand the pole it was elevated on also, and even the hole it stood in. [5]
They sounded in the unfeeling ears of the serpent Grafton. [9]
It was called the Serpent Island, though the inhabitants had long since rid it of these dangerous guests, which lived in great numbers in the neighbouring cliffs. [10]
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil had shaken its fruit into her lap, and, without any serpent to tempt her, she took thereof and did eat. [6]
Do you think that I do not know, who set the poisoned serpent on the Roman? [10]
Then refilling the tankard, he poured a libation, and was about to empty it to Melissa's health, but Praxilla's lean frame was standing by his side as quickly as though a serpent had stung her. [10]
At last she succeeded in persuading him to measure a queen by a different standard from a woman of the people, and inducing him to arrange the manner and time of conveying the serpent into the well-guarded palace. [10]
Cardanus gets a story from Avicenna, of a certain man bit by a serpent, who recovered of his bite, the snake dying therefrom. [6]
Eve trusted the serpent, and Adam trusted Eve. [4]
Lamia is a serpent transformed by magic into a woman. [6]
May not the serpent have bitten Eve before the birth of Cain, her first-born? [6]
It beats the serpent as an emblem of immortality. [4]
All these experiments seem to prove that the bite of the uraeus serpent, whose image on the Egyptian crown symbolizes the sovereign's instant power over life and death, stills the heart most swiftly and with the least suffering. [10]
A light lace robe was thrown over her garment of purple, embroidered with gold; and on her beautiful Grecian head she wore the Urmus serpent, the ornament peculiar to Egyptian queens. [10]
And the poison of the old serpent, which infected Adam when he fell into his Transgression, by hearkening to the Tempter, has corrupted all mankind, and is a seed unto such diseases as this Infant is now laboring under. [3]
I am dying of a serpent's sting as it was foretold at my birth; and if I had not gone out to seek Klea a serpent would have slipped into my cage, and have ended my life there. [10]
Like the curves of a serpent the canyon wound for a mile or more and then opened into a valley. [13]
But it was not only this sad event, which must grieve the hearts of the two sisters, that had brought the architect in a stranger's boat to the Serpent Island at so late an hour. [10]
Meanwhile Barine's eyes met those of her sovereign, and at first they roused an ardent desire to press her lips even on the hem of her robe, but afterwards she felt as if a venomous serpent had crawled out of the most beautiful flower. [10]
The anchor of love, which moored their ship to the solid earth, had been tested in the solitude of the Serpent Island. [10]
Its colossal staircase, like a huge serpent, wound round and round the ever-diminishing series of stories composing the tower, until it reached the summit crowned by the sanctuary itself. [10]
The sacred snakes lay coiled in a cage by the altar; they were believed to have the power of restoring themselves, and this was regarded as a promise to the sick that they should cast off their disease as a serpent casts its skin. [10]
One character in it was a chief of Thugs--"Feringhea"--a mysterious and terrible Indian who was as slippery and sly as a serpent, and as deadly; and he stirred up the Thug interest once more. [5]
The mythical serpent is untwined from the staff of Esculapius, which thenceforth becomes a useful walking-stick, and does not pretend to be anything more. [6]
I was greatly interested in the incident of Eve and the serpent, and thought Eve's calmness was perfectly noble. [5]
Here was I, in the very dove's nest of Puritan faith, and out of one of its eggs a serpent had been hatched and was trying to nestle in my bosom! [6]
Recovery was rapid in the pure air of the Serpent Isle. [10]
Pyrrhus's fishing-boat was in the midst, and return to the Serpent Island was impossible at present. [10]
Only one thing I do know; the serpent is already sharpening its fangs to sting the heel of Him who shall tread upon it. [10]
So you shall hear how I, as wise as the serpent, craftily forced this haughty knight"--she tapped Heinz Schorlin's arm with her riding whip--"and you, too, Jungfrau Ortlieb, whose pardon I now entreat, to help me win the bet. [10]
With fierce resentment he grasped her hand, which lay on the rope, pressed it violently in his strong clasp, and exclaimed, "Stop, mad woman, that I may not be forced to think of you as a poisonous serpent and repulsive spider! [10]
I ought to have been ashamed, perhaps, but I had, not the slightest idea who Melusina was until I hunted up the story, and found that she was a fairy, who for some offence was changed every Saturday to a serpent from her waist downward. [6]
This hunt, however, had no permanent effect in keeping down the serpent population. [6]
I left my garden a paradise, as paradises go in this protoplastic world; and when I returned, the trail of the serpent was over it all, so to speak. [4]
Inch by inch, foot by foot it grew, until at last it lay coiled in her lap like a golden serpent, with a kind of tension which gave it life, such as Medusa's hair must have known as the serpent-life entered into it. [11]
As the great express stole in almost noiselessly, like a tired serpent, Kitty watched its approach with outward cheerfulness. [11]
It is natural enough that the evil principle should have been represented in the form of a serpent, but it is strange to think of introducing it into a human being like cow-pox by vaccination. [6]
But it probably does more harm than good to medical science at the present time, by keeping up the delusion of treating everything by specifics,--the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons [Lachesis, arrow-poison, obtained from a serpent (Pulte). [6]
My heart grew chill, as if I had seen upon Athene's shield the head of the Medusa with its serpent locks. [10]
Howbeit, I presently called to mind the honest eyes of my new heart's beloved, and that brought me peace; and how I was struck with horror to think that I had known the sting of that serpent whom men call jealousy. [10]
Look, a serpent biting its own tail. [10]
What shall it be--the old serpent dance of the Nile, or the posturing of decorous courtship when the olives are purple in the time of the grape harvest? [4]
A hero in battle and in council; lion, serpent, and toad in one! [10]
That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says, You work, and I eat; you toil, and I will enjoy the fruits of it. [7]
This time the architect could spend only a few hours on the Serpent Island, for affairs in the city were beginning to wear a very serious aspect, and the building of the monument was pushed forward even during the night. [10]
She says, with apparent sincerity and truth, that the Serpent assured her that the forbidden fruit was not apples, it was chestnuts. [5]
Such is life, and the trail of the serpent is over us all. [5]
Just as Ephraim and Miriam reached the shore she shrieked aloud--a rude hand had torn the gold serpent from her ear. [10]
You know all about the Psylli, or ancient serpent tamers, I suppose. [6]

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