#serpents

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 during the whole time of my residence. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

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#alligators #besides #certainly #common #during

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents. ↗

— Hilda Doolittle

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#consider #serpents #wise

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold. ↗

— Robert Lowell

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#cold #serpents #whistle