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Her tongue distils poison, her features are haloed with serpents,
Satyricon 2007
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That which we receive by faith is the proper object of it; and it is represented by their looking unto the brazen serpent, when it was lifted up, who were stung by fiery serpents,
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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Her tongue distils poison, her features are haloed with serpents,
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Her tongue distils poison, her features are haloed with serpents,
The Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by Sea 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Or wrought strange figures, lotus-buds and serpents,
In Divers Tones Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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Heavy rain came on but Mucalinda, the king of the serpents,
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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Set up the unrivalled weapon, she spawned huge serpents,
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I had now been eleven months in the forests, and collected some rare insects, two hundred and thirty birds, two land-tortoises, five armadillos, two large serpents,
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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Poets of old in chorus cried out against those two serpents,
Erotica Romana Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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Therefore is my soul like unto the poison of serpents,
Wisdom of the East Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin 1173-1263 Shinran 1218
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