Another is, the mothers fear that the poisonous vipers and snakes will bite them.

I was so full of it I kept repeating it softly to myself all the way up; but when we got to that Fourteenth Street curve the car gave a fearful lurch and fairly shook the words "villanous viper" out of me; and as I was standing when we began the turn, and was left confronting a testy old gentleman upon whose feet I had trodden twice, at the finish, I nearly got into trouble.

An unthankful viper, an unthankful viper, that will sting the man that revived him.

The venomous viper of the Volga.

The foul viper which I nursed in my bosom!

You remember the old story of the tender-hearted man, who placed a frozen viper in his bosom, and was stung by it when it became thawed?

Excuse him not; he is more degenerate, Than greedy vipers that devour their mother, They eat on her but to preserve themselves, And he consumes himself, and beggars us.

Vice appears in its own grim disgusting colours, being stripped of the mask under which it is hidden in this world, and the infernal viper is seen devouring those who have cherished or fostered it here below.

So many affronts, so many pinpricks, day after day, had made his heart quiver, lodging in it to sleep the sleep of lethargic vipers, and they now were awaking to shake and hiss with fury.

She poisoned a poor man who trusted her: and that is your name nownot Eve, but Clodaghto remind me, you most dangerous little speckled viper!

This keeps up the image of the 'viperous' murdererthe viper.

He could not have much charity for the most generous opponents; he certainly had none at all for those who (as he said) printed malicious and lying pamphlets against him "almost every morning," in which he found himself saluted as a "nest of perfidious vipers," "a night-flying dragon prince," "a flapdragon," "a caterpillar," "a spider," and "a butterbox.

She poisoned a poor man who trusted her: and that is your name nownot Eve, but Clodaghto remind me, you most dangerous little speckled viper!

I detest, abhor, execrate, and (with Friar John) give thee to six-score thousand devils, as in no instance to be excused or tolerated, but shunned as a universal viper; to be branded, proscribed, and spoken evil of!

And see how right I was; see how hopeless would have been my plight at this hour when Theodore, too, turned against me like the veritable viper that he was.

This keeps up the image of the 'viperous' murdererthe viper.

My heart misgave me for a moment; for young Oloff has the fist of a vice, and I thought the goodly names of the Harmans, and Rips, Corneliuses, and Dircks of the manor rent-roll were likely to be contaminated by the company of an Increase or a Peleg; but just as the Patroon thought he had the watery viper by the throat, the fish gave an unexpected twist, and slid through his fingers by the tail.

blest viper, joy!

Ah, well, I will drive out this wicked viper.

She poisoned a poor man who trusted her: and that is your name nownot Eve, but Clodaghto remind me, you most dangerous little speckled viper!

"Red serpents shall wander o'er her meadows, and pillage, and pollute," &c. The particular mention of the colour of this destructive viper may be some guide to us in this labyrinth, through which, I must acknowledge, I cannot yet have any certain path.

More fatal than the envenomed viper's bite; Or that Apulian[10] spider's poisonous sting, Healed by the pleasing antidote of sounds.