"Ophidian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... again into her own bedroom, and then suddenly re-appeared before him, erect, menacing, with a burning fire over her cheek-bones, a quick straightening of her arched brows and mouth, a squaring of jaw, and ophidian flattening of ...
— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte
... the London Field, Mr. W.B. Tegetmeier states that this remarkable lizard was first described in the Isis, in 1829, by the German naturalist Wiegmann, who gave it the name it bears, and noted the ophidian character ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various
... classic episode of a snake swallowing itself was to be attempted. It was not until the snake was taken, out of the case and forcibly handled that it let go, there being apparently no distinction to the ophidian palate between its own flesh and that of its favourite lizard." The only comment that an unversed student of Nature may presume to make on this incident is that, possibly, the snake retained its tail because it could not do otherwise. Are not the jaws and teeth of some snakes so constructed, ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... by her comparison. Certainly there was something ophidian about Shaw. He himself had ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... His cold blood inclined him to be deliberate; the ophidian habit, slow-moving until ready to strike. He saw no reason for risking a venture which became safer the further it progressed. Furthermore, he disliked direct, unsolicited advice. Ignoring Ives's remark ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams |
