Her bashful joys like serpents sting her tenderness to tears: Her hopes are sleeping eagles in the shining of the spheres; O beauty of the bride!
There was also a representation of the Last Judgment, wherein dragons and serpents might be seen feasting on the entrails of the wicked, while demons scourged them into the flames of Hell.
The dragons and serpents were supposed to be the demons of the pest, and the sinners whom they were so busily devouring to represent its victims.
The poet here follows a belief as old as Pliny that the young of serpents fed on their mother's blood.
The insects are as numerous as singular, and the serpents and reptiles thrive under the vertical sun, and amid the humid exhalations of the low-lands.
The serpents in the forests and marshes attain an enormous size, but are rarely found in the inhabited districts.
It is said there are no serpents or venomous reptiles found here, although it is near a continent in which they are so plentiful; at present this isle is uninhabited.
By the way, Bill," said I, "your mentioning serpents reminds me that I have not seen a reptile of any kind since I came to this part of the world.
Rain cut across the land in sheets, and lightning played like forked serpents in the air, while high above the roar of the hissing tempest the thunder crashed and burst and rolled in awful majesty.
The miracle was performed as follows: "On lighting a fire upon an altar, figures make libations and serpents hiss (Fig.
The rods actually were serpents and hypnotized to such an extent as to become perfectly stiff and rigid.
Those who were bitten of theserpents in the wilderness gazed on the brazen serpent, and were healed.
God will heal the bite of the serpents in the wilderness, but to gain the blessing the wounded ones, even in their suffering, must turn their eyes to the appointed symbol of healing.
Did you not see that my wise men produced serpents with their wands?
The merest juggler, the first charmer of serpents who plays the flute on the public squares, will suffice to satisfy you.
It has two winged serpents entwined round the top end.
The goddess Juno hated him from his birth, and sent two serpents to kill him, but though only eight months old he strangled them.
She is depicted as having serpents instead of hair on her head, and was supposed to breed pestilence wherever she went.
The marsh across the lane was a sinister menacing place even by day for there (so my sister Harriet warned me) serpents swarmed, eager to bite runaway boys.
True, we were hardly a mile from the house, but there were many serpents on the hillsides and wildcats in the cliffs, and eight is pretty young for such a task.
What became of these serpents that were swallowed, whether they turned back into sticks again, is not stated.
He caught the serpents he had made and gave them fangs and curious organs, ingeniously devised to distill and deposit the deadly drop.
The serpent that had been changed from Aaron's rod was, at this time crawling upon the floor, and it proceeded to swallow the serpents that had been produced by the magicians of Egypt.
I will send the tooth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
It may be urged that these serpents were created for the express purpose of punishing the children of Israel for having had the presumption, like Oliver Twist, to ask for more.
It destroys the fireside, makes virtue an outcast, takes from human speech its sweetest words, and leaves the heart a den, where crawl and hiss the slimy serpents of most loathsome lust.
Darkness was grief and death, and in the shadows crawled the serpents of despair and fear.
However, there were only three things in which the magicians of Egypt were able to imitate the servants of the true and living God, namely, in turning their rods into serpents (Chap.
Let now the serpents come, that complained not, even though whatever food they ate tasted only of the dust, and let them bite those who murmur though they have a food that possesses every conceivable flavor.
In China, the ring between two Serpents was the symbol of the world governed by the power and wisdom of the Creator.
In the Mysteries of the bull-horned Bacchus, the officers held serpents in their hands, raised them above their heads, and cried aloud "Eva!
Goddesses holdingserpents are figures in Egypt and Assyria, 495-l.
Serpents and Dragons have something divine in their nature, 494-m.
The Egyptian Priests fed the sacred serpents in the temple at Thebes.
Sanchoniathon says that Taaut was the author of the worship of serpentsamong the Phœnicians.
On the Tyrian coins of the age of Alexander, serpents are represented in many positions and attitudes, coiled around trees, erect in front of altars, and crushed by the Syrian Hercules.
The Romans kept serpents in the Temples of Bona Dea and Æsculapius.
Ormuzd and Ahriman represented by two serpentscontending for the mundane egg, 500-u.
Circle between twoserpents a symbol of the World with the Chinese, 496-l.
Serpents encircling rings and globes, and issuing from globes, are common in the Persian, Egyptian, Chinese, and Indian monuments.
The Egyptian Goddess Ken, represented standing naked on a lion, held two serpents in her hand.
Typhon was represented as born of the earth; the upper part of his body covered with feathers, in stature reaching the clouds, his arms and legs covered with scales, serpents darting from him on every side, and fire flashing from his mouth.
The Tirynthian hero was a baby, and he crushed two serpents in his hands; even in his cradle he was already worthy of Jove.
Hercules, who Wiled the serpents sent by Juno, is reproached for doing this, by Deianira in her Epistle.
What can the cockatrice hatch up But serpents like himselfe?
They fall in due time; and weak must be the substance of that pillar which does not stand, and look as beautiful, when the serpentshave crawled over it, as before.
Serpents of great length will be seen at a great height in the air, fighting with birds.
This, when fighting with serpents eats the sow-thistle and is free.
Under its latest transformation in Greece, a winged rod with two serpents twined round it, it has come down to our own times representing two of the functions of Hermes, more than ever in vogue among men, industry and commerce.
It has survived in India under the form of two serpents entwined, probably introduced in the track of Alexander the Great.
Serpents excepted, there were no animals of whom Kees stood in such great dread as of his own species,--perhaps owing to a consciousness of loss of natural capacity.
But not even the teeth of venomous serpents overcame thy children: for thy mercy came and healed them.
But for the foolish devices of their iniqnity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance: Dumb beasts.
Fear'st thou not the three, “Whose locks with sable serpents horrid curl?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serpents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
