Near to our side, darted an adder up, And, where the neck is on the shoulders tied, Transpierc'd him.
An adder did it; for with doubler tongue Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.
And especially significant did the imagery appear to the Jews, with whom this poisonous adder was indigenous, but to whom the horse was the symbol of foreign armament and invasion.
Why, for pity's sake, Not try an adderor a rattlesnake?
The mower mows on, though the adder may writhe And the copper-head coil round the blade of his scythe!
To Canaan, to Canaan The Lord has led us forth, To thunder through its adder dens The anthems of the North.
But he felt the influence just the same; with all his powers of mind and contempt of superstitions in others, he could not at times shake off the apprehensions aroused by untoward omens, as when he stepped upon the adder in the woods.
If I wanted to touch an adder with my hand I would not catch him by the tail so that it could curl around and sting my hand; I would catch it just behind the head.
Well, I've got an adderby the throat, and I mean to hold him there.
I will never kill another adder as long as I live.
Susan now arrived with the frying-pan, when the live adderwas killed and the heads of the three taken off.
The live adder regarded the assembled group with a sinister look in its small black eye, and the beautiful brown and jet pattern on its back seemed to intensify with indignation.
And there came an adder and bit him in the neck, so that Zarathustra screamed with pain.
Thy journey is short," said the adder sadly; "my poison is fatal.
Then fell the adderagain on his neck, and licked his wound.
When I came to, the crushed adder lay dead upon the rock, from a crevice of which he had crept forth upon me.
There, coiled up ready for a spring, its head flattened, its eyes glittering venomously, was a checkered adderpreparing to lance out upon me.
Adder drove me down, and stopped his coach at the inn, and rowed me the half-mile up.
Adder saw him some days back in a brown consultation near his club with Captain May.
The curious point, Adder says, is his letting it be done by steel.
Adder conveyed the information of her husband's flight to the consolable Amy,' said Mrs. Lawrence.
Dick, if a single adder bit me, it would go farther to convince me that the next adder would bite me too than if fifty young Buffons told me all adders bite.
What, then, if it was established that all adders bite, would you refuse to believe his adder would bite you, sir?
First of all, therefore, we have the adder (in our old Saxon tongue called an atter), which some men do not rashly take to be the viper.
Well, by and by an adder bit a knight's heel; the knight forgot all about the order, and made a slash at the adder with his sword.
I only met an adder in the forest, but the one animal is quite as dangerous as the other.
I went on my way quite tranquillized, and I did not even start on seeing an adder lying coiled up in the sun; I threw my brick at him, and he slipped away in a hurry.
I dare not venture to pluck some to quench my thirst, because I have an idea that the adder has poisoned all the strawberries.
But though lean Hunger and green Thirst Like asp with adder fight, We have little care of prison fare, For what chills and kills outright Is that every stone one lifts by day Becomes one's heart by night.
But you are the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears.
And now open your ears to my charming; adder me no adders.
A big puff-adder was at the far end, and he hitched his fangs over a tree stump.
I do not think it has the power of twisting or twirling, like the ordinary snake or adder and it is very slow in its movements.
The deaf adder never moves unless it is touched, hence its name.
The deaf adder is the most formidable "varmint" in Australia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: computer; parts; relay; snake
