"Venemous" Quotes from Famous Books
... delicate tissues is easy enough, if they are spread out on a leaf of paper dipped in gum-water. It is perhaps superfluous to add that those specimens would have little value, unless each one is accompanied by the spider that belongs to it. In fine, we will point out to travellers the kinds reputed venemous, and those which live as ... — Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... iron, nor saint Leonard himself, have gained for this forest so much celebrity as its famous DRAGON, or serpent! This venemous reptile, which some persons have rendered into some obnoxious proprietor, has been honoured with a long and minute description in ... — The History and Antiquities of Horsham • Howard Dudley |