English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "slang" is 'n groot, beenlose reptiel met 'n lang, silindriese liggaam, wat tipies 'n skubberige vel en giftige slagtande het. In mitologie en godsdiens word die slang dikwels uitgebeeld as 'n simbool van boosheid, versoeking of wysheid.

Sentence Examples

  1. Anise stayed on, staring at the guest in her ten-room bed and breakfast like he was a serpent.
  2. Pale as if he had been gazing on a serpent, he fixed his terrified eye on the agonized sufferer.
  3. A long serpent demon slithered, its lower body a snake but its upper bearing four arms and six wolf heads.
  4. Then the three statues advanced towards him with looks of love, and approached the couch on which he was reposing, their feet hidden in their long white tunics, their throats bare, hair flowing like waves, and assuming attitudes which the gods could not resist, but which saints withstood, and looks inflexible and ardent like those with which the serpent charms the bird and then he gave way before looks that held him in a torturing grasp and delighted his senses as with a voluptuous kiss.
  5. They went over the crest of the first hill, and the pueblo of Reina de Los Angeles was lost to view, and all they could see was the highway twisting before them like a great dusty serpent, and the brown hills, and a few buildings in the distance, where some main had his hacienda.
  6. The tempest was let loose and beating the atmosphere with its mighty wings from time to time a flash of lightning stretched across the heavens like a fiery serpent, lighting up the clouds that rolled on in vast chaotic waves.
  7. Lesser men have fought and died for choice since the apple and the serpent.
  8. And to not tell her everything was like having a serpent gnaw at his heart.
  9. Villefort, drawn by an irresistible attraction, like that of the bird to the serpent, walked towards the house.
  10. For a knight, maybe, is fighting in the mountains of Armenia with some dragon, or fierce serpent, or another knight, and gets the worst of the battle, and is at the point of death but when he least looks for it, there appears over against him on a cloud, or chariot of fire, another knight, a friend of his, who just before had been in England, and who takes his part, and delivers him from death and at night he finds himself in his own quarters supping very much to his satisfaction and yet from one place to the other will have been two or three thousand leagues.