Like a dangerous snake

Usage examples of venomous.

And they lamented when, after the Autumnal Equinox, the malign influence of the venomous Scorpion, and vindictive Archer, and the filthy and ill-omened He-Goat dragged him down toward the Winter Solstice.

Yanagisawa said in the quiet, venomous tone that had subdued many a man braver than Lord Kii.

Weems, speaking for Horry, describes in ludicrous terms, their journey through North Carolina, -- through a region swarming with Tories, but, fortunately for our travellers, who were venomous without being active.

They may have been venomous beasts for all I know, but they did us no harm, and we were now tuned to a pitch when a weird creeping thing more or less mattered little.

The way she said it was a venomous revelation to Marianne, a metempiric bombshell which seemed to make the matter certain forever.

Did you notice that Captain Fletcher gave Prasad a venomous efficiency report?

Papadapolous swallowed a venomous curse, then shook himself and forced his mind away from its fury at Suchon and back to the task at hand.

He put it down upon the cover of a jar in which there lay one of the finest asps he had ever seen, thick, venomous, snub-nosed, coiled down in spirits of wine, with its slit-pupilled eye looking at him through the glass.

A furious mumble from behind the fingers and a venomous flash from the Babbitt eyes were answers sufficient.

She sat with her unprotected back to a vastness of desert, where venomous snakes slithered in the heat of the night, where tarantulas as hairy as the maniacal mullahs of the Taliban scurried in search of prey, and where the creepiest species native to this cruel realm of rock and sand and scraggly scrub were even more fearsome than serpents or spiders.

The druidical powers of Curley Greenleaf and Gellor were yoked with the magic of the wizard, Oscar, to create novel surprises such as sticks suddenly turning into venomous snakes when someone passed, trees that would become partially sentient and attack with their great limbs, and the like.

Dragon herbs, was ascribed the faculty of curing the bites and stings of venomous beasts, and of mad dogs.

It was perhaps the unease of the hotblooded carnivore faced by the cold menace of a venomous snake.

But the Jibaro headhunter, armed with a poisonous weapon, was as dangerous as a venomous reptile.

They found a public notary there who said he would certify a document that said that Orest Mercator spent so many days incarcerated with these venomous reptiles blah blah blah.