In short, the Salamander lives in an invincible State of Simplicity and Innocence: Her Constitution is preserv'd in a kind of natural Frost; she wonders what People mean by Temptation; and defies Mankind to do their worst.
Your Salamander is therefore a perpetual Declaimer against Jealousie, and Admirer of the French Good-breeding, and a great Stickler for Freedom in Conversation.
Now a Salamander is a kind of Heroine in Chastity, that treads upon Fire, and lives in the Midst of Flames without being hurt.
A Salamander knows no Distinction of Sex in those she converses with, grows familiar with a Stranger at first Sight, and is not so narrow-spirited as to observe whether the Person she talks to be in Breeches or Petticoats.
Pour over buttered toast and brown with a salamander or under the grill.
The salamander is worth modernizing, too, so you can brand your own Rabbits with your monogram or the design of your own Rabbitry.
You can sizzle the top with a salamander or other branding iron, but in any case set it forth as nearly sizzling as possible, on toast hellishly hot, whether it's browned or buttered on one side or both.
As, however, the nerve of vision exists, it is possible that this salamander may be able to discern in some manner between light and darkness.
It may be assumed that there existed once in the Adelsberg grotto a salamander which was absolutely blind, and in which, in consequence of an innate power of evolution, an organ of vision of the lowest kind was gradually formed.
If the Salamander kings are only irascible, the sylph kings proud and haughty, the Undine queens affectionate and jealous, the gnome kings are fierce, cruel, and deceitful.
The salamander is the well-known device of Francis I.
When the salamander is represented it is always placed in the midst of flames.
Another old statement, equally capable of being brought to the trial, was that if even the foot of a man came in contact with the liquid exuded from the skin of the salamander all his hair would fall off.
I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two and thirty years.
In turning over the quaint pages of the "Bestiary" of De Thaun we find allusion made to a creature that is evidently the salamander again, though we cannot quite make out the reference to King Solomon.
The real creature is very similar in form to the newts that are so commonly to be found in ponds, but the salamanderof Francis I.
The Salamander received its full mythical development during mediaeval times, though the older writers refer to it occasionally.
Both species of Salamander have a sufficient quantity of food-yolk to give rise to a yolk-sack.
The young of Salamandra maculata leave the uterus with external gills, but those of the Alpine Salamander (Salamandra atra) are born in the fully developed condition without gills.
But his men murmured and talked of the salamander that once in seven years attains its growth in unquenched flame and goes forth doing mischief.
Our largest species is the mud puppy (Necturus) of the Mississippi basin; the largest living species is the giant salamander of Japan, three feet in length.
But unless the salamander works, his chances are only slight.
If a salamander could destroy even such a body as his, then the fragments of sun that were still roiling across the landscape would be fatal.
The salamander in Dave's chest crept deeper and seemed to bleat at each cry of the monstrous thing beyond the door.
The salamanderhit him, sank into him and shone through him.
The salamander paused and began to shrink doubtfully.
In Dave's chest, the salamanderbegan purring again, and he drifted back into his coma.
Now thesalamander moved toward them, directed apparently by slight motions from Sather Karf.
The salamander suddenly broke from Dave's chest, glowing brighter as it rose toward the face of the attacker.
The giant salamander of the rivers of China and Japan and the Chinese mandarin duck are by some included in the same genera as their American representatives, while by others they are referred to genera apart.
My notes I would propose heading 'Observations on Phenomena of Automatic Cerebration amongst some of the Cannibal Tribes of the Salamander Archipelago.
The bishop thanked the young lady very much, and then resumed his explanation to a group of his guests of the uses of some implements of war and agriculture brought from the tribes of the Salamander Archipelago.
THE Bishop of the Calapash Islands and Metropolitan of the Salamander Archipelago was smiling very tranquilly upon his guests as they arrived at his house, which was about two miles from Mowbray.
Standish was in a group at the lower end, while his father was demonstrating how infinitely superior were the weapons found in the bogs of Ireland to the Salamander specimens.
She was engaged to marry Algernon Glaston, the son of the Bishop of the Calapash Islands and Metropolitan of the Salamander Group, and this to Lottie meant conquest.
The Bishop of the Calapash Islands and Metropolitan of the Salamander Archipelago had at last found a vessel to convey him to where his dutiful son was waiting for him.
Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that on hot coals, it dieth immediately.
Defn: A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.
Formerly, it was a superstition that the salamander could live in fire without harm, and even extinguish it by the natural coldness of its body.
He is supposed to have lived in Salamander Land in the High Street (so called because it survived fires to right of it and fires to left of it).
Wilson throws doubt on this; but Defoe must have lived somewhere, and it may as well have been in Salamander Land as anywhere else,--especially as the land is now no longer existing to deny it.
But the salamander indicated with his thumb a clump of trees on the green plain north of the cemetery.
The keeper gave up the investigation, and presented to the salamander a nickel cent.
French roll, and fried in butter; place them round the dish and pass the salamander over it and serve.
That "salamander in the rain" idea had been one of her husband's more clever thoughts that he attributed to the lack of creativity he saw around him.
He loved Porn and Piggy each in their own way as desperate as a clinging salamander in the rain.
Joy and bustle reigned supreme in the corner house of Salamander Street, Vepery.
The hired bandy, its syce arrayed in an out-at-the-elbows blue tunic and turban, arrived duly one afternoon at the door of the house in Salamander Street.
If you have not a salamanderthe fire shovel can be heated and used in the same way; but the shovel is not improved by the operation.
The salamander is a circular iron plate, to which is attached a long handle.
The top may be well browned by holding above it a salamander or red-hot shovel.
Serve up with them mashed potatos made into flat cakes, and browned with a salamander or red hot shovel.
Glaze them with beaten egg, and brown them with a salamander or a red-hot shovel.
When done put it into a deep dish, strew over the top the remaining half of the grated cheese, and brown it with a salamanderor a red-hot shovel held above the surface.
