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Sentence Examples The Aesculapian snake has a uniformly brown back with a streak of darker colour behind the eyes. The hides of six snake species are commonly bought and sold in the skin trade. What shall a young reaver do but spend his coins like the snake sips water? Since the Aesculapian snake is not closely related to that group, another available generic name had to be found for it. While there I learned that a species of whip snake had been caught and brought in by a customer. Amphibians and reptiles include newts, green and Greek frogs, turtles, four-lined rat snake and Aesculapian snakes. The Javan wart snake is found on the coastal regions of India and Ceylon, and also across the Indo-Australian islands as far as the Solomons. Based on microsatellite DNA analyses, the northern water snake also shows evidence for local population differentiation. Croaking frogs have to be avoided and a water snake or two may obstruct your path. The Lake Erie water snake is a nonvenomous snake that lives only on the islands and in the waters of the western Lake Erie basin. The three of us watched a long water snake glide in a broad oval around the pond. Lake Tanganyika has two unique snake species confined to this part of the world, the Tanganyika water cobra and the Tanganyika water snake. She walked along the banks of the lake, watching a water snake slither in the shallows. Nicotine and the snake venom also bind these receptors with agonistic and antagonistic effects, respectively. During the trip, one of the kids is bitten by a snake and their guide, the park ranger, heads back to base for a serum. Even from where I was standing I could see the jugular in her neck protruding, like a snake rising from somewhere inside her chest. She felt his strong arms snake behind her back, pulling her closer and lifting her up slightly so her toes were barely touching the ground. His other hand was no carved snake, it was a living rattler, moving as if on its own, tasting the air and searching for prey. He teaches them limbo dance, slithering like a snake beneath bars placed at very low heights, and some jugglery with fire too. In Florida, more people are probably bitten by pigmy rattlesnakes than by any other poisonous snake. Show More Sentences At the end of the demonstration, the handler comes out of the cage with a rat snake in hand. The most commonly found in the park are the Balkan whip snake, the Leopard snake and the Aesculapian snake. Only last week a boa constrictor and rat snake were found on a golf course near Accrington. To this day the Aesculapian snake forms part of the symbols representing physicians and veterinarians. It was famously said that widescreen was only good for filming a train or a snake. You've seen James Bond wasting that snake in the film using his hair spray aerosol. The event will snake through the city centre culminating with a fireworks display above Leeds Town Hall at midnight. It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure. Lazarus managed to block a blade as swift as a darting snake, disengaged, and went into a series of jabs to ward away his enemy. The nonpoisonous variety of snakes include the common blind snake, the Russell sand boa, the Indian python, and the Indian wart snake. I recall having taken a huge rat snake home with me when I was six. I thought she was my friend, but she turned out to be a snake in the grass. Good versus evil, light versus dark, a snake eats its own tail, ad infinitum. Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side. Acrochordus javanicus is also known as the wart snake and the karung. A climbing snake, such as a rat snake, will hold itself on a stick. Whenever I read Matthiessen the naturalist, I am reminded of a film clip I once saw of him trying to catch a snake in the wild. One is the Saint Lucia racer, perhaps the rarest snake in the world, and the other is the worm snake, one of the smallest, measuring less than six inches long. Getting smoked was just bad luck, and the more times you rolled, the more likely you were to see snake eyes. A large water snake was writhing on the surface of a small pond. Show More Sentences City Hall security in Toronto had better be on high alert if Ford really has been bitten by the snake. Pit viper snake venoms are hemotoxic, except for some Mojave rattlers. A water snake swims by, only to be grabbed by a heron's jaw. Large numbers of snake charmers once could be seen walking the streets of cities and towns, their cloth-covered baskets hanging from bamboo poles slung across the shoulders. It's because of birds that I know the difference between a sugar maple and a red maple, a diamondback water snake and a cottonmouth, an American lady and a painted lady. Despite the existence of snake charmers, there have also been professional snake catchers or wranglers. In such cases, the body of a snake or several snakes is left to steep in a jar or container of liquor. In Egyptian history, the snake occupies a primary role with the Nile cobra adorning the crown of the pharaoh in ancient times. The snake is one of the 12 celestial animals of Chinese Zodiac, in the Chinese calendar. In religious terms, the snake and jaguar are arguably the most important animals in ancient Mesoamerica. In Judaism, the snake of brass is also a symbol of healing, of one's life being saved from imminent death. The cytotoxic effect of snake venom is being researched as