Sentence examples for of a viper from inspiring English sources
One has the bored expression of a viper.
Pictures of bikini-clad women sprawled on the hood of a Viper, for instance, do not make the grade.
Rose volunteers at school mainly to keep an eye on her third-grade daughter, the target of a viper classmate.
Think of Bentley Drummle from "Great Expectations," on steroids: he's got the body of a Greek god and the tongue of a viper, and at least in the narrative's early years, he uses heterosexuality like a weapon.
The instinct for attack, at least in polemical terms, has been encouraged in recent days by what Mr. Hussein appears to have taken as a sign of American weakness: the decision by President Bush -- routinely referred to in Baghdad's propaganda as "the son of a viper," or "little Bush" -- to muster new consensus for a fresh version of the United Nations sanctions.
Her daughter, Eleanor Medill Patterson, everywhere known as Cissy, after a wretched marriage to a Russian-Polish aristocrat named Josef Gizycki — he disappeared on her on their wedding night, drank heavily, beat her and absconded with their daughter, Felicia — flounced about Washington as the Countess Gizycka, a social butterfly with the fangs of a viper.
'I think seven... no eight... or maybe nine.' Two of them - a Viper and a Prowler - were given to him by grateful corporations.
The only reported instance of insular gigantism in a viper is from the population of speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus mitchellii) on Isla Ángel de la Guarda in the Sea of Cortés [24], [27] (Fig. 1).
There is a cloud, however: a viper of a courtier named Percival (Mr. Regan) whose earlier run-ins with the smart-mouthed Jamal has him aching to impale the messenger on any of several blades in his scabbards.
Instantly dashed were my fantasies of delivering some Addison DeWitt-type acerbities, good-naturedly playing into the popular notion of the critic as a viper who cannot open his mouth without savaging somebody or something.
For some reason, the park's manager, a viper of a woman named Coco La Bouche (Ms. Sarandon), tells Stu to bring all his friends, and in Paris everyone is guided about by Coco's lovely and impossibly sweet assistant, Kira.
