Word: serpents
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...Fogg Museum. Mounted attractively on the room's south wall, it is likely to win the most casual observer with its vigorous representation and rich color, its size and dignity. The fresco represents a species of griffin, showing the head and wings of an eagle, the neck of a serpent, and the tail of a cock. Though his body is much blurred, ferocity still lives in his eye, tension in his talons, strength in his large wings and coils. The figure ranges in color from brownish red to tawny yellow, whereas the background consists of bands of color...
...Then the serpent enters the Garden: the harvesting machine is invented, the rail-road arrives, sinister-looking capitalists in plug hats turn up. Years pass; the farmer prospers, the rascally capitalists wax fat, the nation's fibre is weakened. Then comes 1929: the gorged capitalists expire of a gut-ache, the farmer is ruined and goes back to plowing...
...Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...
With 921 miles of beautifully straight track darting south from Chicago like a three-pronged serpent's tongue...
...life and the consistency of its patterns of struggle; in the stomach of a sea bird he finds a half-digested fish, with a smaller fish in its stomach, while mud from the bottom of the sea turns out to be writhing with worms, crabs, starfish, urchins, snails, serpent-stars and heretofore unknown species. Not his best book, Zaca Venture presents the most crowded world so far, since it touches on everything from a 42-foot whale shark (the largest true fish known) to a minute feather-fly which lays its eggs and travels in comfort in the white breast...