If it is a snake I'll tame it, and it will follow me everywhere, and I'll let it sleep round my neck at night.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'

'Perhaps it is a snake, ' said Jane, shuddering.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'

Eventually, what we'd like to do is if they see a pipe or a very narrow gap they say, okay my body is too big, it will change to become a snake to go through it.

CNN: Robotics discovers its soft side

That snake is very rare so it was a rare opportunity to go and touch it.

BBC: Museum boy bitten by snake

The snake is mildly venomous, the FWS says, but it does not pose a danger to most adults, and its bite will not penetrate clothing.

CNN: Deadly mice to rain down on Guam snakes

It's a sequence of events, an inexorable chain reaction where each small link is fundamental, like a snake of upended dominoes.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Sister'

It is not worth the effort to offer a creative loan product for the underserved business community because they have been snake-bitten so many times in the past.

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