a potential treatment for cancers. The specific name, berus, is New Latin and was at one time used to refer to a snake, possibly the grass snake, Natrix natrix. The snake is not considered to be threatened, though it is protected in some countries. In several European countries, it is notable as being the only native venomous snake. The man is naked, which, together with the snake, suggests a warm climate in spite of the presence of the reindeer. Venomous snake genera continued to increase as more rodents and birds evolved. One of the world's largest species of snake, the anaconda, spends most of its time in the water with just its nostrils above the surface. The nineteen species of native reptiles include the flowerpot snake, found only on Efate. The peninsula is also home to the eastern brown snake, one of the world's most venomous snakes. Show More Sentences The brown tree snake is native to northern and eastern coasts of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Guam and the Solomon Islands. Sometimes intoxicated people make mistakes, as in R v Lipman where the defendant took LSD, thought his girlfriend was a snake and strangled her. Here, intoxication operated as a defence because Mr Lipman was mistaken in his specific intent of killing a snake. Among the numerous flowers and shrubs are hibiscus, flame lily, snake lily, spider lily, leonotus, cassia, tree wisteria and dombeya. Reptilians generally are envisioned as half snake, half human, and they are thought to have come from the Alpha Draconian star system. The number of vertebrae in the spines of reptiles is highly variable, and may be several hundred in some species of snake. Four species of snake are, the European adder, grass snake, barred grass snake and smooth snake. The other notable snakes found in Great Britain are the grass snake and the smooth snake. When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water. The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. To get under the porch, I lay on my stomach and slithered like a snake. Gargoyle-like snake heads of Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent deity of the Aztec, encircle and punctuate the second basin. It potentiated commercial snake venom antiserum action against venom-induced lethality in male albino mice. Another time, looking down from a stand I had climbed before light, I spied a lethargic yellow rat snake. The yellow rat snake was found in the park grounds and used in programming. The 2ft long rat snake emerged from her furniture as she enjoyed afternoon tea with a friend at her home in New Street, Erdington. A lengthy rat snake slithered past him while he was making the drinks sending him running SURFS UP AND Kevin Pietersen relaxing for cover. During his trek, Dominic also crosses paths with a rhinoceros beetle, a green parrot snake and a highly venomous Brazilian wandering spider. She reached the hospital in time to receive the antidote for the snake venom. Show More Sentences The snake wriggled across the path and went underneath a bush. While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker is the tiger snake. Venom is spine-tingling brain candy about a deadly snake on the loose in a London townhouse during a kidnapping attempt. When I showed my bubbe, she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious. A death adder is cheeky, a tree snake quiet. Wasps are only cheeky if you hold them in your hand. The hens were my witness to the ghost. They set up the sort of fuss and panic you hear when a snake enters the chookhouse late at night. The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator. Peter had four barramundi and Rosie had three turtles, a possum and a fat file snake. The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish. Seems like half the gubmint bureaucrats and snake oil politicians want to help us. At the time he was recovering from another snake bite, a gwarder, and not himself. He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water. The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented. Sutcliffe went in hard, did everything to provoke him. Got him as mad as a cut snake. These were crowned with a statue of Jupiter, typically on horseback, defeating or trampling down a Giant, often depicted as a snake. Among the various vernacular rhyming slang names for steak and kidney pie are Kate and Sidney pie, snake and kiddy pie, and snake and pygmy pie. In order of rank, the matricians were the pig, dog, snake, and iguana clans. Currently, three lizards and one toad are known to inhabit Diego Garcia, and possibly one snake. This snake feeds on the larvae, eggs, and pupae of ants and termites, and is about the size of a large earthworm. The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows. Show More Sentences Pigs are one of four known mammalian species which possess mutations in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor that protect against snake venom. Other controversial dishes in Chinese cuisine includes Cantonese snake soup, dog meat and bear claws. He was bitten by a snake, but a second woman cured him, on condition that she could also be his wife. You can feel and kiss and stroke and suck, but you won't make that old one-eyed snake stand up. One does not have to be an ophiophile to understand why the chapter on snake bites is placed in this section. The red-sided garter snake, while harmless to all but the most ophiophobic of humans, is a fearsome predator