gasps

Example Sentences

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The asps — not snakes, she quickly corrects — are allegedly defanged and thus safe for her latest showcase.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2024

There were only a few monsters lurking in this dungeon—a gargoyle, a skeleton, a zombie, some asps, a mummy, and the evil demi-lich Acererak himself.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

“There he is, in the quaking asps, grinnin’ at me!

From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod

I see thy wreath of leaves, entwined with asps Whose forked tongues whisper "jealousy and hate."

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

The dragons are the kings of the nations, and their wine means their ways, and the head of asps is the head of the Greek kings who came to inflict vengeance upon them.”

From The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect by Moore, George Foot