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After all, I can very well understand it," added Adrienne, as if to herself; "vipers are so thin. But, to lay aside these follies," she continued, gayly, as she saw the ill-repressed rage of the pious woman, "tell us at once, my dear aunt, all the tender things which the sight of our happiness inspires." "I hope to do so, my amiable niece.
As they passed up, clouds of water-fowl rose whirring from their lairs, and luxuriant growth of weeds threatened to obstruct the progress of the steamer. "Come here, policeman," said the captain to the native functionary; "how far above this, did you say, is the nest of the vipers?" "'Bout tree mile." "Humph!" ejaculated the captain, turning to Berrington, who had come on deck at the moment.
About their left arms other slips extended spiralwise from the elbow to the end of the third finger. They were in white; where their garments had become soiled, the spots had been chalked. To them the prophet showed his teeth. “And woe unto you too, race of vipers, bladders of wind!
"Why, know you not that I can look upon a viper, or a toad, or a bunch of engendering adders, without any worse feeling than a little disgust? and though a roundhead, and especially a red-coat, are in my opinion more poisonous than vipers, more loathsome than toads, more hateful than knotted adders, yet can I overcome my nature so far, that should one of them appear at this moment, thyself should see how civilly I would entreat him."
Because you, Philippus, interceded for him though you were in a position of command, because Ptolemy knows your ability you were sent to distant Pelusium, and there we should be still " "Guard your tongue, wife!" interrupted the old general in a tone of grave rebuke. "The vipers on the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt symbolize the King's swift power over life and death.
He would be pleased to know she thought that, I'm sure." "Tell him, and see what he says," suggested Tom; "he is an awful brute to you though, isn't he?" "If," growled Mr. Bultitude, "slaving from morning till night to provide education and luxury for a thankless brood of unprofitable young vipers is 'being a brute, I suppose he is." "Why, you're sticking up for him now!" said Tom.
"Were he even more criminal than he is, surely the death of one in the family is sufficient to satisfy the ends of justice." "I would stamp out the whole brood of vipers, could I catch them," said Jeffreys. Poor Alice felt her heart sink, but she was not to be defeated.
He went about proclaiming everywhere that the end of the existing society was at hand, that the world was about to experience a new birth; that the priests were vipers, the lawyers ignoramuses, and the philosophers hypocrites and liars; that master and slave were equals, that usury and every thing akin to it was robbery, that proprietors and idlers would one day burn, while the poor and pure in heart would find a haven of peace.
Man. Oh! then that sap is not your father? Myself. What, the snake? Why, no! Did you think he was? Man. To be sure we did. Didn’t you tell me so? Myself. Why, yes; but who would have thought you would have believed it? It is a tame one. I hunt vipers, and tame them. Man. O—h! ‘O—h!’ grunted the woman, ‘that’s it, is it?’
Julian walked as slowly as possible, so as not to irritate them, while in the depth of bushes he could distinguish porcupines, foxes, vipers, jackals, and bears. He began to run; the brutes followed him. The serpent hissed, the malodorous beasts frothed at the mouth, the wild boar rubbed his tusks against his heels, and the wolf scratched the palms of his hands with the hairs of his snout.
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