Fang of one of the Viperidæ (Vipera russellii) 8 D.
In the normal position of repose, the poison-fang is always concealed by a gingival fold of mucous membrane, in the substance of which are buried a few fibres of the tendon of the internal pterygoid muscle.
On each side of the mouth of spiders is found an appendage ending in a fang (chelicera), at the extremity of which opens the excretory duct of a more or less developed poison-gland.
Fang of one of the Colubridæ (Naja tripudians) 9 E.
Fang of one of the Hydrophiinæ (Hydrophis pelamis) 9 F.
The eyes and jaws, showing falx and fang of a spider.
In the falx is a poison-sac from which poison flows through the hollow fang and out at its tip.
Mr. Fangsat behind a bar, at the upper end; and on one side the door was a sort of wooden pen in which poor little Oliver was already deposited; trembling very much at the awfulness of the scene.
Mr. Fang sat silent for some minutes, and then, turning round to the prosecutor, said in a towering passion.
Mr. Fang was consequently not a little indignant to see an unbidden guest enter in such irreverent disorder.
But, when hurt or angered, he throws back his neck, drops his fang ready for service, bites, and withdraws his head immediately.
The fang in penetrating, of necessity, was pressed upon the little bag of poison at its root, and forced a drop along the tube into the wound.
The temple finally decided on was the Huang K'o Ssŭ--a lonely building which still exists on a hillside overlooking the village of Fang Chi.
The high-priest at these great ceremonies is the Emperor himself, and it is only by his deputies (that is to say the ti-fang kuan or territorial officials) that similar rites can be performed in places other than the capital.
It is a small thing that man can bruise the serpent's head, if its fang still carries its venom so deep in his reason as to blacken all nature with a sense of triumphant malevolence.
To the eye of judicial man, instructed to decide every case without bribe of his own interest as a rival animal, the serpent's fang is one of the most perfect adaptations of means to ends in nature.
The grace and lustre of the serpent with his fatal fang preceded him, and all the perils that lurk beneath things fair and fascinating.
That certainly is a corroboration of the story that you told us of the rattlesnake's fang in the boot.
The fang had merely grazed the skin of the two sons when they put on the boots, and had thus caused their death.
Now Mr. Fang was very fond of these epidendrums, of which he had planted a great number, and had been accustomed to water them himself; but since the loss of his sight he had never even alluded to them.
Whereupon Mr. Fang felt a pain in his left eye as if something was being split, and in a moment he found he could see the tables and chairs in the room.
This went on for some days, until Mr. Fang heard from the left eye, "This roundabout road is not at all convenient.
At Ch'ang-ngan there lived a scholar, named Fang Tung, who though by no means destitute of ability was a very unprincipled rake, and in the habit of following and speaking to any woman he might chance to meet.
Further, although Mr. Fang was still blind of one eye, the sight of the other was better than that of the two together.
Going closer to get a better view, Mr. Fang noticed that the carriage curtain was partly open, and inside he beheld a beautifully dressed girl of about sixteen, lovely beyond anything he had ever seen.
Under the light he arose, his clothes torn with tooth and fang of the gaunt dog, which lay silent.
He had come to them haggard and blanched and with a nameless dread, his arm tied up where the dog's fang had been buried in his flesh, his heart bitter in the thought of the death that was his.
Snaggle Tooth Boone had a wolf-like fang on the very doorstep of his upper jaw, so it required no powerful inventive faculty to rechristen him with aptitude.
A hundred dollars in the box and second choice for sale," Snaggle Tooth drawled, his prominent fang gleaming in the lamp light as he mouthed the words.
It was after this sad experience that Doane, in accordance with his promise to the late Sun Shi-pi, called on Doctor Wu Ting Fang and offered his services to the revolutionary party.
Wu Ting Fang trusts you--and Sun Yat Sen, our leader, he knows and trusts you.
You would work in association with Doctor Wu Ting Fang at our Shanghai offices.
I am told that the throne has sent Tuan Fang out there to put down the disturbance.
This Fang Father or Tata 'is considered indifferent to the wants and sufferings of men, women, and children.
While they bandied words, they reached the Hsin Fang pavilion.
As soon as they reached the Hsin Fang pavilion, they espied the matron, on duty that day at the back door of the garden, advancing towards them with a note in her hand.
Tell Fang Kuan to sing us the 'Hsün Meng' ballad; and let only flutes and Pandean pipes be used.
In his Civic Forum address in New York three years ago, Wu Ting Fang quoted Wen Hsiang's saying, "When China wakes up, she will move like an avalanche.
All the Asiatic species of this family have a grooved fang at the hinder extremity of the maxillary bone.
Was I to offer my bosom to the serpent fang again and again?
There is no poison like the love of a profligate; the fang of an adder is not more potent.
Their excellencies Tuan Fang and Tai Hung Chi, imperial Chinese commissioners, came to the United States with open eyes to learn the advantages of Western civilization.
O God, the feel of the fang furrowing my shoulder!
Do your offices, do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare; do me, do me, do me your offices.
And how many poor helpless victims had felt the serpent's fang and breathed their last in that fatal chair I now occupied?
And I soon would be launched into Eternity by the poisonous fang of that flat-headed little reptile.
