Visions of snakes danced before our minds, the girls shrieked, the torches fell in our frantic scramble and we were left in Stygian darkness.
At those times do such poor snakes as myself enjoy an immortality.
Of the folklore which is concerned with other classes of "reptilia" that which deals with Snakes is the most important.
Numerous sea-snakes do, as a fact, exist in the seas of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.
Let poisonoussnakes be my beard, A crocodile my tongue, And a roaring tiger in the dimple of my chin.
Russell denies the existence of poisonous snakes in Northern Syria, and states that the last instance of death known to have occurred from the bite of a serpent near Aleppo took place a hundred years before his time.
In temperate climates, snakes are consumed by scarcely any beast or bird of prey except the stork, and they have few dangerous enemies but man, though in the tropics other animals prey upon them.
The infant Hercules destroys the pernicioussnakes detested of the gods, and ever, like St. George of England and Michael the Archangel, wars against hydras and dragons.
Wreaths of snakes are on the columns of the ancient Hindu Temple at Burwah-Sangor.
Coils of grey river lie upon the flats: the very flatness over which the stream snakes is at once most strong--serene.
A broad band of wonderful black and green iridescent tiles, snakes round the top like some opulent spotted serpent.
The snakesin this new world be cunning; 'wise as serpents,' says the Scripture, and a true word.
And the snakes went into 'um and ye can hear 'um hissing on clear still days.
Not very far off lies Croagh Patrick, the sacred mountain from which St. Patrick cursed the snakes and other venomous creatures and drove them from Ireland.
This was the sort of thing that one might have observed for himself years ago, here at the Zoo; at the time when the snakes lived in the old house in blankets, because of the unsteadiness of the thermometer, and were fed in public.
There is a certain coolness, almost to be called a positive want of cordiality, between snakes and human beings.
Here, among a number of viperine snakes of about the same size, is a snake that lives on eggs.
All the records in this particular branch of sport are held in the United States of America, where proficiency at snakes is the first qualification of a descriptive reporter.
Snakes do not do that sort of thing, and the anecdote-designer's imagination has not yet risen to the feat of compelling them, although the stimulus of competition may soon cause it.
At present Brazil claims the record for absolute length of the snakes themselves; but the Yankee snake-story man will soon claim that record too.
Most snakes secure originality and independence in this matter by laying eggs like an elongated tennis-ball--eggs covered with a sort of white parchment or leather instead of shell.
She has climbed, crept, and waded, and she tells me she never saw but two venomous snakes this side of Michigan.
The last few weeks constitute my entire experience with the country, and I'm in mortal fear that snakes will drop from trees and bushes or spring from the ground.
Suddenly, as he was attacking a monstrous serpent wriggling about before him, he recollected the way in which he had seen the snakes got rid of in Africa.
His helmet had a fiery plume, hissing snakes were writhing about his casque and shoulders, his armour seemed of red-hot metal.
Next they came to a country of vast swamps, where dwelt few men and many wild beasts, a country full of fevers and reeds and pools, in which lived snakes and crocodiles.
When you are dead all the Bushmen should come and dip their arrows in you, for then even crocodiles and the big snakes would die at a scratch.
Snakes were crawling from their holes, and lay sunning themselves in the roads, to her and Johnnie's dismay.
There are probably more green snakes on Appledore than anywhere else in America.
One was from a woman who wished to come to see her, but was afraid to do so on account of the green snakes which Hawthorne speaks of as inhabiting Appledore.
But the water-snake did not move from the spot, and for a long time the snakes lay there hissing abusive epithets at each other.
Water-snakes always like to pretend that they know more than other creatures.
It isn't possible that there can be two such big snakes in the forest," he pondered.
We two have lived together so many years; we two have been so happy with each other, and have fared so well here in the swamp, that we have lived to be older than all the other water-snakes in the forest!
But he found it more splendid to watch the workmen who, dexterously and delicately, seized the glowing snakes with their tongs and forced them under the rollers.
In order to render this little book more useful, the account of the Snakes of Europe has been preceded by an Introduction summarizing what is known of Snakes generally.
A few larval forms found on various snakes have been reported under the generic name Ixodes, but they probably belong either to Amblyomma or Aponomma.
It looks more like a Viper than a harmless snake, and when disturbed hisses loudly and flattens out the anterior part of the body, much as does a Cobra, and pretends to strike, although it is one of the few snakes that never bite man.
According to Werner, it is the commonest of all snakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The notion that snakes fascinate their prey, attracting it or reducing it to immobility by a mysterious power in their glittering eyes, is pure fable.
Many snakes are gregarious during the breeding season, and great numbers of males have been seen wriggling round the females, forming with their coils huge lumps or an entangled mass like a ball.
So far as trustworthy records are concerned, the largest snakes known, the Malay Python reticulatus and the South American Anaconda, Eunectes murinus, reach a length of 25 to 30 feet.
And, finally, the marine snakes of the subfamily Hydrophiinae are distinguished by a strongly compressed, oar-shaped tail, with rounded vertical outline.
Tree-snakes spend the greater part of their life on bushes or trees.
Among the Snakes in Idaho garments of four to five beaver-skins were sold for a knife or an awl, and other articles of fur in proportion.
The Snakes and some of the Utahs were versed in the art of pottery, and made very good vessels from baked clay.
The Washakeeks or Green River Snakes inhabit the country drained by Green River and its tributaries.
The hunters report, that the proper country of the Snakes is to the east of the Youta Lake, and north of the Snake or Lewis river; but they are found in many detached places.
The Snakes have a kind of mace or club, which they call a poggamoggon.
The Snakes eat a white-fleshed kind of beaver, which lives on poisonous roots, whose flesh affects white people badly, though the Indians roast and eat it with impunity.
The dress of the Snakes seen by captains Lewis and Clarke was richer than is usually worn by them now; it was composed of a robe, short cloak, shirt, long leggins, and moccasins.
The principal or better portion are called Shoshonies, or Snakes .
The Snakes are much affected by rheumatism and consumption, caused chiefly by their being almost constantly in the water fishing, and by exposure.
And why shouldn't Jessie be afraid of snakes if she never saw one?
Sidenote b: Dipsa a kind of snakes that Lucan mentioneth, whose byting procureth extreame drynes or thirste.
Betwixt the comare Meimerill or Arbut, and the Satire, were two little Satires, the one howlding a bottell in his hands and the other with two snakes fowlding about his armes.
I was aware that thesnakes usually go in pairs; but having seen the first one mount the tree alone, I never dreamt of his having a mate, which I suppose must have joined him while I was away.
The ladies instantly jumped up from their sitting posture with a scream; but perceiving that the snakes were no longer dangerous, they were speedily reassured, and demanded to hear the adventure which had resulted in their destruction.
In the district in which I am now living snakes are very plentiful.
You don't suppose there aresnakes under our castle, do you, Roger?
In fact she looked not unlike a gaunt, grim old puss who had all her life fought what crossed her path, from snakes to staghounds.
Snakes and toads brooding thereon would in time hatch out baby monsters--creatures with cocks' heads and the tails and wings of dragons.
The vague profiles of hills ran like snakes across the somber sky.
In the formation of devices, hideous and horrible, Nature reached her supreme point in the making of the snake, so that priests who really paint hell well fill it with snakes instead of fire.
They would have killed more mice in a week than the men could catch in a summer; but they were snakes for all that, and your rustic hates and shrinks from snakes, et dona ferentes.
He did not feel the loathing for snakes which is so common--happily, as it proved.
His black and white cap had lappets with red snakes sewn thereon; the breast of his tunic bore a large red cross, the sacred symbol of Dahomey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
