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Example sentences for: serpent
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The Mexica Aztecs traveled south under the guidance of the god Huitzilopochtli, who advised them to look for an eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a serpent.
In 1985, while writing a review of Sylvester Stallone's grotesque rabble-rouser Rocky IV , I went back and watched the original Rocky to see if--to borrow the controlling metaphor of Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg --"through the thin membranes you [could] clearly discern the already perfect reptile."
There are four things according to the Book of Proverbs that are beyond understanding: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Among the most important works from the 14th to the 18th centuries are Simone Martini’s St. Catherine of Alexandria, Cranach’s Venus, Hans Baldung Grien’s Eve, the Serpent and Death, Hans Memling’s Virgin, Christ and St. Anthony, Bronzino’s Portrait of a Man, Annibale Carracci’s Vision of St. Francis, Poussin’s Landscape with a Woman Washing Her Feet, Rubens’ Entombment of Christ, Rembrandt’s Heroine from the Old Testament, and Chardin’s The Governess.
There are also words representative of other areas of Aboriginal life, such as boylya cleverman or wise elder, gnamma waterhole, kylie boomerang, miamia dwelling, monaych , originally the name of a cockatoo and by transference a police officer, nyoongar Aboriginal person, wagyl , the mythical rainbow serpent, wilgie , a red ochre used to paint the body on ceremonial occasions, and wongi , a word for an Aboriginal person, originally used around Kalgoorlie.
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