It is true that old files are sometimes bitten by vipers in localities where these serpents abound, but in the lizard and hop-toad they usually find metal more attractive.

No hand could save it, yet ten thousand hands Laboured their best, though none for love of you; For every tongue with bitter cursing bann'd Your lordship, as the viper of the land.

Would to Heaven that, instead of having anything to say to the cursed brood of the law, I had taken the viper by the throat, and brought him to my own terms, after my own fashion!"

And all the fields thereof, Where daffodils flaunt everywhere And ouzels chant of love, Lest we attain the Middle-Land, Whence clouded well-springs rise, And vipers from a slimy strand Lift glittering cold eyes.

Mrs. Heron began to feel, as she would have expressed it, that she had taken a viper into her bosom.

As a bosom friend he is not to be trusteda fact in natural history that was discovered many years ago by a green countryman, who got into a bad box by placing a viper on his chest.

But let each[21a] viper at his peril bite, While you defy the most ingenious spite.

Carefully planned, as were Froebel's own "gifts," the new apparatus presents a series of exercises in sense discrimination, satisfying no doubt while unfamiliar, but suffering from the defect of the "too finished and complex plaything," in which Froebel saw a danger "which slumbers like a viper under the roses."

Rank poison vines writhed everywhere, and crept like vipers beyond the deadly borders of the great Cypress Swamp.

A poisonous morsel in her teeth she chewed, And gorged the flesh of vipers for her food.