In other cases, the snake's head would be simply painted on.

The snake's head rested against one of the table legs.

It's one thing to talk about cutting off the snake's head, and another to have any idea of what we want to achieve.

It grabbed me as I was pointing out the snake's head.

With a supreme effort I managed to force the snake's head down across one edge of the table, and to hold it there.

The snake's head went down in the same way as the fat cutworm had done.

The snake's head swayed, then dropped to the earth, and it began to move.

I know the Snake's Head is a kind of flower.

I wasn't sure I could hit the snake's head without hitting her.

I told her all that had happened, right up to the black girl throwing the snake's head out of the streetcar window.

Mae, understanding, reached down to pet the snake's head, though she did look a bit nervous about it.

She saw then the snake's head break the surface, easily, gracefully, silently.

If anyone the snake's head rears, Water them with deadly tears!

There is a picture of Saint Mary standing on snake's head.

The bodyguard finally pulled out his pocket-knife and cut off the snake's head.

The snake's head turned slowly, her forked tongue tasting the air.

My handsome neighbor looked at me as if I'd grown a snake's head and hissed.

When you strike at the snake's head you don't have to worry about the rest of the animal.

At one point, he even stuffed the snake's head down the front of Runt's pants.

He picked up a forked stick and pinned the snake's head down with it.

There were more bloody furrows down the snake's head when the blur of movement was over.

He picked out a beautiful bracelet of woven gold, with a snake's head and tail.

Jammin' in the wind sitting on a snake's head.

He claimed the snake's head was 3 feet wide, and that the jaws were of a triangular shape.

The snake's head is usually without parietal light spots.

The designation recognised the nationally scarce downy-fruited sedge (Carex tomentosa) and snake's head fritillary.

Kew plant profile: Fritillaria meleagris (snake's head fritillary)

The existence of the extremely rare Snake's Head Fritillary in the Sinn Valley has been recorded since the 19th century.

Among flowers, the Snake's Head Fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris, have a tessellated chequerboard pattern on their petals.

One interesting link with the past is the village's unofficial flower emblem - The Snake's Head Fritillary - known locally as Folfallarum'.

A most unusual and delicate flower is the Snake's Head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) which has bell shaped flowers chequered in shades of maroon and white.

The meadows are home to rare flowers, such as the snake's head fritillary, and are important breeding sites for wading birds such as curlew, snipe and redshank.

One of the village's claims to fame is that it is the most northerly point in the UK where the Snake's Head Fritillary can be found growing in the wild.

F. meleagris (snake's head fritillary) is the county flower of Oxfordshire, UK, and the provincial flower of Uppland, Sweden, where it is known as kungsängslilja ("Kungsängen lily").

The orchards are managed as wildflower meadows containing flowers such as Cowslip, Primrose, Snake's Head Fritillary, Buttercup and Camassia all growing below the fruit trees of which most are traditional Ryedale varieties.

A painting by Jakob de Gheyn II., originating between 1600 and 1603 depicts shells, a caterpillar and a vase with love-in the mist, a snake's head fritillary, roses, Aquilegia, lilies-of the valley, pansies and a Tulipa schrenckii with pointed petals.

Another little bulb I've grown to love is Fritillaria meleagris, or the guinea-hen flower, so-called for its speckled, pinkish-brown blossoms.

Most gardeners have seen the commonly-grown Fritillaria mealgris or guinea-hen flower, so named for its checkered drooping flowers that have become naturalized in many Eurolpean meadows.

Called the Chequered Daffodil by Gerard because the flowere are "like the board at which men play at chesse".Also known as the Ginny Hen Flower because the markings are like those of a Guinea Fowl.

Leaving Diana, Miranda walked distractedly through the dining room, stopping to peel parchment-colored drops of wax from candlesticks and remove drooping tulips from the bowl in the center of the table.

The only touch of exoticism was the parrot sulking on its perch by the window; otherwise this nest was irredeemably suburban, from the row of family photographs beside the clock on the mantelpiece to the drooping tulips in the vase on the well-polished dining room table.