serpent-charmer

A little after the time I write of, throwing himself into my chair after some visit to a music-hall or hippodrome, he began, ‘O, Yeats, I was never in love with a serpent-charmer before’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

A little after the time I write of, throwing himself into my chair after some visit to a music-hall or hippodrome, he began, ‘O, Yeats, I was never in love with a serpent-charmer before’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

A little after the time I write of, throwing himself into my chair after some visit to a music-hall or hippodrome, he began, ‘O, Yeats, I was never in love with a serpent-charmer before’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

A little after the time I write of, throwing himself into my chair after some visit to a music-hall or hippodrome, he began, ‘O, Yeats, I was never in love with a serpent-charmer before’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

[2505] These have conquered me -- the divinity of the instruction, and the power of the Word: for as a skilled serpent-charmer lures the terrible reptile from his den and causes it to flee, so the Word drives the fearful passions of our sensual nature from the very recesses of the soul; first driving forth lust, through which every ill is begotten -- hatreds, strife, envy, emulations, anger, and such like.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

A little after the time I write of, throwing himself into my chair after some visit to a music-hall or hippodrome, he began, ‘O, Yeats, I was never in love with a serpent-charmer before’.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

A little after the time I write of, throwing himself into my chair after some visit to a music-hall or hippodrome, he began, ‘O, Yeats, I was never in love with a serpent-charmer before’.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Her performance being finished, the bayadère was succeeded by others, each of whom appeared to have her specialty -- one imitating by her postures a serpent-charmer; another quite unequivocally representing

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

What more fit exponent can there be for this weird plant's expression than the song of the serpent-charmer, the singing which can root the feet unto the ground and stay the flowing of the impetuous blood?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

I wasn't going to be beaten by the curate, however, prattled he never so wisely with the cunning of the serpent-charmer.

She and I, Volume 1