Fangs

filler between and around the larger features of the design. Typical features of the mask include large, protuberant eyes; stylized depictions of eyebrows, horns, nose crest, ears, and two peripheral legs; and a line of a curled upper lip with exposed fangs and no lower jaw. Since it suggests an ever-devouring "glutton," it was probably this last feature that later (3rd century BC) inspired the name taotie for the ancient monster motif. The function of the taotie motif has been variously interpreted;

gibet ! Ceci n’était plus de jeu et dépassait la plaisanterie. Les rires cessèrent tout d’un coup et firent place à la rage. Une douzaine de voix hurlèrent : – Enlevez-le ! À l’abreuvoir ! À l’abreuvoir ! Lâchez les chiens ! Hardi, Lion ! Bien ça, Fangs ! Alors il arriva une chose qui jusque-là ne s’était jamais vue en Angleterre : la personne sacrée de l’héritier du trône fut grossièrement souffletée, rossée par la plèbe et harcelée par des chiens qui arrachaient ses vêtements à belles dents. À la

you my whole mind ! you have given me 163 Pierre and Jean an opening — so much the worse for you. I love the woman ; you know it, and laugh her to scorn in my presence — so much the worse for you. But I will break your viper's fangs, I tell you. I will make you treat me with respect." "With respect — you?" " Yes— me." 11 Respect you ? You, who have brought shame on us all by your greed." 11 You say ? Say it again — again." 14 1 say that it does not

of ash and billows of ash rising up and blowing downcountry through the waste. The track of the dull sun moving unseen beyond the murk. They were days fording that cauterized terrain. The boy had found some crayons and painted his facemask with fangs and he trudged on uncomplaining. One of the front wheels of the cart had gone wonky. What to do about it? Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet

animals, so music would be meaningless to them. “Charmed” cobras stand upright if threatened and sway in response to the movement of the instrument. If they strike at the flute, they hurt themselves, so they don’t do it again. Most cobras have had their fangs removed but, even so, they can only strike at a distance within their own length, rather as if you put your elbow on a table and strike downward with your hand. The cobra’s natural attitude is defensive, not aggressive. What are violin strings made

her husband and his friends as they talked. Behind her the still was at work with constant drip-drip, and she felt a mad desire to grapple with it as with some dangerous beast and tear out its heart. She seemed to feel herself caught in those copper fangs and fancied that those coils of pipe were wound around her own body, slowly but surely crushing out her life. The whole room danced before her eyes, for Gervaise was now in the condition which had so often excited her pity and indignation with others

feel ill clad and unattractive. Rosie’s devotion to her art is made clear by her request to study a cobra up close. It is somewhat disillusioning to learn that the famous snake charmers of India are not quite what they seem. The snakes have their fangs pulled, are drugged heavily, and are deaf to the music of the been (a simple piercing reed instrument effective in gathering a crowd in a noisy setting). It is the weaving of the instrument back and forth in front of the snake that attracts the attention