serpent (n.)
- animal
- baritone
- beast
- betrayer
- bugle
- clarion
- cockatrice
- conspirator
- cornet
- cur
- dog
- double-crosser
- double-dealer
- euphonium
- fiend
- helicon
- horn
- hound
- hyena
- informer
- insect
- intriguer
- lur
- machinator
- mongrel
- ophidian
- pig
- plotter
- polecat
- quisling
- rat
- reptile
- sackbut
- saxhorn
- schemer
- skunk
- snake
- sousaphone
- swine
- timeserver
- traitor
- treasonist
- trimmer
- trombone
- trumpet
- tuba
- turncoat
- varmint
- vermin
- viper
- whelp
- worm
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup; . . . at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
Where's my serpent of old Nile?
What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under 't.
