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  • KC flipped open the latch and lifted the cover, displaying the snake-head staff, its head with silver teeth and ruby eyes dazzling beneath the bright security lights.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • KC flipped open the latch and lifted the cover, displaying the snake-head staff, its head with silver teeth and ruby eyes dazzling beneath the bright security lights.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • KC flipped open the latch and lifted the cover, displaying the snake-head staff, its head with silver teeth and ruby eyes dazzling beneath the bright security lights.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • Mrs. Babbitt (who, acrobatically fastening the back of her blouse to her skirt with a safety-pin, did not hear a word he said), he chose between the purple scarf and a tapestry effect with stringless brown harps among blown palms, and into it he thrust a snake-head pin with opal eyes.

    Babbit 2004

  • The snake-head spit, and with the tamp Jack felt vigor anew course upward through his tender tootsies, his knobby knees, his empty tum, his sad heart.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • That latter quality showed its snake-head to me but once, peeping out very cautiously.

    Villette 2003

  • He gazed at these items intently, as if imploring the inanimate evidence assembled before him to come to life, give up whatever secrets it might hold and guide them to the killer and the unfortunate prey that the snake-head was hunting.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • Sellitto and Eddie Deng were setting up a takedown site at Sellitto's house, where they could collar him without the risk of bystanders 'getting killed in a shoot-out with the homicidal snake-head and capture any bangshous with him.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • He pushed forward as best he could, afraid that the snake-head would leave before Li found him.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • This text includes the snake-head emblem glyph as the first glyph of the inscription.

    Site Q Sculptures 1998

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