Word: serpents
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...suppose. A creature seen off Llandudno, like a long, undulating water-snake on mammoth scale, was convincing to the eyes of many beholders. Stories of a similar monster were so current along the American coasts during the last century that the hypothetical beast won the soubriquet of "American Sea-Serpent". Only last year, the repeated tales from South America of a "prehistoric" reptile sporting in the waters of a lake in the Andes, set zoologists agog and even stimulated a searching-party, which has not yet made its report...
...ancient Egyptian symbol for infinity was a serpent holding his tall in his mouth. It now transpires that the Egyptians had a much better symbol than ours of to-day, which is the complicated and arbitrary figure 8 inverted. For Einstein, and a colleague who comes forth as a second enemy of common sense, Dr. Weyl, have reached the conclusion that infinity is nothing more than a serpent with his tall in his mouth-merely an infinite circle...
...miles south of Miami, there has been picked up the body of a monster that calls to mind those gossips' tales of the fabled Sea Serpent,--tales which persist, even today, in almost every sea-side hamlet. In the days of our fathers, there were always to be found those who, with bated breath, had watched the demon of the sea; and from whose tongues the off-told tale slipped readily over a mug of ale in the smoky seamen's taverns. Weird and fearful were those stories, none the less so because the visible proofs of their truth were...
...good. It is a rule established in civilized countries that horses eat oats, men eat bread, and the barnyard fowl eat anything they can get. However, this rule does not hold in the less highly cultured parts of Africa, where, it is rumored, polite society is fond of serpent and other things, nicely browned...
...expected that crocodile-green and gila-monster-pink will make their appearance in Flanders, side by side with serpent mottled and zebra striped. The armies may view with each other in sartorial battle for the most striking colors, and soldiers parade along Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...