glossy snake

Within the baseball world, the glossy view of Palmer--his public image--is seen as a sort of strange joke.

He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.

On his loins was a lion of great fierceness, and coiled round his waist was a hissing mamba (snake).

It was a beautiful sight, those rows of small trees with their large, glossy leaves, shut in by woods of a larger growth.

So they bore Spotted Snake away with them in the canoe, while the Dogtown gang shrieked farewells from the old landing.

Dorothy again caught the furtive glance of the woman's evil eyes, and recoiled from it as if she had trodden upon a snake.