of frogs, salamanders and slugs. There are four species of snake on the island and these are not dangerous to humans. The fossil record of snakes is relatively poor because snake skeletons are typically small and fragile making fossilization uncommon. Early in snake evolution, the Hox gene expression in the axial skeleton responsible for the development of the thorax became dominant. Tetrapodophis does not have distinctive snake features in its spine and skull. Before a molt, the snake stops eating and often hides or moves to a safe place. The old skin breaks near the mouth and the snake wriggles out, aided by rubbing against rough surfaces. This periodic renewal has led to the snake being a symbol of healing and medicine, as pictured in the Rod of Asclepius. Almost all snake venom contains hyaluronidase, an enzyme that ensures rapid diffusion of the venom. This makes it difficult both for the snake to use its venom and for scientists to milk them. Some species of snake are ovoviviparous and retain the eggs within their bodies until they are almost ready to hatch. Because of this, a snake disturbed after having eaten recently will often regurgitate its prey to be able to escape the perceived threat. Terrestrial lateral undulation is the most common mode of terrestrial locomotion for most snake species. When swimming, the waves become larger as they move down the snake's body, and the wave travels backwards faster than the snake moves forwards. In this mode, the snake braces the posterior portion of its body against the tunnel wall while the front of the snake extends and straightens. Show More Sentences In the United States for example, all species of venomous snakes are pit vipers, with the exception of the coral snake. In some parts of the world, especially in India, snake charming is a roadside show performed by a charmer. The Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 in India technically proscribes snake charming on grounds of reducing animal cruelty. In Greek mythology, Hydra was a many-headed water snake that lived in the Lernaean marshes of Argolis. Niki, a four foot-long black and gold king snake, could be lurking in a dustbin, hiding in a vegetable patch or curled up in a drain. Visitors can pet a king snake and feed a desert tortoise while learning about their habits and dispelling fears and myths. The three foot long albino North American King snake looked very unusual slithering in a Wrexham hedgerow. The boa, a king snake, a grey-brown and several golden brown corn snakes, were among the haul. A 6ft-long boa constrictor, a king snake and several large corn snakes were among the haul of reptiles taken. Well, I once had an Albino King snake called Tyson, which I swapped for a parakeet called Finlay,'' laughs Mitchell. Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker. Why, I thought he was a straight-haired, sleeky, canting snake of a man. Sjoe, it was still alive! As the young man turned to pick up his stick to beat it, the snake spat its poison into the man's water gourd before slithering away. When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin. Like many temperate areas, Great Britain exhibits a relative lack of snakes, with the European adder being the only venomous snake to be found there. Some introduced snakes are aesculapian snake and dice snakes. According to tradition, the origin of this dance lies in a story about a boy who was bitten by a snake and the rituals his family held to heal him. The legendary account of the foundation of Thebes mentioned a monster snake guarding the spring from which the new settlement was to draw its water. The static nature of the contact points can be shown from the tracks of a sidewinding snake, which show each belly scale imprint, without any smearing. Sighting a coachwhip or king snake is a rare and special treat. Show More Sentences As we went along, Mother had to look this way and that to follow the line of some excited finger pointing out a blue wren's nest or the place where Charlie killed the snake. The body size of a snake has a major influence on its eating habits. The discarded skin gives a perfect imprint of the scale pattern, and it is usually possible to identify the snake if the discarded skin is reasonably intact. But a younger snake, still growing, may shed up to four times a year. An old experiment caged a vampire bat with a rat snake, Carter says. The Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute of the Thai Red Cross Society is an institute producing BCG vaccine, equine Rabies Immunoglobulins and snake antivenoms. She was treated with two vials of tiger snake antivenom intravenously approximately three hours post-bite and was transferred to the intensive care unit. A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight. They are being invited to join Mouse on his adventurous journey through the deep, dark wood as he meets a wheeler-dealer fox, an eccentric owl and a party-mad snake. Nor fly, nor insect, nor writhy snake, escape their deep research. Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety. Examples from Classical Literature He declared the snake to be the most monstrous of its kind ever seen, and called it an anaconda. It was impersonated as ahi or Vritra, the snake demon which brings darkness and drives away the kindly rain. One of the men was also wearing an anklet of hair, as he had recently been bitten by a snake. Its juices were said to be antidotal to snake poisoning, and would also cure the opium habit. The Egyptian Apophis was a monstrous snake, as were also, originally at least, the Greek dracontes. Today, senor, through your own heedlessness you were bitten by a venomous snake. Orozco y Berra thinks that the snake represented Quetzalcoatl, and was a Toltec reminiscence. They came up over a rise and looked down a gentle slope toward the brown twisting snake that was the Big Muddy. This brings recollections of a neighbour's cat who went out in the scrub, one midsummer's day, and found a brown snake. The harmless snakes are the brown snake, the common banded moccasin, the black mountain snake, the green snake. The black snake and the brown snake are the most common of the deadly serpents. The grape design at the base of the little statue, and the snake supporting the candleholder, both are symbols of the sileni. The largest of them is known as the carpet snake, and the specimen that we saw was about ten feet long. Dr. Stukely, who says, that acan in the chaldee signifies a serpent, and hac is no other than a snake. You know how active a boy is in getting a snake from under a rock and he will do the same thing with the chestnut blight. One time me and my sister was spinning and old Mistress went to the well-house and she found a chicken snake and killed it. Black snake root was a good cure for childbed fever, and it saved the life of my second wife after her last child was born. Then to the accompaniment of the choragus' explanation a mechanical snake appeared in the branches with an apple in its mouth. Notes on the variation in and distribution of the Mexican colubrid snake Coniophanes lateritius. Perhaps the most curious of the colubrine snakes is the egg-eating snake of South Africa. Show More Sentences In the snake the CONUS arteriosus is very much shortened and is not visible. And, not waiting for the squatter's answer, the monk imitated thrice the hiss of the coral snake. Viewing it closely, I found that it was a coral snake, famed as much for its beauty and singularity as for its deadly character. A coral snake struck at me when I reached for it, but he hit my machete instead. A coral snake fell out of the folds of my towel when I went to take a shower. We had no adventures by the way, except the killing of a coral snake which lay in the middle of the road. One of the earlier accounts was that of Corrington describing behavior of the corn snake, Elaphe guttata. One of the handsomest of its tribe is the corn snake, belonging to the family of the Colubrinae. In getting ashore I landed right beside a cottonmouth moccasin snake, said to be as poisonous as a rattlesnake. Cameras follow a rattle snake as it prepares to ambush its prey, while an egg-eating snake gets ready for dinner. She was a slave to hideous rites, gazing at the apparitional snake. Heredity again, for the snake was the worst enemy of arboreal man. Anacondas can grow up to 25ft long and the snake Niall and the team came across measured 19ft, weighed 100kg and had a 27-inch girth. Over the years the bar of tolerance for the actress has become so low even a rattle snake would struggle to get underneath it. He says, your Highness, that I am like a snake in a consumption! They tore it away and thrust it fiercely aside, its undulations resembling those of a water snake. The first is the banded water snake which, when large, can flatten its head into a very convincing triangular shape. The common water snake appears to be found in nearly every stream and pond in Vigo County, and Dave's Pond is no exception. Their imports included monkeys, giant scaly anteaters, snake and lizard skins, tiger and leopard meat. When a man is bitten by a snake in a solitary place he is in God's hands. Show More Sentences The first snake, the blindworm, is not a snake, nor yet a worm. I occasionally saw a snake, but always of the harmless, blindworm variety. When he raised his boot, the snake was only a blotch on the floor. These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass. She heard something rustling on the matting and when she looked down she saw a little snake gliding along and watching her with eyes like jewels. The cobra, or spectacled snake, is the most poisonous snake in India. He had once brought me a coral snake, but I could not call him by name. Brown brought a carpet snake, and a brown snake with yellow belly. The systematic status of the colubrid snake, Leptodeiradiscolor Gnther. It would be the exemplification of Carlyle's illustration of the snake. A snake might more easily crawl back into his cast-off skin. A snake would be a good illustration of this, for it is cold-blooded, and therefore removed from the temptations which often weaken or restrict warm-blooded creatures. Lady Arabella, be she woman or snake or devil, owned the ground she moved in, according to British law, and the law is jealous and swift to avenge wrongs done within its ken. Nobody ain't seen in this kawntree so big snake like you kill. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of snake? Words that rhyme with snake What is the past tense of snake? What is the plural of snake? What is the adverb for snake? What is the adjective for snake? What is the noun for snake? Translations for snake Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words snail's pace snails snail mail snail-like snailfish snail Snake snakebit snakebite snakebites snakebitten snake charmer 5-letter Words Starting With s sn sna snak