What is "asps"

Usage examples of "asps".

Just where, exactly, had the asps been when his parents had come upon them?

He had always assumed that the murder had been perpetuated by someone seeing to it that the asps were in a place where they would instinctively strike before being seen.

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.

When asps attached to a certain organ built up to a certain bulk, the host was unable to endure any more accretion.

Though some asps always clung, others were kicked off and thus emitted from the Asp.

Although it could not, unfortunately, kill the asps, it kept them from stimulating the adrenals.

The asps were created in laboratory animals and would never have been applied to human beings, had not a man with a desire to control and revenge perverted it to this end.