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Updated: May 23, 2025
But to wake helpless as well as empty-handed, the strength for ever gone from arms that were invincible; to crawl, a poor crushed worm, the mark for all men's pity, where one had thought to win the meed of all men's praise, ah, then to live is agony! Each breath becomes a venomed adder's sting. Most of all Aldebaran thought of Vesta.
"Ur-r-r-r!" snarled Nat, with a growl like that of an irritated dog. "What's the matter, Nat?" "Matter, sir? See that Samson ah, he's a rank bad 'un shaking his fist at me, and pretending to punch me? Here, I must go and give it him now." "No, no," cried Scar, catching at Black Adder's rein. "Your orders are to follow your colonel."
The storm of the previous night had cleared and revivified the air, which, for many days, had been oppressively sultry; the irregular patches of sky, glimpsed through the branches, were a transparent blue; the springy ground was bright with wild blossoms and colorful berries, dogwood and service berry, adder's tongue, bleeding heart and ferns in rich profusion.
"You'd not reach your hand in there if 'twas an adder's nest, I reckon." "I'm teaching Eleanor all the birds' names," went on Roger, quite at his ease, munching a bit of flag-root. "They don't have the same names here that they do in Normandy, you know. Old Jehan the gardener that used to know Eleanor's grandfather taught me all their names when I was there.
Again the snake rose, and struck with no effect; but this time the stroke, coming from the rear, was met by the sharp points of the spines, and the adder's mouth dropped blood from a clean-cut wound on the upper edge of the palate.
They climbed the hill where he came to battle with the stormwinds, and to watch the sunsets and the moon rising over the lake. And then they went down into the glen, where the mountain streamlet tumbled. Here had been wood-sorrel, and a carpet of the white trillium; and now there was adder's tongue, quaint and saucy, and columbine, and the pale dusty corydalis.
"Ah, poor old chap, then!" he cried excitedly, for the dog suddenly gave a lurch and fell upon its side. "I say," cried Pete wildly, as he rose to his knees, and caught hold of one of the forelegs; "he arn't going to croak, is he?" "I don't know; I'm afraid so. But look here, the adder's bite was poison; wouldn't it do good to let some of the poison out?"
"And yet Sarolta, simple, inexperienced, Could see him as he was, and often warned me. Whence learned she this? O she was innocent! And to be innocent is Nature's wisdom! The fledge-dove knows the prowlers of the air, Feared soon as seen, and flutters back to shelter. And the young steed recoils upon his haunches, The never-yet-seen adder's hiss first heard.
He would be startled to hear in how small a thing and in how insignificant a creature resided the principle that could make his body, like his spirit, immortal. But exceeding great power often existed in small compass: witness the adder's tooth, which was to our sight no more than the point of the smallest thorn.
Henry bent forward, and Anne half averted her head, but not so much so as to prevent the king from imprinting a long and fervid kiss upon her lips. Terrible was its effect upon Wyat. An adder's bite would have been less painful. His hands convulsively clutched together; his hair stood erect upon his head; a shiver ran through his frame; and he tottered back several paces.
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