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But the animal itself is the same "hydra-headed monster," let whomsoever may fancy to pet it. A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because nestled in the bosom of an honest hearted man. This the colored people must bear in mind, and keep clear of the hideous thing, lest its venom may be test upon them. But why deem any argument necessary to show the unrighteousness of colonization?
She's a regular viper, my boy! said Mr. George. 'She and I once were pretty thick least said soonest mended, you know. I offended her. Wasn't quite up to her mark a tailor's daughter, you know. Gad, if she didn't set an Irish Dragoon Captain on me! I went about in danger of my life.
Others on this occasion talked very much of antipathies, and produced a thousand instances of such strange effects; for example, the sight of a ram quiets an enraged elephant; a viper lies stock-still, if touched with a beechen leaf; a wild bull grows tame, if bound with the twigs of a fig-tree; and amber draws all light things to it, except basil and such as are dipped in oil; and a loadstone will not draw a piece of iron that is rubbed with onion.
"My curse fall on you! Who are you? What have I done to you you viper?" The man secured in the chair, and with the wire drawn tightly over his throat, replied not a word. Elmer advanced toward him, and Alma, with a little cry, tried to hinder him. "Do not fear. He cannot move. I will release his head, and perhaps you will recognize him."
When the calculated silence had held for perhaps five full minutes, the standing men meanwhile remaining as motionless as though they were themselves carved from coal, Alexander spoke. "Why don't ye say somethin'," she demanded. "I've got friends thet'll be s'archin' these hills fer me right vigorous ef I don't git ter Viper in good time."
I am quite sure that the peers who observed him surveying them did not think he was benignant. If I am any judge of feelings, they looked upon him, as he stood there at the bar, as a particularly malignant type of viper. With a genial smile Lloyd George exchanged a chatty word or two with an M. P. at his side.
Will this writing prove the complicity of the Marquis de Sairmeuse? Yes, or no? Have you, or have you not, dared to try and to condemn to death the unfortunate men who were only the tools of your son?" "Ah, wretch! hussy! viper!" interrupted the duke. He was beside himself. A foam gathered upon his lips, his eyes seemed starting from their sockets; he was no longer conscious of what he was saying.
But, even at the crest of the wave of temptation, words that he had heard one night in Hamley, that last night of all, flashed into his mind the words of old Luke Claridge's prayer, "And if a viper fasten on his hand, O Lord " Suddenly he paused. That scene in the old Meetinghouse swam before his eyes, got into his brain.
Hook, when he caught his specimen, thought he was killing a viper. My friend, Prof. J.W.H. Trail, of Aberdeen, whom I consulted, replied that Coronella lævis or austriaca, is known in Sicily and the adjoining islands; but he can find no evidence of its existence in Malta.
"I beseech you, Habinas, for I think you was there; he told me the intrigue between my mistress and me; that I had but ill luck at friends; that no one ever made me a return of my kindnesses: That I had large possessions, but nourished a viper in my bosom: Why should I not tell you all?
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