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Horned asp   /hɔrnd æsp/   Listen
Horned asp

noun
1.
Highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye.  Synonyms: cerastes, Cerastes cornutus, horned viper, sand viper.






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"Horned asp" Quotes from Famous Books



... believe of it,—nor what you yourself can imagine about it; the origin, or nature, or name may be as you will, but the deadly reality of the thing is with us, and warring against us, and on our true war with it depends whatever life we can win. Deadly reality, I say. The puff-adder or horned asp is not more real. Unbelievable,—those,—unless you had seen them; no fable could have been coined out of any human brain so dreadful, within its own poor material sphere, as that blue-lipped serpent—working its way sidelong ...
— Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne - Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work • John Ruskin



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