Word: viperous
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Identifying poisonous snakes is easy. Most of them belong to the pit-viper family. They have a deep depression between eye and nostril. Heads are flat and triangular, necks thin, bodies stout, tails short, eyes with elliptical pupils like a cat's. Fangs fold back against the roof of the mouth. A single row of scales runs along the belly. The biggest U. S. snake is the eastern diamond-back rattler, which grows to nine feet...
...Cleopatra's asp was probably a horned viper (Cerastes cornutus...
...Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents of Moscow; and it would seem better to trade ex officio with a viper than to give him headquarters in the official bosom...
...here a weakness, crops out often enough to mar the fine simplicity with which more familiar miracles are treated-Saul's epileptic vision in a sandstorm on the Damascus road; making the cripple of Lystra leap up and walk; breathing life into the broken boy, Eutychus; surviving the viper's bite at Melita, island of honey. But only by its preponderant power are the book's weaknesses found out. Taken whole it is a book of a noble man seen steadfastly-Saul the scourge, first of the law, then of the Lord; Saul invested always with...
...Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed as a viper attacking the Constitution. Georgians were for a settlement by compromise. It remained only to see in what manner the aged Earl of Oxford and Asquith would lay aside the weary cares of Liberalism. Last week he wrote in explanation of his resignation...