Puff ___ (snake)

Usage examples of adder.

He may meet with hardened and obstinate ceremonialists, who, like deaf adders, refuse to listen to the truth of liberty, and cry up, enjoin, and urge on us their ceremonies, as if they could justify us without faith.

It is more venemous than the adder, it is more destructive than hebenon or madragora.

But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the direct injury of other species, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects.

Desio finished with the slow care a man might use in the presence of a coiled pusk adder.

Op haar door sfinxen getorste rustbank lag Kleopatra, overgolfd door een vloed van lokken, den dood reeds nabij, terwijl zich een adder om heur arm kronkelde.

The Zamorian traitor was a smiling, laughing villain, dear to a Turanian heart Small, lean, lithe, and swaggering, handsome and reckless as a young god, Vardanes was an amusing drinking companion and a devilish fighter but as cold-hearted and untrustworthy as an adder.

But der is no svamp adders in India, vich has puzzled me greatly, Herr Doctor.

Just so have the swifts left the hollow trees and taken to my chimney, the phoebe to my pigpen, the swallow to my barn loft, the vireo to my lilac bush, the screech owls to my apple trees, the red squirrel for its nest to my ice-house, and the flat-nosed adder to the sandy knoll by my beehives.

De Bunzingen, Hermelijnen, Uilen en Valken, de Buizerden, Raven en Ooievaars loeren op hem, terwijl hij de aarde uit zijne loopgraven naar buiten werkt, de Wezel vervolgt hem zelfs in zijne gangen, waar hij ook niet zelden een slachtoffer wordt van de Adder.

This section of Otaria was thick with both venom hunters and constrictors-from the small but lethal jade adder to the medium-sized razorback rattler to the enormous rock python that could swallow a man whole.

Op haar door sfinxen getorste rustbank lag Kleopatra, overgolfd door een vloed van lokken, den dood reeds nabij, terwijl zich een adder om heur arm kronkelde.

Across the pavilion Electra wore an expression that made her death adders seem almost kind.

The country annex, the rest porch, the schlagball field, and the chickenwire fence running from end to end were surrounded on all sides by the dense, silent, or rustling Saskoschin Forest, a mixed woodland containing wild boar, badgers, adders, and a boundary line that cut across it.

I have always warmed to the beauty of human hair, that silken and undulating part of a body, but the headdresses of most of our women are towers, labyrinths, ships, or nests of adders.

In her Zoo for Happiness one could find almost every known kind of a snake - enormous king cobras over twenty-five feet long, Egyptian cobras, adders, copperheads, vipers, Australian black snakes, green mambas, tiger snakes, fer-de-lances, moccasins, all varieties of rattlesnakes and many others.