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  • She tried to suck the venom out of the bite.
  • She's so small, it wouldn't take much venom to do her in.   (source)
  • He was plenty scared now, with nine venomous snakes crawling around his feet.   (source)
    venomous = capable of injecting poison with a bite
  • Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death.   (source)
  • Rattlesnake venom.   (source)
    venom = poison
  • How about snake venom?   (source)
  • Trudy could have walked in at any moment, and what, exactly, would he have said if she'd asked why he was carrying a bottle ribboned with Hangul lettering and with some liquid inside that looked like the purest, most distilled venom?   (source)
  • My mother once called me in the middle of the day to tell me to make sure I wear shoes when cleaning the attic because she had just heard about a woman who, while cleaning her attic barefoot, was bitten by a rare brown spider whose venom cut off the circulation to her extremities.   (source)
  • I speak of the spear you sent, whose venom killed my husband.   (source)
  • And even then nobody suspected the dilophosaurs could spit until one of the handlers was almost blinded by spitting venom.   (source)
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  • It was a cobra, whose venom could kill a person in minutes.   (source)
    venom = poison created by some insects and animals such as snakes
  • I think Stephano took the venom and injected it into Uncle Monty.   (source)
    venom = poison (from the snake)
  • With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.   (source)
    venomous = poisonous (figuratively)
  • … no conditioning … monstrous superstitions … Christianity and totemism and ancestor worship … extinct languages, such as Zuñi and Spanish and Athapascan … pumas, porcupines and other ferocious animals … infectious diseases … priests … venomous lizards …   (source)
    venomous = poisonous
  • It was impossible to doubt that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.   (source)
    venom = poison
  • I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.   (source)
  • The elf showed Eragon how to detect and neutralize poisons of every sort and, from then on, Eragon had to inspect his food for the different venoms Oromis was liable to slip into it.†   (source)
  • The Five Deadly Venoms.†   (source)
  • Ointments I have, potions and infusions, tinctures and venoms and poultices.†   (source)
  • Beyond that is flat Lake Ontario, a zero at the beginning and a zero at the end, slate-gray and brimming with venoms.†   (source)
  • Maybe the murderer injected bee venom in his veins.   (source)
  • Would I be able to climb out of the deep again, once the venom was in me?   (source)
  • If you live, the hallucinations brought on by the venom have actually driven people to madness.   (source)
  • It took a moment for the venom to sink in.   (source)
  • The basilisk venom had burned a sizzling hole right through it.   (source)
  • This vial is labeled 'Venom du Mal,' and it's obviously from Uncle Monty's cabinet of venom samples.   (source)
  • Begin in the flesh above, else the venom will leak.   (source)
  • "It might have been the tracker jacker venom making me imagine things," I say.   (source)
  • In his veins, I found the venom of the Mamba du Mal, one of the world's most poisonous snakes.   (source)
  • So how far could he have gotten, stabbed and filled with venom?   (source)
  • No. You must put your hand to the venom yourself.   (source)
  • "But Dr. Lucafont said there was the venom of the Mamba du Mal in Monty's veins," she said.   (source)
  • Is it like a bee's venom, that stings only once?   (source)
  • Inside the woods they roam freely, and there are added concerns like venomous snakes,   (source)
    venomous = poisonous
  • Stephano—Olaf—took this syringe and injected the venom into Uncle Monty.   (source)
    venom = poison (from the snake)
  • Many contestants were bitten by venomous snakes or went insane from thirst.   (source)
    venomous = poisonous
  • I could coax a drop of venom from the tail of a wasp.   (source)
    venom = poison
  • And Dr. Lucafont found the venom of the Mamba du Mal in Monty's veins.   (source)
  • After that, Hammond had agreed to study dilophosaur venom, which was found to contain seven different toxic enzymes.   (source)
  • Biological activity was still under study, but it seemed to be a neurotoxic poison related to cobra venom, although more primitive in structure.   (source)
  • Four to a tray — there is a large supply of pots here — compost in the sacks over there — and be careful of the Venomous Tentacula, it's teething.   (source)
    venomous = capable of injecting poison with a bite
  • They had run toxicity profiles as well, and they had found only one positive match: the blood was mildly reactive to the venom of the Indian king cobra.   (source)
    venom = poison
  • He could see the vast, bloody eye sockets, see the mouth stretching wide, wide enough to swallow him whole, lined with fangs long as his sword, thin, glittering, venomous.   (source)
    venomous = capable of injecting poison with a bite
  • But the thing is, it's in the Restricted Section of the library, so I need a teacher to sign for it — I'm sure it would help me understand what you say in Gadding with Ghouls about slow-acting venoms.   (source)
    venoms = poisons created by living creatures
  • Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom;   (source)
    venom = poison
  • So I walk off in the other direction, hoping my enemies still lie locked in the surreal world of tracker jacker venom.   (source)
  • I have a whole cabinet of venom samples from every poisonous snake known to people, so I can study the ways in which these dangerous snakes work.   (source)
  • I turned it, catching the light on the infinitesimal beads of venom that crowned each feathered tooth.   (source)
  • This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.   (source)
  • There is a snake in this room whose venom is so deadly that your heart would stop before you even knew he'd bitten you.   (source)
  • Because by the time we met up, I couldn't tell what was real and what the tracker jacker venom had caused me to imagine.   (source)
  • Each toad we catch, each venom sample we put into a test tube, each snake interview we record—every scrap of work we do—will fall into the hands of this Herpetological Society spy.   (source)
  • I haven't heard the cannons fire yet, so perhaps Glimmer is in some sort of coma, her heart still struggling against the wasp venom.   (source)
  • "The Mamba du Mal," he read, "is one of the deadliest snakes in the hemisphere, noted for its strangulatory grip, used in conjunction with its deadly venom, giving all of its victims a tenebrous hue, which is ghastly to behold."   (source)
  • I feel a second sting on the cheek, a third on my neck, and their venom almost immediately makes me woozy.   (source)
  • "The Mamba du Mal," he read out loud, "is one of the deadliest snakes in the hemisphere, noted for its strangulatory grip, used in conjunction with its deadly venom, giving all of its victims a tenebrous hue, which is ghastly to behold."   (source)
  • My wounds recovering, my mind still a bit foggy from the venom, and the warmth of Rue at my side, her head cradled on my shoulder, have given me a sense of security.   (source)
  • Remember how Uncle Monty said he kept the venoms of all his poisonous snakes in test tubes, to study them?   (source)
    venoms = poison created by the snakes
  • The only trouble is that most venoms act too fast to give the victim much time for truth-telling.†   (source)
  • He pretended to be perusing a page of Asiatic Anti-Venoms, because he did not want to say what was in his mind.†   (source)
  • For there, on the back of the small boy's hand, on the fingers, and up along the wrist scrambled blue serpents, blue-venomed snake eyes, blue scorpions scuttling about blue shark maws which gaped eternally hungry to feed upon all the freaks crammed and stung-sewn cheek by jowl, skin to skin, flesh to flesh all up and down the chest, the tiny torso, and tucked in the secret gathering places on this small small very small body, this cold and now shocked and trembling body.†   (source)
  • Snake venoms, for instance, why, no more was known about them than that, as animal products, they were included among the complex proteins, were made up of simpler proteins that in certain—but as yet quite uncertain—combinations packed a wallop.†   (source)
  • He spoke very forcefully and with unusual coherence about medicines and poisons, and Hans Castorp tilted his head and nodded as he listened, less concerned with the contents of what was said, which seemed very important to the Dutchman, than with quietly exploring the effects of the man's personality, which ultimately was as inexplicable as the effects of snake venoms.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it seemed an insane idea, just as it had on the night Hermione had proposed it, but at others, he had found himself thinking about the spells that had served him best in his various encounters with Dark creatures and Death Eaters — found himself, in fact, subconsciously planning lessons… 'Well,' he said slowly, when he could no longer pretend to find Asiatic AntiVenoms interesting, 'yeah, I — I've thought about it a bit.'†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antivenoms means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • They were indignant at the random slur Cast on my parentage and did their best To comfort me, but still the venomed barb Rankled, for still the scandal spread and grew.†   (source)
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  • The remarks were fueled by venom and jealousy.
