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Definition of Serpents
1. serpent [n] - See also: serpent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serpents
Literary usage of Serpents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"In the marine serpents (Hydrides), there are rows of maxillary teeth behind ...
It seems probable that serpents do not possess the senses of taste or smell ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"serpents were kept, apparently as objects of devotion, at Thebes (Herodotus, ii.
74), and the cerastes has often been found embalmed there. ..."
3. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1843)
"The second engraving represents the two entwined serpents enclosing and running
... The bodies of the serpents, according to the representations of the same ..."
4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. by John Lloyd Stephens (1843)
"The second engraving represents the two entwined serpents enclosing and running
... The bodies of the serpents, according to the representations of the same ..."
5. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"The second engraving represents the two entwined serpents enclosing and running
... The bodies of the serpents, according to the representations of the same ..."
6. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"The second engraving represents the two entwined serpents enclosing and running
... The bodies of the serpents, according to the representations of the same ..."
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