Snake Sentence Examples

There could be a snake in the daylight.

A mouse she could handle – literally, but a snake was something different.

In tropical waters a sea snake is found, which, though very poisonous, rarely bites.

If there is a snake under it, that puts a rock between you and the snake.

What if a snake had been in those bushes?

You never said anything about a snake before.

What difference did it make whether there was a snake or Ed got nervous and threw her?

She screamed and frantically clawed the slender green snake from her arm.

Betsy was safe with a nine and I thought my four bought me cot until Howie's snake eyes saved me.

It's a snake and you almost stepped on it.

As she moved around the cabin opening windows, she examined every inch of the floor for possible entry routes a snake might utilize.

She had been a virtual prisoner in the cabin since she had seen the snake on the porch.

Its immediate bluffs and the shores of some of its tributaries, notably the Snake, are modified by canons.

Nature is not grand in any part of Nebraska, but the Bad Lands are imposing, and in the wooded foot-hills there is an abundance of bold and attractive scenery, particularly in Sioux county, and in Cherry county around Valentine and on the canyon of the Snake river.

Then, never taking her gaze off the snake, she backed down the steps.

Do you know there was a huge snake waiting for me right there in front of the door yesterday when I came home?

Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green "tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.

While in Thrace he is said to have caused the death of Eurydice, who was bitten by a snake while fleeing from him.

One of the most important was the passing of a golden snake under the clothes of the initiated across their bosom and its withdrawal from below - an old rite of adoption.

Among the ophidians, which include many harmless species, are the boa-constrictor, rattlesnake, the dreaded Lachesis and the coral snake.

The largest tributary of the Columbia is the Snake river, which for nearly 200 m.

The chief tributaries of the Snake river in Oregon are the Grand Ronde, Powder, Burnt, Malheur and Owyhee rivers.

The meaning of the name is uncertain; Wellhausen derives it from nan "Eve," or "serpent," in which case the Hivites were originally the snake clan; others explain it from the Arabic hayy, " family," as meaning "dwellers in (Bedouin) encampments."

The karwar is about a foot high, with head disproportionately large; the male figures are sometimes represented with a spear and shield, the female holding a snake.

On the death of Plotinus, as he gave up the ghost, a snake glided from under his bed into a hole in the wall."

His dam Spiletta was by Regulus, son of the Godolphin Barb, from Mother Western, by a son of Snake from a mare by Old Montague out of a mare by Hautboy, from a daughter of Brimmer and a mare whose pedigree was unknown.

Aglauros and Heise disobeyed the injufiction, an&when they saw the child (which had the form of a snake, or round which a snake was coiled) they went mad with fright, and threw themselves from the rock of the Acropolis (or ere killed by the snake).

A snake which she had fashioned for the purpose stung the god, who sent for her as a last resort in his unendurable agony; whereupon she represented to him that nothing but his own mysterious name could overcome the venom of the snake.

Rodmar, for the sake of the treasure, was slain by his sons Fafnir and Regin; and Fafnir, seizing the whole, retired to a desolate heath and, in the form of a snake or dragon, brooded over the hoard.

Tolerance is therefore analogous to, but not identical with, the immunity which takes place with the toxins of infectious diseases and snake poison.

She shuddered as copperhead snake slid off a rock where it was sunning.

A mouse she could handle – literally, but a snake was something different.

His bare back glistened as he walked across the patio and tossed the snake into the bushes.

The king cobra is the largest venomous snake, growing up to 16 ft long.

He entered and found a big snake coiled on the bedding.

They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.

The penstock, three feet in diameter at this point, was a long black snake, carrying its mountain water to the small generating station, while adjacent black piping and frequent taps provided the ice that coated the cliff sides in gigantic clusters below.

In a nanosecond she realized that the snake was going to strike Ed.

As her body flew over it, she saw the snake's fangs sink into Ed's upper leg – and then she was tumbling down the hill, grabbing at anything available and hoping it wasn't a snake.

The Snake Period arose from the sight of a black adder sunning itself on a rocky outcrop.

The capital's snake charmers have already been dying out.

This month we will be looking for the winter constellation of Hydra, the Snake.

The husbandry requirements for the American copperheads are not much more complicated than for any other snake.

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This was due to the organ having to produce white corpuscles in huge quantities in defense against the snake's venom.

It's not a snake or spider, but the strangler fig tree.

The black mamba is the most deadly snake in the world.

The Romans celebrated the birthday of a town and of its genius, just as they celebrated that of a man; and a snake was a frequent form for this kind of demon; when we compare with this the South African belief that the snakes which are in the neighbourhood of the kraal are the incarnations of the ancestors of the residents, it seems probable that some similar idea lay at the bottom of the Roman belief; to this day in European folklore the house snake or toad, which lives in the cellar, is regarded as the "life index" or other self of the father of the house; the death of one involves the death of the other, according to popular belief.

Foxes, squirrels, otters, snakes (smooth snake, grass snake and adder), butterflies (some of them peculiar to the district), and an occasional badger range the forest freely.

If you were turned off by Sons of Liberty's convoluted storyline and lack of Snake, have no worries about this one.

As Snake, you para-drop into the jungle a few miles from where the scientist is being kept with orders to locate and extract him.

Each thing you consume gives you a different amount of stamina, as well as an often hilarious remark from Snake.

To treat an injury, you go into a special menu screen that shows Snake's entire body and where he's sustained injuries.

It's clear that what Kojima was going for in Snake Eater was a more realistic feel and he succeeded with flying colors.

The fossil history of snakes is very poorly known, since snake skeletons are very delicate and do not fossilize easily.

Cowslips are plentiful and the rare snake's head fritillary can be found in the damper areas.

Working back again, we come of course to the story of the humans, the snake and the forbidden fruit.

Other highlights were the Aldabra Tortoises, the Wolf Snake and the very beautiful endemic geckos.

Stories cover some of the major Hindu deities, including Krishna, Rama, Durga and the snake goddess Manasa.

It was the Snake, and was not golden, but black.

Some unusual vegetable like drumstick and snake gourd are available here and are popular additions to our menus.

We got to make fancy bread out of salt dough; I made a snake with nuts on top as they were considered holy.

Made from elephant ivory, an image of a snake or reptile resides at the base.

Snake or deer pistol (penis) is meant to enhance male libido and ant aids female fertility.

No-one is speaking, but there's already enough heat in the seedy motel 's atmosphere to fry a rattle snake or two.

In addition to Snake Eater there was a rumored title named The patriots, but that's probably false.

Too many scientists are becoming modern peddlers of snake oil under the insidious influence of the corporate culture.

Most pipefish species are coastal or inshore, but the snake pipefish is the only one described as an open sea or oceanic species.

During our trip we only saw one snake, a not poisonous Carpet Python.

Her never-ending quest to ' upset the status quo ' is akin to a snake eating its tail.

To catch the rattlesnake, the hawk will approach the snake by walking with its wings outstretched making it look large & threatening.

Sanjay and I followed at a more leisurely pace, and he spotted a sea snake, with yellow spots.

The snake is another common subject of sculpture and is often shown as Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent.

When the hook is slid underneath the body of a venomous serpent, the snake may be safely lifted and carried about.

From that snake a poisonous snake will be born, a fiery serpent to destroy you!

Foreground left is HMS Snake, an eighteen gun sloop from Nelson's era.

A man is bitten by a snake, he drags a boat out into the river to find help.

Kansas was also the first place I saw a live rattle snake.

Ornaments include a temple to Surya the sun god, and a snake coiled around a column in the snake coiled around a column in the Snake Pond.

These were laid out to create shapes such as a hissing snake, mosques, stars and crescent moons.

Of course, a poisonous snake in a confined space COULD be scary indeed!

She looked almost human, but she was born with a two-headed snake around her neck like her father.

Stukeley saw the Avebury site as a giant snake, representing God's creative power, crossing a huge circle which symbolized God.

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Look out too for grass snake soaking up the sun close to the footpath.

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Most deaths from snake bites occur on the Indian subcontinent where they are often forced into contact with humans.

Recently his most famous rocket flight over Snake River Canyon in the USA was used in a music video by rap superstar Kanye West.

Can they uncover the venomous secrets of an evil Snake Cult to find the long-lost talisman of the Cobra King?

Apart from the literal allusion to a dangerous snake, the words are said to refer to the loss of a girl's virginity.

Winding roads snake up mountainsides to pretty whitewashed villages surrounded by spiky cacti.

A large tame snake with a false human head, wound round Alexander's body as he sat in a shrine in the temple, gave " autophones " or oracles unasked, but the usual methods practised were those of the numerous oracle-mongers of the time, of which Lucian gives a detailed account, the opening of sealed inquiries by heated needles, a neat plan of forging broken seals, and the giving of vague or meaningless replies to difficult questions, coupled with a lucrative blackmailing of those whose inquiries were compromising.

Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green " tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.

His chief attribute as a chthonian god was a snake, the symbol of the yearly renovation of the life of nature.

It differs from the adder in having the head entirely covered with scales, shields being absent, and in having the snout somewhat turned up. The term "Asp" (á¼â‚¬ÃÆ’πίÏ‚) seems to, have been employed by Greek and Roman writers, and by writers generally down to comparatively recent times, to designate more than one species of serpent; thus the asp, by means of which Cleopatra is said to have ended her life, and so avoided the disgrace of entering Rome a captive, is now generally supposed to have been the cerastes, or horned viper (Cerastes cornutus), of northern Africa and Arabia, a snake about 15 in.

Bonaparte in 1826, as Trogon paradiseus, according to his statement in the Zoological Society's Proceedings The Mexican deity Quetzal-coatl had his name, generally translated "Feathered Snake," from the quetzal, feather or bird, and coat!, snake, as also certain kings or chiefs, and many places, e.g.

And sometimes very active snakes, like the cobra, advance simultaneously with the remainder of the body, which, however, glides in the ordinary fashion over the ground; but no snake is able to impart such an impetus to the whole of its body as to lose its contact with the ground.

In South Africa the harmless egg-eating snake (Dasypeltis scaber) is very like the Cape adder (Bitis atropos); and in Ceylon the harmless Colubrine Lycodon aulicus is alleged to mimic Bungarus ceylonicus, an ally of the deadly krait of India.

Among plants, the bay, used in expiatory sacrifices and also for making the crown of victory at the Pythian games, and the palm-tree, under which he was born in Delos, were sacred to him; among animals and birds, the wolf, the roe, the swan, the hawk, the raven, the crow, the snake, the mouse, the grasshopper and the griffin, a mixture of the eagle and the lion evidently of Eastern origin.

Can you see the pink rabbit and pink snake in the blue jungle created from a runner bean seed?

Snake oil salesmen have been selling all sorts of " cures " for many, many years, even up to the present.

The heathlands are of outstanding importance for reptiles, most notably the nationally rare sand lizard Lacerta agilis and smooth snake Coronella austriaca.

That interestingly is roughly the contracted price for Pelamis sea snake wave device.

In the first room, a series of shelving units snake across the gallery space, hosting over 15 works.

Scorpio with the sting in its tail can also be the dove of peace, the eagle of courage or the slithering snake.

In the hallway there was a snake that slithered across the floor.

Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake.

Foreground left is HMS Snake, an eighteen gun sloop from Nelson 's era.

Ornaments include a temple to Surya the sun god, and a snake coiled around a column in the Snake Pond.

Stukeley saw the Avebury site as a giant snake, representing God 's creative power, crossing a huge circle which symbolized God.

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Instead, chemists studied the structure of the proteins from the snake venom.

Your comment on " web accessibility snake oil salesmen " really hit home for me.

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Squinting down the dark tunnel I could see a snake, or maybe two, coiled inside.

Food animals should be offered using long tongs or forceps to allow the keeper to stay out of the snake 's striking range.

Free running on the snake chain is a large (14mm) oval simulated sky blue topaz stone.

Gordon 's is soon offering ' Snake & pygmy pie and chips ' for tuppence ha'penny.

Often a snake will give you a 'dry ' bite containing no venom.

The adder is a member of the viper family and is the only venomous snake in northwest Europe.

Here, among a number of viperine snakes of about the same size, is a snake that lives on eggs.

Apart from the literal allusion to a dangerous snake, the words are said to refer to the loss of a girl 's virginity.

On the road in front of me was the writhing body of dying snake.

I was suspicious of anyone trying to peddle medicine as it is often just snake oil.

Cell phone games are everywhere and they have grown in scope, complexity, and variety since the days of "Snake" on now-vintage monochrome Nokia cell phones.

Plus, almost every common animal on Earth has its own book, from the polar bear to the snake to the elephant to the horse.

Have you always wanted a horse, a dog, or even a snake?

Locals prefer their meat fried, and also take a liking to frog, lizard, snake, large red ants, rice field rats, and insects.

With sexually charged roles in movies like Prozac Nation, Monster, and Black Snake Moan, Ricci has successfully broken the child star mold.

In 2006 Ricci proved that she is all grown up now with her portrayal of Rae in Black Snake Moan, a role which gave her several nude scenes.

Note that some cruises travel on both the Columbia River and the Snake River, which is a waterway that begins in Eastern Oregon and heads to Southern Idaho.

Be sure to have a bee sting kit, and be sure to have a snake bite kit.

You can combine multiple kits together and snake lighting across your ceiling, or hang all 5 lights relatively close to one another above a workspace such as a kitchen island.

Snake the rail across your ceiling in wide arcs or subtle curves; the ultimate placement of the system is entirely up to you.

The snake has long been used as a design for bracelets and bangles.

The snake design has remained popular and snake bracelets and bangles have been favored by jewelry designers throughout the centuries and into modern times.

People looking for a vintage or antique snake bracelet will find that they have plenty of options to choose from.

Many snake bracelets and bangles are also studded with precious gemstones or glass beads.

These include simple bangle type bracelets as well as bracelets that are jointed so that the snake moves around the wrist.

A popular design is a long snake that spirals several times around the wrist or upper arm.

A snake bracelet that is set with gemstones, for instance, may no longer be complete with all of the gems or may have settings that are working loose.

The park's water rides, Snake River Falls and Thunder Canyon, as well as the Paddlewheel Excursions, are closed for the season and do not operate during Halloweekends.

Built in 1993, Snake River Falls is still a favorite ride at the base of the Frontier Trail.

Oakwood rides include popular fare such as Speed, Hydro, The Bounce, Vertigo, Spooky 3D, Snake River Falls, Brer Rabbit's Burrow and more.

Fox and Falco can do this at either Lylat Cruise or Corneria, Wolf can do this at Lylat Cruise, and Snake can do this at Shadow Moses Island.

One game has you escaping from the belly of a giant snake, another blowing out a candle with the microphone, and a third has you fanning a fire to keep her warm.

It featured the first appearance of Solid Snake, a soldier sent to infiltrate a terrorist base and stop the Metal Gear, a walking tank with the capability of launching nuclear warheads.

Use the teleport stick to remove the snake, then grab the amphibian potion and key.

In Metal Gear Solid 4, our erstwhile special-ops hero, Solid Snake, is now a grizzled veteran facing legions of bipedal robots - and doubtlessly, he also is up against a cadre of superpowered bad guys and the usual save-the-world situation.

It was particularly pleasing to fans of the "sports entertainment" to be able to do moves like the "million dollar dream", "gorilla press", and Jake the Snake Robert's signature "DDT."

Notable releases include Jetpac, Sabre Wulf, The Staff of Karnath, Entombed, Outlaws, Dragonskulle, Marble Madness, Wizards & Warriors, Snake Rattle 'n' Roll, Super Off Road, Narc and several Battletoads titles.

Yes, Andre the Giant and Jake "The Snake" Roberts can wrestle again!

Ever wonder who would win in a fight between Sonic the Hedgehog and Solid Snake?

The two other instances of this are with Star Wolf on Lylat Cruise and Snake on Shadow Moses Island.

Like above, it is imperative to focus the majority of your attention on the "head of the snake", if you will.

Furthermore, because of these tunnels, the "head of the snake" is typically not available to you until they are nearly at the menacing skull.

Who can forget the "awesome" Nokia phones of old, where we were first introduced the now legendary "Snake" game.

Even cell phone games have come a long way, far surpassing our early experiences with Snake on Nokia's phones.

Yet another group, including cocaine, ergot, strychnine, and some snake venoms, causes potentially fatal seizures.

For example, someone who is afraid of snakes might first be shown a photo of a snake.

Once the person can look at a photo without anxiety, he might then be shown a video of a snake.

Eventually, the person might reach the point where he can actually touch a live snake.

Many pit viper and coral snake bites (20%) fail to poison their victim or introduce only a small amount of venom into the victim's body.

Coral snake bites are painful but may be hard to see.

Diagnosis relies on a physical examination of the victim, information about the circumstances of the bite, and a look at the snake itself (if it can safely be killed and brought in for identification).

Fortunately, the effects of some snake bites can be counteracted with antivenin.

However, coral snake envenomations and the more dangerous rattlesnake envenomations require antivenin, sometimes in large amounts.

Approaching a snake, even a dead one, can be dangerous since the venom of recently killed snakes may still be active.

Arms - Snake arms is the most common arm movement, with numerous variations, depending on where dancers hold their arms as they move them in a snake-like pattern.

The animal instructions include bear cub, cat, crocodile, elephant, fish, fox, giraffe, kangaroo, mouse, rabbit, snake, spider, turtle and whale.

There are many different projects like sea otter, frog, elephant, polar bear, snake, fox and owl.

Since this snake can live for up to 50 years, caring for one is a serious commitment.

The enclosure should be large enough for the snake to move around and have a secure lid so he can't escape.

Pet stores sell mesh lids, lighting and heaters, as well as other accessories your snake will need.

Both types of rodents are available at pet shops that carry snake supplies.

Feed the snake its live meal in a different enclosure than his home; he will begin to recognize this as being meal time.

Place the mouse in the enclosure first, and then add the snake.

Watch and make sure the snake eats the mouse within approximately 20 minutes; if not, remove the snake and try again later.

The mouse, if left with the snake uneaten, may harm the snake by scratching or biting him.

Try feeding the snake the next day if he was not ready on the first try.

Try feeding the snake at night since these creatures are nocturnal and many prefer to eat at night.

Remove the snake from the cage before cleaning.

Snake print, side O-rings and a low-cut back make this one sexy one-piece.

In that same vein, there's also a Hot Snake thong look for $19.95 that's almost guaranteed to titillate!

If there was ever a true rock 'n roll monokini, then Snake would have to be it!

As aggressive as the Snake one piece appears, is exactly how demure the Frenchie comes across (well, as demure as a monokini can get!).

In addition, the rest of the collection makes good use of croc and snake patterns, the overall effect of which is one head-turning look.

Is this just another scam, like all the other snake oil peddlers preying on people with thinning or unhealthy hair?

In addition, he recommended this form of treatment for chicken pox, insect bites, arthritis, snake bites, and even burns.

The types of blank game boards include start to finish snake style, racetrack and plain squares.

Of course, there's also the ultimate baddie, "You-Know-Who," but since a snake face requires either an awesome mask or professional makeup, you're probably better off being a minion.

Then again, if you can get the mask and even have a fake black snake to wear around your shoulders, go for it!

From Clever Carriage comes the Printed Calf Hair and Vintage Denim Satchel with Snake Embossed Leather trim.

What may be the best detail of all, however, is the snake embossed Brazilian leather piping that lines the sides, trim and bottom of this magnificent $615.00 stylish purse.

Sondra Roberts hobo handbags feature top quality materials such as leather, lambskin and snake.

If you're a Snake, you're also adept at seduction.

The real challenge for a Snake is to learn to be comfortable in your own skin!

Those who are born under the sign of the Snake are very intuitive and like to think rather than act.

The second trine is the ox, the snake and the rooster.

However, the snake works hard for whatever possessions it may garnish.

Monkey's playful nature can aggravate the Snake's methodical nature.

Snake can appreciate the Rooster's bluntness and can also appreciate the work ethic of the Ox.

While the Rooster likes to dictate situations, Snake likes to find the best solution to any problem before making a move.

This can make the Snake a poor pairing since Snake views indulgence as irrational.

A voodoo priestess and her snake are both said to wander the confines of the graveyard.

Pink Olie Snake Wedge Sandals are for the rebellious Barbie in all of us.

Glamorous touches like brass heels, faux snake skin, and rhinestones accentuate some styles, while other styles offer simple intricacies added to classic styles for the purposes of intrigue.

They can have tips, chains, or have snake or ostrich print.

Indulgent materials like snake skin are suddenly slithering onto everything from snazzy platforms to cute flats, rhinestones are all over the most glamorous gladiator sandals and even flip flops have taken a decidedly dressy turn.

Indeed, the print is black snake skin, but because it is done in black, the shoe retains an understated elegance.

It's just a black snake.

They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.

There could be a snake.

She leaned against a pine tree, her gaze falling on a little green snake with stripes on it.

It's only a garden snake.

In a nanosecond she realized that the snake was going to strike.

He was your horse, but if I'd been riding any other horse, that snake would have scared them.

Extending the broom as far as possible, she nudged the snake gently.

I didn't know there was such a thing as a harmless snake.

What if it had been a snake?

So far she hadn't seen one snake.

Having circulated a prophecy that the son of Apollo was to be born again, he contrived that there should be found in the foundations of the temple to Aesculapius, then in course of construction at Abonouteichos, an egg in which a small live snake had been placed.

A few of the medicinal plants are ginseng, pleurisy root, snake root, blood root, blue flag and marshmallow.

The first was subsequently known as Mithradatum Damocrates, and the second as Theriaca Andromachi, the name Theriaca or Tiriaca being derived from the snake called Tyrus, the flesh of which was added to it by Andromachus.

There are three species of crocodile, at least two chameleons (probably more when the forest is further explored), the large West African python (P. sebae) and a rare Boine snake (Calabaria).

The snake, however, to which the word "asp" has been most commonly applied is undoubtedly the haje of Egypt, the spy-slange or spitting snake of the Boers (Naja haje), one of the very poisonous Elarinae, from 3 to 4 ft.

As a chthonian divinity she is accompanied by a snake; the myrtle, asphodel and narcissus (which Persephone was gathering when carried off by Hades) also are sacred to her.

Here too were found the repositories of an early shrine containing exquisite faience figures and reliefs, including a snake goddess - another aspect of the native divinity - and her votaries.

It contained a shrine of the Cretan snake goddess, and was rich in minor relics, chiefly in the shape of bronze implements and pottery for household use.

A poisonous but beautiful green snake is often mentioned by travellers.

These last already appear in miniatures of the 9th century; from the II th onwards they predominated; and in the 13th century they ousted all other forms. Originally plain, the crook was from the lath century onwards often made in the form of a snake (5), which in richer staves encircled the Lamb of God or the representation of a figure.

Since the 13th century the snake, under Gothic influence, developed into a boldly designed tendril set with leaves, which usually encircled a figure or group of figures, and the knob dividing shaft and crook into an elegant chapel (6 and 7).

The usual attributes of Athena were the helmet, the aegis, the round shield with the head of Medusa in the centre, the lance, an olive branch, the owl, the cock and the snake.

The genus is represented in Britain by the fritillary or snake's head, which occurs in moist meadows in the southern half of England, especially in Oxfordshire.

The chthonian aspect of the hero is further shown by his attribute the snake, and in many cases he appears under that form himself.

The whole apparatus is so exactly analogous in structure to the poison-gland and tooth of a venomous snake as to suggest a similar function, and there is now evidence that it employs this organ as an offensive weapon.

In accordance with this general distribution snakes show a great amount of differentiation with regard to their mode of life and general organization; and from the appearance alone of a snake a safe conclusion can be drawn as to its habits.

They can adapt their motions to every variation of the ground over which they move, yet all varieties of snake locomotion are founded on the following simple process.

During this peculiar locomotion the numerous broad shields of the belly are of great advantage, as by means of their free edges the snake is enabled to catch and use as points of support the slightest projections of the ground.

The conventional representation of the progress of a snake, in which its undulating body is figured as resting by a series of lower bends on the ground whilst the alternate bends are FIG.

It is the first part which is cast off when the snake sheds its skin; this is done several times in the year, and the epidermis comes off in a single piece, being, from the mouth towards the tail, turned inside out during the process.

The effects of a bite by a poisonous snake upon a small mammal or bird are almost instantaneous, preventing its escape; and the snake swallows its victim at its leisure, sometimes hours after it has been killed.

The prey is always swallowed entire, and, as its girth generally much exceeds that of the snake, the progress of deglutition is very laborious and slow.

Therefore it will not be out of place to add here a chapter on snake poison and on the best means (ineffectual though they be in numerous cases) of counteracting its deleterious effects.

Quick amputation of the finger is the best remedy of all if a large snake has bitten it.

Boulenger rightly considers this snake in various ways intermediate between the Ilysiidae, Boidae and Colubridae.

The smooth, black and brown scales of the back are highly iridescent, hence the generic name of this peculiar snake, which reaches the length of one yard.

As the egg passes at last through the alarmingly distended neck, the snake makes some slight contortions and the swelling collapses, the shell having been filed through by the saw-like apparatus.

This peculiar arrangement occurs also in an Indian snake, Elachiston, which represents, however, a sub-family of the Opisthoglypha.

In another, probably also egg-eating snake, the Indian teeth, hence the term "proteroglypha," which is intended to mean that the anterior teeth are grooved.

It resembles in colour some varieties of the latter snake, and, like this, it has the power, though in a less degree, of expanding its hood.

During such periods of excitement it is even able, by the pressure of the muscles on the poison-duct, to eject the fluid to some distance; hence it shares with the cobra a third Dutch name, that of "spuw slang" (spitting snake).

Nevertheless, the krait is probably the most destructive snake to human life in India, since it is very common and often creeps into the houses.

The eye is small, with round pupil, which is so much contracted by the light when the snake is taken out of the water that the animal becomes blinded and is unable to hit any object it attempts to strike.

As all these animals are killed by the poison of the snake before they are swallowed, and as their muscles are perfectly relaxed, their armature is harmless to the snake, which begins to swallow its prey from the head, and depresses the spines as deglutition proceeds.

Accidents are rarely caused by them, because they are extremely shy and swim away on the least alarm; but, when surprised in the submarine cavities forming their natural retreats, they will, like any other poisonous terrestrial snake, dart at the disturbing object; and, when out of the water, they attempt to bite every object near them, even turning round to wound their own bodies.

Homer merely states that he was distinguished for his prowess with the bow; that he was bitten by a snake on the journey to Troy and left behind in the island of Lemnos; and that he subsequently returned home in safety.

Among venomous snakes the harlequin, or coral snake (Elaps fulvius) is common along the coast; the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) along the wooded banks of creeks and rivers; the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), in all parts of the state except the more arid districts; the "sidewiper," or massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus consors, sometimes called Crotalophorus tergeminus) and the ground rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius), in all sections.

Blue flag, snake root, ginseng, lobelia, tansy, wormwood, wintergreen, pleurisy root, plantain, burdock, sarsaparilla and horehound are among its medicinal plants.

There are also deep canyons which have been cut by the rivers in their present courses, especially by the Snake river and its tributaries.

Singularly, a snake (Coronella laevis), also common on the continent, and feeding principally on this lizard, has followed it across the British Channel, apparently existing in those localities only in which the sand-lizard has settled.

The rainbow-god of the Ewe was also conceived to have the form of a snake; his messenger was said to be a small variety of boa; but only certain individuals, not the whole species, were sacred.

On the other hand, we learn from Herodotus of the great serpent which defended the citadel of Athens; the Roman genius loci took the form of a serpent; a snake was kept and fed with milk in the temple of Potrimpos, an old Slavonic god.

To this day there are numerous traces in popular belief, especially in Germany, of respect for the snake, which seems to be a survival of ancestor worship, such as still exists among the Zulus and other savage tribes; the "house-snake," as it is called, cares for the cows and the children, and its appearance is an omen of death, and the life of a pair of house-snakes is often held to be bound up with that of the master and mistress themselves.

He compares it also to the change of Moses' rod into a snake, of the Nile into blood, to the virtue inherent in Elijah's mantle or in the wood of the cross or in the clay mixt of dust and the Lord's spittle, or in Elisha's relics which raised a corpse to life, or in the burning bush.

It is in association with this field of extinct volcanic activity that a remarkable group of geysers and hot springs has been developed, from which the Yellowstone river, a branch of the Missouri, flows northeastward, and the Snake river, a branch of the Columbia, flows south-westward.

Thus the uplifted, dislocated and dissected lava sheets of the Yellowstone National Park in the Rocky Mountains on the east (about the headwaters of the Snake river) are associated with the older lavas,of the Columbian plains.

The Columbia river has entrenched itself in a canyon-like valley around the northern and Western side of the lava plains; Snake river has cut a deeper canyon farther south-east where the plains are higher and has disclosed the many lava sheets which build up the plains, occasionally revealing a buried mountain in which the superposed river has cut an even narrower canyon.

The name was adopted because of the fancied resemblance of the peace party to the venomous copperhead snake, and, though applied as a term of opprobrium, it was willingly assumed by those upon whom it was bestowed.

Finally Shelford states that the anterior end of a Bornean species (C. myodon) offers a striking and detailed resemblance to the head of a snake (Dendrophis pitta).

The story told to Herodotus of its destroying snakes is, according to Savigny, devoid of truth, but Cuvier states that he discovered partly digested remains of a snake in the stomach of a mummied ibis.

The Lewis river, a fork of the Snake, has its origin in the beautiful Shoshone Lake, and the Heart river, another fork of the Snake, rises in Heart Lake, under Mt.

The only railway approaches to the park are a branch of the Northern Pacific railway up the valley of the Yellowstone to the main gate at Gardiner, Montana, and a branch of the Oregon Short Line up the valley of the North Fork of the Snake to Yellowstone, Montana.

He was variously represented with one, two or (usually) three heads, often with the tail of a snake or with snakes growing from his head or twined round his body.

A black snake came up and was killed by the ichneumon, mistakenly killed, in its turn, by the Brahmin on his coming back.

Another version is the medieval romance in The Seven Wise Masters of In the edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde it is told by "the first master" - a knight had one son, a greyhound and a falcon; the knight went to a tourney, a snake attacked the son, the falcon roused the hound, which killed the serpent, lay down by the cradle, and was killed by the knight, who discovered his error, like Llewelyn, and similarly repented (Villon Society, British Museum reprint, by Gomme and Wheatley).

Among reptiles are several kinds of venomous snakesthe horned viper, the hooded snake and the echis.

The Iranian tradition, preserved in the Avesta and in Firdousi's Shahnama, localizes a part of its heroes and myths in the east of Iran, and has transformed the old gods who fight with the great snake into kings of Iran who fight with the Turanians.

The Museum of Fine Arts at Boston also obtained in 1914 a masterpiece surreptitiously excavated and smuggled out of Crete, an exquisite gold and ivory statuette of the snake goddess or her votary.

There is a modern Greek folk-tale which preserves some features of the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur, but for the Minotaur has been substituted a seven-headed snake.

The Reptilia include countless numbers of alligators in the Guayas and its tributaries and in the tide-water channels of many of the smaller rivers; many species of lizards, of which Mr Whymper found three in the Quito basin; snakes of every description from the huge anaconda of the Amazon region down to the beautifully marked coral snake; and a great variety of frogs and toads.

Preval- worship still prevails largely in India, and a writer e p ee in in 1896 remarks that the previous census showed in varying the North-West Provinces over 25,000 Naga (serpent) forms. worshippers, 123,000 votaries of the snake-god Gaga, and, in the Punjab, some 35,000 special votaries of the snake godlings.'

The Greek demon or snake Poseidon, god of sea and springs, was an earthquake god.

The North American Indians fear lest their venerated rattlesnake should incite its kinsfolk to avenge any injury done to it, and when the Seminole Indians begged an English traveller to rid them of one of these troublesome intruders, they scratched him-as a matter of formin order to appease the spirit of the dead snake.

Also at Fernando Po there was an annual ceremony where children born within the year were made to touch the skin of a serpent suspended from a tree in the public square.9 We have next to notice the very general belief that the household snake was an agreeable guest, if not a guardian spirit.

Among the Nayars of Malabar, the family-serpent is capable of almost unlimited powers for good or evil; it is part of the household property, but does not seem to be connected with ancestral cults.'4 In Greece, however, " the dead man became a chthonic daemon, potent for good or evil; his natural symbol as such, often figured on tombs, was the snake."

As of old time," as Plutarch observed, " associated the heroes and snake most of all beasts with heroes," and in Photius local the term " speckled hero " thus finds an explanation.

On a Greek vase-painting the snake is the vehicle of the wrath of Athene, even as Chryse, another local " maiden," had a snake-guardian of a shrine which she sent against Philoctetes.'

Compare the snake attributes of the Erinyes; see Harrison, 217 sqq..

Every snake of its kind receives the profound veneration of the native of Whydah, who salutes it as master, father, mother and benefactor.

Similarly, food is offered to the snake of dough in the Punjab festival already mentioned (note 2 above).

Again, among the Moquis of America, where the snake-clan claim descent from a woman who gave birth to snakes, the reptiles are freely handled at the " snake dances " which are performed partly to secure the fertility of the soil.'

There are three species of snake, including the viper; three of lizard; and eleven of batrachians.

Mitchill (1764-1831) pointed out in America the resemblance which exists between symptoms of Anti- poisoning by snake venom and infective fevers.'

Calmette and Fraser found that when small doses of snake venom, insufficient to cause death, are injected into an animal, temporary disturbance is produced; but after a few days the animal recovers, and a larger dose is then required to produce any symptoms. By gradually increasing the dose the animal becomes more and more resistant, until at last a dose fifty times as great as that which would at first have produced immediate death can be injected without doing the animal any harm.

When this is clotted the serum is found to act as an anti-venin, so that when mixed with the venom of a snake it renders it harmless.

What occurs with snake venom takes place also when the toxins are formed by microbes, and a new method of treatment by anti-toxic serums has been introduced of late years with great success.

He is said to have died of the bite of a snake in Arcadia.

It is interesting to note that in the case of the closely analogous example of snake venoms, there may be separated from a single venom a number of toxic bodies which have a selective action on different animal tissues.

Immunity of the same nature can be acquired in the same way against snake and scorpion poisons, and against certain vegetable toxins, e.g.

The most prominent features of this part of the state are the arid Snake river plains and three mountain-like elevations - Big, Middle and East Buttes - that rise from their midst.

Instead of being one plain formed by erosion, this region is rather a series of plains built up with sheets of lava, several thousand feet deep, varying considerably in elevation and in smoothness of surface according to the nature of the lava, and being greater in area than any other lava beds in North America except those of the Columbia river, which are of similar formation and, with the Snake river plains, form the Columbia plateau.

Between Henry's Fork and Malade (or Big Wood) river, a distance of 200 m., the river apparently has no northern tributaries; but several streams, as the Camas, Medicine Lodge and Birch creeks, and Big and Little Lost rivers, which fail to penetrate the plain of the Snake after reaching its border, are believed to join it through subterranean channels.

The scenery on some of these tributaries is almost as beautiful as that of the Snake, though lacking the grandeur of its greater scale.

In 1904 electricity, generated by water-power from the rivers, notably the Snake, began to be utilized in mining operations.

Except for the broad valleys of the Panhandle, where the soils are black in colour and rich in vegetable mould, the surface of the state is arid; the Snake river valley is a vast lava bed, covered with deposits of salt and sand, or soils of volcanic origin.

Under the Carey Act the Twin Falls project, deriving water from the Snake river near Twin Falls, and irrigating more than 200,000 acres, was completed in 1903-1905.

The first recorded exploration of Idaho by white men was made by Lewis and Clark, who passed along the Snake river to its junction with the Columbia; in 1805 the site of Fort Lemhi in Lemhi county was a rendezvous for two divisions of the Lewis and Clark expedition; later, the united divisions reached a village of the Nez Perce Indians near the south fork of the Clearwater river, where they found traces of visits by other white men.

In 1810 Fort Henry, on the Snake river, was established by the Missouri Fur Company, and in the following year a party under the auspices of the Pacific Fur Company descended the Snake river to the Columbia.

In her six hands are torches, sometimes a snake, a key (as wardress of the lower world), a whip or a dagger; her favourite animal was the dog, which was sacrificed to her - an indication of her nonHellenic origin, since this animal very rarely fills this part in genuine Greek ritual.

His symbols from the animal kingdom were the bull (perhaps a totemistic attribute and identified with him), the panther, the lion, the tiger, the ass, the goat, and sometimes also the dolphin and the snake.

Python, always represented in the form of a snake, sometimes.

The swan and grasshopper symbolize music and song; the hawk, raven, crow and snake have reference to his functions as the god of prophecy.

He married Eurydice, who was fatally poisoned by a snake bite.

Then, flapping out of the doorway, six slimy green tentacles with snake heads emerged, hissing loudly.

Food animals should be offered using long tongs or forceps to allow the keeper to stay out of the snake's striking range.

Often a snake will give you a'dry ' bite containing no venom.

I have seen a few cases recently - The Adder is the only venomous snake found in Britain.