131 examples of cobras in sentences

I felt six eyes bent on me, six unwinking eyes moving restless in motionless figures, suspicious, deadly as cobras Up to now my standing with the men had been well enough.

For bear and grizzly bear, And snakes and cobras, haunt this couch of mine.

The snakes and cobras daughters prophesy.

One of the modes which is adopted for this purpose, is that of allowing a tame snake to crawl over the head, face, and shoulders of the person who is to be curado do cobras, cured of snakes, as they term it.

While the poisonous snakes are kept in pots in a snake room, the King Cobras, of course, have special separate rooms.

I learnt to handle the four poisonous snakes of India (the "Big Four", i.e. Cobras, Common Kraits, Russel's Vipers, Saw-scaled Vipers) and also Pit Vipers and Pythons.

One of the interesting happenings at the time that I was there was the arrival of a film team from the magazine National Geographic to film the King Cobras at the Bank.

For no one who puts the mere dread out of his mind will call the Cobras ugly, even anything but beautiful; nor, again, the deadly Coral snake of Trinidad, whose beauty tempts children, and even grown people, to play with it, or make a necklace of it, sometimes to their own destruction.

A certain Italian, named Aloisius Cadamosta, relates, that when he was upon the discovery of Guinea, and resided in the house of Bisboral, the grandson of king Budomel, he heard one night, when in bed, a great noise and many blows given about the house, upon which Bisboral arose and went out; and, upon his return, Cadamosta demanded of him where he had been, and he answered that he had been with his cobras or snakes, which called him[30].

Where the Tagus joins the Hooghly I have bowled the wily googly, I have heard the howdah's howl at Hyderabad; On a rickshaw I've gone sailing, with my boomerang impaling Hooded cobras on the ice-floes off Bagdad.

The snake-charmer keeps all sorts of them, but chiefly cobras.

At any rate, he wanted live cobras and offered a good price for them.

The other three sides of the hall, which is nearly square, are entirely devoted to the large wall cages, with fronts of stout plate glass, in single sheets, rising about 14 feet to the roof, in which the serpents are confinedthe huge pythons, anaconda, and boa constrictor, the poisonous cobras and rattlesnakes, and others well known to the visitors at these gardens.

But some of them, the cobras for instance, develop into what are on the whole perhaps the most formidable of all snakes.

Moreover, they are very aggressive, more so than any other snakes in the world, except possibly some of the cobras.

In Africa I killed a small cobra which contained within it a snake but a few inches shorter than itself; but, as far as I could find out, snakes were not the habitual diet of the African cobras.

It is Duryodhana, who caused venomous black cobras to bite all over the body of Bhimasena, but that slayer of foes died not.

* COBRA DI CAPELLOHOODED SNAKE.

There are several varieties of this venomous serpent, differing in point of colour; and the aspic of Egypt, with which Cleopatra destroyed herself, is said to be a very near ally to this species; but the true cobra is entirely confined to India.

The Indian mangouste is described to be the most deadly enemy of the cobra di capello, and the battles between them have been frequently described.

The bite of the cobra di capello is not so immediately fatal as is commonly supposed; fowls have been known to live two days after being bitten, though they frequently die within half an hour.

Though the cobra is so deadly when under excitement, it is, nevertheless, astonishing to see how readily it is appeased, even in the highest state of exasperation, and this merely by the droning music with which its exhibitors seem to charm it.

[Illustration: COBRA DI CAPELLO.]

Many and grievous perils do environ baby-life by the Ganges,perils of dry nurses, perils by wolves, perils by crocodiles, perils by the Evil Eye, perils by kidnappers, perils by cobras, perils by devils.

and see my brave mungooz, that can kill cobras in fair fight!

131 examples of  cobras  in sentences