The castle creatures stood frozen, surprise in their ophidian eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows Linger]
And midway through he found himself staring into green ophidian eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose]
She perceives me to be of ophidian sentiment, I will bathe with her. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems] Reference
At the other end of the table, Salteris was listening in ophidian silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
As fell ophidian as in fierce meridian of Afric ever lurked in swamp or brake. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
You shouldn't be up yet. 4 The female ophidian swung around, hand outstretched. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
That the newly born ophidian had not been properly prepared for her awakening made the task easier. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
By the time Khisanth returns, I hope to be able to present her with a fully developed female ophidian. 4. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
Slippery, cool, ophidian blood welled up over my fingers, but the blade bit down to the bone of the spine. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
She crossed over to the steel sinks of the lab module, carefully holding the ophidian probe away from her. From Wordnik.com. [Forever Free]
He looked, then, and for the first time saw the gate and the fence and the ophidian inhabitants of the den. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
Snake-like-ness happens to have a number of different adjectives, including one of the rare non - ine forms: ophidian. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
She aimed at the ophidian head of the serpent and was on the point of striking, when she started with surprise and lowered her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
In fact, snake-finding became an epidemic, and if I had come across any more of the ophidian brood, I would have feared the consequences. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Clutching his bleeding hand, stare aC Ae evi. aead had disappeared, but the surface of the pool was still agitated by the lithe ophidian shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Within a few weeks the growth of the saurian will not cease by day or night, until, as in the case of his kindred ophidian, his two extremities are brought together. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
I of course refer to the ophidian or serpent family. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
I have been struck, like many others, with the ophidian head and eye of the famous Rachel. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
His cold blood inclined him to be deliberate; the ophidian habit, slow-moving until ready to strike. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
It is well settled down wild boar, Eurasian lynx, European bison and the rare fragile ophidian lizard. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Marty, who takes the "con" out of anaconda, has an ophidian oiling option that won't make an asp out of you. From Wordnik.com. [The Toque] Reference
The pig treats the snake with disrespect, not to say insolence; nothing, ophidian or otherwise, can fascinate a pig. From Wordnik.com. [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Geraldine, in the former, seems to be simply a malignant witch-woman with the evil eye, but with no absolute ophidian relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
Then she turned and glided with quick ophidian grace to the doorway from which she had first appeared, and was eclipsed by the curtain. From Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
The biggest specimen I have ever found of this ophidian was under four feet in length; but the body is thick, as in all the pit vipers. From Wordnik.com. [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference
She had the straight, hard, ophidian line concealing the eyelid, which gives such a peculiar strength to the direct gaze of a pair of dark eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert and the Sown] Reference
Council gets a "verified existent adder sighting", it breaks the wax seal on its ophidian emergency protocol and sends in the helicopter gunships. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
It showed a human nature developing itself in conflict with the ophidian characteristics and instincts impressed upon it during the pre-natal period. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian Angel] Reference
I tried to make out a case for my poor Elsie, whom the most hardened theologian would find it hard to blame for her inherited ophidian tastes and tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
The curious heloderms, from Mexico, with their ophidian teeth, lie at the bottom of the fifth case: they are supposed, but as yet on insufficient grounds, to be poisonous. From Wordnik.com. [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference
Current Mood: ophidian. From Wordnik.com. [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference
The ophidian backhanded Riverwind on the jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
Of his ophidian mind. From Wordnik.com. [Avons Harvest. VIII. Avons Harvest, Etc] Reference
For Cubit, the ophidian guest. From Wordnik.com. [Clavering. V. The Town Down the River] Reference
Held by that gaze ophidian like a bird. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
3An ophidian, as I have named this race. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
"Saita, sayta, suta," he murmured, his sibilants angry and ophidian. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose]
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