Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
serpents
IPA transcription: [s'ɝpənts]
Pronunciations of serpents
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Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp
In fact, Hercules was but a child, when Juno sent two enormous serpents against him.
Nevertheless a doubt occurs to the mind--that is, scorpions and serpents are poisonous.
The most ferocious carnivores are found in the mountains, and the most venomous serpents haunt the lowlands.
'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day!
And afterwards was forced to strike once more The two entangled serpents with his rod, Ere he could have again his manly plumes.
"It was like two serpents twisting around a stick, and was carved so naturally that I, at first, thought the serpents were alive."
I secured the entrance, which was low and narrow, with a great stone, to preserve me from the serpents; but not so far as to exclude the light.
'I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.'
'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but those serpents!
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