basilisk

Example Sentences

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He bought chicken eggs, painted them with dots, and sold them to a city official as basilisk eggs.

From Literature

But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell full upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror.

From Literature

Much harder to lay one’s hands on a wild bull, a basilisk or a wolf.

From Literature

Other animals, such as the modern green basilisk lizard, have tall, paddle-like tails that function more as social and sexual billboards than as swimming structures.

From National Geographic

The catoblepas and, more famously, the basilisk, both described by Pliny the Elder, could kill with the single glance.

From Scientific American