  • She could not muster her usual venom.   (source)
  • She hurried after Mama, knowing that she might never come back to her home again, and her heart filled with venom for Tio Luis.   (source)
    venom = intense feelings of anger
  • "Just shut up!" says Risa, her voice full of venom and accusation.   (source)
  • Perhaps his superiors wanted to rid the Imperial Guards of an unstable and venomous soldier, or perhaps they wanted to put his volatility to use.   (source)
    venomous = harmful
  • Snape shot a look of pure venom at Harry and Ron as he allowed himself to be swept out of his office, leaving them alone with Professor McGonagall, who was still eyeing them like a wrathful eagle.   (source)
    venom = intense feelings of hatred or anger
  • My father had begun to prefer his draughts to her, and her venom over it fell to me.   (source)
    venom = intense feelings of anger
  • There was suddenly venom in her voice.   (source)
    venom = intense feelings of hatred or anger
  • Since learning of Hatter Madigan's return, Redd had become more of a tyrant than ever and demanded that he spend hours every day rewriting In Queendom Speramus, glaring over his shoulder to make sure he scribbled down her venomous words exactly as she spat them at him.   (source)
    venomous = filled with intense feelings of hatred or anger
  • A little distance away she glimpsed Goodwife Cruff, surrounded by a close huddle of whispering women, all darting venomous glances in Kit's direction.   (source)
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  • It's impossible for me to be all smiles one day and venomous the next.   (source)
  • Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party — an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.   (source)
  • Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment, and herself the object.   (source)
    venomous = harmful
  • As the thin voice ended, Goodwife Cruff drew in her breath through her teeth in a venomous hiss.   (source)
    venomous = filled with intense feelings of hatred or anger
  • There's a group of kids who hate the world, and spend all day spewing venom.   (source)
    venom = intense feelings of anger
  • Without turning around, Papa answered calmly, but with venom, "Well, don't ask her, either."   (source)
    venom = with anger or harmful intent
  • It was a voice, a voice to chill the bone marrow, a voice of breathtaking, ice-cold venom.   (source)
    venom = harmful intent
  • I could taste the venom in my mouth. It was a pleasure to see him frightened at last.   (source)
    venom = intense feelings of anger
  • In an intellectual way, Syme was venomously orthodox.   (source)
    venomously = in a manner that is filled with intense feelings of hatred or anger
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  • For decades I took a grim satisfaction in this venomous doodling.†   (source)
  • It is an agile and keensighted creature, diurnal and social in habits, and feeding in its native range—the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa—on, among other things, scorpions, to whose venom it is completely immune.†   (source)
  • The same arm had been pierced by a venomous foot-long fang not long afterward.†   (source)
  • He was beginning to feel cold, and slow, as if he had been bitten in the heart by some arctic viper and it was starting to pump its icy venom through his body.†   (source)
  • But these overtures are dismissed by Zalmai unceremoniously, sometimes venomously.†   (source)
  • Spewing a barrage of venomous curses, he took the blanket Garvey had given him and flung it to the ground.†   (source)
  • Venomous was more like it.†   (source)
  • Lawton was eloquent and venomous.†   (source)
  • Apt, considering that was pit scorpion venom.†   (source)
  • Rather, we turned to my grandmother's Wharton Encyclopedia of Venomous Snakes—which had already provided Owen and me with several nightmares, when we were children—and there we found our vision of the enemy in Southeast Asia: Russell's viper.†   (source)
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  • But he didn't put real venom into it.†   (source)
  • "Watch out for his venom," the boy said.†   (source)
  • They say his blood turned to venom, he was bitten so many times.†   (source)
  • There were two drops of blood coming out where the fangs had been, and I leaned down and put my mouth on the wound and sucked as hard as I could, trying to draw out the venom.†   (source)
  • What are you going to do now?" inquired Paquita venomously.†   (source)
  • He spat it out like venom.†   (source)
  • His tone is venomous.†   (source)
  • In fact, I treat him as if he's a real snake, the venomous kind.†   (source)
  • "Oh, she's amazing," I'd said venomously.†   (source)
  • The man looked like a reptile choking on its own venom.†   (source)
  • Drops of venom glistened from the tip of each tusk.†   (source)
  • If a person has a strong allergy to wasp venom, it hits within thirty seconds.†   (source)
