Snake Charming

He was neither recruiting nor snake-charming, but was airing views. ❋ Vic Fortezza (2011)

Mr. Elgin discovered his most effective publicity ploy by getting bitten by a cobra while performing a snake-charming act. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Left has been snake-charming the press for decades and only now, when the manipulation is no longer working, are the press suddenly "the enemy". ❋ Unknown (2010)

I wonder what, if anything, they have done effectively so far in this campaign except rallying the snake-charming/fundie base by nominating Palin ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Covington becomes so enamored of the people of these churches -- their music, their dancing, their strychnine drinking, snake-charming ways -- that he himself takes up the snake. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Carnage brought to an end by Madonna's infamous snake-charming skills! ❋ Annawaits (2006)

Or a tasty Mediterranean luncheon, say, carpaccio over arugula with thin shavings of Parmesan and a glass of Merlot, with Yuki and her snake-charming mom? ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2006)

Edgar Caswall, who was now wholly obsessed by the kite and all belonging to it, found a distinct resemblance between that intermittent rumble and the snake-charming music produced by the pigeons flying through the dry reeds. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His profession when a free man, it seems, was a snake-charming flute player, and he was enslaved because he was caught playing the flute for women involved in the Dionysiac rites which so worried the Senate a few years ago. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

The hunting of hippopotami and gorillas is most interestingly narrated by the great explorer who also tells about the method employed in catching elephants, about snake-charming, and so forth. ❋ Gertrude Weld Arnold (N/A)

Among the oldest traditions of the Eastern world are those of snake-charming by means of music. ❋ Royal Dixon (1923)

The groups who practise snake-charming are known as Sapera or Garudi and in the Maratha Districts as Madari. ❋ Robert Vane Russell (1894)

It is a savage form of devil worship, including snake-charming, and the lore of fetiches and charms; and its professors are able to produce abnormal effects, within certain limits, upon the nerves and imaginations of their clients or victims. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)

So much so that probably far the most important part of his education lay in acquiring those arts which conduce to the deception of others, such deceptions as jugglers have always practised in snake-charming and the like, or in gaining control of another's senses by processes akin to hypnotism; -- processes which have been used by the priestly class and their familiars from the dawn of time. ❋ Brooks Adams (1887)

[16: For the history of this man and his snake-charming followers see "The Moors," p. 331.] ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

Expecting to be well paid, the cobra-turbaned buni sent us word by a messenger boy that he would like very much to exhibit his powers of snake-charming. ❋ Unknown (1861)

There was [no time] time to waste, so I asked [Wendy] to begin Snake Charming. She than showed off her [skin flute] playing skills and then we were able to bang. Snake Charmers be Snake Charming ❋ LoveCanal69 (2015)

"[Bro], you just [have to] snake charm [that bitch]!" ❋ Jamaican Birds Nest (2014)

She whispered [sweet nothings] in his each and was [such a] [snake charmer]. ❋ Jamestom (2006)

[Lisa] is an [expert] at [snake charming]! ❋ MOCO & P-Phat (2009)

That was a great meal last night but right now its trying to [snake charm] me. Ummmm, will you excuse me for a second. I'm really [snake charming] right now. Wow, I'm getting snake [charmed] right now, I'll be right back. ❋ Flatcat (2010)

"[Oh dear] Mrs.X, it appears that you've got an egg in your [uterus]. Been [doing a bit] of Meat-Flaps Snake Charming have you?" ❋ Themostnaturalskintags (2007)

"Holy shit you guys, I just went out for a bit when a [gaggle of bitches] started [snake-charming] me. One chick was all about bending my ass [over a barrel]." ❋ Secretclean (2015)