ophidians

No inhabitant of Krynn would be safe as long as Krago could breed his race of evil ophidians.

Riverwind the Plainsman Thompson, Paul B. 1990

They never winked, for ophidians have no movable eyelids, but kept up that awful fixed stare which made the two _unwinking_ gladiators the survivors of twenty pairs matched by one of the Roman Emperors, as Pliny tells us, in his "Natural History."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

What can you make of those circumstantial statements we have seen in the papers of children forming mysterious friendships with ophidians of different species, sharing their food with them, and seeming to be under some subtile influence exercised by those creatures?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

Was she from her birth one of those frightful children, such as he had read about, and the Professor had told him of, who form unnatural friendships with cold, writhing ophidians?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Yet, strangely enough, many persons missed the excitement of the possibility of a fatal bite in other regions, where there were nothing but black and green and striped snakes, mean ophidians, having the spite of the nobler serpent without his venom, -- poor crawling creatures, whom Nature would not trust with a poison-bag.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

There is something frightful in the disposition of certain ophidians, as the whip-snake, which darts at the eyes of cattle without any apparent provocation or other motive.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

If the old Hawaiians had been familiar with ophidians, as were the

Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894

I refer to a habit of some ophidians, in temperate and cold countries, of returning annually to hybernate in the saine den.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

In ruder lands, where ophidians abound, as in India and South America, in the dark one fears the cold living coil and deadly sudden fang.

Far Away and Long Ago 1881

Nor were either my brothers or myself much afraid of them, for a snake -- this is my firm belief -- will never strike a human being except in self-defence; and, of all the thousands killed annually in India itself by ophidians, most of the victims have been tramping about with naked feet, or naked legs at least.

Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Gordon Stables 1875