She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

`` The snake was beautiful, wasn't it ''??

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.

Oh, he was being queer and careful, pawing about in the drawer and holding the bottle like a snake at the length of his arm.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

I had never liked snakes much, I still had that kind of quick panic that I'd had as a child whenever I saw one, but this snake was clean and bright and very beautiful.

My movement did frighten the snake and it raised its head and trailed delicately a couple of feet and stopped again, and its tongue was working very rapidly.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

`` This snake was very beautiful.

And then it moved a little more, and I knew the snake was dying, and I would have to kill it there.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

The display of potency from Aaron's rod had already been demonstrated in the presence of Pharaoh's magicians ; when Aaron's rod was thrown down to the ground it had turned into a snake, so Pharaoh's magicians performed the same act with their own rods.

However, Aaron's snake ate up all the other snakes ( Exodus 7: 9 ) proving his rod was victorious.

The assassins left in terror because a snake suddenly darted from beneath Lucius ’ pillow — but it was only a sloughed-off snake-skin in his bed, near his pillow.

In one account, she put an end to her life, as it was believed, by the bite of a snake ( an asp ) conveyed to her in a basket of figs.

He was intrigued by the tattoos of the Dayaks and pictures of him in later life show large snake or dragon tattoos on his forearms, presumably obtained at this time.

Heracles throttled a single snake in each hand and was found by his nurse playing with their limp bodies as if they were a child's toys.

In building the railway the British had to confront strong local opposition, especially from Koitalel Arap Samoei, a diviner and Nandi leader who prophesied that a black snake would tear through Nandi land spitting fire, which was seen later as the railway line.

This blood was swallowed by a washer woman, who gave birth to Chen Jinggu ( 陈靖姑 ) or Lady Linshui ( 临水夫人 ); the hair was turned into a female white snake and sexually used men and killed rival women.

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.

You actually hate me -- and we both know it -- because I killed that filthy snake.

I can testify that motels, service and comfort stations ( they go together like Scots and heather ), dog wagons, roadside restaurants, souvenir stands and snake farms are braced and waiting.

I almost ran over the snake before I could stop the tractor in time.

Go out of the furrow, snake, I said, but it did not move at all.

I pulled the throttle of the tractor in and out, hoping to frighten him with the noise, but the snake only flicked its black, forked tongue and faced the huge tractor wheel, without fright or concern.

I felt good and satisfied, looking at the snake.

I could see the hunched-up shoulders, the savage determination, the dance of his feet as he ground the snake with his heels, and the pirouette of his arms as he whipped at it with the stick.

`` I killed a snake ; ;

The " Sepharad ",(" tsefah " and " radah ") would be " snake kingdom ", still remembered in the folklore legends of the mouras.

Nāgārjuna is credited with developing the philosophy of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras — even, in some sources, with having ( re ) revealed these scriptures in the world, having recovered them from the realm of the nāga-s ( snake / dragon spirits )— and is also sometimes associated with the Buddhist university of Nālandā.

It is imagined as a composite of many birds, or even as comprising some body part of a snake, a fish etc.

A central concept of toxicology is that effects are dose-dependent ; even water can lead to water intoxication when taken in too high a dose, whereas for even a very toxic substance such as snake venom there is a dose below which there is no detectable toxic effect.

Performers may do acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, card tricks, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions and escapes, dance, singing, fiddling, fire eating, fire breathing, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime and a mime variation where the artist performs as a living statue, musical performance, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or recite poetry or prose as a bard, street art such as sketching and painting, street theatre, sword swallowing, and even put on a flea circus.

The western fox snake takes a range of suitably sized mammals including mice, rats and even small rabbits while the eastern fox snake specializes on meadow voles and takes other prey much less frequently.

In a traditional " serpentine " ( aka " snake ") draft, owners take turns drafting players in a " serpentine " method, i. e. the owner who picks 1st in the odd rounds picks last in the even rounds, in the interests of fairness.

The snake is a strong swimmer and will even enter the sea, successfully colonizing islands off both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

There are even specialty varieties of sword blades and spear points that curve back and forth down the length of the blade in imitation of the snake's body known as snake sword and snake spear.

For many Spicebush Swallowtails, the osmeterium is red in color, thus creating the illusion of a snake tongue and even further enhancing the disguise.

A number of Lydian religious concepts may well go back to the Early Bronze Age and even Late Stone Age, such as the vegetation goddess Kore, the snake and bull cult, the thunder and rain god and the double-axe ( Labrys ) as a sign of thunder, the mountain mother goddess ( Mother of Gods ) assisted by lions, associable or not to the more debated Kuvava ( Cybele ).

Hawks, crows, raccoons, crayfish, and other snake species ( such as the coral snake and king snake ) will eat garter snakes, with even shrews and frogs eating the juveniles.

When they meet her, it is quickly made apparent that Marian is strong and capable in battle and the narrator mentions that she could walk or even wiggle on her stomach like a snake faster than the boys could follow.

The vipers are prepared by cooking the flesh of the headless body, grinding a paste of snake ash and mixing it with honey, drying the snake and compacting it into a powder, or even injecting their venom intravenously.

In one part of Honduras the locals even insist that the snake ( A. nummifer ) is not venomous.

The complete order was determined by the lottery, and the draft was conducted in a " snake " style, meaning in even rounds, the draft order was reversed.

After sacrificing a snake to an ancient god, the sybil had supposedly prophesied that even after the passage of millennia, when the Roman Empire and its emperors have long since gone into the dust, the name of Pompeii will be known throughout the world and people of every tongue will wander its streets and enter its amphitheaters.