Next thing, you'll have a pack of cobras following us!
Attached to the chain was a small Egyptian charm, in the form of a statuette of the goddess Isis, wearing on her head the royal sign, the orb of the sun, supported by cobras on either side.
Suspended from the chain was a tiny little ancient Egyptian charm, in the form of a statuette of the goddess Isis, wearing on her head the royal sign, the orb of the sun, supported by cobras on either side.
Now, what if all snakes were as foolishly aggressive as the hooded and spectacled cobras of India?
While cobras in captivity usually do live together in a state of vicious and fully-armed neutrality, sometimes they do fight.
One of our cobras once attacked a cage-mate two-thirds the size of itself, vanquished it, seized it by the head and swallowed two-thirds of it before the tragedy was discovered.
All the cobrasare dead; and if they weren't, I'm here.
I was not a day too soon," he said; for he could see the baby cobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose.
But his wife was a sensible bird, and she knew that cobra's eggs meant young cobras later on; so she flew off from the nest, and left Darzee to keep the babies warm, and continue his song about the death of Nag.
Do you think it possible that cobras could be exhibited without the fangs being removed?
Do you use any other snakes besides the cobras for your exhibitions?
In one family, near Negombo, cobras are kept as protectors, in the place of dogs, by a wealthy man who has always large sums of money in his house.
In pre-Buddhist days the gods were represented with a canopy of five or seven Cobras over them.
Anything else that charmed snakes may do is probably the result of training; for there is no doubt that cobras admit of being tamed, and even domesticated.
As for snake-charming, the facts seem to be that cobras and other serpents are attracted by the sound of a pipe to creep out of their hiding-places, when they are captured and tamed.
One of the sapwallahs, who wore nothing but a turban on his head and a fringed cloth about his loins, went to one of the bowls from which half a dozen cobras were feeding, and taking hold of one of them, pulled him away from the milk.
Khayrat invited the party to witness a battle between his mongoose and a couple of cobras his hunters had caught; and he killed them both, one at a time.
The officers explained how so many of the cobras happened to be together; but Felix had reached a correct conclusion before.
He looked in the direction of the noises, and saw two more cobras lifting their vicious heads into the air.
I was not a day too soon,' he said; for he could see the baby cobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose.
The boy then met his cobra brother in the jungle one day and cut off his tail, so that now all cobras have a blunted tail.
The cobra went to the forest, but told the mother to warn her children that if they were ever bitten by cobras they must stay in the same place for a whole day and that then the venom would take no effect.
With pistols to shoot the cobrasand sweat to put out flame?
When he comes, put him in the small room next the cobras, and let him be shown the cobras until fear of too much talking has grown greater in him than the love of being heard!
If the cobras deal with me, and my secret dies with me, there will be one German less and that is all.
Have cobras in a hair-noose ready, close behind where the sahibs sit, and watch through the hangings for my signal!
But he heard them hiss, and he turned to see four cobrascome toward him, with the front third of their bodies raised from the floor and their hoods extended.
One does not bargain with a spy, either; one pays his price, and throws him to the cobras if he fail!
There were six good cobras of mine burned alive, to say nothing of the bones of a dead Afridi!
The encounter thou speakest of with those two excellent youths--the younger Pandavas--is like unto the act of a fool that wantonly trampleth on the tails of two venomous black cobras with bifurcated tongues.
It is Duryodhana, who caused venomous black-cobras to bite all over the body of Bhimasena, but that slayer of foes died not.
A naked child with a ring in its nose begged for a gift; brown bodies lay asleep on mats; the cobras were still performing for the wicked-looking juggler.
They let him go, and ordered me to present myself at midnight; so I went with him, to preserve him from the cobras in a tunnel through which he must pass.
And with a final word of caution against cobras he led the way, swinging a lantern with no more suggestion of anything unusual than if he had been our servant seeing us home on a dark night.
Cobras are foolish people, and folly is infectious.
It seemed to be an inferno, in which cobras hunted rats perpetually; but we saw one swarm of fiery-eyed rats eating a dead snake.
Cobras vary much in coloration, and Mr. Scully reports that he has killed South African specimens of light yellow, jet black and all intermediate hues.
Felix declared that he preferred to hunt cobrasand tigers, for all the game seemed to be very tame to him.
We have shot tigers in India, and Mr. McGavonty has shot more cobras than all the rest of us.
Some of them are very like Cobras without the hood, as the "Kerait" (B.
Cobras are much dreaded, for they instil the most subtle poison into their bites.
Elapidae (which comprises theCobras and many others), and the Hydrophidae (or Sea Snakes).
But his wife was a sensible bird, and she knew that cobra's eggs meant young cobras later on.
I was not a day too soon," he said, for he could see the babycobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose.
He is probably somewhere about the place charming cobras or arresting avalanches, or indulging in some of those playful freaks he says he learned in Edinburgh.
Why could he not have an elephant out and go like a sensible thinking being, instead of sneaking out with one miserable peasant to lie all night among the reeds, in as great danger from cobras as from the beast he meant to kill?
Cobras are fond of sandal wood and the sweet smelling flowers of the screw pine, and are attracted by music.
Some cobras have a gem in their throats which they keep out to entice insects; they kill themselves if this be taken from them which can be done by getting on to a tree and throwing cowdung over the gem.
But to establish new images ofcobras in suitable places is regarded as a surer method of achieving this object.
In some parts of the country, every town or village has its images of cobras rudely carved on stone.
It is believed that, if a person should come across two cobras together, they will give him no quarter.
The safety with which snake-charmers handle cobrasis said to be due to the removal of a stone, which supplied their teeth with venom, from under the tongue or behind the hood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cobras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
