Word: serpent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...
Professor F. W. Putnam, director of the Peabody Museum, gave a lecture last evening in Association Hall, Boston, in the Natural Science Course. His subject was "The Serpent Mound and the Ancient People of the Ohio Valley...
Prof. R. A. Proctor has an article in the April "Forum" on the "Reality of a Sea Serpent...
...through two more chapters each. Of the other articles there is one by Grant White, on the "Anatomizing of William Shakespeare," and on "Washington as it Should Be," by O. B. Frothingham. Dr. Holmes contributes a short notice of the late "Tom Appleton." The "Trail of the Sea Serpent" is illustrated by a few diagrams. The departments are well filled, making in all an interesting number...
...level of the black opening I strained eye and ear to catch some sign of what Colney was doing. All was dark and silent, however; and I was just heaving a sigh of relief as we rose to the top of the opening, when, quick as a serpent's tongue, a spade-handle, with a long knife lashed to the end, darted out of the shadow, and made a thrust at the rope where it was already worn almost through...