Snake, to Ovid

Usage examples of anguis.

Melisande's challenge and the badge of my calling that marked me as an anguissette, Kushiel's Chosen, as clearly as the mote of scarlet emblazoned since birth in the iris of my left eye.

Indeed, the wearing of it is proscribed for any who is not an anguissette.

In anguish, I watched him go, knowing there was nothing more I could say.

And I know you are an anguissette trained by Anafiel Delaunay, who, outside the boundaries of Montrève, some call the Whoremaster of Spies.

If there was any truth to old legends, Naamah's child Mara was truly an anguissette.

And who was better trusted and less feared than the Queen's pet anguissette.

Kneeling between his knees, I performed the languisement upon him, putting the whole of my art into the process.

The stakes were different, when I was Delaunay's anguissette, a delightfully decadent secret to be shared among peers with certain vices.

She'd not be the first beholden to me I'd lost to your charms, would she, Delaunay's anguissette?

He took a long time with the languisement, until I could not tell where my flesh ended and his mouth began.

There are those who think an anguissette knows pleasure only through pain, but it is not so.

I thought of the Unforgiven soldier kneeling beneath the Yeshuite's sword with his bowed head, neck muscles quivering, willing to die for an anguissette's desperate plea.

There were no living anguissettes with whom I could compare notes, but surely, I thought, Kushiel must be pleased with this arrangement.

I'd driven him to lash out in cruel words, and I had taken an anguissette's terrible pleasure in the pain it provoked.

Names and faces, too many to count, for it was not only in this venture, but nigh everything I'd done since I had no title to my name but that of Delaunay's anguissette.