adder

It is more venemous than the adder, it is more destructive than hebenon or madragora.

Afterwards he seized hold of an adder, and was not bitten by it.

Monsey jumped, with a scream, out of his seat as though stung by an adder.

Burke started, as if the tones of his companion's voice had stung him like an adder.

The good Book says, 'it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder!'

Supporters,—not captives nor victims; the Cockatrice and Adder.

The adder (nieder or nether snake) saying that he is mud, and will be mud.

Saxham started as though an adder had flashed its fangs through his boot.

And who was like to think, till he did see, what an adder the King nursed in his bosom?

I will show you the pit of your own heart, Padahoon, and the adder that bites at the root of it.