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  • Lady Arabella; the other was the special mongoose which had already killed the king-cobra in Nepaul.

    The Lair of the White Worm 2003

  • The starving cat with up-raised paw by the mouse-hole, the mongoose waiting for the king-cobra to strike, the ruined gambler watching the last roll of the dice — compared to me, they were asleep on the job.

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • The starving cat with up-raised paw by the mouse-hole, the mongoose waiting for the king-cobra to strike, the ruined gambler watching the last roll of the dice -- compared to me, they were asleep on the job.

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • The starving cat with up-raised paw by the mouse-hole, the mongoose waiting for the king-cobra to strike, the ruined gambler watching the last roll of the dice -- compared to me, they were asleep on the job.

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • She was interested, even while she shuddered; it was as though she had been made the object of the sudden, if venomous, admiration of a king-cobra.

    The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Lady Arabella; the other was the special mongoose which had already killed the king-cobra in Nepaul.

    Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker 1879

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