Scimitars (noun): a saber having a curved blade with the edge on the convex side and used chiefly by Arabs and Turks.
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary (online).
“One day as Delia came down the kitchen steps she saw his chalky-white fangs curved like scimitars hung in the wire meshes.” As the snake is living in Delia’s house, Zora N. Hurston describes the snakes fangs like curved swords. Delia fears snakes, even small earth worms. But as this snake live in her house, she learns to fear him (or her) less. Hurston continues by saying that Delia no longer run away wide-eyed. I like how Hurston uses curved blades from a sword to describe a snakes fangs. It really helps build the scary image Delia sees in a snake.
Diana Galvez
