Quotes About Snake

Guilt slithered through e like a poisonous snake.

President Theodore Roosevelt (after whom the Teddy Bear is named) was particularly fond of animals, having five guinea pigs called Dr. Johnson, Bishop Doane, Fighting Bob Evans, Admiral Dewey, and Father O'Grady. He also owned a small bear called Jonathan Edwards, a lizard by the name of Bill, Baron Spreckle (a hen), a badger called Josiah, Eli Yale the parrot and - brilliantly - a snake known to his family as Emily Spinach.

What do you call a snake who works for the government? A civil serpent!

He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.

Big snake appears on Fifth Avenue. . . . Ladies screamed and ran in all directions this morning at eleven thirty when a big snake crawled out of a crack in the masonry of the retaining wall of the reservoir at Fifth Avenue and Fortysecond Street and started to cross the sidewalk. . . . " "Some fish story. . . . " "That aint nothin," said an old man. "When I was a boy we used to go snipeshootin on Brooklyn Flats.

Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.

The boa constrictor is the only living animal whose common name is exactly the same as its scientific name.

That night, slipping among us like a snake, quick and silent and flickering, the plague began.

What was in her retracted, slipped out easy as a snake shedding its skin.

To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

A snake wriggled across the warm highway. Al zipped over and ran it down and came back to his own lane. "Gopher snake,'' said Tom. "You oughtn't to done that.'' "I hate 'em,'' said Al gaily. "Hate all kinds. Give me the stomach-quake.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

Graves leaned forward, eyeing me. "Hey, Dru. You were French-kissing awinged snake. Creeptastic.

This thing that men call justice, this blind snake that strikes men down in the dark, mindless with fury, keep your hand back from it, pass by in silence.

Boa Constrictor

Krotiteljica zvjeradi u crvenoj galoniranoj husarskoj atili gladila je debelu pospanu zmijurinu pod crvenkastom ispruganom platnenom perinom i ?ula se kiša kako klizi po zelenkastom jedru menažerije a negdje je pjevao jedan limeni žlijeb.

It's all true." Venom's hair lifted up in the wind coming through his open window, his profile so astonishingly perfect that her breath caught for a second. "I'm deadlier than the deadliest snake in the world, with the ability to impact strong immortals. But you're not too far behind." "Try being used as a chew toy by an insane archangel," Holly said with a grim smile. "It does wonders for your poison, I hear.

He knew now what this thing was — hysteria, a snake whose scales are tiny mirrors in which the dead world takes on a semblance of life. And how dead the world is . . . a world of doorknobs. He wondered if hysteria were really too steep a price to pay for bringing it to life.

Ianto lying on his back in the bog. Snake-silent and lizard-still.

Thought I found a snake in my garage. Turns out it was a bunch of spiders in a snake costume going to a party. Thank god. Hate real snakes.

This one's as pretty as a grass snake, but much more dangerous.

The shield on his left arm was matcing red leather stretched over wood and painted with a black snake with golden eyes and tongue; around its edge another snake, this time of armoured scales, glinted in the shimmering tree light.

After a real snake ended up on stage one night, it was well and truly pissed off about being on stage with Ozzy Osbourne, that snake was.