  • Some of them were venomous six-foot-long pit vipers.†   (source)
  • Glowering venomously, Sloan slipped into the back room.†   (source)
  • This was the Fowleses' other awful news: Father had walked or hitchhiked all the way over to the Kikongo mission in an agitated state, bellowing that his guts were on fire with venom.†   (source)
  • He shook his head venomously, as if he'd forgotten the fact we were prisoners, our lives were in danger, and I was crammed in a dumbwaiter.†   (source)
  • So… if the venom is left to spread…†   (source)
  • He had no doubt that Harrison would come through and rescue him from the frozen mornings and venomous newsboys that for the moment defined his life.†   (source)
  • "Don't move!" it said, now with venom.†   (source)
  • Full of a baby's venom.†   (source)
  • The king looked at Maxon, venom in his eyes.†   (source)
  • Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal.†   (source)
  • Your dad grabbed my hand and sucked the venom out.†   (source)
  • He's Chicano like me, but I know how much he hates everything I am, as if I represent all the scorn, venom and fear instilled in him since a child.†   (source)
  • "What does it matter what he did with your money?" she asked, her voice filled with venom, with contempt.†   (source)
  • The venom is deadly.†   (source)
  • When Velutha arrived, Mammachi lost her bearings and spewed her blind venom, her crass, insufferable insults, at a panel in the sliding-folding door until Baby Kochamma tactfully swiveled her around and aimed her rage in the right direction, at Velutha standing very still in the gloom.†   (source)
  • "We'll have plenty of time to talk while we're on 'vacation,' " Clary said venomously, and had the satisfaction of seeing her mother flinch.†   (source)
  • His expression was pure venom.†   (source)
  • As I go on, I can't keep my voice steady anymore; I start to spit out the words like venom.†   (source)
  • If I despised only Amy, focused all my fury and rage and venom on the one woman who deserved it, that didn't make me my father.†   (source)
  • They said he used an ointment made of snake venom that inflamed women's loins, but he swore he had no resources other than those that God had given him.†   (source)
  • His voice was low, venomous.†   (source)
  • The venom poured out of me.†   (source)
  • She looked like an ageing vampire—still strikingly beautiful but as venomous as a snake.†   (source)
  • His next words were spoken with icy venom.†   (source)
  • Wells pretended not to notice; but like a horse that has heard the hum of a rattlesnake, he shied away from the betrayed man's venomous vicinity.†   (source)
  • You're lying," I said with venom.†   (source)
  • I have the urge to call Brittany just to hear her voice, even if it's filled with venom.†   (source)
  • She subsided a little, subsided to a venomous murmur.†   (source)
  • ' Will's father noted the muscles cord along the arms, roping and unroping themselves with a writhe like the puff adders and sidewinders doubtless inked and venomous there.†   (source)
  • Maya had handed Ellie a note in front of everybody, and the note was full of really "venomous" things about Ximena.†   (source)
  • I expect venom, but her voice shakes.†   (source)
  • I should have tried to soak his venom out.†   (source)
  • Up to the time Pap gave him definite information from headquarters, he had never for an instant supposed that there was a possibility of Stoddard desiring to marry Johnnie; but the flurried eagerness of Miss Sessions convinced him that such a possibility was a very present dread with her, and he sent a venomous glance after the disappearing horseman.†   (source)
  • Cool to the touch, all its venom coiled inside, deadly, like a steel-scaled serpent.†   (source)
  • Felicity can't decide whether to laugh or spit venom at me.†   (source)
  • He wasn't affected by my false pregnancy in any way, so why all the venom?†   (source)
  • Quietly, so Nathan, who was playing in the living room, could not hear, she said with all the venom she could muster, "How dare you.†   (source)
  • "Mortenson knew from the venom in Parvi's voice how serious a problem the fatwa presented.†   (source)
  • Was the grotesque head finally a carcass, or was there venom still inside, and strength to lash yet again?†   (source)
  • Mum Olga nodded, but she sent me a look of pure venom.†   (source)
  • She gaped at me, her eyes narrowing and her voice laced with forced venom.†   (source)
  • Frodo thought that he heard a faint hiss as of venomous breath and felt a thin piercing chill.†   (source)
  • Aven cursed and cast a venomous look at John.†   (source)
  • I glared, as if a single, venomous look could shut Jacobi down.†   (source)
  • 'Go up, go up, go up!' he shouted frantically at McWatt, hating him venomously, but McWatt was singing buoyantly over the intercom and probably couldn't hear.†   (source)
  • I would never hurt her by repeating Madame Gao's venomous remarks.†   (source)
  • Venomous?†   (source)
  • Vlad filled with venom, suddenly furious that Otis was breaking her heart like this again.†   (source)
  • My compass needle of pain told me it was on the path now, and the way its venom was expanding to fill me meant it was closing in fast.†   (source)
  • I'd turned on him with more venom than was needed.†   (source)
  • I grew to hate Reb Saunders with a venomous passion that frightened me at times, and I consoled myself with wild fantasies of what I would do to him if he ever fell into my hands.†   (source)
  • I said many cruel things and couldn't stop the venom from pouring out even though I had already begun to feel sorry for her.†   (source)
  • And when the venomous beast charges at him, he remembers who is the hunter, and who the hunted!†   (source)
  • Not even the President escaped their venom any longer.†   (source)
  • Venom in the Blood.†   (source)
  • The baby lives on venom.†   (source)
  • "Man," he said, then left a long pause, letting scorn build up in the cave like the venom in his breath.†   (source)
  • He went on grumbling and spitting with disgust, a venomously puritanical old man…… I asked Uncle Axel whether there were a lot of people who really felt the way old Jacob talked.†   (source)
  • She said venomously, "I might like the earrings?†   (source)
  • Its bite is highly venomous.†   (source)
  • His thin, high voice venomous.†   (source)
  • Deo knew his snakes, the mambas and cobras and other venomous species, and he knew the proper response to an encounter with a snake, which was either to run or to chop off its head.†   (source)
  • The word "archangel" is steeped with venom.†   (source)
  • The building had an air of silent malevolence, like a puffed, venomous mushroom; it was obviously modern, but its sloppy, rounded, ineptly unspecific lines made it look like a primitive structure unearthed in the heart of the jungle, devoted to some secret rites of savagery.†   (source)
  • The venom and agony from her mind drained out of Jonathan, leaving a taste like rotten meat on his tongue.†   (source)
  • With an effort, she clamped her lips tight on the venom and stared straight ahead.†   (source)
  • They fell on us in a crazed venomous pack.†   (source)
  • "Because they do not want the Milago to see how well they live," answered Alder with a trace of venom.†   (source)
  • The woman stopped, venom and fear replaced by an expression of absolute shock.†   (source)
  • After that, he was always riding on the northern marches of Narnia, hunting for that venomous worm, to kill it and be avenged.†   (source)
  • And he created a snake to writhe above my upturned face, a snake that dribbled its venom into my eyes.†   (source)
  • Hold your venomous words and listen to the messenger of grim tidings!†   (source)
  • Obviously, Pandora's supply of venom wasn't running low.†   (source)
  • 'Give my love to your wife — my sister: he called after me venomously.†   (source)
  • He did not rant or spew venom or recite Koranic verses or the sayings of the Prophet.†   (source)
  • These are country dogs; they can take a little snake venom and keep on going.†   (source)
  • He proceeded to denounce his race venomously.†   (source)
  • Once a venomous-looking creature with gaping jaws swam slowly across a half-concealed cleft.†   (source)
  • At this moment there was in his manner all the identical bottled-up surge of fury and venom which had truly scared me on that radiant Sunday, a day that for so long had seemed comfortably remote.†   (source)
  • And perhaps they are keeping the world's peace with this venom.†   (source)
  • Schrank is strong, always in command; he has a charming, pleasant manner, which he often employs to cover his venom and his fear.†   (source)
  • Tom Black rode in tight-lipped silence, even more quietly venomous in the saddle than he was on foot.†   (source)
  • There is no known antidote for its venom.†   (source)
  • After that," Leamas added venomously, "it was only a matter of time before it packed up.†   (source)
  • That venomous thing I said about Christians, Andrew said after a moment.†   (source)
  • It looked venomously fast.†   (source)
  • When he offered the bag to his wife, she recoiled as though it held a venomous snake.†   (source)
  • Nor she him, judging from the venomous look she gives him, out of her small red eyes.†   (source)
  • 'Venomous Tentacula seeds,' said George.†   (source)
  • 'You know what?' said Seamus heatedly, casting Harry a venomous look.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor shot Isabelle and Alec a venomous glare between her slitted eyelids.†   (source)
  • But in New York, with a working wife, the mother-in-law was denied her venomous authority.†   (source)
  • And carnival or no carnival, Denver preferred the venomous baby to him any day.†   (source)
  • It's filled with poisonous and inedible plants, venomous snakes, scorpions, and a blistering sun.†   (source)
  • The puff adder is the most venomous snake in the world.†   (source)
  • Bewt cast a venomous glare at the banker.†   (source)
  • We're also venomous," she said, her teeth glistening.†   (source)
