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  • Deep in the ocean, Loki frolics in shapeshifted form with his sea-snake daughter, as her teeth are "thickened by the swallowed skeletons and shells of myriads of underwater creatures."

    Gods and Monsters Tom Shippey 2012

  • Notes on the Australian sea-snake Ephalophis greyi M. Smith (Serpentes: Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) and the origin and classification of sea-snakes.

    ‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006

  • Notes on the Australian sea-snake Ephalophis greyi M. Smith (Serpentes: Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) and the origin and classification of sea-snakes.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Surely the snakes are symbolic; surely Laocöon and his boys were killed not by a sea-snake but by a member of the pro-Greek faction, and so, therefore, by someone perceived as a tool of a signifier of evil like a snake.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Surely the snakes are symbolic; surely Laocöon and his boys were killed not by a sea-snake but by a member of the pro-Greek faction, and so, therefore, by someone perceived as a tool of a signifier of evil like a snake.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • And with that, down he goeth on the deck himself, and wriggleth up to Rickon through the weeds, with a hiss like a great sea-snake, and grippeth him.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Does this sea-snake match its wonderful nimbleness of body with an equally wonderful nimbleness of brain?

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • And desirous of saving her son, the sea-snake rose (up from the earth) while still employed in swallowing her son's tail.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • And desirous of saving her son, the sea-snake rose (up from the earth) while still employed in swallowing her son's tail.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • There wasn't no threshin 'around and flurryin', but the vicious brute acted just like some kind of a sea-snake.

    The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

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