"I have heard that, if any man kills a cobra, its mate will follow him by day and by night until it has had its revenge.

Then calling aloud to know if all danger was past, he ventured cautiously out again and saw that the Purdaisee and the Malee had ejected the wriggling cobra and were pounding its head into a jelly with a big stone.

On my last day at the Park, I was allowed to handle a cobra.

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

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.

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

It would not have been possible to have held an African ring-necked cobra in such fashion, because the ring-neck would have ejected its venom through the fangs into the eyes of the onlookers.