24 Verbs to Use for the Word vipers

Have I been nursing a viper in my bosom?

For the viper which harboured at his hearth, had its piercing glassy eye fixed unweariedly on him; and how could he crush the viper?

and yet I kill the viper when I meet him . . .

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.

I have nourished a viper in my bosom.

We've warmed a viper in our bosom.

The rattlesnake has an utter antipathy to this plant, insomuch that if you smear your hands with the juice of it, you may handle the viper safely.

To be harmless, though by impotence, obtains some degree of kindness: no man hates a worm as he hates a viper; they were once dreaded enough to be detested, as serpents that could bite; they have now shown that they can only hiss, and may, therefore, quietly slink into holes, and change their slough, unmolested and forgotten.

When the lurch came, however, and I toppled over on top of him, grabbed his shoulders in my hands to keep from sprawling in his lap, and hissed "villanous viper" in his face, he was inclined to resent it forcibly.

A wandering Aissaoua plucked at his sleeve and held under his nose a desert viper that gave off metallic rose glints in its slow, pained constrictions.

Perhaps he would have become a Genghis Khan? Major Noltitz told me of a Turkoman saying to the following effect: "If you meet a Mervian and a viper, begin by killing the Mervian and leave the viper till afterwards.

Possibly the shorter fibres from the caput of an African might in like manner produce vipers.

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!

Her mother-in-law says: "The horned viper!

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.

From my owne creature and from one I feede, Nay from a place built in my holiest vowes, Establisht in my purpose in my lyfe, Maintayn'd from my revenue, after death Firm'd and assur'd to all posterityes That that shoold breede such vipers! Lady.

The veins on my forehead are like writhing vipers, and I don't know what gnome forges in my brain!

He's half wild about some review that somebody's been and done of him in The Times, and has been flinging the paper about the room, and calling all mankind vipers and adders, and hooting herdsit's as bad as swearing, I sayand running to my mistress, to make her read it, and see how the whole world's against him, and then forbidding her to defile her eyes with a word of it; and so on, till she's been crying all the morning, poor dear!"

"'Tis no great wonder, considering the vipers in the Cockpit," said Hester.

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

Excuse my French, but I am certain you are the eldest daughter of the old woman in the wood, and you are just now dropping vipers, toads, newts, and efts from your mouth at every word you utter!"

By thy hatred of sin, when all that Satan can do cannot make thee comply with those lusts, or sweetly embrace those vipers, or lie down in peace with those rotten members of the old man, as others do. 5.

After telling me that strange story of the king of the vipers, he gave me a viper which he had tamed, and had rendered harmless by extracting its fangs.

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  vipers