And with the touch he knew that this serpent was no animal shape, but worse--a creeping tendril from some flesh-eating horror of the vegetable world.
It went on, a spear like a flash of light--on and down, to drive sharply into the body of that serpent shape!
Its waters supplied excellent fish for the tables on board: mackerel, bonito, albacore, and a few varieties of that sea serpent named the moray eel.
I recognized the Javanese eel, a genuine eight-decimeter serpent with a bluish gray belly, which, without the gold lines over its flanks, could easily be confused with the conger eel.
His eyes were fixed on hers in a concentrated gaze that seemed to fascinate her like the gaze of the wily serpent charms the ensnared bird.
There was a strange and terrible fascination in the scene enacted below her--a fascination she would fain shake off, yet felt powerless to overcome, like the fatal spell a serpent weaves when it charms a victim.
The marks of the sea are still on us, as the marks of the serpent are still on us, ere the serpentbecameserpent and we became we, when pre-serpent and pre-we were one.
And as Moses lift up theserpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lift up, that none which believeth in him perish: but have eternal life.
We must be first evil yer we do evil, as a serpent is first poisoned yer he poison.
And as a serpent yet young, or yet un-brought forth is full of poison, and cannot afterward (when the time is come and occasion given) but bring forth the fruits there of.
And the great dragon, that old serpent called the devil and Sathanas, Was cast out.
And the serpent cast out of his mought water after the woman as it had been a river because she should have been caught of the flood.
For I coupled you to one man, to make you a chaste virgin to Christ: But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, thorow his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ.
Nor can any conceivable power induce the serpent to let go, its unshakable resolve being to draw its prey within its folds, instead of meeting its victim.
He smelled a serpent in front of us, and I stamped him to death.
If ever there was call for hurry and the display of the wisdom of the serpent it was now.
Then the serpent began drawing its victim forward with terrific power.
The old man screwed round among his pillows, his cot in the patio of the serpent fountain.
He stood beside her and they watched a boy spin a wooden top in the sunlight by the serpent fountain.
In the Albanian story of "The Serpent Child," (Hahn, No.
But in most cases he is a serpent which in outward appearance seems to differ from other ophidians only in being winged and polycephalous--the number of his heads generally varying from three to twelve.
Sometimes he retains throughout the story an exclusively reptilian character; sometimes he is of a mixed nature, partly serpent and partly man.
All the monstrous forms which figure in the stories we have just been considering appear to be merely different species of the great serpent family.
The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.
A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.
A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.
She has sharply questioned her conscience, being perhaps dimly aware of the weak spot in the citadel, of the serpent coiled in the shadow.
To this he adds a note: “Nor is there any ground for believing that the serpent in the Eden-myth is intended for Satan?
The serpent now approached so near the Indian that he could almost have seized him with his hand; he raised himself a last time, and, throwing back his head, sprang forward.
The statue might be that of a beautiful bather or a grandly moulded Venus, save for the symbolic serpent twined around the stump of the tree on which she leans.
The Russian lady turned fiercely around, like a serpent that had been trodden upon.
The assassin of Joseph, holding the child at arm’s length, looked at it with the diabolical expression of a serpent charming his victim before striking him.
A hoarse cry died away in the throat of the savage, who, seizing the serpent with his hand before he could escape, raised him to his mouth, and in his rage tore him to pieces with his teeth.
Soon as the serpent felt the withering flaw Of those green wings, it vanished, and they sped Up to their posts again with even flight.
It’s the old serpent in the tree that makes it shaky.
The serpent coiled itself round the glistening blades, and, in clasping his victim, cut himself to pieces.
And where that small vale’s barrier sinks most low A serpent suddenly was seen to glide, Such as gave Eve, perchance, the fruit of woe.
The high priestess suggests that these spies shall see one more sacrifice to the serpent god before they, too, die for our faith.
My foot struck something, and I stooped to pick it up, and found that it was that serpent ring.
I saw, too, that the heavy folds of the serpent were still coiled about the supple waist.
I was shut up in the devil's cavern, and the tarantula and serpent were making in a straight line for my helpless body.
The Mamanloi looked upon me long, with a sort of trembling of the eyelids, which made me feel as if she were a species of serpent ready to spring upon me.
