She was interesting in a cockatrice kind of way: alien and…

“Remember, this is the time of the cockatrice. It has hatched from its egg. So who now dares say what will be?”

— Philip Dodd

“Almost as evil as the stench was the silence. Senex, however poorly he had ended his rule, had always remembered the canonical crows. He…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“I clung tightly to Kwan’s mane as he propelled his great serpent body through the cloud banks. The cockatrice’s big green head dipped under…

— Heather Heffner

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics,…

— Glenn Greenwald

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

— James Coburn

“I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.”

— India Edghill

“I lifted my wand, hoping she would see this as a dramatic move, not a threat. “Why once, in my bunker at Charing Cross…

— Rick Riordan

“Mac blinked. That smile should be registered as a deadly weapon.”

— Kaje Harper

“You come in all tall, dark, and deadly and my lady parts go all cuckoo for cocoa puffs and shit.”

— Amelia Hutchins

“Life is deadly.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Imagination is a deadly weapon, it pays to keep it sharp.”

— Sam Conniff Allende

“Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said.”

— Glen Cook

I can maneuver if I need to but I'm deadly in the pocket.

— Dwayne Haskins

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

— Raymond Chandler

“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was…

— David Weber