Menace in the grass

Usage examples of snake.

Then, the Director had still been in the grip of a frightful gene-transmutation that had turned him into a thing from nightmare: a monstrous admixture of man and snake that reared out of radiant yellow mud.

Amongst the Central Australian natives there is never any idea of appealing for assistance to any one of these Alcheringa ancestors in any way, nor is there any attempt made in the direction of propitiation, with one single exception in the case of the mythic creature called Wollunqua, amongst the Warramunga tribe, who, it may be remarked, is most distinctly regarded as a snake and not as a human being.

There a snake was poised, not coiled, not menacing to strike, simply waiting, with round head alift and trembling tongue.

For our High-king ever sees enemies alurk all about him, and snakes under his very bed.

Inside the Snake Den all was amorphous liquid mud, owing to the copious seepage.

The smoking flame started snaking back through the doors of the armoury into the passageway that led to the main powder magazine.

But evidently she saw him as a lesser enemy and focused her wrath on the Asper snake.

Then his vision cleared and he saw that the Asper snake was gone and the chamber had returned to its former gloom.

Surely he knows that if he does not do this, the Basilican blade I hold in my hands will snake out and take his head clean off his shoulders as I rise.

Bracken fern, rank and tall, Chorizema and snake vine, Bauera with the always blooming pink flowerets, and Tetratheca, with the layer of tangled twigs, made the going difficult.

We landed here for water, as we have just lain becalmed off a damned island full of ghost snakes and walking statues.

I had no objections to go to the bush--I dreaded neither natives, nor snakes, nor bushrangers, but I behoved to make good wages.

The new Grand Prix course snakes through 35 acres once known as Bicentennial Park.

Snake biocomputer technology, potentially compromising most human infrastructure.

It was not the five-bladed slave whip, invented for the full and perfect punishment of an erring slave girl, but only a light, one-bladed bosk whip, little more than a switch of leather, a mere incitement and encouragement to better performance on the part of a slacking plow beast, but it struck my back like a hot snake and a rifle shot.