There is a charm in these medical rules in my old book, in spite of the earth-worms and wood-lice and adders and vipers in which some of them abound (to say nothing of other and more shocking ingredients).
The scullery-boy replied, "He is imprisoned in the pit with addersand with snakes.
When the King saw the boundless ugliness of his intended bride, he was very angry, and ordered the coachman to be thrown into a pit which was full of adders and nests of snakes.
Our adders lie in winter under stones, as Aristotle also saith of the viper (lib.
As we have great store of toads where adders commonly are found, so do frogs abound where snakes do keep their residence.
The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemp'red blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
The Water-Adders were certainly the cleverest people in the pond, and there was one Mother Adder who was so very bright that they called her "the Clever Water-Adder.
Of course this was a dreadful wish to make, but people said that one of the Adders had frightened the Yellow Brown Frog so that he never got over it, and this was the reason he felt so.
All of them," she said, "except us Addersand the Turtles.
One might think that the Sand-Hill Cranes, the Fish Hawks, and the other shore families would have been good friends for them, but when they called, the Adders were always away.
The Yellow Brown Frog wished that the Adders could be scared, badly scared, some time: so scared that a chilly feeling would run down their backs from their heads clear to the tips of their tails.
Grayskin had heard Karr speak of the poisonous adders that were to be found in the forest.
Our adders lie in winter vnder stones, as Aristotle also saith of the viper Lib.
And as we haue great store of todes where adders commonlie are found, so doo frogs abound where snakes doo keepe their residence.
I think," said Fridolin presently, "that the pit of adders is the best place for him.
As soon as it was evident she was about to speak, the snakes and adders left off hissing, and there was a dead silence throughout the whole body of people present.
Have the young man shot directly, unless you prefer that I should let my adders loose upon him.
Canetto, with a glance of wrath at her, "I should be sorry to be obliged to proceed at once to extremities, but another such interruption will expose you to the violent probability of being whipped to death with your own adders immediately.
Then Sigmund laughed and answered: "Thou hast kneaded up therein The deadliest of all adders that is of the creeping kin: So tonight from the bread refrain thee, lest thy bane should come of it.
And there are men who are all enfolded in adders of evil appetite and passion that no human power can ever crush; and unless the grace of God seizes hold of them, these adders will become "the worm that never dies.
In the center of the pillar, From a scarlet-colored basin, Noxious serpents beer were drinking, And the adders eating spices.
The world's all the better for there being no Abel Churr; and the adders and things can have a chance of marrying and having families without being pulled out of their holes by the tail.
So the King sent at once and took her brother out of the pit of snakes, and the adders hadn't done him the least harm, but the stepmother and her daughter were thrown into it in his stead.
One peculiarity of the Puff-adders is that they sometimes hold on to their victim by their long fangs.
The genus Clotho consists of the terrible Puff-adders of Africa, of which there are at least four or five species.
Adders bite in much the same manner when seized by the tail or middle of the body; but when they think themselves attacked and become irritated, they strike rather than bite.
Frogs are eaten in the south of France, Italy, and many other countries; and in some parts of the south of France, Adders are eaten under the name of Hedge-eels.
The movement of Adders is abrupt, slow, and irregular.
Examples of the Common and of the Rhinoceros Puff-adders may generally be seen in the reptile house of the London Zoological Gardens.
Adders are justly considered objects of fear and horror both to Men and to other animals.
Adders use their fangs to seize the small animals which serve as their prey.
It is not unusual to find several Adders coiled up together in one heap, entwined and intimately interlaced together.
Adders are known to exist in the woods round about, but are never, or very seldom, seen upon the heath itself.
The existence ofadders in the woods here seems so undoubted that strangers should be a little careful if they leave the track.
Here, at two spots within half a mile of each other, I found two of the most singular and beautifully coloured adders I had ever seen.
The smell of the vineyard that bloometh is contrary to all venomous things, and therefore when the vineyard bloometh, adders and serpents flee, and toads also, and may not sustain and suffer the noble savour thereof.
There be Pards, Tigers, Satyrs, Cockatrices, and horrible adders and serpents.
Horace said to me yesterday, "If every one would kill adders they would come to sting less.
He replied indignantly: "I did not mean that; but the timidadders which run away would be saved, and in time would never sting at all.
Also put therof in thy doores or in thy howse and thou shalbe without daunger ofAdders and other venymous serpentes.
For instance, "That Plant that is called Adders tongue, because the stalke of it represents one, is a soveraigne wound Herbe to cure the biting of an Adder.
Tisiphone each where doth shake and shiver Her flaming fire-brond, encountring me, Whose lockes uncombed cruell adders be.
The Curse of Mother Flood Wizened the wood is, and wan is the way through it; White as a corpse is the face of the fen; Only blue adders abide in and stray through it-- Adders and venom and horrors to men.
For when he had been taken and cast into prison, his guilty limbs were given to serpents to devour, and adders found ghastly substance in the fibres of his entrails.
She speedily obeyed the instructions of her father, and endured to rear a race of adders with her maiden hands.
Happen, they’re slinking now up Bloodysyke, Like adders through the bent .
The sleichers slither after me on their bellies, As dumb and slick as adders .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
