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How to use basilisk in a sentence

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A lot of the artists who designed the knights coat of arms often used imaginary animals like the basilisk, dragon, unicorn, etc.
And as they watched in amazement, Lanyon's skin started taking on a greyish tint, and her hands, raised to ward off the basilisk, froze in place.
They also investigate the origins of various heraldic monsters, such as the basilisk.
This combined pressure allows the basilisk to run on water with a speed of 8 to 10 km an hour.
A basilisk lizard, or Jesus lizard, runs across water during an experiment.
To find answers, Hsieh and Lauder turned to the basilisk lizard, a skittish tree-dwelling species found in Central America.
Should you ever even think you see a basilisk or cockatrice, shut your eyes immediately and change the view to something else.
But Harry Potter fights and despatches the basilisk in Hogwarts' Chamber of Secrets.
Idris Elba, with a deep voice and a deeper basilisk gaze, is downright scary as the guardian of a cosmic tollbooth.
No sooner does Hermione discover that the creature is a basilisk when Ginny Weasley, Ron's little sister, goes missing.
For I say, fear the fire of dragons and the eye of the basilisk.
But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror.
The lone unicorn, basilisk and banshee wandered as they pleased.
The reverse shows the terrifying basilisk just as the young apprentice holds the mirror before him.
As Panalpina's head office is in Basel, the company felt a special affinity with the basilisk fountain, so it decided to undertake the job for free as part of its commitment to sponsoring worthwhile activities.
A basilisk perches atop the richly-decorated fountain column, grasping in its talons the Basel Stadt coat of arms, a black crosier on a white background.
Indeed Lawler believes he has found an explanation for the legend of the basilisk, a terrifying serpent said to hatch from an egg laid by a cockerel.
Then his basilisk glare will knock you flat.
The basilisk thus serves as a link between the two cities and the two museums, and will in future act as a kind of ambassador for Basel in Kunming.
If you bring a stuffed or unstuffed trophy of a crawling hand, cockatrice, basilisk, kurask or abyssal demon, Nomad will then supply you with a pet of that type.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The party to see the basilisk was not only the most agreeable of the season, but the most agreeable ever known.
Leave me to hatch, from the heat of their own passions, the basilisk which shall destroy them.
Roach changed the basilisk gaze with which he had regarded him to a vacant stare.
But to be quiet with such a basilisk before him was impossible.
Knolles flew his flag of the black raven aboard the basilisk.
But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief.
You remember the eyeless basilisk which we found near Imola?
When Lugare saw it, he stood like one transfix'd by a basilisk.
That cold blue eye which is the basilisk of the British Army.
There is the country of the Amazons, and the country of the dwarfs, and the country of the fair but evil women who slay with beholding, like the basilisk.
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