Adjective : a viperous movement. From Dictionary.com.
With viperous twistings bound; and threatening shakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Outside the entire island had become sinister, viperous, paralyzing. From Wordnik.com. [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference
Its fangs gleamed in the sunlight as it opened its viperous mouth wider. From Wordnik.com. [Heart Of The Tiger]
Frank Rich being Frank Rich: viperous and cattish, with razor-sharp claws. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Frank Rich, Clarence Thomas, and the Missouri Assistant Attorney General:] Reference
The cutting of great tracts of grass for hay stirred them into viperous action. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
"I want words," stormed the great prosecutor, "to express thy viperous treason.". From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Cam would not tell that viperous woman Roberts had married what a lousy excuse for a human she was. From Wordnik.com. [Wicked Pleasures]
Eumenides! aye wont to bind with viperous hair-locks. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
Mrs. Button, a viperous Londoner, yearned for noise. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunate Youth] Reference
Grown viperous with its lusts -- its snakes about me. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
Ah, cowards! knaves! viperous, vermin-like hypocrites!!. From Wordnik.com. [People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898.] Reference
And Strife, her viperous locks with gory fillets twined. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
A libelous charge; villainous, viperous, and mischievous. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
Facts put fangs out and bite us; life stings and grows viperous. From Wordnik.com. [The Heptalogia] Reference
Urbino might change masters and obey the viperous Duke Valentino. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
ATTORNEY -- I want words sufficient to express thy viperous treasons. From Wordnik.com. [State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
One pol they won't be sinking their viperous teeth into is Sarah Palin. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
Civil dissension is a viperous worm. From Wordnik.com. [The First part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference
I felt more viperous by the minute. From Wordnik.com. [Virginity] Reference
Mix'd with the Gorgon's viperous blood. From Wordnik.com. [Ion] Reference
This viperous traitor: to eject him hence. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of Coriolanus] Reference
Nor took the viperous sound amiss. From Wordnik.com. [Playful Poems] Reference
Civil dissension is a viperous worm. From Wordnik.com. [Act III. Scene I. First Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference
And vomit viperous poison in my name. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
Of viperous poison on the whole affair. From Wordnik.com. [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference
Suggesting all the world a viperous brood. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
Save when the stings of viperous remorse. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRELUDE BOOK NINTH] Reference
His viperous instincts had not deserted him. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I] Reference
And Censure spreads the viperous hiss around. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
A viperous thought; some syllables are swords. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Scan the dread meaning in that viperous glance. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
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