One young bird lay drowned upon the bottom of the pool, and the other (I think there were only two) soon died of fright and the laceration of the hinder parts attendant upon ophidian deglutition.
I of course refer to the ophidian or serpent family.
The compressed form and diminutive size of certain caudal vertebrae indicate so much analogy with Hydrus as to induce Professor Owen to pronounce this extinct ophidian to have been marine.
Pomel as appertaining to the Lower Miocene fauna of the Limagne and Velay falls little short of a hundred, and with them are associated some large crocodiles and tortoises, and some Ophidian and Batrachian reptiles.
Here are some ophidian curves in triplets, as in the first Impromptu, but with interludes of double notes, in coloring tropical and rich to morbidity.
It is without the necessaryophidian tang, and far inferior to Heller and Liszt's efforts in the constricted form.
I tried to make out a case for my poor Elsie, whom the most hardened theologian would find it hard to blame for her inherited ophidian tastes and tendencies.
Geraldine, in the former, seems to be simply a malignant witch-woman with the evil eye, but with no absolute ophidian relationship.
It showed a human nature developing itself in conflict with the ophidian characteristics and instincts impressed upon it during the pre-natal period.
I have been struck, like many others, with theophidian head and eye of the famous Rachel.
His thoughts, thus drawn to Shaw, dwelt on that ophidian personality.
Geraldine, in the former, seems to be simply a malignant witch-woman, with the evil eye, but with no absolute ophidian relationship.
The Typhlopidae, or Blind Snakes, comprise forms which are the most remote from the true Ophidian type.
There are various limbless Saurians of Ophidian appearance, but the systematic position of which is decided by the structure of their jaws.
Most of the Ophidian Reptiles are oviparous, but many are ovo-viviparous.
About 300 species of Ophidian parasites have been recorded; yet our knowledge of them is very imperfect.
It is interesting to notice that it was the finding of an Ophidian parasite which prompted Francesco Redi to write his famous "Observations on the Living Animals which are found within Living Animals.
This rapid sketch of the principal facts of Ophidian distribution suffices to show how difficult it would be to frame geographical regions that would give expression to these facts.
The untutored human mind has for centuries past intuitively clung to this idea, and sought among plants for remedies against the deadly ophidian poison.
This inference leads us on to a second one equally justifiable, namely, that there is a certain unaccountable attraction between the delicate nerve tissue and the subtle ophidian poison, which renders the latter a specific nerve poison.
I am not looking for support, sir," observes Aaron, pointing the remark with one of those black ophidian stares.
And, as they converse, he worships her with his eyes, from which every least black trace of that ophidian sparkle has been extinguished.
The voice is confidently careless, while the ophidian eyes keep up their black glitter unabashed.
The black eyes are fastened upon the doctor, and their ophidian glitter makes the latter uneasy.
Young Aaron's face is getting white; there is a dangerous sparkle in the black ophidian eyes.
The bar respects him; his friends crowd about him; his enemies shrink away from the black, unblinking stare of those changeless ophidian eyes.
