单词 | blindworm |
例句 | The lizard has its jaws fixed; so has the blindworm. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. The walls where hung the warrior's shining casque Are green with moss and mould; The blindworm coils where Queens have slept, nor asks For shelter from the cold. Brittany & Its Byways I occasionally saw a snake, but always of the harmless, blindworm variety. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blindworms do no wrong, Come not near our Fairy Queen. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Go, blindworm, go, Behold the famous States Harrying Mexico With rifle and with knife! Poems Household Edition Snakes have a long tongue, split for some distance, and made double-forked; the blindworm's tongue has nothing but a little notch upon the tip. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. "The greater slow worm, called also the blindworm, is commonly thought to be blind, because of the littleness of his eyes."—GREW: ib. The Grammar of English Grammars I touched it with my stick, when the pot-handle drew itself out of loop shape and slowly disappeared under some dead furze, showing the blunt tail of a blindworm. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies And within the grave there is no pleasure, for the blindworm battens on the root, And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree of Passion bears no fruit. Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde And within the grave there is no pleasure, forthe blindworm battens on the root,And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree ofPassion bears no fruit. Ballad of Reading Gaol The blindworm then, is Saurophidian; it is quite as much a lizard as a snake. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. It is curious that in places where blindworms are often seen their innocuous nature should not be generally known. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies |
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