106 examples of asps in sentences

"Permit it not that in the generous breasts of those whose blood Flows in my veins, who by my side as faithful champions stood, Those cursed asps, whose effigies my shield's circumference fill, Could plant the thoughts of villany by which they work me ill.

That her father, the magician Locuste, ever sedulous and affectionate, fed her with spoonsful of the honeyed froth that gathers under the tongues of asps?

Serpents, asps, spiders, ghosts, dead bodies, staircases made of nothing, with adders' tongues for bannisters,Good Heaven, what a brain he must have!

It should be stated that she kept fire on hand to use upon her money and asps and other reptiles to use upon herself, and that she had tried the latter on human beings to see in what way they killed in each case.

Crabtree, and Sir Benjaminthose poor snakes that live but in the sunshine of your mirthmust be rippened by this hot-bed process of realization into asps or amphisbænas; and Mrs. CandourO!

Crabtree, and Sir Benjaminthose poor snakes that lived but in the sunshine of your mirthmust be ripened by this hot-bed process of realization into asps or amphisbænas; and Mrs. CandourO frightful! become a hooded serpent.

She picked up the letter, and, with a shudder, thrust it in her bosom, as Cleopatra might have thrust the asp which was to destroy her; then with leaden feet, she crossed the hall and opened the library door, and saw her father standing by the table clutching some papers in one hand, and gesticulating wildly with the other.

She too destroyed herself, not probably by the bite of asps, as is the popular opinion, but by some potent and subtile poison that she ever carried with her, and which had the effect of benumbing the body and making her insensible to pain.

Shall foreign plagues infest this teeming land, And more than sea-born monsters plough the main? Here the dire locusts' horrid swarms prevail; Here the blue asps with livid poison swell; Here the dry dipsa writhes his sinuous mail; Can we not here secure from envy dwell? When the grim lion urged his cruel chase, When the stern panther sought his midnight prey; What fate reserved me for this Christian race?

These amorphous creatures glided about in the seas, and vast sea-worms, or centipedal asps, the parents of modern krakens and sea-serpents, doubtless, accompanied them.

" "Her lips drip honey," I observed, "and the poison of asps is under her tongue.

After the queen's death, she applied one of the asps to her own arm, and when the, Roman soldiers entered the room, fell down dead.

Their position was two hundred yards from the creek at a spring, and surrounded by a few scattering willows and quaking asps.

I confess I never was nearer madness,every word and gesture stung me like asps,I walked on burning coals.

Now the covetous man must part with his goods, and the gall of asps must stick behind.

Where flow the locks that woo to love On human templesghastly dwell The serpents, coil'd the brow above, And the green asps with poison swell.

This man came and brought another deadly potion of the poison of asps and of other serpents, that if the first potion did not accomplish its end, Pheroras and his wife might be armed with this also against the king.

The mouth full of cursing and bitterness, the throat an open sepulcher, the poison of asps under the tongue, the feet swift to shed blood, destruction and misery in their paths, and the way of peace unknown to them, are the clearest and amplest demonstration that men "have gone out of the way," "have together become unprofitable."

She had fiery-hearted jewels, and shimmering purple cloths, and much furniture adroitly carven, and many tapestries of Samarcand and Baldach upon which were embroidered, by brown fingers that time had turned long ago to Asian dust, innumerable asps and deer and phoenixes and dragons and all the motley inhabitants of air and of the thicket; but her memories, too, she had, and for a dreary while she got no comfort because of them.

Poison of asps.

Poison of asps.

And there was a quiver in her like that which you see in the little quaking-asps in the slewssomething pitiful, and sort of forsaken.

STALLION WITH HIS BUNCH OF BLACKS IN SNAKE GULCH ON THE WAY HOME RIDING WITH A NAVAJO THE AUTHOR AND HIS MEN ROMER-BOY ON HIS FAVORITE STEED THE TONTO BASIN LISTENING FOR THE HOUNDS ZANE GREY ON DON CARLOS WILD TURKEY WILD TURKEYS THE WHITE QUAKING ASPS THE SKUNK, A FREQUENT AND RATHER DANGEROUS VISITOR IN CAMP ON THE RIM WHERE ELK, DEER, AND

[Illustration: THE WHITE QUAKING ASPS]

Shall foreign plagues infest this teeming land, And more than sea-born monsters plough the main? "Here the dire locusts' horrid swarms prevail; Here the blue asps with livid poison swell; Here the dry dipsa writhes his sinuous mail; Can we not here secure from envy dwell? "When the grim lion urg'd his cruel chase, When the stern panther sought his midnight prey, What fate reserv'd me for this Christian race?

106 examples of  asps  in sentences