serpent-charmer

• “A little after the time I write of, throwing himself into my chair after some visit to a music-hall or hippodrome, he began, ‘O, Yeats, I was never in love with a serpent-charmer before’.”

  Simon & Schuster: Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies

• “[2505] These have conquered me -- the divinity of the instruction, and the power of the Word: for as a skilled serpent-charmer lures the terrible reptile from his den and causes it to flee, so the Word drives the fearful passions of our sensual nature from the very recesses of the soul; first driving forth lust, through which every ill is begotten -- hatreds, strife, envy, emulations, anger, and such like.”

  ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

• “Her performance being finished, the bayadère was succeeded by others, each of whom appeared to have her specialty -- one imitating by her postures a serpent-charmer; another quite unequivocally representing”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876

• “What more fit exponent can there be for this weird plant's expression than the song of the serpent-charmer, the singing which can root the feet unto the ground and stay the flowing of the impetuous blood?”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

• “I wasn't going to be beaten by the curate, however, prattled he never so wisely with the cunning of the serpent-charmer.”

  She and I, Volume 1

• “If a serpent-charmer kills a cobra, he loses for ever his power over snakes.”

  From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People

• “Quoth she, "I am fleeing from the serpent-charmer, who is in chase of me, and if thou wilt save me and hide me with thee, I will make fair thy recompense and do thee all manner of kindness.”

  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III

• “As the serpent-charmer of India is compelled to extract the deadly teeth of his venomous prey before he is able to handle him with impunity, so the slaveholder must strike down the conscience of the slave before he can obtain the entire mastery over his victim.”

  My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.

• “I heard his musical, barbaric chant, -- the song by which the serpent-charmer charms the serpent, -- sweet, so sweet, the very birds on the boughs hushed their carol as if to listen.”

  A Strange Story — Complete

• “No;" said he, "it is the song by which the serpent-charmer charms the serpent.”

  A Strange Story — Complete

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