I saw a scorpion to-day which pinches when it catches you and draws the blood awful.

Hadst thou been patient, I would have made the thing a joy ere I gave it thee; I would have changed the scorpion into a golden beetle, set with rubies and sapphires.

When he was a child, he grasped a scorpion without injury, and saw a salamander "living and enjoying himself in the hottest flames."

This quotation is typical: "Achilles spear could as well heal as hurt, the scorpion though he sting, yet he stints the pain, through the herb Nerius poison the sheep, yet is a remedy to man against poison...

14, "He that hath her is as if he held a scorpion," &c. xxvi.

"If, for instance, you were out with a friend and met a scorpion in a rage who stung you both, you'd want to take it out of the scorpion, wouldn't you, not the friend?

And I believed him, Sir; I nurtured the scorpion in my over-sensitive bosom!

That her tiny fingers patted scorpions? and tied knots in the tails of vipers?

"Kitmudgar, remove that scorpion from the punka, before it drops into the Sahib's plate.

Through the scorching sunshine ran scorpions and lizards, pursued by enormous rattlesnakes.

They brought an unnamed scorpion and informed us that an orange orchard surrounded by high walls in a secluded place back of the house was "a great place for spiders."

But while Leothric made to smite at his head, he shot forward scorpion-wise over his head the length of his armoured tail.