  • So when I sat down to write my public letter of apology, it dripped with venomous sincerity.†   (source)
  • Overhead eyeless, leathery-winged creatures circled, screeching and dripping a venomous green slime.†   (source)
  • "I am," he said, shooting a venomous look at Amatis, who only smiled.†   (source)
  • He did not answer Sam, but gave him a swift venomous look.†   (source)
  • "The realm will curse us all for this," declared Ser Alliser Thorne in a venomous tone.†   (source)
  • He grabbed his cap and left with a venomous glare at Roran, who returned the scowl in kind.†   (source)
  • Fang shot him a venomous glance, then scowled at me.†   (source)
  • My sisters are not venomous, but whether that's due to gender or a random chance… who knows?†   (source)
  • The clone merely gave a venomous smile and laid the spear across his saddle.†   (source)
  • Captives of this venomous stranger who had once been a loving husband and father?†   (source)
  • She said the last in a venomous undertone, looking down again at her hands.†   (source)
  • But she has to learn not to poke sticks at snakes, at least not venomous ones.†   (source)
  • She Was Mad, Okay Madison puffed up red, venomous as an adder.†   (source)
  • I tried to escape the venomous weed in my mind.†   (source)
  • "Lucky thing Ness—Renesmee's not venomous," Seth said after a second of awkward silence.†   (source)
  • "Your daughter, is she venomous?" he demanded harshly.†   (source)
  • Of course, I already knew that Renesmee wasn't venomous.†   (source)
  • Her performance was so venomous, I felt sorry for her.†   (source)
  • Are any of the snakes venomous?†   (source)
  • Harry directed a Stunning Spell toward the masked Death Eater; it missed but nearly hit Neville, who had emerged from nowhere brandishing armfuls of Venomous Tentacula, which looped itself happily around the nearest Death Eater and began reeling him in.†   (source)
  • And Harry, too, looked ahead at the skull, and fear swelled inside him like a venomous bubble, compressing his lungs, driving all other discomfort from his mind … How long had they been away?†   (source)
  • He had gone to a bar to celebrate the birth of his new daughter with some friends; there a venomous tongue had let out the information.†   (source)
  • Even Clarisse kept her distance, though her venomous looks made it clear she wanted to kill me for breaking her magic spear.†   (source)
  • The chairman of the court turned, with a venomous smile, to Holger Palmgren, who up until then had been her trustee, and inquired whether he might be willing to take on the guardianship.†   (source)
  • And you are voluntarily get ting into an enclosed space with thirty or forty of the most venomous snakes in the world.†   (source)
  • "I expected him to have more control over what he was doing," Hemme said, shooting a venomous look at me.†   (source)
  • Gareth shot a venomous look at the man at the table, then turned his back on them and picked up the glass again.†   (source)
  • It was a relief to get outside into the greenhouses; they were dealing with more dangerous plants than ever in Herbology, but at least they were still allowed to swear loudly if the Venomous Tentacula seized them unexpectedly from behind.†   (source)
  • They found a public notary there who said he would certify a document that said that Orest Mercator spent so many days incarcerated with these venomous reptiles blah blah blah.†   (source)
  • Venomous.†   (source)
  • Let us hope he is venomous as well.†   (source)
  • Put a venomous snake over his face?†   (source)
  • Tarly gave the knight a venomous look.†   (source)
  • I stop only long enough to allow myself to be sprayed by a girl giving away free squirts of some venomous new perfume.†   (source)
  • Jace shot him a venomous look.†   (source)
  • There is nothing, except venomous reprisals, that cravens who fled their freshman year could cast on the history of the Institute.†   (source)
  • More disturbing, the vampires had come together, whispering, their pale faces venomous, full of hate.†   (source)
  • The white-green poison kept pooling, little streams trickling from the plants as the venomous lake around him got wider and wider.†   (source)
  • The outfit reminded me of ajester's motley, or the coloration of a venomous animal warning the whole world: Try me and you die.†   (source)
  • …features were the outcome of a car collision in 1950-an accident that left his long-jawed and narrow face tilted, the left side rather lower than the right, with the results that the lips were slightly aslant, the nose askew, and his eyes not only situated at uneven levels but of uneven size, the left eye being truly serpentine, with venomous, sickly-blue squint that although it was involuntarily acquired, seemed nevertheless to warn of bitter sediment at the bottom of his nature.†   (source)
  • Undin's eyes widened, and he gingerly lifted the ring, pinching it between his thumb and forefinger as if it were a venomous snake.†   (source)
