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  • noun Plural form of basilisk.

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Examples

  • Forty leagues farther is the Isle of Camaram, whose inhabitants are annoyed with little serpents, which they call basilisks, which, though very poisonous and deadly, do not, as the ancients have told us, kill with their eyes, or if they have so fatal

    A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

  • Rich as they are in basilisks and Triwizard Tournaments, her books advance, narratively, at an absolute crawl.

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • Rich as they are in basilisks and Triwizard Tournaments, her books advance, narratively, at an absolute crawl.

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • Rich as they are in basilisks and Triwizard Tournaments, her books advance, narratively, at an absolute crawl.

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • These had with them eleven thousand and two hundred cannons, double cannons, long pieces of artillery called basilisks, and smaller sized ones known by the name of spirols, besides the mortar-pieces and grenadoes.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • These had with them eleven thousand and two hundred cannons, double cannons, long pieces of artillery called basilisks, and smaller sized ones known by the name of spirols, besides the mortar-pieces and grenadoes.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • These had with them eleven thousand and two hundred cannons, double cannons, long pieces of artillery called basilisks, and smaller sized ones known by the name of spirols, besides the mortar-pieces and grenadoes.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Made them advanced dromaesauridae and cousin to basilisks.

    kateelliott: Meanwhile, back at the ranch: a finished first draft kateelliott 2009

  • All the way down the creek, perched in the windows of the office blocks and department stores, the iguanas watched them go past, their hard frozen heads jerking stiffly … Without the reptiles, the lagoons and the creeks of office blocks half-submerged in the immense heat would have had a strange dream-like beauty, but the iguanas and basilisks brought the fantasy down to earth.

    Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World 2010

  • Seven years of basilisks and gryphons and pegasi; seven years of magic, and I the only true freak among them.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

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