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Some five seasons later, “backrolls” still pops up on the show as a kind of venomless meta-reference.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2018

Army venomless snakes to be used in training G.I.s about how to avoid panic when they encounter the really poisonous serpents in Viet Nam.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the able editorial writers on the New York Times began it when he composed a venomless little essay comparing Yale, Harvard and Princeton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Life was lived to its fullest, since unimportant worries fell venomless before meaningful concerns.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann

"It is venomless as the bill of the turtle-dove," she exclaimed, with the importance of an oracle, looking up at her mistress.

From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by Miles, George Henry