Meaning of sand asp | Babel Free

Definitions

The horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).

Examples

“a ruin’d well, / Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell”

“the Saint began / Upon his flute to breathe his magic tune, / Such as the serpent-charmers use to charm / The sand-asps forth,”

“For several days they roll around in style, and then the inevitable snafu strikes like a sand asp: it turns out the new Humvees are registered on the books of one of the other 425th teams, and even though the other guys aren’t using them they want them back:”

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