XXXII The gentle damsel so her tale pursues, While sobs and sighs oft interposing break Her soft angelic voice, which might infuse Compassion into asp, or venomed snake.
The holy, hospitable laws he chose To violate no less than he, before He would endure, that him, with venomed sting, His new desire to cruel death should bring.
Not unlike this venomed insect is the person who, through malice, wounds the feelings of a human being.
The only way to treat a human viper is to keep away from it, ignore its presence, and to shut the ears to its venomed hiss.
You fancy The rancor of a bad heart slow distilled Through venomed years, so at a breath, dissolves.
For I, thy servant, gather in one sheaf The venomed shafts of slander, which thy word Shall shrivel to small dust.
But Narzerad fed his venomed heart with gall, Vowing to give his fatal hatred vent, Despite a world of weak fantastic Dukes And heretic bishops.
Brian bore the great, heavy, venomed spear in his hand; and the three brothers were of good heart, seeing how they had succeeded in their last quest, and that they had now three parts of the fine.
The spear I demand from you is the venomed spear of Pezar, king of Persia.
It has been made known to him that we have arrived in Erin, bringing with us gifted arms that none can withstand; and he has gone to one of the strongholds of Tara, to avoid us, fearing we might use these venomed weapons against himself.
Nor let the monster Calumny shoot forth Her venomed tongue at me.
This was the only occasion on which husband and wife had ever spoken plainly of the past; but Leonard let fly those venomed arrows of his on the smallest provocation.
He had said many bitter words to his wife--had aimed many a venomedarrow at her breast--but he had never made her blush, and he had never made her cry.
Be wise as serpent, harmless as the dove," Should be our watchword as we scuttle ship, For there be those who speak with venomed tongues Of serpents, as we cast them helpless off.
Quezox: They keen philosophy falls on mine ear Like music, as it trickles from thy brain; But still the wound remains which venomed tongue Hath deeply stung upon my memory.
These venomed quills must be from porcupine; For deeper do they bore, as I reflect That I invited all their smarting wounds.
The bees are prone to rage, and often found To perish for revenge, and die upon the wound Their venomed sting produces aching pains, And swells the flesh, and shoots among the veins.
Pratinas had made of every word a venomed arrow, and each and all struck home.
Then even the venomed crawlers that he knew were near him faded into nothing that really mattered, compared to the greater, stealthy horror that he knew was coming, born of the shuddersome, shut silence that ensued.
Calumny is the pastime of little minds, and the venomed shaft of base ones.
But little did Thaddeus think at that time who she was, and how nearly connected with that friend whose neglect has been a venomed shaft unto his soul!
For Cleopatra was not dead—nor as yet had she even thought to die—but soon She dared her fallen kingdom to behold In dauntless pride of majesty serene; She dared the coiling reptiles to unfold— Courting their venomed kiss with dauntless mien.
Steaming from the venomed shaft, Which to Death in hideous lair The many-wreathed Hydra bare, How shall he another day Feel the glad warmth of Helios' ray?
Then came The tearing pangs within his bones, and then The poison feasted like the venomed tooth Of murderous basilisk.
I drew a shaft that glittered bright, Fell as a serpent’s venomed bite; I longed to lay the monster dead, And to the mark my arrow sped.
A foe is he who dared suggest This hopeless folly to thy breast, Whose ill advice would bid thee draw The venomed fang from serpent’s jaw.
As Queen Kaikeyí thus obeyed The sinful counsel of her maid She sank upon the chamber floor, As sinks in anguish, wounded sore, An elephant beneath the smart Of the wild hunter’s venomed dart.
Freed from the binding snakes that close With venomed clasp round head and limb, Bright as the sun and fierce like him: The spell a God bestowed of yore, The spell that never failed before?
Ah me, that fondly unaware I brought thee home my life to share, Called daughter of a king, in truth A serpent with a venomed tooth!
Blood thirsty race, they live beneath The earth, and slay with venomed teeth.
Ah fool, with blinded eyes to take Home to thy heart a venomed snake!
A foe that longs my life to take, I brought thee here my death to be, Caressed thee long, a venomed snake, And through my folly die.
He bore away in senseless joy The prize that should his life destroy, Like the rash fool who hugs beneath His robe a snake with venomed teeth.
Adorned with many a golden band, A bow, like Indra’s, arms his hand, And shoots a flood of arrows fierce As venomed snakes to burn and pierce.
Like some she-elephant who bleeds Struck by the hunter’s venomed reeds, So in her quivering heart she felt The many wounds his speeches dealt.
Sharp as a serpent’s venomed fang Straight to its mark the arrow sprang, And from the giant’s body shred With trenchant steel the monstrous head.
The vulgar shrieker is a deplorable source of mischief, but she cannot match the reticent stabber who is always ready, out of sheer wickedness, to thrust a venomed point into man, woman, or child.
The man is refined, and the coarseness which he did not perceive before marriage strikes him like a venomed point now; he replies fiercely, and perhaps shows contempt; then the woman tries the effect of weeping.
To all these bitter insults, venomed with the sting of truth, Atene listened without a word.
But Atene could bear no more of this mockery, more venomed than her own steel.
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