Like the venomous serpent, the leopard had a terrible beauty all his own.

She shrank from him as she would have shrunk from a venomous serpent.

We advanced cautiously lest the thicket should contain some wild beast or venomous serpent.

He slew Qravara, the queen and venomous serpent, who swallowed up men and horses.

For a beautiful, voluptuous, and intriguing woman is even more dangerous than a venomous serpent.

Let us shun him as we would the rabid dog, the venomous serpent, the leper.

Have I become a monster, a venomous serpent?

At the age of four it was bitten by a venomous serpent and, as a result, died.

Oh, he is a serpent, a venomous serpent; and he has just wounded me mortally and incurably.

It was an ugly, little, venomous serpent of a noise, as ever did petty violence to human ears.

Leaving him alive was as suicidal as keeping a venomous serpent in the room where he planned to sleep.

Ever since another prostitute had placed a venomous serpent in her bed, she had been terrified of the creatures.

On the instant they were astir, with such heart-chilling movements as those that characterize a venomous serpent preparing to strike.

Two others had died of the bite of the coral, a venomous serpent very common on the banks of the lake.

She held it in her hand, looking at it with the angry aversion that she might have turned upon a venomous serpent.

Up to this time he had continued to hold Annunziata's hand, but now he dropped it as if it had been some venomous serpent.