| 单词 | serpent |
| 例句 | The king’s host departed Deepwood Motte by the light of a golden dawn, uncoiling from behind the log palisades like a long, steel serpent emerging from its nest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That was Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, the snake who goes around the center of the world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “No doubt the serpent has plans for you,” the captain says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, had bitten down on the huge ox head, and the hook had dug deep into the roof of its mouth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It is impossible to lift the Midgard serpent, and yet you did, and you even loosened a coil of it when you lifted its paw from the ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The serpent circled above us, blocking any way up to the surface. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The serpent shot past, its rough metal skin leaving Leo’s hands scraped and bleeding. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His thoughts were all of water monsters, of giant serpents, of demons, kelpies, and sprites... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “See, no serpent, no Satan creeps in this Eden.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He pours himself another cup of coffee and I shuffle through photos of the pine serpent. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I looked down, and there was my friend the cow serpent, swimming next to the dock. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Then, feeling that she had been too forward, she would arch her graceful serpent neck and hide her head beneath her belly, peeping upwards from the corner of one eye. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent resolved itself into a neck and tail, and then the dragon’s long homed head appeared, his eyes glowing in the dark like golden coals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Basmu serpent thrashed desperately as more and more golden threads wove over its body, locking it down segment by segment. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z If she did have an elilith, she wouldn’t want a serpent swallowing its tail like Tzara and many of the younger women had who’d come of age after the liberation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “A mistake. The Great Master Hizdahr plays Your Worship for a fool. Do you want a serpent in your bed?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Beneath the spinning waters I see the single glowing red eye of the dread serpent. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “But if we leave them here a snake will get them,” I said, imagining a serpent swallowing each egg whole. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z That night it was reported that a serpent had stung King Hamlet and its venom had instantly paralyzed his heart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The chariot lifted off and zipped out of the house, Triptolemus shouting to the sky, “Away, my serpents! Away!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But it’s in Paradise Lost that he’s to be found in properly blistering form—first as the defeated general rallying his troops in hell, and later as the tricksy serpent in the Garden of Eden. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Anya pushed herself up slowly, never taking her eyes off the serpent. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “On three,” said Harry, looking back down at the locket and narrowing his eyes, concentrating on the letter S, imagining a serpent, while the contents of the locket rattled like a trapped cockroach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I cannot see the serpent, but I know it’s there, swimming just deep enough to hide from my eyes, but not from my soul. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Little by little the serpent loosened herself and began to flow along the man’s arm toward the monkey. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Asclepius took the big comfy doctor’s chair and laid his staff and serpent across his desk. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck - mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I’d heard of sea cows, like manatees and stuff, but this really was a cow with the back end of a serpent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The serpent flicked its head, and Mo lost his grip and spiraled through the water. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Leo had had a lot of practice dodging mechanical monsters, which was good, because the golden serpent was fast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As if on cue, one of the serpents lifted its head slightly from the basket to eye them with curiosity. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They fought hungry sea serpents about every hour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “These waters are dangerous. This is where Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, is to be found.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The serpents parted as the wall cracked open, the halves slid smoothly out of sight, and Harry, shaking' from head to foot, walked inside. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He was fighting the serpent, playing it, letting it exhaust itself thrashing and pulling. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z His clawlike hand grasped a walking stick carved into the shape of a serpent. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The road beneath the Wall was as dark and cold as the belly j of an ice dragon and as twisty as a serpent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Perseus found, as Hercules was later to find, that a lovely maiden had been given up to be devoured by a horrible sea serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair was of sullen brown, and he wore on it a crown of mesarthium shaped as a wreath of serpents swallowing each other by the tails. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Brother McKinnon holds a rattler inches from his face, spraying it with spittle as he prays, daring the serpent to strike and test his faith. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z All who see the brothers Fenrir the wolf and the Midgard serpent, the children of Loki, will know death. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, huge and dangerous, will writhe in its fury, closer and closer to the land. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z As Sinon finished, suddenly over the sea came two fearful serpents swimming to the land. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z From the clouds above, a female serpent representing the Devil gathers up their spirits. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Some places have as many names as they have occupants to name them. Now please ask your serpent to back away, lest he crinkle the pages.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “That’s what I said before, patron. Remember?” she replied with a final flip of her serpent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Roots coiled around his legs like wooden serpents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then she stood up straight and her eyes glowed serpent green. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z For the subsequent trip through the loops of silver clockwork and tunnels they end up on a serpent and a rabbit with no complaints to be heard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She leaped onto the serpent’s head and scratched and growled like a really angry black wig. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Had she followed me into the garden like a sly serpent? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Holy Spirit had never moved in him that way, just as it had never permitted him to take up the deadly serpent. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The serpent could have swallowed the Empire State Building sideways. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Before three purple-robed Syrian bishops murdered by the Portuguese were found floating in the sea, with coiled sea serpents riding on their chests and oysters knotted in their tangled beards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The little green serpent daemon raised her head from the consul’s collar and whispered tongue-flickeringly in his ear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Even as it dies, the serpent will empty its venom sacs over the thunder god, in a thick black spray. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The serpent fell to the ground, and there, in its place, lay Taran’s blade. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He thrust his walking stick, carved in the shape of a serpent, at Ambuya. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I think you know what I mean. Somewhere there is a tempter, a serpent, so to speak, and I had to keep them from meeting.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was secret, like sin, and slimy, like the serpent, and heavy, like the rod. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She was about thirty feet below in the lake, but I could see her clearly: my friend from Long Island Sound, Bessie the cow serpent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “You must not see every man as a potential serpent,” he warned me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There will be no more life in the oceans, where the Midgard serpent writhes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I ran to help her, but the serpent had already zeroed in on the new threat Even with only one eye, its glare was enough to paralyze two chariot drivers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “I remember how we celebrated your birthday. We gave you a picture book—you know, the one about the sea serpent with a toothache winding itself around the lighthouse....” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z This place had been a serpent’s den long before it had been a quarry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The serpent of school years, demanding I be twice as good, though I was but a boy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “No, for unlike our father, Adam, I would challenge you and say, ‘Show me the serpent’ and you would not be able to produce him.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Harry felt it shudder — he knew what was happening, he could sense it, could almost see the giant serpent uncoiling itself from Slytherin’s mouth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Bessie was swimming happily around, swishing his serpent tail and poking his head out the sides and bottom of the sphere. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I shall bind my leg at the calf and then I shall remove my boot and make a cross-shaped incision in the place where I was bitten, and I shall suck out the serpent's venom. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He was in a sort of desert by that time, where he proceeded to make friends with a lion by rescuing it from a serpent. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The gods sent for Hyrrokkin the giantess, who came to them riding on an enormous wolf, with serpents for reins. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z They extended farther and farther out of the main body, as if the Basmu serpent was vomiting fresh, slimy offspring. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Beyond that, her only task was to find the boy and the girl, and then play the serpent, whatever that meant. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Like that Cherokee hunter who changed into a serpent, all demigods had their share of bad spirits inside. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Desperately, Herbie banged away at the serpent with his shovel until all the pieces were stilled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The long, scale-encrusted coils rippled as the serpent changed position in its sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And suddenly I can feel the serpent cringe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I think of the rainbow serpent god and the rabbit who saved his life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On it were six crudely carved wooden figurines of animals—a heron, a crocodile, a jackal, a serpent, a dove, and a hippo—one familiar for each god. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “The serpent below, the jaguar in the middle, and the condor above, one sitting atop the other. And all three worlds are connected through the spiral.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Anya looked up at the field of onions behind the serpent and noted the brightening sunshine. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Tzara’s was a serpent swallowing its tail, which symbolized the cycle of destruction and rebirth and had become popular since the defeat of the gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She sits on a bench carved with coiled serpents and swings her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The veins in my arms and hands rise beneath my skin like tiny green serpents. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In return Apollo sent a pestilence, and Poseidon the sea serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Another drop of the serpent’s venom dripped onto Loki’s face, and he screamed and threw himself about, writhing in his bonds. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But she clung to the stone with her claws, and her face was suffused with dark red anger, and her hair stood out from her head like a crest of serpents. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The serpent reared back and managed to throw off Mrs. O’Leary. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Inside the tent Mrs. Coulter was talking to a man Lena Feldt hadn’t seen before: an older man, gray-haired and powerful, with a serpent dæmon twined around his wrist. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the sea warhoms boomed, deep throaty moans like the calls of monstrous serpents, repeated ship to ship. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell where one serpent’s body began and another ended. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Shavepate was clad in a pleated black skirt and a muscled breastplate, with a brazen helm shaped like a serpent’s head beneath one arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Blancaflor’s father was a strange king whose fear of the outside world turned him into an ogre. He had see-through skin and a voice like a serpent.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “What did this serpent do when it saw you?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The mantelpiece held, in brave confusion, photographs, greeting cards, flowered mottoes, two silver candlesticks that held no candles, and a green metal serpent, poised to strike. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Percy kept one eye on the red sea serpent, which was still slithering through the waves about a hundred yards to port. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A basilisk didn’t look like much - just an arm-length serpent with yellow eyes and a white frill collar - but it moved fast and could kill anything it touched. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The serpent would grow beneath the gray waters of the world ocean, grow until it encircled the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z On each coffin, Lyra was interested to see, a brass plaque bore a picture of a different being: this one a basilisk, this a serpent, this a monkey. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Though the quarry tunnels were natural, they had obviously been the lairs of generations of serpents; most of the signs were of a reptilian nature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The two serpents checked each other out, touching noses, then turned their wheels in unison. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At the end of my dad’s line, a huge green sea serpent erupted from the water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The current grew stronger, coiling like a gray serpent about Taran’s legs. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He absorbed its violence and brawn as it slithered past, a massive steel serpent. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z We kicked upward slowly, eyes on the serpent, a vast black silhouette circling around and around the rock. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The cow serpent freaked out and started struggling against the net, its eyes full of terror. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z A terrible serpent guarded the Fleece, but she would lull it to sleep so that it would do them no harm. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z On the voyage the Greeks stopped at an island to offer a sacrifice and Philoctetes was bitten by a serpent, a most frightful wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see what looked like some huge white serpent uncoiling inside the wall, up where it curved to become the ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rope seemed almost alive, the greatest of all water serpents heading at last for home. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In one hand she raised a cup, while a golden serpent coiled around her arm, its head poised over the brim as if ready to drink. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The perilous journey into the interior, up rivers, wending mountain passes, and the dangers escaped: lions, serpents, man-killing plants, duplicitous guides. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Nothing could have been more disinterested: serpent to the core. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Faster than the serpent, still trying to flood my mind with its requiem of hopelessness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “She wasn’t supposed to eat the fruit and the serpent tempted her, and she did.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Its gnarled roots twisted in and out of the earth like a nest of slow brown serpents, and hundreds of old copper pennies had been nailed to its huge trunk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Moreover, he was a boy whom no man could hurt; an invulnerable and dodging serpent who, when chased into a corner, flew out again between his captor’s legs, scornfully yelping. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z They had learned, they said, and knew for a fact, that her husband was not a man, but the fearful serpent Apollo’s oracle had declared he would be. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His account is simple and straightforward; Ovid’s extremely verbose—for instance, he takes a hundred lines to kill the sea serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a most singular portent, a lion in front, a serpent behind, a goat in between— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent keeps recurring through the earliest cycles of mythology, always as a central symbol for the life of the universe and the continuity of creation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I dragged her out of the way as the serpent tolled, crushing a lamppost right where she’d been. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He held on with his legs, trying to ignore the pain and sticky blood on his hands as he redid the serpent’s wiring. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Dreams of drowning in warm turquoise water; dreams of abandoned cats walking across her body as she slept; dreams of strangulation by serpent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Midgard serpent’s head was almost within striking distance. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Ropes of fog, twisting and creeping like white serpents, had begun to rise from the reeking ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Their necks stretched out from the serpent's throat as the heads shoved each other aside, fighting over which would be the one to swallow me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Thor smashes the great serpent’s brains in with his hammer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “It means serpent, bull in Greek,” Thalia said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “The serpent you cherished and warmed,” she noted with satisfaction, “bit the hand that nourished him.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This time he knew what he was looking for, and for a moment the serpent didn’t even seem to notice him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In an instant, the green hangings became scarlet and the silver became gold; the huge Slytherin serpent vanished and a towering Gryffindor lion took its place. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It flailed awkwardly and crashed to the sidewalk, hellhound and serpent twisting and thrashing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It was hard to dislike Masvita—she was so good-natured—but Nhamo felt a little serpent tongue of envy wriggle inside because her cousin had crossed the river into womanhood first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to trace the serpent’s path with my finger, but it slipped away from me, zigzagging. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building...wherever they had murdered... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Then he realized that it was a colossal skull, comprised of what looked like emerald stars, with a serpent protruding from its mouth like a tongue. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Fenrir will be with them, and the Midgard serpent. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Above his head a serpent was placed so that its venom fell upon his face, causing him unutterable pain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo jumped off and the golden serpent began shaking uncontrollably. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z While she was demonstrating her skill at making the serpent wiggle, she told me the story of her life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Blacker than night, and gigantic, he filled one corner of her narrow room, watching her with eyes like the eyes of a serpent when his head is lifted to strike. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Exposed bulbs crunched as the serpent’s body hit them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Arm remembered stories his mother had told him about a giant serpent that inhabited such places. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then, as we were watching, the mist swirled and retreated like a great green serpent into the mummy’s mouth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Harry asked Dumbledore, looking up at the green skull with its serpent’s tongue glinting evilly above them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “And you said there was no serpent in this garden?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It wasn’t easy, but with the strength of three horsepower, we managed to shift the wreckage so it was no longer threatening to collapse on the baby cow serpent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The cuffs of Kaisa’s black sleeves were embroidered with gold serpents, and their eyes glittered with tiny red garnets. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Thor will finally kill the Midgard serpent, as he has wanted to do for so long. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty feet in length. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was highly likely that the serpent of sin that nosed about the chambers of my heart was lashed to hunger by hymns as well as dreams, each reciprocally feeding the other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It had involved acid-spitting serpent heads, much screaming, and a cannon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He looked where I was pointing, saw the serpent women, and immediately understood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly in his hand writhed a cold serpent, hissing and twisting to strike. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Thalia stared at the cow serpent with wonder. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Now it was like a small jeweled serpent twisting and twining for him alone. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I feel the furious wail of the serpent. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The only presence I can feel beyond my own is that of the serpent, its anticipation building to a fever pitch. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z When the moon waned and was almost eaten by the serpent in the sky, a chasqui runner would be sent to take her to Sacred Sun City to live with the other Sun Maidens. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z And the congregation begins to pass around the deadly serpents. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Yes, murdered. Claudius was the serpent who stung my father,” Hamlet said, agony in his voice and eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He appeared to be riding a chariot pulled by crawfish, and instead of a sword he wielded a live serpent. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She lifted a booted foot instead, ready to kick at the serpent before it could bite her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The serpents turned toward him, six pairs of glittering black eyes watching and waiting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There are no miracles here, the parrot had said—but neither is there hopelessness, no matter what the serpent wants me to believe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In that moment a cold horror came on me again: my hands grew clammy, and I could feel once more the serpent’s touch. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z All ten serpents turned belly-up and floated dead in the water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I told him about our adventures, and Bessie—he wanted to hear every detail about the cute baby cow serpent—and I assured him that Annabeth was safe. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z A flash of green caught his eye, ahead and off to port, and a nest of writhing emerald serpents rose burning and hissing from the stem of Queen Alysanne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He went careening by, and Anya heard a dull whack as the serpent struck the side of the newcomer’s boot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “About as charming as the serpent in the garden. Watch yourself around him.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The Athena and Demeter teams were having a chariot race around the track, and over at the canoe lake some kids in a Greek trireme were fighting a large orange sea serpent. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The only answer I get comes from the serpent. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Harry wanted to shout, “Don’t leave me!” but what chance did a phoenix have against the king of serpents? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z No; he was a horrible serpent and she loathed him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His dark eyes were still fixed upon the coiling serpent in its protective sphere. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It had the head of a lion with a blood-caked mane, the body and hooves of a giant goat, and a serpent for a tail, a ten-foot-long diamondback growing right out of its shaggy behind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She saw crimson firelions and great yellow serpents and unicorns made of pale blue flame; she saw fish and foxes and monsters, wolves and bright birds and flowering trees, each more beautiful than the last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The enormous serpent, bright, poisonous green, thick as an oak trunk, had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving drunkenly between the pillars. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A serpent slithered out of a hole in a wall, its scales fashioned of rivers and seas. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the crook of his arm was a long staff entwined with two living serpents. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The andirons, shaped like enormous curling serpents, flank her, their glass eyes ready to glow with lit flames. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She was reputed to be able to understand the serpent, which offered her shavings from its horn as the core of the first ever American-made wand. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When they reached far-distant Illyria the gods changed them into serpents, not as a punishment, for they had done no wrong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I sure could because suddenly coils and coils of Jude’s hair are slithering in my direction like an army of serpents. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Wraiths of mist suddenly moving like serpents of the air would coil about them for a second. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “So them Dillard Early boys are all a little touched in the head, seems. Sooner or later. About the time they decide to mess with serpents.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Pick him up! Get him to shore! Is this the season when the water serpents are hibernating or when they’re hungry?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He was gawking at two sea serpents—thirty-foot-long monsters with glowing blue scales and jaws that could have bitten a whale shark in half. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That's right—the serpent had five other heads inside the main one, and they came forward now, all snapping and biting eagerly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I doubted the cow serpent understood what I was saying, but it responded to the tone of my voice. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z This present was a dunce’s cap, rather like a pharaoh’s serpent, which you lit at the top end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Every button of her ebony shirt gleams with the shimmer of a serpent’s eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Grunting with pain, he slumped over the black basin with its taps in the form of open-mouthed serpents and closed his eyes.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I look away from him, rolling to face the wall, trying to escape the prospect of the serpent. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A gigantic black shadow passed over us—the sharks and me—and the Basmu serpent opened its maw. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Mist curled into a hundred smoky serpents, slithering up the porch columns, curling around the house. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Then, fast as a serpent, it slithered for the steps and began to flow up them, toward her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Aunt Florence moved to the mantelpiece and put her handbag down near the metal serpent. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The pressure curls around me like the serpent on Princess Sabine's emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z That serpent’s gaze, cool and piercing, felt unnatural, like everything else in this jungle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At the base of the ear pendant, a serpent’s fangs held a small loop. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z My hands recoiled from the coldness of serpent flesh, my nails clawed at my palms, the leaves I had parted moved back to cover it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z No, the fire could not hurt them, and yes, the lion’s jaws were stopped; the serpent was not their master, the grave was not their resting-place, the earth was not their home. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I put away the sword and started speaking as calmly as I could so the hippocampi and the cow serpent would stop panicking. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Poison spewed everywhere, melting centaurs into dust along with quite a few monsters, but Mrs. O’Leary weaved around the serpents head, scratching and biting. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A huge banner showing the Slytherin serpent covered the wall behind the High Table. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “There is the below world, the land of the past and our ancestors, home of the ground-dwelling fox, the toad, and the mighty serpent.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I could dive into the sea, but how could I make a quick getaway with a five-hundred-pound cow serpent? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z With my gift I accused him of being the serpent in the garden of Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We set up experimental chambers there, and fed the raccoons and serpents. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z How can a pine serpent be in him? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He'd tried to screw it through the serpent's pupil, but the lens was too tough and the coral too brittle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z From the waist down, his body was one giant serpent trunk - about eight feet of green tail undulating behind him as he moved. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes the serpent would lie totally inert awaiting the unsuspecting paw that trod too close. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They were like gigantic black serpents, peering out from their caves. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He was neither handsome nor ugly, distinguished only by the malice that burned in his gray eyes, and that serpent smile of cunning and venom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A dozen serpents swam free - each one lime green with a frilled crown around its head. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “It was more about the serpent than about Adam and Eve, Anthony,” Mrs. Grayson replied with a smile. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her invisibility cap rolled off her head as she drove her bronze knife between a chink in the serpent’s scales. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There was a look of serpents in those eyes of hers as they flashed around the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Out swept his sword, and he spurred to the standard, hewed staff and bearer; and the black serpent foundered. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She saw and heard the serpent coiled within the stalks at the same time, and she yelped as she jerked her hand back. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Most of the earthworks were shaped like big cones and stepped pyramids, but some were sculpted into enormous birds, lizards, bears, long-tailed “alligators,” and, in Peebles, Ohio, a 1,330-foot-long serpent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Two dracaenae slithered in—snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The House Orléans crest is all she wears—a tiny emerald serpent swallowing a chrysanthemum over her identification tattoo. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Voldemort swept from the room without a backward glance, and the great serpent floated after him in its huge protective sphere. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But that autumn the serpent got into Meg’s paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent was more than a creature; it seemed like a living monument, as eternal and elemental as a mountain range. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Out from her body grew serpents’ and fierce dogs’ heads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No mouse was going to steal the sword of the serpent. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Jormungundr, the serpent, reared up, high above the boat, then tumbled back into the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It was in the figure that we call a serpent, a star which shone green and which I knew. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as a strange dispassionate afterthought, he hit the snake with the stick, breaking the serpent in two or three places, and crushed its head under his boot heel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat started to tilt, stirring up the muck on the sea bottom and threatening to topple onto the cow serpent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Mo dangled off one of the spines running along the serpent's snout, and he was now being tossed from side to side. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Mark sixteen eighteen. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing; it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover “Bravo.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Child and serpent, star and stone—all one.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The room beyond was dimly lit, but he could see Nagini, swirling and coiling like a serpent underwater, safe in her enchanted, starry sphere, which floated unsupported in midair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I know the bull that charges and the serpent that stings” could only mean that she distrusted Americans, and that this mistrust had come from experience. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The serpent curled around, thinking it would snag the net with its tail and use its whole body to rip it asunder. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The serpent writhed in the water, trying to free itself. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “And the fangs of these serpents—unlike those of the pit-vipers—are too short to penetrate good leather.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z ‘If we speak of poisoned tongues what shall we say of yours, young serpent?’ said Saruman, and the flash of his anger was now plain to see. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Once, a thin black serpent wriggled over the yellow soil in front of them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The moments of suspense ticked by for what seemed ages until Matthias managed to squeeze past the serpent’s head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He knew just where the head of the hammer would need to strike to kill the serpent. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Their masks gleamed in the sun: boars and bulls, hawks and herons, lions and tigers and bears, fork-tongued serpents and hideous basilisks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Come with me.”Werfel fetched a fancy court hat and a hood lined with the white fur of the arctic serpent and loaned it to Spurge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Mars’s sacred animal was the wild boar, not the serpent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And then, at last, as he crept around yet another bend, he saw a solid wall ahead on which two entwined serpents were carved, their eyes set with great, glinting emeralds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Dill’s father quickly opened and closed both hands, one finger at a time, making the serpents on his forearms ripple and writhe. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Finally, the net came off and the cow serpent zipped through the water and did a happy somersault. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Or maybe he was thinking about the cooks, who were heroes, sure, but still had to kill and serve one person every day to the serpent king in order to save the other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z A huge sea serpent appeared from above us and spiraled down toward the roof. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Love to see an Episcopalian take up the serpent or speak in tongues. Signs follow the faithful.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The guardian serpent was very terrible, but Medea approached it fearlessly and singing a sweet magical song she charmed it to sleep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “We saw the biggest snake you ever clapped eyes on. The father of all serpents! He had poor Ragear’s body by the feet and was dragging it along backwards.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Let me up,” he said, then stood and faced the army of serpents. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Sharper than a serpent’s tooth,” she said, “is a daughter’s ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Ashes scattered as he tamped, and a serpent of condensed smoke escaped into the already thick air. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He could only stare at the serpent as it got closer and closer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Did you get your pictures of the pine serpent?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z What does he want, the sneaking serpent? thought the boy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Near the feet of each god or goddess was an animal meant to represent them—a heron, a crocodile, a jackal, a serpent, a dove, and a hippo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was the son of Hephaestus, reared by Athena, half man, half serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have considered this disheveled creature’s intention as mad and impossible had he not remembered the serpent in his hand, its menacing fangs and cold eyes. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Like he was afraid to pick up yet another serpent. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He was spread-eagled on the cold black marble floor, his nose inches from one of the silver serpent tails that supported the large bathtub. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He thrust his brown hand out of the serpent’s mouth and felt the drops on the back of it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Before them, like a brown, menacing serpent, stretched a turbulent river. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The serpent’s body was as thick as a booster rocket, glinting with coppery scales. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The Chancellor waves her arm, and the glowing serpent speeds up its trajectory toward Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Blue fire coiled from her fingers curling like serpents around Annabeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He said it beneath his breath, but he could have sworn that the Midgard serpent heard him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z His serpent daemon’s mailed head and emerald eyes glittered in the light from the cut-glass lamp on the wall nearby. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t think so. At least not like any I've seen. Dracaenae have two serpent trunks for legs. These guys just have one.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “If I were a sailor back in Columbus’s day, I’d be afraid we were going to drop off into an abyss and be eaten by a giant sea serpent.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He gently rubbed the head of his serpent dæmon with his thumb. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent struck at her retreating fingers, snapping shut on empty air where her hand had been a moment before. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But the cow serpent thrashed around and got even more tangled. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z At its center was Huitzilopochtli, a martial god who wore a helmet shaped like a hummingbird’s head and carried a fire-breathing serpent as a weapon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But over time I realized that the court of Elsinore was a lovely garden where serpents hid in the grass. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Sparklers blazed to life in front of the sea serpent tank. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then I went to work on the net, untangling it section by section, getting lead weights and fishing hooks straightened out, yanking out knots around the cow serpent’s hooves. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z While serving as America’s ambassador at the United Nations, Albright tangled with Iraq over U.N. weapons inspections and was called “an unparalleled serpent” by the Iraq government media. Madeleine Albright’s ‘pin diplomacy’ lives on at State Department museum 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The outfits all were noteworthy, but one standout was a black minidress that looked as if the model was being consumed by a writhing mass of plastic serpents. Special Report: Fashion: Looking Back to Look Forward 2011-07-05T17:06:34Z One of the ovals’ long-tressed damsels is encountering a rearing leopard, and the other seems unfazed by a yellow serpent. Vanished Murals From the Empire State Building Rediscovered 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Mother becomes inexplicably, biologically pregnant and births a flying serpent from her mouth. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Is TV’s Wildest Hallucination 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The Phoenix then saved Harry's life by presenting him with the Sorting Hat — which contained the Sword of Gryffindor — blinding the Basilisk and curing Harry of the serpent's venom. 10 of the Most Heartwarming Harry Potter Moments of All Time 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The gorge was formed by an earthquake, but the Jawoyn story of Bulan, the rainbow serpent, carving a path through the rock is much more interesting. The Ghan expedition – exploring Australia's great 'in-between' 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z This logic by no means approaches the morality of Christ’s dictum to be as “wise as serpents and harmless as doves,” but it belies the general notion that Machiavelli was a one-dimensional schemer. Review | Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ is looking pretty good in the Trump era 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The serpent’s decapitated body morphs into a jellyfish that sprouts palm trees and floats in a dreamy pink space. An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z So is the long, skinny heap of coiled clay that snakes along the floor adjacent to the tables, suggesting a slithering serpent. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But when Jaroussky brandishes a rubber snake, in what seems like a fatuous copy of the Sellars’ production, the serpent flops like a lawn hose. The Sellars method: How a master director coaches singers toward greatness 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z This is a wild country – that was the message of the storm — ringed by sea serpents and monsters. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z He leads armies and battles all manner of man and beast, including undead soldiers, the hellhound Cerberus, the invulnerable Nemean lion and the multi-headed serpent the Hydra. 'Hercules' trailer: Dwayne Johnson can't escape his fate 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Clustered together in a three-by-five-inch space was a clamorous array of rampant lions, griffins, serpents, and dragons, each populating a landscape bristling with thistles and heather. A Portrait of My Ego as a Big Black Dog 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The literal answer is given by a saucy-faced angel holding a panel, which explains in Latin that “as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z "We've been serpent handling for the past 20 or 21 years." Snake-handling Ky. pastor dies from snake bite 2014-02-17T01:10:46Z On his right shoulder, twin serpents corkscrew around a winged brunette—a play on the caduceus, mythical symbol of medicine and healing. Disappearing ink 2012-12-26T01:00:00Z Three grimacing satyrs struggling to fight off a serpent entwined around their legs, indeed looked like a parody of the famous Laocoon group dug up in Rome in 1506. When Roman Statues Play Pranks 2010-06-18T15:00:00Z "The Essex Serpent" stars Claire Danes as Cora Seaborne, a wealthy widow, mother and amateur naturalist in 19th century England who journeys to the small, damp county of Essex, following rumors of a serpent sighting. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The movie’s few infinitesimal touches of what might be called character—such as Rey substituting compassion for violence when she heals a deadly serpent—tick off a few ready-made socio-boxes. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Idamante: Have no fear / I am here / And now I've just knocked off the serpent / I'm happy to be sacrificed / To keep Neptune happy. Digested opera: Idomeneo 2010-06-24T16:25:00Z The salad fork, at least, a rigid sea serpent with four braided tongues for tines, did come from Dalí’s own drawing. The Unforgettable Meets the Unimaginable at the Winter Show 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z They evolve into dogs and serpents, and never stop morphing. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z In this scene, one plucky iguana was set upon by a swarm of snakes, only to miraculously wriggle free and scrabble up the surrounding rocks, serpents nipping fruitlessly at its heels. ‘Planet Earth II’: A Lizard’s Great Escape 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Futurum linked her lithe arms above her head like a serpent. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The result is hypnotic — like staring into the serpent’s eyes just before it strikes. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Adès described the ending to Mr. Gerstein as “staring down the jaws of a serpent.” A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z We made our own costumes and masks and learned to play the crumhorn, the celeste and the serpent, to fence and to speak with acceptable French and English accents. Ellen Stewart obituary 2011-01-26T18:02:52Z The serpent in the Garden of Eden, who tempts all? For the 'Fargo' Finale, Many Unanswered Questions 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “Do you think I’ve promoted you for the charm of your presence? I keep you because you are a serpent. Do not be a viper in my bosom.” ‘Wolf Hall’: A somber, perfect take on that time the Tudors went tabloid 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It's as sneaky as the serpent in the garden, tempting an innocent Black boy playing a video game to believe he is inferior, had I not interjected. How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z A breathtaking scene in which the giant gorilla does battle with an equally gargantuan serpent is unlike anything I've seen on a stage before. King Kong - review 2013-06-16T20:43:38Z By calling up the serpent of the underworld, the sorcerer unwittingly sets the prophecy in motion. How Did Ancient Cultures Experience Reading? 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Designed to sync with "The Serpent Queen," the serpent now appears even with hashtags made in tweets years ago. Who was Catherine de’ Medici? "The Serpent Queen" gives us a clever, powerful and dangerous woman 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The large, intricate pattern of interlocking serpent and feline creatures echoes the sophisticated material weave and embroidery of its slender threads in red, black, indigo and white. When are feathers worth more than gold? 'Kingdoms' exhibition answers with spectacular finds 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The most widely accepted is that Pakal is either descending into the underworld through the jaws of a serpent or being reborn from them. Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air The opera opens with Prince Tamino being rescued from a serpent by Ladies in the employ of the Queen of the Night. 'The Magic Flute': feathers, fun and Masons 2011-04-29T21:46:38Z Ouazzani praised the producers and the professionalism on the set, which dealt with its own set of challenges, including Morocco's ample desert serpent population. Morocco actor amused by Satan-Obama comparisons 2013-04-09T11:43:10Z Mythical serpents butt heads at the center of one tunic. Art Review: The Power Suits of the Past, as Worn During Ancient Empires 2011-04-22T21:48:37Z The lower image portrays the biblical story in which Moses used the image of the brazen serpent to heal snake-poisoned Israelites. De Villalpando’s Holy Canvases Arrive at the Met 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Christian Identity is a religious ideology rooted in the idea that Jews are actually the offspring of Satan, the product of a second conjugal relationship in the Garden of Eden between Eve and the serpent. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Here, the snakes are marketed from relatively low to high-rise price levels: €2,500 for a serpent ring with 20 times that for fancy and gem-filled pieces. The Year of the Snake in a Bejeweled Garden 2013-01-28T13:56:12Z The spectacular bronze dated at around 400 BC – which will be included the show – depicts a lion with a serpent's tail and a second goat's head sprouting out of the lion's body. Bronze exhibition at Royal Academy shows its mettle 2012-06-25T16:12:22Z Indeed, Mr. Imbrogno, 59, is enthusiastic about all matters of high strangeness: genies, aliens, sea serpents and strange swamp creatures. A Hike Into the Mystic, or Just a Walk in the Woods? 2010-10-14T21:39:00Z Coiled around its base, like a fat, drowsy serpent, is a tufted green damask banquette. T Magazine: Year of the Couturi?re 2010-12-01T17:25:00Z Each tile depicts a different section of the elongated serpent, which can be arranged in different combinations, offering an endless array of decorative results. Four Noteworthy Finds From London’s Surface Design Show 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The religious metaphors are abundant; you do not need a doctorate in theology to note the serpent and the tree of life. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Is TV’s Wildest Hallucination 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In a story recounted by Di of Charleston, S.C., who served as a cook in her master’s kitchen, a black serpent is imbued with ominous portent, becoming an excuse to evade work. The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Aside from any snake-based improvisation, Cooper said it is getting harder to travel with his serpents since they now need passports instead of permits. Alice Cooper talks tap dancing, snakes onstage and his diary 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s a grounded style, centered in the spine, which Ms. Acogny calls “the serpent of life.” Germaine Acogny on Choosing to Be the Chosen One 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, it doesn't set the tone for the rest of the show, whose conflict, like the mythical serpent, occasionally drifts near the surface, promising hints of substance that never fully materialize. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Secrets, suicide, spirits, even a serpent: The ingredients are in place for a parody of Romantic opera. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Cadmus kills a monstrous serpent and hears the prediction that one day he will be turned into a snake. Ten of the best: snakes 2011-07-08T21:55:10Z At Storybook Land you get Bubbles the roller coaster, a happy sea serpent that sails at 18 m.p.h. over a 15-foot drop. Storybook Land, Family-Run Amusement Park, Endures 2012-06-28T22:41:49Z They will dangle more vertically when trellised, but I love the twisted coils they make when grown along the ground, hiding under the huge leaves like coiled serpents. A wandering squash for next year’s list I’ve positioned a bale in the garden in the hopes that a sizable serpent shows up, either to devour chipmunks or scare them away. Birds, chipmunks, snakes, insects: At some point, the gardener feels like an intruder 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Colors ran from black to flesh, with touches of aqua blue and serpent green. Fashion Review: Alber Elbaz: The snake charmer at Lanvin 2011-09-30T18:33:07Z You can literally see this by examining the Mexican flag, which depicts a prickly pear cactus atop which an eagle perches as it devours a serpent. A primer on cooking with cactus 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z It is widely believed that offering prayers to serpents would help devotees attain salvation. In India, getting bitten by a snake seen as good luck 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Following Jones’s superb 2012 ghost drama, “The Uninvited Guests,” “The Snakes” is less about scary serpents and more about humans haunted by past sins. The 10 books to read in June 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Decorators, who are typically women, paint the pieces using ancestral motifs that include spirals, waves, spider webs, roosters, serpents, fish and an arboreal design known as the tree of life, which is dotted with apples. Can Old-World Ceramics Survive Modern Tastes? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z “Them That Follow” opens, rather pointedly, on a nest of snakes before introducing the tiny Pentecostal sect in the Appalachians where the serpents star in religious ceremonies. ‘Them That Follow’ Review: Hiss of Death 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Hell, on the other hand, is filled with serpents, demons and other interesting looking monsters that pass the time jabbing Dives with pitchforks after he's been dispatched there for refusing to aid the beggar Lazarus. LA's Getty Museum illustrates death in Middle Ages 2012-06-09T22:16:03Z But the most effective altered ready-made is just passing through: an imposing pre-Columbian plumed serpent’s head lent by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Satan, in the form of a serpent, convinces the ancestral humans to defy God's decree to not eat the fruit of a tree. After-school 'Satan Club' takes new aim at archenemy: Christian clubs for kids 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Will attempts to calm the villagers by insisting the serpent isn't real. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Or did she turn a broom into a serpent that killed him? ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 11: Off With His Head 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Tectonic serpent skin style, which Leon said evoked the temples' bricks and serpent motif, looked great on boxy jackets or flat tulip skirts. Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z If any of the stars of Twilight the Movie appear in Fifty Shades the Movie, then the serpent will have devoured its tail. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z Overall, like Shakespeare's serpent of old Nile herself, flawed but fascinating. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z That a serpent should resurface at just the moment scales were falling away from people’s eyes is probably no accident. A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z These are words spoken by Medusa, the monstress with hair of writhing serpents whose gaze turned men to stone. November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It's strange to say a story with a mythical serpent, accusations of witchcraft and a sacrificed goat is too subtle, but "The Essex Serpent" is. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z But her gathering of comfy chairs flecked with paint, bright patches of flooring, and a carved serpent zigzagging its way across her mantel remain at the original site, where conservation continues. Rescuing Artists of Vision 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z A carnyx towers six feet above the player, and is topped by a serpent or boar’s head – its mouth sometimes able to flap open and closed to mute the sound. Bringing Ancient Sounds Back to Life 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z This novel’s densely woven plot involves an independent-minded widow and the possible haunting presence of a giant serpent. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Harlequin, thin and hungry and white-faced, twists his diamond-patterned body like a melancholy serpent, while a woman with cheeks pared to the bone clutches herself as she broods over her absinthe. Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man 2013-02-15T17:25:03Z But serpents aside, the film's primary message is ecological, Tuthill said. A Lake Washington sea monster debuts at Seattle's True Independent Film Festival 2010-05-28T21:48:00Z She is flying uphill, toward the belly of the serpent, making it look easy. On mountain bikes in the Utah desert, a college reunion like no other 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z "You're scared to death like the rest of us that you don't matter," Sam says with a serpent's tooth. Emma Stone is soaring with 'Cabaret' and 'Birdman' roles 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In this thrilling book Tom battles with the sea serpent - will he succeed in this underwater quest to defeat the evil wizard's plans? Beast Quest II: Sepron the Sea Serpent by Adam Blade - review 2011-08-22T14:00:00Z Not an idol, the brass serpent nevertheless saves lives. From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z In the cover image, the beast/muse sits at the centre, fierce and fearless, connected to the band members by serpents emanating from its belly. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z In an era when a divorced or widowed woman was treated as if she were the serpent in crime fiction's garden, Blake boldly allowed married women to have extra-marital affairs. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z The dress, transforming the beautiful red-haired actor into a cross between a jewelled serpent and a medieval knight, was the talk of the town after the first night. Ellen Terry's beetlewing gown back in limelight after ?110,000 restoration 2011-03-11T18:32:01Z Vanessa denounces him as a “serpent,” “the Prince of Darkness.” 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Light shed on Vanessa's dark past 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z He describes Sir Thomas Browne’s compendium of real and imaginary creatures: the chameleon, the salamander, the ostrich, the gryphon and the phoenix, the basilisk, the unicorn, and the amphisbaena, the serpent with two heads. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z In fact, that “serpent of old Nile” — Shakespeare’s phrase — probably used Egyptian cobra venom, possibly secreted in a hollow bodkin that she carried wound in her hair. ‘The Story of Egypt’: A look at a gender-bending society where women could rule 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z In a signature image, an aquatic serpent devouring another snake is observed by a glowering leopard. Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Where Majesty Meets Monstrosity 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z This consists of two red brooms, their handles extended into several sections that dance disjointedly and ineffectually, like deranged serpents, above scatterings of paper. Art in Review: JEAN-PIERRE GAUTHIER: Recent Work 2011-06-16T22:00:28Z Cinnamon rolls rise as scary serpents, doughnuts pass for fried chicken drumsticks, and chocolate gelatin squids appear amid seas of whipped cream. Christine McConnell ‘Deceptive Desserts’ is a lady’s guide to baking bad 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Versace incorporated the house codes, like the Medusa serpents that snaked as a ribbon of color down a slim black dress. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z Real or imagined, the serpent slithers through the public imagination, coiling around each resident’s private guilt. The most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z In other words, the bronze serpent is a prefiguration of Christ’s Crucifixion and the world’s salvation. From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z "With jewelry, I am simply looking at the ergonomic qualities, the structure and the finishing work," says Borgo, who also designed a companion collection of lotus rings, scaly chokers and metal serpent wrap bracelets. T Magazine: Pyramid Scheme 2012-10-09T13:01:31Z The girl seemingly called the serpent to her after a ritual at the beginning of "The Essex Serpent." "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z But behind the oversized daisies lurks a decadent serpent. Floral fantasies: garden paintings reveal the radicalism of the Impressionists 2010-08-20T12:40:00Z It was only later that he connected that vision to the serpent lwa. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z On one level, the book is a collection of curiosities – it also includes an image of a Braille edition of Playboy, a hibernating bear and a serpent handler. Cow-dung toothpaste? Taryn Simon's book Contraband unloads America's baggage 2011-01-03T17:51:54Z One of Garrison’s drawings shows a snake labeled “8chan” that has been cut into pieces with a cleaver marked “Cloudflare,” with blood labeled “Free Speech” oozing from the serpent’s dismembered body. After Trump’s ‘social-media summit,’ it’s business as usual for his online provocateurs 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z There you will learn how giants, two-headed serpents and other mythical beings shaped the land you see. On a trip to Whistler, connect with Squamish and Líl̓wat culture 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z They serpentine through our earliest stories, starting with the subtle serpent in Genesis and the clever beasts of Greek and African mythologies. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z One panel showed a serpent with swastikas snaking across the Atlantic while a figure marked Lindbergh pats its head, declaring, “’Tis Roosevelt, Not Hitler, that the World Should Really Fear.” Seussapalooza! The Magical Creations of the Man Behind The Lorax 2012-03-02T16:12:29Z The serpent slithers down the tree trunk, heading our way. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z A gold ring with a ruby gem sits above the serpent ring that wraps around Desir’s finger. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z As symbols of peace, prosperity, and wisdom, illustrations of these hallowed serpents are ubiquitous in Benin. In Benin, up close with a serpent deity, a Temple of Pythons and Vodun priests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Women weep or gaze in horror; a serpent winds itself around a muscular body on the ground. From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z It's no accident that Adam and Eve were tempted disastrously to test out their free will by a serpent rather than a kitten. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The god Apollo, a glowing figure of virtue, destroys the monster serpent of chaos, Python. Tate Britain's killer rehang could make it an essential space – the week in art 2013-05-10T16:56:47Z In the first movement, the undulating chromatic scale that winds its way from the development section into the recap was like a serpent from hell, and the coda invoked Verdi at his darkest. Pianist András Schiff is note-perfect at Strathmore concert 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z This evil spirit creates a serpent named Azi Dahaka, a symbol of the underworld, not unlike the Biblical serpents of Judeo-Christian traditions. Freddie Mercury’s family faith: The ancient religion of Zoroastrianism 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The historically informed performance movement has reintroduced instruments like the serpent and ophicleide: brass instruments that add wonky color rather than sheer decibels to fortissimo outbursts. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Moulton’s title refers to a mythological beast, variously described as a serpent, a lizard or a dragon that kills with its beak or by looking victims in the eye. The art of religion: Corny, cynical and everything in between 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Seeking to revenge his slain father, Sesto cannot rest until, like an offended serpent, his venom has been spent in the blood of the offender. The Sellars method: How a master director coaches singers toward greatness 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z These natural features, along with rainbow serpents, spirit figures, crocodiles and other creatures, all make their way into his paintings. Introducing the greatest aboriginal artist unknown in America 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The serpents from the underworld who take cues from Armida look like devilish cat people from “Batman,” complete with coiling tails. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z As serpents strangle an agonized priest and his writhing sons, a bravura paradox emerges: Ideal beauty is embedded in a sculptural ensemble of suffering and death. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z On Aug. 3, at Northeast Auctions in Manchester, N.H., a metal filigree banner vane with arrow and snake motifs brought $5,400, and a spiky iron serpent encrusted with rust cost $9,800. Antiques: Meret Oppenheim’s Works at Martin-Gropius-Bau 2013-08-08T20:49:46Z The pet serpent becomes a peculiar character in its own right, its reptilian coolness and shedding of skin reflecting Bekim’s progressive loss of his own warmth. A Life Altered by War and Transmuted Into Fiction 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z A Cornish folklore treat of archive films, tales, music, boat-making workshops, processions and a serpent dance through the town. This week's new events 2012-06-22T23:06:44Z Her gal-pal friends play with what look like the tails of exotic serpents and keep huge spiders as pets. Children's Programming at Bayreuth: Wagner, of Course, and They Love It 2010-08-05T15:18:00Z He arrives at Sultan Suleiman’s palace — “a maze of rooms within rooms and paths that drew circles, a serpent swallowing its tail”— escorting Chota, a white elephant that is a gift to the sultan. ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’: a boy and an elephant in Istanbul 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Five steps led down to a pit where at least a hundred serpents lay in tangled piles. Cultured Traveler: On the Vodun Trail in Benin 2012-02-03T17:18:18Z Instead of killing the serpent, the speaker closes the drawer and allows it to retreat into the bowels of the house. Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer-winning poet who illuminated divorce and death, dies at 57 On this fertile earth, Tlaxcalan ancestors built cities of stone and painted them with depictions of jaguars and feathered serpents; they warred with a powerful rival nation, the neighboring Aztecs. Overnighter: Tlaxcala, an Old-World Escape Near Mexico City 2011-11-23T20:01:52Z He brought a bit of everything with him: lutes, gambas, hurdy-gurdies, psalteries, fancy carved music stands and even a serpent, an old wind instrument that looks like its namesake. ArtsBeat: Instrument Makers Take Their Turn at Boston Festival 2011-06-15T20:30:53Z The common source is seen in a nearby photograph: a spectacular coiled serpent sculpture at Tenayuca. Homage to Mexico: Josef Albers and His Reality-Based Abstraction 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Switch points of view: He watches it slip invasively through the door, thinking fearfully, “It was as if she’d sent a sightless serpent through our letter box.” Review: In ‘Disclaimer,’ by Renée Knight, Secrets Wind Up in Print 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Cave bellowed, a man tortured by his own heart: "Why the ceiling still shakes!? Why the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?!" Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds offer fury, comfort, brimstone at Ace Hotel 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Wan reaches hard for such exhilarations, showing off a profuse tangle and tumble of designer sea creatures—swarms of fish, hordes of crustaceans, waves of serpents, and eruptive sea monsters. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z A boat prow with a depiction of a half-human bird of prey astride a mythic serpent. Netscape Founder Gives Up $35 Million in Art Said to Be Stolen 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z He had been working on his structure for decades, he said, adding concrete flowers, serpents and the faces of elves to create a mythology of his own devising. Concrete Daisies? There’s a Fine for That. 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Just as Eve is accepting the forbidden fruit from the serpent, in the distance an ibex stands perched on another kind of precipice. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z At this early stage, the strings still imprison the serpents. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z If Mr. Monder seems complicit in that image, it’s probably because “Hydra” is an allusion to the many-headed water serpent in Greek mythology — and because he named two of his other albums “Oceana” and “Flux.” New Music: Dumpstaphunk, Five Finger Death Punch and Ben Monder 2013-07-29T22:08:11Z As seen in an image of the shirt that recently surfaced on Twitter, Stevie’s black tee featured a large image of a green serpent. Boy, 10, allegedly ordered to change snake T-shirt before flight 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z For example, the huge serpent pursuing the panicked Prince Tamino in the opening scene is here just a row of 10 dancers holding tall sticks, each with a segment of the long puppet monster. Music Review: Mozart for the Little Ones, Where the Special Effects Are Always 3-D 2010-12-22T15:42:41Z Lord knows how the curators managed to borrow some of these treasures, including the renowned Chimera of Arrezzo – a mythical fire-breathing hybrid of lion, goat and serpent regarded as the masterpiece of Etruscan casting. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 4 – Bronze at the Royal Academy of Arts 2012-12-18T10:44:34Z The portrait of Elizabeth I with a hidden serpent is a really unusual survival. Tudor portrait shows secret snake 2010-03-04T15:45:00Z What keeps the work a rarity rather than a classic is the libretto, which is filled to bursting with spirits and serpents while lacking motivations and plausible relationships. Opera & Classical Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s winged and a book in the middle of it, with a serpent crawling up a plate. Tina Fey, Renée Fleming and Andrew Garfield on Their Tony Nominations 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z As we sped down the river, leaf monkeys, hornbills, serpent eagles and troupes of proboscis monkeys lounged in trees by the riverside, their long noses visible from the boat. Birder, scuba diver — or both? This biodiverse destination offers the best of both worlds 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z In this production, the serpent’s egg has already hatched into something deadly. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Some have since gone extinct, like the serpent and the ophicleide, precursors of the tuba that look like plumbing designed by Dalí. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Among the show’s most striking works are those pertaining to the villain of the tale, the conniving serpent. ‘Back to Eden,’ at the Museum of Biblical Art 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Her gal pals play with what looks like the tails of exotic serpents and keep huge spiders as pets. Music: ?Tannh?user? for the Tenderhearted at Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-06T22:06:00Z He likened money-making to the “magician’s serpent that ate up all the other serpents.” Walt Whitman saw Donald Trump coming: “Genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying principles of the States are not honestly believed in” 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Using the symbol of the serpent eating its own tail, Burke presents a vision of a self-destructive human race that will make any number of moral compromises for the sake of personal gain. Battery Farm | Theatre review 2010-03-17T23:20:00Z Even more rewarding are a player’s encounters with the Milton Library Assistant, the game’s rough equivalent to Eden’s serpent. The Talos Principle Prompts Thinking Beyond Virtual World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z But the Charleston tragedy brought another passage of Scripture to Price’s mind, “We need to be wise as serpents and harmless as a dove.” What’s the right reaction when a white stranger walks into a black church? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z They are the serpents we are all wrestling with, like poor old Laocoön, the Trojan priest who warned against Greeks bearing gifts. Review | The value of Trevor Paglen’s art may remain a secret 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Eve, watched closely by a serpent, cradles an apple on her own panel moments before the act that will lead to the biblical couple’s expulsion from Eden. Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z From a serpent necklace melding opals and rock crystals, through butterfly wings in colored sapphires to a chameleon bracelet, this was nature in sophisticated style. Bedazzled at the Place Vendôme 2012-07-09T12:37:02Z Ego is a serpent, he told me twice, and vanity is simply another thing that must fall away if one is to be of any real use as an actor, or even as a person. Anthony Hopkins Makes It Look Simple. (And Maybe It Should Be.) 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Otherwise, to increase your chances of swanning past the velvet serpent, strike a sartorial and attitudinal balance between entitlement and humility. Bo?te: Double Seven, a Bar in the Meatpacking District - NYC _ Review 2011-10-26T22:22:23Z They recommended that the serpent on the cover of “The Essex Serpent” be changed from green to blue for the winter months when it was the chain’s book of the year. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Examples of jewelry — like an Alma-Tadema serpent bangle, made for his wife — show that the movement touched many different areas. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z Maybe, just maybe, a woman slipping into the Blackfriars theatre eluding the Puritan police to play the "serpent of old Nile"? Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? 2012-07-19T11:09:28Z In one image each woman stands in a heroically defensive pose, as if braced against the attack of a dangerous serpent. Dance Review: Fringe Festival Presents Trinayan Dance Theater 2010-08-20T22:19:00Z Far from being evil, Fuss's serpents appear as dynamic, elegant black tangles, hovering above prints of newspapers or the outlines of a dress. Mighty Fuss 2010-12-16T09:55:22Z He is deeply drawn, though, to focusing on diversity as the serpent in the garden, the major corrupter of his rococo educational vision. Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s not the serpents writhing from my head that turn people to stone. November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z He had to go get the axe, but he was fighting a serpent.” "Avengers: Endgame" writers aren’t crazy about bringing more multiverse stories to the MCU 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The Garden of Eden, as seen in Renaissance art, inspired embroideries at Valentino, including a serpent whirling around the bodice of a tulle dress. Couture Reveals Its Lighter Side at Paris Fashion Shows 2014-01-22T21:12:17Z The Doors induce chimerical feelings of ominous sunshine, primordial serpents and peculiar creatures communing in Laurel Canyon. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Feathered serpents entwine one little body with a dark, matte surface. 'Plunder Me, Baby': One artist's wild, defiant stand against the oppression of indigenous people 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The harmless serpent had reportedly escaped from its owner’s bag earlier that day. Escaped snake caught on bus terrifies passengers: 'Never getting on a bus again' 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z So he is wearing a circular collar with a two-headed serpent with the mouths opened to a pearl, which represents the water. Dressing Wakanda 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Never for one instant does Miss Taylor re-create the serpent of Old Nile. Elizabeth Taylor: how Guardian critics rated her films 2011-03-24T08:30:00Z Her theory is that the serpent is a living fossil, a type of plesiosaur. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The piece is obscurely titled “Uraeus,” referencing the upright form of the Egyptian cobra associated with the serpent goddess Wadjet and used as a symbol of power on the crowns of the pharaohs. Anselm Kiefer Sculpture Will Go Up at Rockefeller Center 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z At The Bitter Southerner, Asher Elbein steps into the obscure world of Pentecostal serpent handling, a practice that transforms snakes from “dangerous vermin or vague symbols of evil” into “conduits for the will of God.” Weekend Reading: God’s Snakes, Survival Stories, and More 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z It showed Mary-Louise Parker in a Garden of Eden tableau, complete with serpent, apple and exposed flesh. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z The man reportedly did not realize the snake was in his backpack until he arrived at his Maui vacation rental and he saw the serpent. Snake stows away on flight to Hawaii in unsuspecting passenger’s bag 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z She composes with dramatic authority: Birch tucks one daughter under an arm, and the twisting tree connects him, like Laocoön's serpent, with the other. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z I was nervous as it tightened itself around my neck, yet the serpent was surprisingly docile, and the priest assured me I’d be fine. Cultured Traveler: On the Vodun Trail in Benin 2012-02-03T17:18:18Z Murakami delved further into Japanese art history, collaborating with the Japanese art historian Nobuo Tsuji to explore new takes on traditional themes: screens and panels, dragons and serpents, Buddhas and lotuses. Wildly popular exhibition of Takashi Murakami’s art opens Saturday in Vancouver, B.C. 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The snake-headed Medusa will be familiar to fans of the original 1981 version of Clash of the Titans, along with creatures such as the Kraken - a fearsome sea serpent - and the flying horse Pegasus. Titans returns 2010-04-02T08:15:00Z Otherwise, you’ll just give new meaning to King Lear’s most famous line, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” Social Q?s: On Mother?s Day, Be Grateful 2010-05-06T18:09:00Z Because of its hybrid appearance, it shares its name with a creature of Greek mythology that is half human, half serpent. Found at last: Bizarre, egg-laying mammal finally rediscovered after 60 years 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z In Norse mythology, a monstrous sea serpent wrapped itself around the world’s waters. This Ancient Sea Creature Prowled the Waters Over North Dakota 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z As the music begins, brooding electric-guitar chords, she reveals her snake eyes and fangs before crawling out of the mouth of a large serpent that recently slithered out of its skin. Megan Thee Stallion releases 'Cobra,' her first single since shedding her label 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It's a game of congressional snakes and ladders, where every space on the board is a serpent. Republicans back to square one as Speaker crisis deepens 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Since the scroll was first translated 60 years ago, researchers have fiercely debated the identities of the serpents it describes. Serpents that bit ancient Egyptians slither into focus 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z In “Dangerous Offering,” a cubic, unglazed serpent waits with its mouth agape, ready to snap the hand that reaches into the offering bowl. At the Made in L.A. 2023 biennial, Luis Bermudez's work is posthumously honored — and sheds more light on his story 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z It holds a serpent scepter evoking the crack of lightning on one side, and a tiny water jug on the other. Rare Aztec ritual offerings put on display in Mexico exhibit 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Pacific Northwest tell of a formative event in which a great serpent spirit, a’yahos, shook the earth, carving out cliffs and forming new lakes. New massive earthquake threat to Seattle revealed in ancient trees 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z In 1842, a vast, nearly intact skeleton was unearthed on a plantation in Alabama; it was soon identified as a member of Basilosaurus, a recently named genus of prehistoric sea serpent. An Ancient Whale Named for King Tut, but Moby-Dinky in Size 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Images of the system evoke the mythology, suggesting a star embattled within a serpent's coils. Rare ‘Pinwheel’ Stars Are a Beautiful Astronomical Puzzle 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z In reality, a new species of snake discovered in Peru’s Otishi National Park in the Andes Mountains was named for Mr. Ford to honor his charitable work, the scientists that found the serpent said. Sorry, Indiana Jones. New snake species in Peru named after actor Harrison Ford 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z A Texas woman was attacked by a hawk and a snake at the same time after the bird - which eats snakes - accidentally dropped the wriggling serpent on her. Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z But for some time, these magmatic serpents failed to see sunlight—their escape was stymied either from the loss of their own upward momentum or because the resilient crust didn’t offer an escape hatch. Iceland has entered a new volcanic era 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z A giant rainbow serpent, representing Australia, was likewise held up by the cast and joined the stingray. Women’s World Cup starts with ceremony focused on First Nations 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z A kitchen shrine adorned with serpents, a bakery, human skeletons, exquisite frescos, and yes, a picture of something that looks very much like pizza. Kitchen shrine serpents and other fascinating new Pompeii discoveries 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z While Indiana Jones may have had an aversion to serpents, Mr. Ford said he does not mind them. Sorry, Indiana Jones. New snake species in Peru named after actor Harrison Ford 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z After Mr. Waleri and Mr. Gauta caught the 19-foot serpent on Monday, they brought it to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, a nonprofit whose remit includes work on countering the invasive Burmese python. Hunters snag record-breaking Burmese python in Florida swamp 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Jacob apologized for his “unbecoming” language, but added that Eastman’s advice had been “a serpent in the ear of the president of the United States.” Pence lawyer says Eastman's push to reject electors left him 'offended for my profession' 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The university offered classes on Appalachian culture, where I learned about Pentecostal preachers who drank strychnine and took up serpents, but “Child of God” was far freakier. Appreciation: I thought I was done with Cormac McCarthy, but he wasn’t done with me 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Two yellow serpents in relief sliver up a burgundy background. Kitchen shrine serpents and other fascinating new Pompeii discoveries 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z In my Christian Nationalist indoctrination, everything started with Adam and Eve: The Garden of Eden, the serpent, the forbidden fruit. Call the push for so-called Parent’s Rights what it is: far-right authoritarian theocracy 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z And there was right at the ladder’s foot a serpent lying, marvelously great, which lay in wait for those that would go up, and frightened them that they might not go up. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, immortality is taken from him by a serpent, and humbled, he returns to Uruk a wiser, better king. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Olmec also clearly recognized many types of supernatural mixed beings, like a feathered serpent and the were-jaguar, a cross between a jaguar and a human. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.” What moms today can learn from Eve, Hannah, Sarah and other biblical mothers 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The spirit makes two serpents grow out of his shoulders; they must feast each day on the brains of young people. Iran’s storytelling tradition spans centuries. A woman in Tehrangeles has revolutionized it 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z And he came to the ladder’s head; and he turned and said: Perpetua, I await you; but see that serpent bite you not. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of 3-D wall sculptures together create a grid of cast objects, including self-portraits and animal heads, along with snakes and serpents. Hammer biennial announces artist lineup and asks: 'Why do we make art, who is it for?' 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The site also includes a large royal residence known as the Citadel, which includes the elaborate Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But that dream begets a nightmare when the Worm bursts forth through the portal like a furious airborne serpent, one that will cause an enormously destructive earthquake if it makes landfall. Review: ‘Suzume,’ about a girl who falls for a chair, is worth the price of a seat 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The name comes from a Greek mythological creature that is part lion, part goat and part serpent. Scientists discover bizarre type of sex in this ‘crazy’ ant 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps the serpent’s undulating shape is just a visual echo of Krazy’s tail, which is as jagged as the cartoon lightning bolt that bisects the sky in “Krazy Storm.” Review | In the galleries: An artist’s modern visions of a retro cartoon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z One piece, as Nawi describes it, is “a white ceramic throne bowl” with a snake coiled around the piece and an upright serpent holding it up. Hammer biennial announces artist lineup and asks: 'Why do we make art, who is it for?' 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z When the Girlfriends discover the Mother is engaged to a police officer, for instance, “the sound you hear is serpents growing out of my head!” Review | In WNO’s belated ‘Blue,’ a powerhouse family portrait of joy and pain 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Will tracking pythons with their prey eradicate the destructive serpents? As pythons in Florida try to hide, they face a new enemy: possums with GPS collars 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Greg Jacob, the legal counsel to former Vice President Mike Pence, characterized Mr. Eastman’s legal advice as “gravely, gravely irresponsible,” calling him the “serpent in the ear” of Mr. Trump. John Eastman Is Unbowed as Investigations Proliferate 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z |
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