| 单词 | ophidian |
| 例句 | If the collections shown on the seventh day of Paris fashion week demonstrate anything for , keep your use of pelts, hides and skins to a minimum — particularly of those ophidian. | Yves Saint Laurent Wins! 2011-03-09T03:55:10Z It is her treatment by others — mostly lustful and vengeful gods — that brings about her ophidian transformation, and even still she tries to protect the world she loves from the harm of her destructive gaze. 10 noteworthy books for February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The jeweler’s earliest snake-inspired pieces tended toward abstraction, referencing ophidian sinuousness by way of a corrugated gold bracelet — based on the articulated flex of gas piping — that slithered up the wrist. A Snake-Inspired Bracelet Watch Evolves Once More 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z An obnoxious ophidian invaded a soccer pitch in Guatemala, delaying a game between Nueva Concepcion and Municipal. Sideline Chatter: But he’s since been banned from his office’s NCAA pool 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z It didn't work; the nomadic ophidian is now in residence at the San Diego Zoo. Wildlife part of the territory of L.A. life 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The avoidance of interspecific competition in feeding is well illustrated by three species of snakes that probably are the primary ophidian predators on frogs. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala 2011-12-25T03:00:10.957Z A minute before the comparison was ophidian, now it was feline. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Whether there be, or be not, a huge marine animal, not necessarily an ophidian, answering to some of the descriptions of the sea-serpent—so called—Pontoppidan did not invent the stories told of its appearance. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z Moreover, the gall of snakes is supposed not alone to endow the drinker thereof with ophidian rancour and malice, but to give immunity from the effects of snake-bite. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z However, he may be expected to turn up again very soon, this time probably coiled in constrictor fashion, as an oceanic ophidian, around a Laocoön or leviathan of a species very like a whale. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 But that the larger ophidians may be themselves transported across the seas, is evident from the following most interesting account of the arrival of one at the island of St. Vincent. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The untutored human mind has for centuries past intuitively clung to this idea, and sought among plants for remedies against the deadly ophidian poison. On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote The form of the vertebræ in the ophidians renders such a movement impossible. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z “It is part of the skull of an ophidian.” Frontier Boys in the South Seas Among the ophidians, which include many harmless species, are the boa-constrictor, rattlesnake, the dreaded Lachesis and the coral snake. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" His thoughts, thus drawn to Shaw, dwelt on that ophidian personality. The Girl in the Mirror Stannum saw Bacchus pursued by the ravening Mænads; saw Lamia and her ophidian flute; and sorrowfully sped Orpheus searching for his Eurydice. Melomaniacs The very word 'snake,' or 'serpent,' makes some people shudder, and it is as well to say a word or two about these ophidians here, and have done with them. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure I of course refer to the ophidian or serpent family. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed She strove to wrest her eye from his in vain, Held by that gaze ophidian like a bird, As in a trance she neither breathed nor stirred. Indian Legends of Minnesota Was Phina Island going to become the rival of ancient Tenos, whose formidable ophidians rendered it famous in antiquity, and which gave its name to the viper? Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery The pig treats the snake with disrespect, not to say insolence; nothing, ophidian or otherwise, can fascinate a pig. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly If the old Hawaiians had been familiar with ophidians, as were the American Indians, this "Snake God" would no doubt have held high rank among their divinities. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Then she turned and glided with quick ophidian grace to the doorway from which she had first appeared, and was eclipsed by the curtain. Idolatry A Romance In common with most human beings the Japanese consider the serpent an object of mystery and awe, but most of them go further and pay the ophidian a reverence and awe which is worship. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji His cold blood inclined him to be deliberate; the ophidian habit, slow-moving until ready to strike. Success A Novel Tegetmeier states that this remarkable lizard was first described in the Isis, in 1829, by the German naturalist Wiegmann, who gave it the name it bears, and noted the ophidian character of its teeth. Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 The curious heloderms, from Mexico, with their ophidian teeth, lie at the bottom of the fifth case: they are supposed, but as yet on insufficient grounds, to be poisonous. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits He meant well, but it was not the regular thing for an ophidian to do at that season. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull There is something frightful in the disposition of certain ophidians, as the whip-snake, which darts at the eyes of cattle without any apparent provocation or other motive. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 She had the straight, hard, ophidian line concealing the eyelid, which gives such a peculiar strength to the direct gaze of a pair of dark eyes. The Desert and the Sown I refer to a habit of some ophidians, in temperate and cold countries, of returning annually to hybernate in the saine den. The Naturalist in La Plata They never winked, for ophidians have no movable eyelids, but kept up an awful fixed stare. Nature's Serial Story The biggest specimen I have ever found of this ophidian was under four feet in length; but the body is thick, as in all the pit vipers. Far Away and Long Ago Geraldine, in the former, seems to be simply a malignant witch-woman, with the evil eye, but with no absolute ophidian relationship. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 His glance, as he rested it on Bryce now, was baleful, ophidian. The Valley of the Giants It is without the necessary ophidian tang, and far inferior to Heller and Liszt's efforts in the constricted form. Chopin : the Man and His Music The compressed form and diminutive size of certain caudal vertebrae indicate so much analogy with Hydrus as to induce Professor Owen to pronounce this extinct ophidian to have been marine. The Student's Elements of Geology In ruder lands, where ophidians abound, as in India and South America, in the dark one fears the cold living coil and deadly sudden fang. Far Away and Long Ago Here are some ophidian curves in triplets, as in the first Impromptu, but with interludes of double notes, in coloring tropical and rich to morbidity. Chopin : the Man and His Music |
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