Sentence examples for serpent it from inspiring English sources
Islanders were terrified of the serpent; it was described by Traill Dennison, who transcribed its story, as "the worst of the nine fearful curses that plague mankind".
A sea serpent, it was rumored, haunted the coastline beside the hotel, and ninety per cent of our tourism was serpent-driven.
("California vegetables are not the serpent, it's all of us who open our veins to the flow of gas-fueled foods").
Not only is this gory mess swaying like a serpent, it's also floating in the middle of the room.
Tilly had no problem with the chariot drawn by serpents; it was as vivid as (and rather to be preferred to) our Citroë* estate car.
Painted on the back of another earlier work, Two Serpents, it has been mounted in a special two-sided frame to make both paintings visible for the first time.
At another time, it hides itself in the inmost recess of the heart, or coils around it like a serpent; now it fixes upon the lungs; now upon the kidneys, upon the liver, the bladder, the pancreas, the intestines of the skin.
It's like a sleeping serpent and it's getting wider and deeper by the day.
The North, accusing America of the tactics of a "serpent", said it wants a promise by America not to attack it to be ratified by Congress because it does not trust the Bush administration.Pakistan claimed to have shot down a pilotless Indian spy plane in Kashmir.
The way a bull's penis looks – like a red serpent... it's incredibly hard to watch.
"Quetzalcoatl" has been assumed to be Aztec for "plumed serpent" but it may be garbled 6th century Gaelic for "man with white beard from over the sea".
