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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened…

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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…

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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these… — Chanakya
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion;… — Chanakya
A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his… — Symeon the New Theologian
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy... — Abraham Lincoln
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better… — Mark Twain
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers… — Charles Spurgeon
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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