At midnight there had been a moon, but before dawn snow came, a great, gray, shimmering gloom drifting through the vague world.
— from Mad Barbara by Warwick Deeping

Septenary universally in repute, 635-u. Serapis represented with a human head and serpentine tail, 500-m. Serapis, the name of the Sun to his adorers on the Nile, 587-l. Serpent an emblem of eternity and immortality, 496-l. Serpents and Dragons have something divine in their nature, 494-m. Serpent and the bull used as symbols in Bakchian Mysteries, 420-u. Serpent, brazen, erected by Moses, a good genius, 278-l. Serpent called Agathodemon, the good Spirit, 495-u. Serpent, considered a good genius; symbolism of the, 278-l. Serpent devouring its own tail a symbol of the Life principle, 734-m. Serpent engenders the Bull and the Bull the Serpent; explanation, 493-494-u. Serpents entwined around and suspended from winged Globe, 492-m. Serpents fed in Temples and were immortal, 494-m. Serpents figure in Mysteries and at Feasts, 494-m. Serpent form assumed by Typhon, Ahriman, Satan,
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Perhaps even half-a-century hence, when the horse will to all intents be extinct in England, save where he is kept for racing and in some instances for hunting purposes, interest may still be taken in Shakespeare's plays and therefore in the stories of such whimsical characters as the self-satisfied, conceited and generally grotesque Sir Andrew Aguecheek and his celebrated grey steed, Capilet, that we find portrayed so admirably in Twelfth Night ; in Lord Lafeu of All's Well that Ends Well and his curious bay horse, Curtal, a name that means literally “the cropped one”; and in Cut, the carrier's horse of King Henry IV. ,—to name but a few of Shakespeare's creations that surely must live on for ever.
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer