asp

Example Sentences

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Both of those things are true, but neither is anywhere close to sufficient — and when it comes to Coulter, O people of the leftward spectrum, remember this piece of ancient wisdom: Don’t kiss the asp.

From Salon

Gold leather hats resembled turbans, clutches came in the shape of pyramids, bejeweled scarabs shone from evening columns, and gold leather boots were printed à la asp or crocodile.

From New York Times

“You really are an asp. Oh, vain and ignorant snake, you may extinguish me. But never my torch. Oh, Liberty.”

From New York Times

Cleopatra’s suicide by asp brings “The Age of Caesar”— and all of Plutarch’s “Lives,” for that matter — to a close.

From Washington Post

But rather than keeping it all at arms’ length, and blaming … I don’t know … somebody else, I want to bring it to my bosom like an asp and let it sting me.

From The Guardian