It was also not so strange that his mood of elation had for a short while, when viewing the scorpion lady, gone awry.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
He smiled the other day when I fled from a scorpion in the garden.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Circumstances may change, but the force remains, sometimes, after yielding us the most exquisite pleasure, to lash us with scorpion-like whips.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim