Word: serpents
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...passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets, crystallized almonds, nuts, Eva Veeder's ring. Lacking more, he picked little red hips from wildrose shrubs, stuffed them into the serpent's jaws. Going away he looked back, saw some magpies flying around the place; one was perched on the serpent's head, seemed to be pecking into the jaws. "A feeling of boundless joy descended on me. I did not know...
...pedestrian in Ireland's County Clare is warned not to carry out his intention of climbing to a certain mountain lake: a great serpent is imprisoned in it, will be allowed to go free the day before the Day of Judgment. The pedestrian does not heed the warning, sees the serpent sure enough...
There had been stories current in Sandusky for some time concerning a sea-serpent which had frightened many a fisherman. The traveling salesmen, Frank Bagenstose and Clifford Wilson, thought their time had come. But Salesman Wilson unshipped an oar, struck out forcibly with it, stunned the apparition. Growing bolder, he and his companion fished down in the water, brought up 18 ft. of fat snake. They wadded it into the rowboat, took it to shore, crated it, locked it in their automobile. As soon as it was crated, it revived. Crowds numbering thousands filed past the motorcar...
...glassy sea of crime fiction this book bursts up like a breaching sea-serpent. . . . If you have a sneaking suspicion that the general run of detective stones are drab, mechanical, unconvincing ?in short, not so well done as they might be?read The Glass Key and have your suspicion confirmed. Defenders of the old-line detective story might object that The Glass Key is less a detective than a crime story. But whether you are a squeamish voyager among books or so hardened that the roaring forties seem like the doldrums, this book will be a portent...
...Serpent in the Cloud" is in my opinion a work which approaches the ideal of true poetry far more closely than those subjective excrescences to be found among the minor lyricists. This is a long narrative poem comparable in stature if not in epic quality with "John Brown's Body". The story is the simple theme of the love of two young people who are separated by obstacles which are overcome in their consummation. The obstacles this time are self imposed by the young man, Bruce Herrick, who fears that his blood is tainted with insanity. Rose, the girl...