  • But in place of arms she had the wings of a bat or a dragon, her legs were the legs of an eagle, and behind she wore a scorpion's curled and venomous tail.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's coiled in our blood, suffocating us all slowly with its poison each day," I spit back with an equally venomous smile.†   (source)
  • At night plumes of vapour steamed from the vents, lit from beneath with red light, or blue, or venomous green.†   (source)
  • Whilst the ship's cook still gave Tyrion's head a rub from time to time, in hopes that it might stir a wind, the rest had taken to giving him venomous looks whenever he crossed their paths.†   (source)
  • Daphne had read in one of her books about the Great Southern Pelagic Ocean islands that "with a few regrettable examples, the larger and more fearsome the spider is, the less likely it is to be venomous."†   (source)
  • Jack wasn't quiet enough; Aven overheard him and shot him a venomous look before flinging her father's arm off her shoulders and storming into the cabin.†   (source)
  • I leaned away as I opened the door, afraid I might be disturbing one of the venomous desert animals in its lair.†   (source)
  • Some people even had "blast parties," drinking and carrying on as those venomous puffs lifted into the air and spread across the sky.†   (source)
  • Howling with pain, he released Max and scrabbled at his face, prying the venomous snake free and flinging it away.†   (source)
  • They had not gone more than a few yards when from behind them came a sound, startling and horrible in the heavy padded silence: a gurgling, bubbling noise, and a long venomous hiss.†   (source)
  • The swampy ground beyond the causeway was impassable, an endless morass of suckholes, quicksands, and glistening green swards that looked solid to the unwary eye but turned to water the instant you trod upon them, the whole of it infested with venomous serpents and poisonous flowers and monstrous lizard lions with teeth like daggers.†   (source)
  • With his left hand he drew back Gollum's head by his thin lank hair, stretching his long neck, and forcing his pale venomous eyes to stare up at the sky.†   (source)
  • Tanya skittered back four steps, her strawberry curls quivering, like a human confronted by a venomous snake.†   (source)
  • The Hamiltons at the well rig had finished their lunch of Liza's bread and rat cheese and venomous coffee cooked in a can over the fire.†   (source)
  • Civil war is supposed to be the bitterest of wars, and surely family politics are the most vehement and venomous.†   (source)
  • Whether because Frodo was so worn by his long pains, wound of knife, and venomous sting, and sorrow, fear, and homeless wandering, or because some gift of final strength was given to him, Sam lifted Frodo with no more difficulty than if he were carrying a hobbit-child pig-a-back in some romp on the lawns or hayfields of the Shire.†   (source)
  • The sac broke open, drenching the Drevak in venom.†   (source)
  • One person in every dozen is allergic to bee-venom.†   (source)
  • I don't think they'd given me any venom yet," he says.†   (source)
  • The hideous snake smiled at Hugo with yellow fangs dripping with venom.†   (source)
  • I used elder python venom, straight from the depths of Tartarus.†   (source)
  • The memories they altered with the tracker jacker venom have this strange quality about them.†   (source)
  • "She was half his family," she says a few moments later, but there's less venom behind it.†   (source)
  • I barely make it halfway across the floor before her mouth opens, dripping venom.†   (source)
  • Even more embarrassingly, something I would never say aloud, I wantedhis venom to poison my system.†   (source)
  • You got the stinger and the venom out, so you were left with only a little itch.†   (source)
  • Even my Duke's voice doesn't carry that weight of venom when he uses the hated name.†   (source)
  • The high levels of tracker jacker venom are working their way out of his body.†   (source)
  • 124 shut down and put up with the venom of its ghost.†   (source)
  • But Harry's anger at Snape continued to pound through his veins like venom.†   (source)
  • The venom doesn't kill — it's merely incapacitating.†   (source)
  • Something that even vampire venom could not repair.†   (source)
  • I flinched back from the venom in her voice.†   (source)
  • Eragon hesitated, surprised by the venom in her voice, then relayed the message.†   (source)
  • Why, Piter, where could I find another Mentat with your cunning and venom?†   (source)
  • "Oh, you were wondering," I said with every bit of venom my troupe-sharpened tongue could muster.†   (source)
  • Our venom is the only thing that leaves a scar.†   (source)
  • Because the venom targets the part of the brain that houses fear.†   (source)
  • 'I suppose something in that snake's venom dissolves them or something.†   (source)
  • Why didn't you just let the venom spread?†   (source)
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