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Salamander

noun

Any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed.

Reptilian creature supposed to live in fire.

Fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire. Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker.

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"Salamander" Quotes from Famous Books

... be a small dark-red newt under a stone near Hurryon Brook. Couldn't make it bite me, so let Kathleen hold it. Query: Is it a land or water lizard, a salamander, or a newt; and what does it feed on and where does it deposit ...

— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... we have? There were Sally and Fred, And Martha and Luke and Leander; There was Jack, a small boy with a frowsy red head, And the look of an old salamander. ...

— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various

... accept in point of size, it being only about one third as large as the squirrel, and that it also burrows. I have observed in many parts of the plains and praries the work of an anamal of which I could never obtain a view. their work resembles that of the salamander common to the sand hills of the States of South Carolina and Georgia; and like that anamal also it never appears above the ground. the little hillocks which are thrown up by these anamals have much the appearance of ten or twelve pounds of loose earth poared out ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... revolution,—this Remy Belleau, Antoine de Baif, Pontus de Tyard, Etienne Jodelle, Jean Daurat, and lastly Joachim du Bellay; and with that strange love of emblems which is characteristic of the time, which covered all the works of Francis the First with the salamander, and all the works of Henry the Second with the double crescent, and all the works of Anne of Brittany with the knotted cord, they called themselves the Pleiad; seven in all, although, as happens with the celestial Pleiad, if you ...

— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater

... offered myself as a Triton, a boisterous Triton of the sounding shell. You, M., I suppose, would be a salamander, rather. ...

— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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