And I looked again, and in his appearance, his visage like a viper....
Ancrod is prepared from the crude venom of the Malayan pit viper (Agkistrodon rhodostoma, also termed Calloselasma rhodostoma) and belongs to the group of proteolytic enzymes.
He is depicted as an ugly viper, but when he changes shape, he puts himself in human shape, with big teeth and two horns.
Valeria and Orlando plot to rid themselves of Bung and his friends, so Valeria persuades Bung and Albert to spend the night at the manor, and slips a viper into their bed as they sleep.
When Fanny arrived home, she told her story to her mother and disgusting toads and vipers fell from her mouth with each word.
Eat and Be Eaten - this exhibit of life animals explores the predator-prey relationship, offering lots of live animals including deadly vipers, amazing puffer fish, and scores of other creatures.
The boys are wild, constantly playing pranks on neighbors and Rozi, who is fed up with their behavior which earned them the nickname "gadi" ("pests", or literally "vipers").
The vipers are believed to be rendered harmless by the sacred smoke, but as a safety precaution, the snakes have also been de-venomed but still have their fangs intact.
To them, Quincas is Joaquim Soares da Cunha, an "exemplary employee of the State Rent Board," who disgraced his family by walking out on them one day, calling Vanda and her mother, Dona Otacilia "vipers" and Vanda's husband Leonardo a "silly ass."
Digby reported that she had always been healthy, but had suffered occasional headaches through the previous eight years, for which she took "viper-wine" (which could have been one of several concoctions involving vipers or their venom in wine, and which in any case is not likely to have been toxic through ingestion).
The story begins with the recollection of young Jean Rézeau catching a viper in his grandparents' courtyard and holding it in his fist.
The playing fields between the A33 and the Basingstoke Road in south west Whitley are home to the only known colony of Grass Adders in the UK.
Her other study species include the wood tiger moth (Parasemia plantaginis), vipers (Viperidae), the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) and the drumming wolf-spider (Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata).