They might be hieroglyphs, frenzied maenads or black serpents with men's heads and menacing tongues – for stinging, perhaps, for uttering untruths, for screaming fury.
Only hypocrites wear clothes; fiery serpents and fat maggots are often the only attire.
The fluted columns that once held glass weather screens, the lampstands with their coiling serpents, the flowering and curling iron balustrades, are stored in heaps under the sea wall.
Asian politicians have to start defanging the nationalist serpents they have nursed; honest textbooks would help a lot.
Who'd have thought, then, that his dizzying landscapes, his writhing serpents, gnarled trees and rampant pyramids would also have found such a following in Australia?
It is almost as if they are held together by glue.In this section The dark side of cosmology What boys and girls are made of Here be serpents ReprintsThis glue, the theory goes, is a halo of extra, invisible matter that encases each galaxy.
Businesspeople today are like businesspeople then: too busy making money to notice the serpents flickering at the bottom of their trading screens.
Entering the kingdom of animal metaphors, they spoke of the need to be "wise as serpents" in protecting the constitution "from wolves in sheep's clothing".
Whether they be wild dogs or serpents, people-smugglers are a thriving species with no shortage of prey.
"Now we are creating a race question".The serpents in this tale of lost innocence are social scientists.
There are more furies screaming, Hesperides feeding serpents, a phoenix, a centaur, Adam and Eve, Hercules, two androgynous figures slaying a dragon, Mars carrying off Venus attended by Cupid.
