10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNAKISHNESS»
Discover the use of
snakishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
snakishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The American Naturalist
Nor is there the least aspect of snakishness about the act, but a certain quiet air,
as though the reptile was conscious that the thing was done. A change comes at
last. The head is still aloft, the eyes are fixed on its victim, the neck and part of the
...
2
The Sikaṅdar nāma, e bara, or book of Alexander the great, ...
Thy army, where ? and thy army-holder, where ? Thou art like the (powerless)
scorpion ; (yet) thou adoptest snakishness (maliciousness), Since thou seekest
battle with the dragon (the bloody Dara). 12 " Afrin " signifies — nekoi kardan.
Ilyâs b. Yûsuf Niẓâmî,
1881
3
Southey's common-place book. Ed. by J.W. Warter
This bird is beautiful from its colour and habits ; for it is clumsy in shape, and of
most foul physiognomy ; there is such a snakishness in its eye and head, as well
as neck. " The swan arch'd back his snakey neck, And his proud head reclin'd ...
John Wood Warter, Robert Southey,
1851
4
Saturday afternoon rambles round London: rural and geological
And yet (as Southey has remarked) in spite of its superb and stately form, the
creature is foul and vicious in physiognomy — " there is such a snakishness in its
eye, and head, and neck." On our way through the Green Park to Kensington ...
Henry Walker (F.G.S.),
1871
5
Southey's Common-place book
This bird is beautiful from its colour and habits ; for it is clumsy in shape, and of
most foul physiognomy ; there is such a snakishness in its eye and head, as well
as neck. " The swan arch'd back his snakey neck, And his proud head reclin'd ...
Robert Southey, John Wood Warter,
1851
6
Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in ...
They often discuss the hopeless dependence, laziness, and irredeemable "
snakishness" of other poor men, men who are not "workers" in their eyes.
Sometimes they have good reasons for suspicion. Sniping across the timeworn
frontier ...
Michael Burawoy, Joseph A Blum, Sheba George,
2000
This bird is beautiful from its colour and habits; for it is clumsy in shape, and of
most foul physiognomy ; there is such a snakishness in its eye and head, as well
as neck. " The swan arch'd back his snakey neck, And his proud head reclin'd ...
Robert Southey, John Wood Warter,
1876
8
Nature-study: as applicable to the purposes of poetry and ...
This bird is beautiful from its colour and habits ; for it is clumsy in shape, and of
most foul physiognomy ; there is such a snakishness in its eye and head, as well
as neck. 6. The leaves of the holly are prickly only when they are within reach of ...
9
Demetrie: and other poems
... is embraced by death ! — Like those who your affections win, With all the
snakishness of sin, And with the torch of vice, astray Delude from virtue's even
way, Then crawl aside, while we, forlorn, Are writhing 'neath the THE FORSAKEN
. 163.
10
A Catalogue of Everything in the World
He probablyonly sees her snakishness, herfangs like a viper's, her long neck
stretched full of angry muscles. So the guy retreats back onto his porchlikehe's
been whipped andhashis tailbetween his legs. Naomi can be like that when she's
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