She wreathed the serpent round her waist as a Northern girl would have twisted a ribbon, and said in her sweet and dreadful voice: "Bring in the final sacrifice--the goat without horns!
I see before me as plainly as if I held it in my hand, with those wondrous eyes intact, and shining like two living balls of fire, that symbol of mysticism, the serpent ring.
He could not permit the serpent to defile the consecrated building in which he officiated, and the blacks would not relinquish theirserpent god.
And now that the tarantula and serpent were dead, and the Skipper had come, and the lamp was again lighted, I seemed to have nothing more to worry about, and so I fainted.
I seized upon the knife and turned to search for the jewel, when, to my horror, I beheld a realserpent gliding up the wall behind me.
It was the very duplicate of the serpent ring that I had in my possession.
When I asked why the serpent did not injure the child Zalee told me, through the string of interpreters, that the large serpents that are chosen as the gods of the vaudoux rites are harmless.
All the mirrors and marbles around me seemed crawling over with lizards; and I thought to myself, that though gilded and golden, the serpent of vice is a serpent still.
Under this impression she had trifled, she had coquetted, she had played with the serpent till it had coiled around her; and she could not escape its fascination and its folds.
You have the magic that draws even the serpent from his hole.
The trail was just a narrow serpentin the brush; and it had not been made by gangs of laborers, working with shovels and picks.
It simply steals, as a serpent steals through the grass.
And his long body leaped like a serpent through the air.
Whisperfoot crouched lower: and again his long serpent of a tail began the little vertical motion that always precedes his leap.
This Diomede's a false-hearted rogue, an unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he winks with one eye, than I will a serpent when he hisses.
A serpent ne'er becomes a flying dragon, Till he has eat a serpent[7].
For instance,-- O serpent heart, hid with a flowery face!
He's speaking now, Or murmuring, Where's my serpent of old Nile?
Eve and her serpent seem to me a pretty little case of symbolical adultery; you must suppress the Psalms of David, inspired by the highly adulterous love affairs of that Louis XIV.
Eve and her serpent are the everlasting myth of an hourly fact which began, and may end, with the world itself.
What was that but the serpent watching God's vessel and seeking to put it out of the way by death?
The serpent has at all times watched with malignant eye those instruments which God was about to use for His own gracious ends.
The serpent is entirely under the hand of Christ; and when he has reached the highest point in his mad career, he shall be hurled into the lake of fire, there to reap the fruits of his work throughout eternity's countless ages.
The rod became a serpent, so that Moses fled from it; but, being commissioned by Jehovah, he took theserpent by the tail, and it became a rod.
He started in his saddle, as if a serpent had stung him; his hollow eyes shot prominently out, glaring wildly from their sockets, while the muscles of his throat and jaws twitched in convulsive action!
A serpent could hardly have found concealment under it, but a horse-- Merciful heaven!
The symbolism is the rain cloud and the serpent lightning, the rainbow, rain drops, and the cross of the four winds.
In Bengal we find at the present day the fantastically growing Euphorbia antiquorum regularly worshipped, as the representative of the serpent god.
All Parsis wear the sacred thread of serpent and phallic extraction, and the investiture of this is a solemn and essential rite with both sects [i.
The serpent symbol, and the worship of the reciprocal principles of nature in America.
Brand adds from Levinus Lemnius: "Let the woman that travels with her child (is in her labour) be girded with the skin that a serpent or a snake casts off, and then she will quickly be delivered.
All coiling roots and fantastic shrubs represent the serpent and are recognized as such all over India.
And when they answered that a serpenthad bitten him, the Lord Jesus said to the boys, Let us go and kill that serpent.
Andrew Kent published a work on the science of language, in which he stated that God spoke to Adam, and Adam answered, in Hebrew, and that the serpent probably spoke to Eve in French.
I will also send the teeth of locusts upon them, with the poisonous serpent of the desert.
When they wish to represent eternity, they represent it by a serpent with his tail in his mouth.
I never saw a man whose movements more resembled the Devil in serpent shape--except one.
The serpent he warmed has turned and stung him, with sting so venomous as to leave little of life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serpent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
