"Cerastes" Quotes from Famous Books
... innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now With complicated monsters, head and tail, Scorpion and asp, and Amphisbaena dire, Cerastes horned, Hydrus, and Elops ... — Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various |