Citations:skorpion

Noun: alternative form of scorpion

 * 1848, Jonathan Morgan, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, page #295:
 * And to them, it was given that they should not kill them ; but that they should torment, five months. And their torment, as the torment of a skorpion, when he stingeth a man.
 * 1879, Josh Billings, Old Probability, page #112:
 * I never hav seen a skorpion only in the zodiak, and i aint sorry for this.
 * 1887, unknown, Pitman’s Journal of Commercial Education, Volume 46, page #119:
 * While the water ov a larj vaze woz being renewd there krept out, unseen by any other, a larj skorpion which immediately took refuje under a bench.
 * 1898, Geffraie Fenton and Matteo Bandello, Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello, Volume II., page #194:
 * not doutynge, also, that suche masqued lovers differ nothynge from the venemous skorpion, whose poyson lyeth altogether in her taile ;