What is "basilisks"

Usage examples of "basilisks".

Dedrina, seeing me enjoying myself, sneered that I must take care: Basilisks were said to frequent the fields where I had been riding.

All the females of that line have been Basilisks of great power for seven generations.

That would indicate “Basilisk” to anyone who had studied the Index even slightly, and Queen Vorbold would remember what I had said to her earlier about Basilisks.

Since the body they found had Basilisk bites on its hands and arms, we assume it was so enraged during the digging that it bit itself and died of its own venom—though Basilisks are somewhat immune to their own bites.

They were there, the Basilisks, the mother and mother’s sisters of Dedrina-Lucir, probably De-drina-Lucir herself, the vengeful, the threat to my safety, to my life.

Perhaps the Basilisks had walked there often enough to scatter the gray dust.

Seeing the Dagger, the Basilisks to either side had begun to scramble, their hard nails slipping on the polished floor, panting like fustigars, mouths gaped wide.

Perhaps, with Dedrina’s mother in the north, Dedrina herself gone, and two other of the Basilisks missing, Bloster had attempted some ceremony of allegiance to himself.

Her brother was trying to make an alliance with the Black Basilisks of Breem—though I understood that no Basilisks had been born in Breem for fifty years.

I chose a pair of gilt snakes for the outside of each boot: Peter chose salamanders and Chance a pair of Basilisks.

I killed her, and I’ve walked in fear of the Basilisks’ vengeance since.

And I crouched there, waiting, remembering how the Basilisks had died, some long ago, one only recently, almost it had seemed without pain, and I was thankful for that.

Moments later, the four leading Basilisks swiveled their topside turrets to vertical and fired the twenty-disruptor salutes due a Rear Admiral.

The differences between our elegant little interceptors and the massive Basilisks were astonishing.

In contrast, the powerful-looking Basilisks were spanking new, clean, tested only by their recent flight from Carescria—and by their Helmsmen's ability to hurl them about in space in mock battles.