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«In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.»
«By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.»
«He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.»
«Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.»
«BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.»
«Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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«Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it.»
«How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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