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serpent

noun as in reptile

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Still we sped north, ever closer to the living, billowing serpent of smoke devouring the sky.

“I tell my colleagues, the serpent who bites your enemy today could bite you tomorrow,” Buck said.

They’re delightful, non-threatening, and non-fire-breathing — colorful serpents who fly, swim, and generally behave like wriggly pets.

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Co-written and co-produced with Sampha and Lil Silva, serpent expresses love and gratitude for friends and the love they share.

She is flying uphill, toward the belly of the serpent, making it look easy.

In fact I wanted to call the novel “Sex with the Serpent Girl” but was overruled.

We are on the last leg of the walk, and beginning to lose hope of a serpent score.

Isbell's book is titled The Fruit, the Tree and the Serpent: Why We See So Well.

In response to the criticism, an Iraqi state-run newspaper published a poem calling Albright an “unparalleled serpent.”

He was Honour's self, till he brought the serpent to his bosom, in the shape of his perfidious son.

But all of this is in contradiction to the curses of Jahveh on the serpent, and on those to whom the serpent brought wisdom.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because nestled in the bosom of an honest hearted man.

He dreamt of a serpent coiling around his throat, and when he strove to grasp it the slimy thing glided away from his clutch.

For two years Corentin was attached to this strange girl as a serpent to a tree.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to serpent, such as: snake, viper, basilisk, dragon, and ophidian.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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