See basilisk on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1870, The British drama: illustrated, volume 4, page 997:",
"text": "Well, She is so basilisk; there's no death in her eyes […]",
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"ref": "1884, M. L. O'Byrne, Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union, page 126:",
"text": "her gaze became more basilisk in its expression, and her countenance bore some similitude to that of a handsome fiend",
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"ref": "2004, Witi Tame Ihimaera, Whanau II, page 167:",
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