The average time of death from the bite of a fer-de-lance is twenty minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comanche Moon] Reference

“Willy was bitten by a fer-de-lance, one of the deadliest snakes in the world.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comanche Moon] Reference

He didn't look forward to spending the night at the edge of the swamp, fielding accusations and indignant inquiries while watching nervously for patrolling fer-de-lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call to Arms]

Yet it wasn't until Bill and I brought home the fer-de-lance in a mayonnaise jar that Mama laid down an absolute law about no contact with Brazilian wildlife of any sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [BRASIL AS A GIRL] Reference

I would have killed him the way I would have killed a fer-de-lance, a black-widow spider or any other such dark and evil and deadly thing, without thought of compunction or mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

The dreaded fer-de-lance is a snake of great agility and lethal effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category -] Reference

Cribo of Martinique, a big non-venomous serpent, kills and swallows the deadly fer-de-lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

The fer-de-lance, so dreaded in Martinique, and the equally dangerous bushmaster of Guiana are included in this genus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

Labat had believed it possible to exterminate the fer-de-lance, and had adopted extraordinary measures for its destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

The favorite haunts of the fer-de-lance are to a large extent either inaccessible or unexplored, and its multiplication is prodigious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

I worried briefly that a fer-de-lance could squeeze in between the door and the floor, but decided that it's unlikely they'd come looking for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

One man seen by Russ had not only lost his speech in consequence of the bite of a fer-de-lance snake, but had become, and still remained, hemiplegic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

There were also overhanging branches that formed a tunnel - a perfect habitat for the deadly fer-de-lance snake and any number of nasty crawling fauna.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The equivalent effort of about seven Manhattan projects has been poured into fer-de-lance by the Soviets, and the program has been successful almost beyond imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category -] Reference

The favorite prey of the mussurama is the most common and therefore the most dangerous poisonous snake of Brazil, the jararaca, which is known in Martinique as the fer-de-lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

And there before him, hanging in mid-air, striking viciously at his fingers which were just beyond its reach, was a young fer-de-lance -- one of the deadliest of tropical serpents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

But even a fer-de-lance should rather add to the number of hammock devotees than diminish them; for the three feet or more of elevation is as good as so many miles between the two of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

It is true that this brief experience might be looked upon as one illustration of the perils of the wilderness, since it is not customary for the fer-de-lance to frequent the city and the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

A dozen species are known in Brazil, the biggest one being identical with the Guiana bushmaster, and the most common one, the jararaca, being identical, or practically identical with the fer-de-lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

If by some rare chance you encounter a person who has lost an arm or a leg, you can be almost certain you are looking at a victim of the fer-de-lance, -- the serpent whose venom putrefies living tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

A pit-viper of the same family as the fer-de-lance, the bush-master, and the rattlesnake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

"The croupier stared down at those coins, with eyes as cold and fixed as those of a fer-de-lance ready to strike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plotting in Pirate Seas] Reference

A little while after a fer-de-lance strikes, ye're as dead as if you'd been dropped in mid-Atlantic, with a shot tied to your feet. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plotting in Pirate Seas] Reference

"baigan" -- a bright blue snake which frequented waterholes and lagoons, and whose venom equalled that of the deadly fer-de-lance of Martinique and St Vincent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Gerrard] Reference

A venomous snake called the fer-de-lance, the rainforest Garcia and Quintanilla will visit harbors elephants, tigers, and sloth bears, leopards, and many species of monkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsville Herald :] Reference

The strike of a fer-de-lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear is the Key]

It's the home of the fer-de-lance. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plotting in Pirate Seas] Reference

His pony shied and whirled around, a long snake -- a fer-de-lance -- flowed across the path.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference