He is the very head of the viper that threatens us.
Here lies the viper of my soul, the abhorred food of my resentment.
This boiled in wine and drank, and some of the leaves put to the hurt place, is an excellent remedy for the biting of the viper or adder, which I take to be one and the same.
When, as the summer crept on, Westenra in his letters began to make tentative remarks about his coming vacation, Val's yellow viper was roused to high effort.
Even while she dreamed she could feel the wretched truth stirring at the back of her mind, waiting like some horrible yellow viperwith head reared ready to strike.
Lord Mayo landed immediately after breakfast, and during a long day conducted a thorough inspection of Viper and Ross Islands, where the worst characters were quartered.
The prisoners were strictly kept at their ordinary work; and on Viper and Ross Islands, the only ones where any danger was apprehended, the whole troops were under arms.
I tell you, Monseigneur, that you have warmed a viper in your bosom.
Love had taken absolute possession of his heart, it had hollowed out its nest therein, like the viper in the old Norway ballads, and while ever increasing, consumed it.
For the viper which harboured at his hearth, had its piercing glassy eye fixed unweariedly on him; and how could he crush the viper?
I have previously mentioned old Viper as a family friend, but like all dogs he had his faults.
One summer afternoon Mrs. Bell was greatly surprised by Viper coming to her house much distressed and trying to tell her the reason; he was not to be put off or comforted, and, seizing her skirts, he dragged her to the door and outside.
When her skin is distended with offspring, the femaleviper expires and the young make their escape out of the decomposing body.
Viper out an airing with her, the cat saw no more of him for that afternoon.
How long she had napped she could not tell, when she was awakened by a furious barking; and opening her eyes, she saw Viper standing at a little distance, looking as if he was going into fits with passion.
Viper had nearly eaten up all his own dinner, and the cat was saving a beautiful merrythought for her last tit-bit, when, as ill luck would have it, the countess was suddenly called out of the room.
Moreover, her squabble with Viper had taken place before dinner; and now there was no prospect of any supper but such as she could earn by her own exertions.
However, whenever the countess left the room, she always called Viper away too; so they were not left together at all the first day.
Dinner-time came: and as Viper was to dine with the cat, Ermengarde brought in two plates this time, and to work they fell with all their might.
The venomous bite of the viper has given rise to a variety of popular prejudices.
The latter asserts that he killed a viper by the effect of his own saliva.
The venom of theviper becomes less intense as it advances in age.
On a subsequent day, theviper reappeared by the channel it had penetrated, hissing and raising itself on its tail as if overjoyed at its emancipation; and immediately afterwards, the girl vomited a quantity of viper's eggs.
About fifty years ago, the German newspapers announced that in Styria a young girl being asleep with her mouth open, a viper made its way into her throat.
Another authority assured me that the Araners were not grateful to England nor to Mr. Balfour, and spoke of the viper that somebody warmed in his bosom with disagreeable results.
But, as Serjeant Buzfuz would have said, the serpent was on the trail, the viper was on the hearthstone, the sapper and miner was at work.
And theviper spoke at it passed him, saying with a human voice, "Be warned, and go not onward into Antchar, for this is a realm forbidden to all mortal beings except the dead.
The rashness and folly thou hast shown in thus coming here is verily most egregious; since thou wert warned by the peoples of Abchaz, and warned anew by the jackal and the viper which thou didst meet on the road into Antchar.
Leaving Phoenix Bay, we steamed past Chatham Island, where the sawmills are situated, and where a number of hospital convalescents are kept busy with the easy task of manufacturing rope and mats from the coir prepared in Viper Jail.
The transportation of European offenders is now discontinued, but a large number of female convicts are engaged mainly in turning the wool prepared in Viper Jail into blankets.
Now, curse you, viper that you are, you shall fight me, by heaven!
Helpless as an infant was the fair New York society girl as Snake le Vasquez, foulest of the viper breed, began to force his attention upon her.
Do you wish me to press to my heart the viper from whose teeth we still smart?
But Gjuro's eyes were blind, his ears were deaf; A viper now was coiled around his heart, That urged him to heap up the pile with wood.
Still, it was vexing to think that if he killed that viper of a Vranic, as he was in duty bound to do, he would have to flee from his native town, and escape to the mountains, at least till affairs were settled.
The viper fixed on him a gaze of intense anguish, writhing and groaning in his iron grasp, and his frail ribs gave way, cracking like a nutshell.
A viper has fastened upon him and he pampers her, and hasn't the pluck to kick her out.
And your viper did not choke, may she be thrice accursed, the she-devil!
In the second chapter he describes how, near Pett, in Sussex, as a child less than three years old, he took up a viperwithout being injured or even resisted, amid the alarms of his mother and elder brother.
He answered their threats with a viper that had lain hid in his breast; they called him "Sapengro, a chap who catches snakes and plays tricks with them.
He claimed, as has been seen, to remember the look of the viper seen in his third year.
He could give no proof that Borrow's memory went back to his third year or that he first handled a viper at that time.
Whereupon the viper sunk its head and immediately made off over the ridge of the hill, down in the direction of the sea.
A more fitting present to you would be this little viper enclosed in amber;[13] the viper is your malice, the amber your flattery.
I had made a motion which the viper understood; and now, partly disengaging itself from my bosom, where it had lain perdu, it raised its head to a level with my face, and stared upon my enemy with its glittering eyes.
Whereupon the viper sunk its head, and immediately made off over the ridge of the hill, down in the direction of the sea.
England against the viper, the frozen viper which it had permitted to warm itself upon its bosom.
I never forgot the Daneman's skull; like the apparition of the viper in the sandy lane, it dwelt in the mind of the boy, affording copious food for the exercise of imagination.
The viper now hissed amain, and raised its head, in which were eyes like hot coals, menacing, not myself, but my brother.
After gazing some time longer at the viper and myself, the man stooped down and took up the ladle; then, as if somewhat more assured, he moved to the tent, where he entered into conversation with the beldame in a low voice.
He generally carried a viper with him which he had made quite tame, and from which he had extracted the poisonous fangs; it would dance and perform various kinds of tricks.
There we two were, I looking up at the viper, and the viper looking down upon me, flickering at me with its tongue.
He offered no resistance, but said calmly: "When one meets a viper one batters its head.
Here is the law on one side of me, and a dead viper on the other!
And I believe this truly one of the best ways in the World of Curing the Bite either of Viper or Mad Dog.
The Poison, both ofViper and Mad-Dog (as I conceive) kill by thickning of the Blood, after the manner that Runnet congeals Milk when they make Cheese.
In the montanas of Pangoa this viper abounds more than in any other district: and never without apprehension do the cholos undertake their annual journey for the coca harvest, as they fear to fall victims to the bite of this viper.
On the Habits of the Viperin Silesia:" Zoologist, p.
Walking along a sunny road, I saw a viperlying on the parapet.
