Serpents
[sɜ:pənts]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of serpents, is indicative of cultivated morbidity and depressed surroundings. There is usually a disappointment after this dream. See Snakes and Reptiles.
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Examples
- Neolithic man was enormously impressed by serpents--and he no longer took the sun for granted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The rain fell, and the Smoke-serpents, submissive to the curse of all that tribe, trailed themselves upon the earth. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She clung hold of his coat, of his hands; her own were all covered with serpents, and rings, and baubles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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