Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sea-serpent , 2.
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Examples
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Yet in his bravery he could tear to pieces the water-serpent.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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Kibun-Daijin because it asserts that the beautiful samurai was not really a man, but a transformed dragon, or water-serpent, that used to inhabit the lake at Uyeno, -- Shinobazu-no-Ike.
In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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The other beast of which I have told you (the water-serpent), which always lives in the water, hates the crocodile with a mortal hatred.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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The fish swimming along in its neighbourhood, -- the birds which, rising from the reeds, skim by overhead, -- the animals which come to the banks to drink, -- even man himself, have cause to dread a blow from the snout, and the powerful coils of the huge water-serpent.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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