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It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty just to be the hiss of the serpent, to drown them in perdition. It was just no God.

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

Martin Delany
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The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Minna Antrim
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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

James Connolly
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BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave.

Ambrose Bierce
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Now the fabric panel moves in all the directions very whimsically. [It] very sensually reflects the serpent-like character of the walkway system.

Christopher Lasch
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The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to be deplored exceedingly.

Cotton Mather
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