Word: serpents
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...became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been. Thirteen finger-rings, all different, they slipped upon his brittle digits. With eleven bracelets they circled his arms. They...
...this bright business Eden, however, some are already eyeing the realtor as a possible serpent.. Despite a strong tendency to inmany large centres, rents are discrease construction operations in tinctly sagging. Florida go-getters who come north to raise funds for the conversion of mangrove swamps into U. S. Rivieras still are entrusted with ample funds, but are meeting with increased skepticism in many quarters. Speculative apartment-builders are cultivating a less haughty "take it or leave it" attitude...
...piled up in the images of animals. In Wisconsin are buffalo, moose, elk, deer, fox, wolf, panther, lynx and eagle tumuli, evidently of totemic significance, the actual graves being dug hard by. These images are enormous: eagles with 1,000 ft. wingspread; panthers with 350-ft. tails. The Great Serpent Mound (Adams County, Ohio) is 1,348 ft. long, following the curves of the body and the triple-coiled tail. The opened jaws are 75 ft. across, yawning at a smaller mound -which resembles a frog...
...husband and I were as happy as a man and woman could be in our Garden of Eden until the serpent came. Who was the serpent? I can see the question shaping in your mind, but I can't answer it. That's my secret and it will die with me. Suffice it for the world that the point was reached where my husband was brought to the belief that he had to choose between his partner and his future. He chose...
Perversely the serpent censorship refuses to die. The Puritans revived it and brought on as a result the reaction of an unrestrained Restoration era. Even today the abortive principle occasionally raises its ugly head. Fortunately the very absurdity of the events and comments it drags in its wake are enough to disclose its own true and repelling nature...