Now vipers are distributed over all the earth; but the others, which are winged, are found in great numbers together in Arabia and in no other land: therefore it is that they appear to be numerous.
And the vipers bit the old sea-king deep and sore, so that he knew that his death was nigh, and none were there to sing his death-song.
Vipers are generally found on heathy commons and moors, and are very fond of lying on a patch of bare, sandy ground, and enjoying the warmth of the sun.
These Vipers commonly lie half-buried in the sand, which they much resemble in colour.
The species of Cerastes and of Echis have the nostrils much smaller than the preceding, and are Vipers of less formidable size.
It includes:-- Viperinae--the Vipersand Crotalidae.
It is quite otherwise withVipers twenty or thirty inches long; they glide after their prey without being seen, strike it cruelly with their fangs, leaving in the wound a venom which produces death with startling rapidity.
The Pit Vipers are found only in Asia and America; those of the New World surpassing the Asiatic species in size, and therefore they are much more dangerous.
Concerning vipers and snakes, we are presented with a good deal of information that is instructive, not only as regards their habits generally, but also with respect to points that are in dispute among naturalists.
Hitherto heretics have been regarded by the Roman Catholic hierarchy as vipers which, in impugning Authority, bite a file.
This hamlet is famous for miles round because of a particularly venomous breed of vipers which infest the sun-kissed lands in its neighbourhood.
We have long been accustomed to think that only vipers produce live young--and hence their name--and that all the non-venomous snakes lay eggs.
Vipers we know are extremely watchful over their young; other snakes are often seen accompanied by a young brood; and in the Jamaica boa maternal affection is exhibited in no slight degree.
It is believed that the vipers are an offshoot of an opisthoglyph ancestry, in spite of the forward position of their fangs.
All the pit vipers are American except a few species in southern Asia, some of which are arboreal in habit and have red prehensile tails.
The vipers differ from the colubrids in important particulars.
Take four Ounces of Elder-Flower-Water, adding thereto a Scruple of the volatile Salt of Vipers or Hart's-Horn with an Ounce of Syrrup of red Poppies.
A Decoction of Vipers and Crabs may serve to bath 'em, and some of it may be taken inwardly.
Thus the blacksmith, Ilmarinen, Safely plows the field of serpents, Lifts the vipers in his plowing, Buries them beneath the furrow, Harmless all against his magic.
Apart from all these vipers of his own creating, James after all felt more in the cession of Cheveleigh than did his sister.
You, moist with wine, on lonely mountain-tops bind the hair of your Thracian priestesses with a knot of vipers without hurt.
Brehm records that he more than once found an Efa in his house at Khartoum, and that on one occasion he discovered one of these vipers coiled up beneath the covering of his bed.
We shall not recapitulate here the characters of the Genus Vipera, which we described in dealing with the vipers of Europe.
The vipers belonging to this genus are much more common in North Africa, and we shall therefore study them in conjunction with the African snakes.
The young men hunted the viperswhich provided the virus, and it was they who mined the iron ore, and fashioned the swords under Perry's direction.
As soon as I was able to be about again, I sought out some adult vipersof the species which had stung me, and having killed them, I extracted their virus, smearing it upon the tips of several arrows.
The first time we started for Sari I stepped into a nest of poisonous vipers before we reached the valley.
Therein lies captive a young boy, For life and death he lies bound, Full forty fathoms under the earth, 'Midst vipers and snakes around.
O father, dearest father mine, So hardly I am bound, Full forty fathoms under the earth, 'Midst vipers and snakes around!
What power shall drive these vipers from our shore, These monsters swoln with carnage, death, and gore!
During the winter both vipers and snakes hybernate in holes, or under tree-roots, and require no food.
The French don't like the water; neither vipers nor Frenchmen take kindly to the water, child.
Why, you were talking about the vipers in your bag breaking their hearts, and so on, and their king coming to help them.
The vipersthat haunted the balsam trees in Arabia were regarded by the Arabs as sacred to the trees (Pausanias, ix.
It was named Theriaca (the Latin word for our present treacle) from the Greek word Therion, a small animal, in allusion to the vipers which were added to the triacle by Andromachus, physician to the emperor Nero.
By our ancestors viper broth was thought to be highly invigorating: and vipers cooked like eels were given to patients suffering from ulcers.
Now, with respect to the vipers and the winged snakes of Arabia, if they increased as fast as their nature would allow, impossible were it for man to maintain himself upon the earth.
Vipers are found in all parts of the world, but the winged serpents are nowhere seen except in Arabia, where they are all congregated together; this makes them appear so numerous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vipers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
