viper-like
- a word derived from viper.
Example Sentences
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Carradine played the role with restrained, viper-like charm.
From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2016
Ghana look like they are more comfortable with this sort of match and it could play into their viper-like hands.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2010
One of these viper-like fortunes had fallen to Barkilphedro.
From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor
He is the darkness spread Ere yet was light—the matter ere was form— The vast inertia that on motion's heels Clings viper-like.
From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison
Yes, let it be for once said, the viper-like venom of p. 75envy—the most loyal, the most honourable, the most self-forgetting and self-obliterating friendship is never in this life for one moment proof against it.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander
